Published and forthcoming articles:

Fiscal Legibility and State Development: Theory and Evidence from Colonial Mexico. (with Francisco Garfias), Conditionally accepted at American Journal of Political Science.

The Politics of Decentralization Level: Local and Regional Devolution as Substitutes (with Joan Ricart-Huguet). 2023. World Politics. 75(2): 353–389.

When State Building Backfires: Elite Divisions and Collective Action in Rebellion (with Francisco Garfias). 2022. American Journal of Political Science. 66(4): 977–992

From Conquest to Centralization: Domestic Conflict and the Transition to Direct Rule (with Francisco Garfias). 2021. Journal of Politics. 83(3): 992–1009

Epidemics, Rent Extraction, and the Value of Holding Office (with Francisco Garfias). 2020. The Journal of Political Institutions and Political Economy: 1(4): 559–583 (Online appendix)

Locational Fundamentals, Trade, and the Changing Urban Landscape of Mexico (with Jennifer Alix-Garcia) 2020. The Journal of Urban Economics. 116. (Final submitted version)

Emigration and Collective Action 2019. The Journal of Politics. 81 (4): 1210–1222 (Final submitted version)

Labor Scarcity, Land Tenure, and Historical Legacy: Evidence from Mexico (with Jennifer Alix-Garcia). 2018. The Journal of Development Economics. 135: p. 504–516. (Final submitted version)

Book chapters and invited contributions:

State Building in Historical Political Economy (with Francisco Garfias) 2023. In The Oxford Handbook of Historical Political Economy. Ed. Jeffery Jenkins and Jared Rubin

Persistence and Place: History and Geography in Political Economy (with Jennifer Alix-Garcia). 2019. The Political Economist, Newsletter for Section 25: Political Economy of the American Political Science Association, 15 (1), 2019. (Link to newsletter)

In progress:

Demobilization through Inaction: Bureaucratic Delay, Ambiguity, and Frustrated Collective Action. (draft available upon request)

Theory and Empirics in Historical Political Economy. (in preparation for EITM edited volume)