F. Daniel Hidalgo

I am a PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science at UC Berkeley. I will be joining the MIT Department of Political Science in the Fall of 2012. My research focuses on political institutions and elections in the developing world, the statistics of causal inference, and field experimentation in the social sciences. My current empirical research is on the political consequences of electronic voting, the effects of fraud-reducing electoral reforms, the political economy of campaign finance, and the causes of rural conflict. My methodological research is on developing new methods for assessing the quality of observational research designs.