Presentations: APPAM 2025, SEA 2025, Annual LACEA/LAMES Meeting 2025, AEA 2026

This paper studies the introduction of gender quotas in municipal elections in Mexico. I use a difference-in-differences strategy and find that women’s representation rises, yet parties systematically nominate women in less competitive, smaller, and lower-resource municipalities.

Presentations: IEA-WB Conference Gender Norms and the Law, Annual LACEA/LAMES Meeting 2023

This paper examines the effect of gender quotas for mayors on fiscal and policy decisions and finds that women in office adopt more conservative budgetary choices than men.

Presentations: AEA/ASSA, poster session 2021

This paper explores how granting economic rights to married women in the 19th century affected female labor outcomes and marriage rates.

Presentations: NOVAFRICA Economic Development Conference 2024

This field experiment examines how contracts impact compliance, effort, and product quality in Malawi’s printing industry. We randomized three contract types—informal verbal agreements, formal written contracts, and formal contracts with penalty clauses—across four sequential print orders of varying complexity.

This paper studies the effects of convenience stores (OXX) acting as banking agents, examining spatial variation in financial inclusion levels.

Presentations: IPA-GPRL Researcher Gathering on Financial Inclusion and Social Protection 2022, Webinar in Finance and Development (WEFIDEV)