Research

Publications

Acting Green? Private Environmental Coalitions in the US Business & Society, 65(1): 43-77.

Money and Cooperative Federalism: Evidence from EPA Civil Litigation (with Hye Young You)  Journal of Law, Economics, & Organization, 41(3): 1110-1131.
- 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 

Presidential Rallies and Electoral Outcomes in Multiparty Systems: Evidence from Argentina (with Victoria Fernández)

In an era of increased use of technology and digital campaigning, why do politicians still devote substantial resources to rallies and other in-person campaign events? We study Mauricio Macri’s \textit{Sí Se Puede} (SSP) campaign in Argentina’s 2019 presidential election. Leveraging the country’s mandatory primaries for all eligible voters, we apply a difference-in-differences design with the same candidates within the same electoral cycle comparing changes across departments with and without direct SSP exposure. We find that departments hosting an SSP rally experienced larger gains in JxC vote share. We find no evidence of effects on turnout or on the vote share of the main opposition, Frente de Todos. Instead, the gains for JxC are mirrored by losses among minor parties. Using Google Trends data, we also show that SSP events increased local searches for Mauricio Macri, consistent with higher attention and information-seeking. These findings suggest that large campaign events can matter electorally and that large parties can use their resources and the attention they generate from demonstrations to benefit electorally at the expense of smaller parties in multiparty systems.

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)