I am broadly interested in causal inference and machine learning methods for the social sciences. My research projects include partial identification and semiparametric estimation of causal quantities, and causal inference with survey and voting data.

My research examines how familial social network structures shape the expression of ethnic politics in Africa. To proxy variation in co-ethnic network structures, I leverage kinship and age-based cultural norms that organize groups’ social relations. In particular, my dissertation compares ethnic groups bound together via extended kinship networks with ethnic groups that structure social relations […]