I am an Assistant Professor of Political Science at IE University, and a Faculty Affiliate at MIT GOV/LAB. I work in the fields of comparative politics and political economy, with a regional focus on Latin America and Southern Europe, and a substantive focus on issues of development, governance, and corruption.
My research agenda centers on relationships among state actors (politicians, bureaucrats, and anti-corruption agents), anti-corruption policies, and their impacts on public service delivery and human development. In my work, I use big administrative datasets, surveys, experimental and quasi-experimental designs, and extensive qualitative fieldwork.
Some of my work has been published in the American Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Politics, and the Annual Review of Political Science.
PhD Political Science, 2020
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MPhil Comparative Government, 2011
University of Oxford
Lic. Political Science & Public Administration, 2009
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Pre-print Publisher Appendix Replication data Non-technical summary Summary in Portuguese Best Paper Award, APSA Health Politics and Policy Section Media coverage @ Nada es Gratis Media coverage @ Nexo Media coverage @ BBC Brasil Media coverage @ Globo G1 Media coverage @ MIT News
Article Publisher Appendix Replication data Non-technical summary Summary in Portuguese Best Paper Award, REPAL Media coverage @ Folha de São Paulo Media coverage @ Frankfurter Allgemeine Media coverage @ Nexo Media coverage @ The World
Article Publisher Appendix Replication data Pre-analysis plan, field experiment Pre-analysis plan, survey experiment
Paper Best Comparative Policy Paper Award, APSA Public Policy Section Honorable Mention, Best Political Institutions Paper, LASA Political Institutions Section
IE University (Madrid, Spain)
Vanderbilt University (Nashville, TN, USA)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, MA, USA)
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (Natal, RN, Brazil)
USP-IPSA Summer School in Methods in Political Science, Public Policy and International Relations (Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil)
Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) (Cambridge, MA, USA)
Guest lectures