Dr Leandro De Magalhaes
M.A.(Brasilia), Ph.D.(Bocconi)
Current positions
Senior Lecturer in Economics
School of Economics
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Research interests
Development Economics, Political Economics, Quantitative Methods in Political Science
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
What can we learn from the surprisingly large volume of transfers between village households in Malawi?
Principal Investigator
Description
I will supervise household interviews aimed at uncovering the full network of social insurance (exchange of gifts, food, and labour) conducted in one 232-households village in Balaka, Malawi. Besides supervising…Managing organisational unit
School of EconomicsDates
03/06/2019 to 26/07/2019
Publications
Recent publications
20/01/2025When Can We Trust Regression Discontinuity Design Estimates from Close Elections? Evidence from Experimental Benchmarks
Political Analysis
A second chance elsewhere. Estimating the effect of winning (vs. being the runner-up) on future electoral prospects
Electoral Studies
War and the Rise of Parliaments
European Economic Review
Estimating slim-majority effects in US state legislatures with a regression discontinuity design under local randomization assumptions
Political Science Research and Methods
The costs of consumption smoothing
Journal of Demographic Economics
