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 has been funded by UNU-WIDER and the Institute for Humane Studies.

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