Research
Research
Work in progress
“Leveraging the Land Reform: Communal Land-ownership and State Building in 20th-century Mexico,” Working Paper.
“How do Rulers Rule? Coordination, Coercion and Political Order,” Working Paper.
Journal articles and book chapters
2024 “Colonial Agricultural Estates and Rural Development in 20th-century Mexico,” joint with Diana Flores-Peregrina, in Economic History of Developing Regions.
2023 “Price Sensitivity as a Measure of Living Standards in Late-Colonial Mexico City,” joint with Alexander Dentler, in Investigaciones de Historia Económica/Economic History Research (IHE- EHR), 19(2) pp. 49–69.
2021 “The Legacy of Civil War Dynamics on State Building,” joint with Luis de la Calle, Latin American Research Review, 56(4), pp. 814–830.
2021 “Los legados de la guerra de independencia y la revolución en la violencia criminal en México,” joint with Luis de la Calle, America Latina en la Historia Económica, 28(2), 1-26.
2014 “Indigenous Origins of Colonial Institutions,” joint with Desha Girod. Quarterly Journal of Political Science Vol. 9, No. 3, pp. 371-406.
2013 “Building Fiscal Capacity in Colonial Mexico: From Fragmentation to Centralization,” Journal of Economic History Vol. 73, No. 3, pp. 662-693.
2022 “Tilly va a la guerra (criminal): Homicidios y recaudación de impuestos en México,” joint with Luis de la Calle, in Huellas de la guerra. Los costos sociales de la violencia criminal en México, México: CIDE, 103–130.
2017 “Weak States,” joint with Luis de la Calle, in The Sage Handbook of Political Sociology, eds. William Outhwaite and Stephen Turner, Sage.
2015 “Institutions and Economic Development,” in Handbook of Comparative Political Institutions, eds. Jennifer Gandhi and Ruben Ruiz Rufino, Routledge.
2013 “A collective-action theory of fiscal-military state formation,” in Advances in Political Economy: Institutions, Modeling and Empirical Analysis, eds. Gonzalo Caballero, Daniel Kselman, and Norman Schofield, Springer.