Research

Publications

Acting Green? Private Environmental Coalitions in the US Business & Society, (forthcoming)

Money and Cooperative Federalism: Evidence from EPA Civil Litigation (with Hye Young You)  Journal of Law, Economics, & Organization, (forthcoming)
- Winner of the Deil S. Wright Award for the Best Paper in the Federalism and Intergovernmental Relations Section at the American Political Science Association, 2022

Environmental Regulation, Regulatory Spillovers and Rent-Seeking Public Choice, 202(1): 217-250. 2025.

Income and Social Trust in Latin America Journal of Politics in Latin America, 15(1): 3-24. 2023. 

Working Papers 

The Electoral Effects of Presidential Rallies: Juntos por el Cambio’s 2019 Sí Se Puede Campaign (with Victoria Fernández)

In an era characterized by the increasing use of technology and internet campaigns, why do politicians continue to allocate significant resources, particularly time, to events such as political rallies? In this paper, we exploit a natural experiment in Argentina to estimate the impact of Mauricio Macri’s campaign rallies on electoral outcomes in the 2019 election. We leverage a unique institutional setting in which participation in primary elections is mandatory for all eligible voters. Using a difference-in-differences design with the same candidates within the same electoral cycle, we find that rallies conducted by Macri significantly boosted his party’s electoral performance in the affected departments. This finding is robust to various robustness checks and placebo tests, supporting a causal interpretation. We also demonstrate that these rallies help Macri persuade voters from smaller parties with limited chances of winning. Additionally, we provide evidence that rallies increase attention and information-seeking behavior among voters, as measured by Google Trends data, and we analyze campaign speeches to illustrate how rallies facilitate persuasion among supporters of smaller parties. 

Trade and Environmental Regulation: Import Competition and State Environmental Policies in the US (with Emiliano Bohorquez and Vladimir Kozow)

Climate change and environmental policy have gained unprecedented salience in recent years, but international cooperation to mitigate the rise in temperatures is still absent. Nevertheless, many subnational actors such as states and cities haven taken the lead in fighting global warming. In this paper, we analyze how economic conditions affect the way in which local legislators vote for environmental and climate change related bills in the U.S. Using the rise in Chinese imports as an exogenous economic shock, we analyze how economic conditions affect the likelihood that state legislatures vote for environmental protection, and how this relation is conditional on the productive structure of the districts.

In Progress

Private Influence over Environmental Rulemaking (with Marco Di Giacomo)

State Legislators and the Uneven Enforcement of Federal Regulation

Does Civilian Oversight Reduce Police Killings? (with Santiago Cabral Spuri and Rosario Renato)