Research

Work in Progress

Social Influence and News Consumption (with Alex Moehring)
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Facebook Causes Protests (with Leopoldo Fergusson)
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(Successful) Democracies Breed Their Own Support (with Daron Acemoglu, Nicolás Ajzenman, Cevat Giray Aksoy and Martin Fiszbein)
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Political Incentives and Corruption Evidence from Ghost Students (with Leopoldo Fergusson, Arturo Harker and Juan Camilo Yamin)
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Do Candidates Exert More Effort to Rule Over a Larger Budget? Evidence from Colombia
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Voter Support for Democratic Institutions under Authoritarianism (with Daron Acemoglu, Ceren Baysan and Cevat Giray Aksoy)
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Publications

Converging to Converge: A Comment (with Daron Acemoglu)
NBER Macroeconomics Annual v. 36, 2022.
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The Weak State Trap (with Leopoldo Fergusson and James Robinson).
Economica v. 89(354), 2021.
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Consumers as VAT Evaders: Incidence, Social Bias, and Correlates in Colombia (with Leopoldo Fergusson and Juan Felipe Riaño)
Economia v. 19(2), 2019.
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I Sell My Vote, and So What? Incidence, Social Bias, and Correlates of Clientelism in Colombia (with Leopoldo Fergusson and Juan Felipe Riaño)
Economia v. 19(1), 2018.
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