Working Papers by Topic

Clientelism and Vote Buying

Eat Widely, Vote Wisely: Lessons from a Campaign Against Vote Buying in Uganda. Chris Blattman, Horacio Larreguy, Benjamin Marx, and Otis Reid. July 2024 [Download PDF] [Pre-registration] [EGAP Policy Report] [see JPAL GI Page]  Submitted

Information Versus Control: The Electoral Consequences of Polling Place Creation. Jeremy Bowles, Horacio Larreguy, and Anders Woller. October 2020 [Download PDF] [2016 Geocoded Polling Station Data] [2016 Geocoded Polling Station README]  

[Dormant] Breaking Clientelism or Rewarding Incumbents? Evidence from an Urban Titling Program in Mexico. Horacio Larreguy, John Marshall, and Laura Trucco. December 2018.   [Download PDF]  

Pre-Colonial Centralization, Chiefs and Clientelism in Sub-Saharan Africa. Horacio Larreguy, Benjamin Marx, and Carl Muller Crepon.  [Download Preliminary and Incomplete PDF]

[Dormant] Monitoring Political Brokers: Evidence from Clientelistic Networks in Mexico. Horacio Larreguy. December 2013. [Download Preliminary and Incomplete PDF] 

Information and Political Accountability

[Dormant] Media Networks and Political Accountability: Evidence from Radio Networks in Brazil. Horacio Larreguy and Joana Monteiro. June 2014.  [Download Preliminary and Incomplete PDF]  [Coverage in LATAMTHOUGHT]

Political Participation

Get Out The Volunteer: Encouraging Diverse Political Party Activism. Jonne Kamphorst and Horacio Larreguy. September 2024. [Download PDF] [Pre-registration]

Economic Development

Taking One for the Team: Shocks at Destination and Household's Supply of Migrants. Gustavo Fajardo, Emilio Gutierrez, Horacio Larreguy, and Ernesto Tiburcio. September 2023. [Download PDF]  

2014 Banamex Prize for Research in Economics on Mexico. In the press [Foro Economico] 

Social Dissent, Coercive Capacity, and Redistribution: Evidence from Authoritarian Mexico. Horacio Larreguy, Juan Felipe Riaño, and Mariano Sánchez-Talanquer. April 2019. [Download Preliminary and Incomplete PDF]  

How Unobserved Investments Inhibit Public Service Delivery Improvement in Corrupt Environments. Soeren J. Henn, Horacio Larreguy, and John Marshall.  June 2022 [Download PDF]