Federica is an Assistant professor in the department of Political Science at UCSD. Her research uses formal methods to analyze how electoral incentives shape politicians' actions. In particular, Federica's research focuses on three topics: intra-party politics, ideology and electoral competition, and accountability in times of crisis.
We study how individual political views shape firm behavior and labor market outcomes. Using new micro-data on the political affiliation of business owners and private-sector workers in Brazil over the 2002–2019 period, we first document the presence of political assortative matching: business owners are significantly more likely to employ…
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The Research Program in Political Economy is partnering with the DC Political Economy Center (DCPEC) at Georgetown and Johns Hopkins, to form the United Programs for Political Economy Research (UPPER) network. As part of this collaboration, we are launching UPPER's Policy Briefs series, designed to bring top-notch research on policy-relevant…
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