She is spending AY 2016-2017 as a fellow at the Niehaus Center at the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University. Laura’s research covers a wide range of subjects on the political economy of development. She has examined how different sources of revenue (natural resources, foreign aid, and taxes) affect political behavior; the determinants of post-conflict reintegration; and the role of economic interest in ethnically divided societies. Her empirical methods involve experiments, the collection of original survey and behavioral data, and extensive field research, most recently in Indonesia, Colombia, Lebanon, Uganda, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Laura received her Ph.D. from Columbia University in 2012.