Sergio Montero
Assistant Professor of Political Science and (by courtesy) Economics
University of Rochester
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Research
Working Papers
Quantifying Representation Failures: A Revealed Preference Approach (with Matias Iaryczower and Galileu Kim), revision requested at American Journal of Political Science
Sleeping with the Enemy: Effective Representation under Dynamic Electoral Competition (with Anderson Frey and Gabriel López-Moctezuma), conditionally accepted at American Journal of Political Science
Going It Alone? An Empirical Study of Coalition Formation in Elections
Publications
Do Major-Power Interventions Encourage the Onset of Civil Conflict? A Structural Analysis (with Mike Gibilisco), Journal of Politics, forthcoming
Learning about Growth and Democracy (with Scott Abramson), American Political Science Review 114(4): 1195-1212 (2020)
A Theory of Experimenters: Robustness, Randomization, and Balance (with Abhijit Banerjee, Sylvain Chassang, and Erik Snowberg), American Economic Review 110(4): 1206-1230 (2020)
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)
Work in Progress
Gender Quotas and Electoral Accountability (with Zuheir Desai and Varun Karekurve-Ramachandra)
The Effect of Newspapers on Political Knowledge (with Scott Abramson)
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)
