He also directs the Quantitative Collaborative, a University-wide institute designed to disseminate new advances in the quantitative social sciences and foster greater interdisciplinary collaboration. He received his Ph.D. in 2007 from Harvard University. His research focuses on understanding the causes and consequences of corruption and clientelism in Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as on developing new methodologies to study these phenomena. He has published articles in journals such as the British Journal of Political Science, Political Analysis, and the Quarterly Journal of Political Science. He is the author of Political Institutions and Party-Directed Corruption in South America: Stealing for the Team, published by Cambridge University Press in 2013. His research has been funded by the National Science Foundation. More information can be found at his website.