Current Work
I study how exposure to violence shapes behavior, decision-making, and political attitudes, with a focus on heterogeneous effects across individuals and contexts. My work combines experiments, quasi-experimental designs, and observational data to identify when and why violence influences downstream outcomes.
I am particularly interested in:
- Participation in and support for political violence
- The effects of repeated exposure to violence on attitudes and behavior
- Gender and post-conflict experiences and preferences
Publications
Criminal Governance in Latin America: An Assessment of its Prevalence and Correlates (2025)
with A. D. Uribe, B. Lessing, and N. Schouela
Perspectives on Politics
Estimates the prevalence of criminal governance across Latin America using survey data and MRP and advances a new, counterintuitive theory of strong state presence corresponding with greater criminal governance.
Working Papers
Removing Barriers to Women’s Candidacy: A Field Experiment in Cambodia
with C. Cruz and J. Kim
Field experiment testing whether information interventions increase women’s political participation in Cambodian communal elections.
Work in Progress
Ethically Measuring Violence
with G. Blair, L. Young, R. Littman, H. Baron et al.
Multi-country experimental project evaluating the effects of asking about violence on respondents.
Exposure to Terrorism and Support for Counterterrorism in Kenya
with C. Hazlett
Quasi-experimental study leveraging the Garissa University College attack during survey fieldwork to estimate how exposure to terrorism affects support for state counterterrorism policies, with substantial heterogeneity across ethnic and political groups.
Violence Exposure and Attitudes Across Contexts
Multi-country analysis combining Afrobarometer survey data with conflict event data to estimate the effects of violence exposure across contexts and assess the consistency of effects across countries and time.