Expertise
My research areas are at the intersection of comparative politics, international relations, and research methods. My current research focuses on the question of how the spatial distribution of economic inequality affects political outcomes. I study this relationship from various empirical models.
Research Interests
- Political geography of inequality
- Voting Behavior by Economic Geography
- Measuring the geographic distribution of economic productivity
- Effects of regional inequality on partisan politics
- Spatial approach to the relationship between economic inequality and voting behavior
- Sectoral wage inequality and public sentiments toward immigrants
- Redistributive politics in developing countries
- Trade and welfare spending
- Politics of higher education spending
I investigate the effects of regional disparity on redistribution.
Particularly, my research focus is on differing policy outcomes of individual income inequality and geography region-based income inequality. One of the policy areas that interests me is education spending, which is at variance across countries over time.