Sergio Montero
Assistant Professor of Political Science and (by courtesy) Economics
University of Rochester
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Research
Working Papers
The Effect of Local News on Political Knowledge (with Scott Abramson)
Representation Failure (with Matias Iaryczower and Galileu Kim)
Going It Alone? A Structural Analysis of Coalition Formation in Elections, revision requested at Journal of Politics
Publications
Sleeping with the Enemy: Effective Representation under Dynamic Electoral Competition (with Anderson Frey and Gabriel López-Moctezuma), American Journal of Political Science (forthcoming) (Online Appendix)
Do Major-Power Interventions Encourage the Onset of Civil Conflict? A Structural Analysis (with Mike Gibilisco), Journal of Politics 84(2): 944-959 (2022) (Online Appendix)
Learning about Growth and Democracy (with Scott Abramson), American Political Science Review 114(4): 1195-1212 (2020) (Online Appendix)
A Theory of Experimenters: Robustness, Randomization, and Balance (with Abhijit Banerjee, Sylvain Chassang, and Erik Snowberg), American Economic Review 110(4): 1206-1230 (2020) (Online Appendix)
BLP-2LASSO for Aggregate Discrete Choice Models with Rich Covariates (with Ben Gillen, Roger Moon, and Matt Shum), Econometrics Journal 22(3): 262-281 (2019) (Online Appendix)
Work in Progress
How Do Gender Quotas Impact Electoral Accountability? (with Zuheir Desai and Varun Karekurve-Ramachandra)
Chasing Eyeballs: The Role of Consumer Advertising in Shaping Political Polarization (with Gabriel López-Moctezuma and Matt Shum)
Heterogeneous Voter Responses to Campaign Advertising (with Gabriel López-Moctezuma)
Building Weak Parties with Ambitious Politicians (with Anderson Frey and Gabriel López-Moctezuma)
Failing to Learn in the Laboratories of Democracy (with Scott Abramson and Mary Kroeger)
Campaign Issues and Media Coverage (with Matias Iaryczower and Gabriel López-Moctezuma)
