Carolina Torreblanca

¡Hola! I am a Postdoctoral Fellow at PDRI-DevLab at the University of Pennsylvania. I am also a Penn AI Fellow and an external Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Poverty, Violence and Governance Lab at Stanford University.

I study the political economy of democratic participation and accountability in the Global South, with an emphasis on Latin America. My current research focuses on violence, especially on who bears its burden and how selective exposure to it differentially shapes political participation and trust in state institutions. In addition, I study knowledge production in political science. Alongside my substantive work, I study causal inference under selective exposure and heterogeneous responses to treatment. My work has appeared in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Perspectives on Politics.

I received my Ph.D. in Politics from New York University in 2024. I hold a B.A. in Political Science and a B.A. in International Relations from ITAM (2015). Before grad school, I was the Director of Data Analysis at Data Cívica.

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