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Internal Migration and Public Goods Provision: Evidence from a Panel of Indian Villages
Abstract: How do political elites respond when large segments of their electorate leave? In many developing countries, internal migration is a defining feature of household risk diversification and economic mobility. Yet, the political consequenc...
Project · May 06, 2026
Democracy Manifest or Democracy Latent? A Unified Framework for Identifying Regime Types and Transitions
Regime types and transitions are central to a wide range of political phenomena. Reflecting this importance, prior research has produced a variety of regime measures. This diversity, however, comes with important challenges for applied research: s...
Publication · May 06, 2026
Making Michigan Home: Mexican Americans Bridging the Rural-Urban Experience
Publication · May 06, 2026
Project 1 - Fundamental Insight
Practical challenges of directly observing and intervening in underlying plasticity as it occurs in learning animals have been major barriers to progress. Overcoming these barriers requires study of robust and reliable forms of learning and memory...
Project · May 06, 2026
Mitigating LLM biases toward spurious social contexts using direct preference optimization
Publication · May 05, 2026