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My research lies at the intersection of comparative politics and political economy, and focuses primarily on developing contexts. I study how news consumption, media formats, levels of education, and social networks shape how voters select politicians and hold them accountable. As well as bottom-up voter behavior, I study what types of news media outlets report (or not) and the consequences for governance, the trade-offs guiding government decisions to repress the media, and how media markets and other institutions can be designed to improve government service delivery. I typically analyze these questions by combining quasi-experimental and experimental designs with theoretical models to identify and then interpret causal relationships. My research has been published in the American Journal of Political Science, American Political Science Review, Journal of Politics, Journal of the European Economic Association, Review of Economics and Statistics, and Science Advances.

Please find my publications, working papers, and coauthors here. Feel free to contact me about ongoing research projects.

My CV is here and Google Scholar page is here.

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