I am a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse. I hold a PhD in Politics from New York University and a MSc in Economic and Social Sciences from Bocconi University.

My research studies the formation and change of social cleavages and identities, and their implications for contemporary societies. I have primary interests in the politics of ethnic and linguistic boundaries and in the mechanisms of inter-generational transmission of political preferences. I am also interested in the political economy of institutions and development.

I like to combine econometric tools for causal inference, archival fieldwork, and experimental methods.

My research is published or forthcoming at American Journal of Political Science and Comparative Political Studies and has been funded by UNU-WIDER, the Institute for Humane Studies, and other institutions.

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