Research
Publications
State-Level Citizen Response to COVID-19 Containment Measures in Brazil and Mexico, with Claire Dunn. The Journal of Politics in Latin America, 2021.
- Covered in The Washington Post
- Recipient of the Best Paper Award from LASA’s Subnational Politics and Society Section (2022)
Political Engagement and Crime Victimization: A Causal Analysis, Revista Latinoamericana de Opinión Publica, 2021.
Working Papers
Progressive Ideology and Support for Punitive Crime Policy: Evidence from Brazil and Argentina, Under Review [Working Paper] [Appendix]
- Covered in The Washington Post
Who is to Blame? Youth Crime and Attribution of Responsibility in Urban Mexico, with Omar García-Ponce, Vivian Bronsoler, Elisa Lavore, & Shahriar Kibriya, Under Review [Working Paper] [Appendix]
- Covered in El Diario de Juárez
- Covered by EGAP (Evidence in Governance and Politics)
The Legacy of Mexico’s Drug War on Youth Political Attitudes, with Omar García-Ponce, Under Review [Working Paper] [Appendix]
The `Tough-on-Crime’ Left: Race, Gender, and Elections of Law and Order Democrats, with Leah Christiani
Measuring Brazilian Gubernatorial Candidate Positions on Crime: Evidence form Manifestos, Twitter, and Telegram (Dissertation Chapter)
Estimating Actual Crime Rates and the ‘Dark Figure’ of Crime Using Bayesian Additive Regression Trees Plus Poststratification (BARP)
Isabel Laterzo 