I study political economy, focusing on institutions and policies that promote investment and mitigate violence in developing countries in sub-Saharan Africa, Southeast Asia, and Latin America. I have consulted on projects for The Asia Foundation, USAID, and The World Bank.

Here’s a recent CV.

UCLA Master’s of Public Policy, 2017-18:

• Tools for Causal Inference
• Political Economy of Development
• Introduction to Data Science using R

Improving Designs in the Social Sciences (IDSS) is a working group at UCLA designed to help faculty and graduate students develop research projects in which they make credible causal inferences.

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