Research

Ongoing research

Gender, Family Responsibilities and the Cost of Voting (with Santiago Alles).
Examines how caregiving responsibilities increase the perceived cost of turnout among women.

Congressional Committee Assignments and Women’s Access to Campaign Finance in Latin America.
Investigates how committee placements structure women’s opportunities for accessing campaign finance.

Youth Participation and Drivers of Turnout.
Investigates the drivers of youth political participation in different institutional and socioeconomic contexts in Argentina.

Candidates’ Attributes and Ballot Information: Evidence from Ecuador and El Salvador.
Studies how candidate images and ballot design interact as voter information cues in open-list PR systems.

Turnout in Argentina: An Individual-Level Study (with Santiago Alles & Agustín Vallejo).
Analyzes a unique dataset from the Cámara Nacional Electoral that contains anonymized voter participation trajectories to assess drivers of turnout and habit formation.

Ballot Order in Open-List Systems as Elite Strategy: Councilmember Elections in Chile.
Examines ballot order as a tool of intra-party strategy in open list proportional representation elections.

Campaign Finance, Gender and Women’s Political Career (with Paola Bergallo).
Systematic literature review on gender, money and politics.

Voter ID Laws, Ballot Access and Participation (with Robert M. Stein).
Studies the effect of different types of voter ID laws on voter registration in the US.

Fieldwork and Academic Travel Funding

Tegucigalpa, Honduras, February 2018. Archival research and elite interviews.

San Salvador, El Salvador, February 2017. Survey to voters and elite interviews.

San Salvador, El Salvador, July 2015. Archival research and elite interviews.

Quito, Ecuador, October 2016. Survey to voters and elite interviews.

Quito, Ecuador, August 2015. Archival research and elite interviews.

Buenos Aires, Argentina, August 2013. Surveys, archival research and elite interviews.