Welcome! Bienvenid@s!

I am an Assistant Professor at the School of Social Sciences and Government (Escuela de Ciencias Sociales y Gobierno) at the Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico City campus. I completed my PhD at Tulane University in 2021. 

My research focuses on the political economy of development, with an emphasis on public goods provision, income inequality and collective action both in local governments and cross-nationally. In my book project, Informal Institutions, Protest and Development in Mexico, I shed light on different ways how protests promote better development outcomes in marginalized rural and urban communities and affect other political and economic outcomes. This project makes use of original survey evidence and methods based on machine learning and qualitatative fieldwork. 

My other research projects focus on the politics of labor unions, democratic backsliding and income inequality mostly using experimental methods in Latin America and elsewhere. I have a strong interest in experimental research methods, with a particular focus on multi-method research designs combining experiments with ethnographical fieldwork. 

My research has been published or is forthcoming at Perspectives on Politics, Comparative Politics, European Journal of Political Economy, Latin American Politics and Society, Current History and Pensamiento Iberoamericano. 

I can be contacted at mart.trasberg@tec.mx.