I use comparative politics and political economy tools, with a regional focus in Latin America, to investigate how to improve public goods provision in developing democracies. My papers have contributed to understanding the nexus between legislature size and welfare, the failures in bottom-up accountability, the effects of elite capturing, and the elite preferences toward climate change mitigation. My research has been published or is forthcoming in the American Journal of Political Science, British Journal of Political Science, and Journal of Experimental Political Science, among others.