Segregation, Spatial Externalities, and the Privatization of Urban Services
Charles Sumner Dissertation Prize, Harvard University, Department of Government (2023)
Book Project
Accepted & Published
Publications
(Pre-Doctoral)
2025, “Bureaucratic Packing in the Brazilian Amazon: How Political Competition Drives Deforestation”
Former title: “The Political Origins of Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon, 2000 - 2012” FirstView at Journal of Politics [Abstract] [Access here]
Recipient of the Paul A. Sabatier Best Conference Paper Award (2022),
APSA Science, Technology, & Environmental Politics (STEP) Section
2025, “The Politics of Pessimism: Turning Aspirational Voters into Populists” [with Torben Iversen] [Abstract] [Access here]
FirstView at Comparative Political Studies
2024, “Segregation and the Spatial Externalities of Inequality: A Theory of Interdependence and Public Goods in Cities” American Political Science Review 118(3): 1431-1448 [Abstract] [Access here]
Recipient of the Best Paper on Social and Economic Inequality Award (2021) (any APSA 2020 panel), APSA Class and Inequality Section
Recipient of the Best Paper by a Graduate Student Award at REPAL 2021,
Red para el Estudio de la Economía Política de América Latina (REPAL)
2016, "Explaining Differences in Sub-national Patterns of Clean Technology Transfers to China and India," International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law, and Economics 16 (2): 1 - 23. [With Patrick Bayer and Johannes Urpelainen]
2015, "Socioeconomic Determinants of Charcoal Use in Tanzania: Evidence from Panel Data," Energy Economics 49: 472-481. [With Anthony D'Agostino and Johannes Urpelainen]
2014, "Laissez-Faire and the Clean Development Mechanism: Determinants of Project Implementation in Indian States, 2003 - 2011," Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy 16 (8): 1687 - 1701. [With Patrick Bayer and Johannes Urpelainen]
2011, "Interactive Effects of Cigarette Smoke Extract (CSE) and World Trade Center Dust Particles on Airway Cell Cytotoxicity," Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health 74 (14): 887 - 902. [With Colette Prophete, Lung-chi Chen, Charles W. Emala, Mitchell D. Cohen]
Working Papers
Cityscapes of Inequality: The Political Roots of Slum Growth and the Segregated City
Revise & Resubmit at American Political Science Review [Abstract] [Draft here]
Recipient of the Best Paper on Urban and Local Politics Award, APSA Urban and Local Politics Section (2023)
Trade Liberalization and Social Policy Response: The Geography of Subnational Political Ties in Brazil
[Abstract] [Draft here] Revise & Resubmit at Political Science Research Methods
Politics of Climate Change in Developing Countries (article commissioned by the Annual Review of Political Science)
[with Guy Grossman and Audrey Sacks]
Weathering the Storm: How Climate Change Encourages Labor Formalization in Liberia
[with Shelley Liu] [Draft available]
Transition to a Knowledge Economy and the New Skill Cleavage
[with Torben Iversen and David Soskice] [Draft Here]
“Spatial Distance” and Preferences for Redistribution in Cities
[Abstract] [Draft available]
Public Service Delivery under Decentralization: Inter-governmental Arrangements and Local Horizontal Institutions
[Abstract] [Draft available]
In progress
The Persistence of Labor Informality in the Developing World
[with Shelley Liu] [Draft available]
Dual Equilibria in Natural Disaster Response: The Effect of Natural Disasters on Inequality & Ethnic Conflict in Kenya
[with Shelley Liu] [Abstract]
The Effects of Race versus Class over Space: Evidence from a Conjoint Survey Experiment in São Paulo, Brazil
[Draft available]
How Gender and Migrant Status Affect Collective Action Among Street Vendors in Liberia
[with Shelley Liu]
Climate Change, Food Insecurity, and Voting Behavior across sub-Saharan Africa
[with David Ifkovits and Shelley Liu] [Draft available]
2022 "As origens políticas do desmatamento na Amazônia brasileira, 2000-2012” in Nexo Jornal Políticas Públicas, November 25, 2022.