PhD Candidate in Economics
Sciences Po Paris
I am a PhD Candidate at the Department of Economics at Sciences Po Paris. My supervisor is Julia Cagé. Benjamin Marx and Emeric Henry are on my thesis committee. During the 2024-25 AY, I was a Visiting Fellow at the Department of Economics at Harvard University, sponsored by Claudia Goldin.
I am an affiliate at the Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Evaluation of Public Policy in the Evaluation of Democracy group. I hold the fourth-year doctoral scholarship at the Aix-Marseille School of Economics, where my tutor is Cecilia García Peñalosa.
My research lies in the fields of political economy and economic history. I am interested in the drivers and effects of social movements and collective action, and study them in the context of 19th and 20th century France and the UK. I also have work on policies to improve political representation in Brazil.
Performance-Based Public Funding and Minority Representation: Evidence from Brazilian Elections, 2002-2024.
Can the public funding of parties and electoral campaigns be used as an effective policy lever to increase descriptive representation in elected office? In this paper, we study a unique electoral reform introduced in Brazil in 2021 that ties the allocation of public funds to the performance of female and racial minority candidates. To causally identify the impact of the reform on political selection and electoral results, we exploit the specificity of the institutional setting that induces financial incentives in federal legislative elections but not in State ones, and estimate a Difference-in-Differences model. We find that, at the extensive margin, the reform increases the probability of running of women -notably of black women- and that at the intensive margin, conditional on re-running, black female candidates perform better in elections. We show that this effect is driven by increased investment in campaigns and candidate selection. To shed light on the mechanisms, we conduct a pre-registered voter survey experiment, as well as qualitative interviews with party leaders.
Abstract
Social Movement Complementarity: Labor and Voting Rights, France 1870-1940.
Militantism and Non-Violence in Activism
Gender Norms and Collective Punishment