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Houses for the People, Power for the Gangs: Criminal Appropriation of Social Housing in Brazil

Awards. REPAL Conference Best Paper Award, 2025.

jan. 5, 2025

Segregation and the Fiscal Bargain: How Spatial Inequality Erodes State Capacity

Awards. Honorable Mention, REPAL Conference Best Graduate Student Paper Award, 2026. Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award, Political Science Department, Vanderbilt University, 2024. Media coverage. “How Brazil’s segregated cities tax themselves into weakness,” The Brazilian Report, August 30, 2026. Katarina Moraes, “Estudo mostra serviços piores e menor arrecadação em cidades mais segregadas,” JOTA, July 25, 2026.

jan. 4, 2025

Formal Land Access, Formal Labor, and Engagement with the State: Evidence from a Land Lottery in Argentina

The current draft of this paper is available upon request. I keep the manuscript off the public site to reduce the risk that generative AI tools ingest its content. To receive a copy, please email me.

jan. 2, 2025

Applying Adaptive Cluster Sampling to Study Hard-to-Reach Populations

The current draft of this paper is available upon request. I keep the manuscript off the public site to reduce the risk that generative AI tools ingest its content. To receive a copy, please email me.

jan. 1, 2025