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Publications

• Collective remittances and the state: the 3×1 program in Mexican municipalities (with Covadonga Meseguer). World Development, Vol. 40, No. 1, 2012. [DOI link]
• Cuotas de género en México: candidaturas y resultados electorales para diputados federales 2009. Serie Temas selectos de derecho electoral, vol. 18, Tribunal Electoral del Poder Judicial de la Federación, 2011.
  
• La economía política de las remesas colectivas, con Covadonga Meseguer, en: Durand, Jorge y Jorge A. Schiavon (eds.). Perspectivas migratorias: un análisis interdisciplinario de la migración internacional. México, D.F.: Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2010. Págs. 393-432.
• Tamaño del Congreso, redistritación y umbral de representación, con Javier Márquez, en: Negretto, Gabriel (editor). Debatiendo la reforma política: claves del cambio institucional en México. México, D.F.: Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2010. Págs. 83-126.
• Un modelo Monte Carlo para la Cámara de Diputados en México (con Javier Márquez). Política y Gobierno, vol. XVII, no. 2, 2010, p351-379 .
• Análisis estadístico de la elección presidencial de 2006: ¿fraude o errores aleatorios?, Política y Gobierno, volumen temático 2009-Elecciones en México, págs. 225-243. [Micrositio sobre la elección presidencial 2006.]
• Policymaking under one-party hegemonic and divided government in Mexico. With Allyson Benton, Fabrice Lehoucq, Benito Nacif, and Gabriel Negretto, in: Stein, Ernesto y Mariano Tommasi (eds.) Policymaking in Latin America: How politics shapes policies. IADB/David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University Press, March 2008. E-book format: english /español.
• Dinero y competencia política. In: Instituto Electoral del Distrito Federal.  Grandes Temas para un Observatorio Electoral Ciudadano, Vol. III – Sistema Político Electoral, IEDF, Dec. 2007, p187-210.
• Financiamiento público a partidos políticos (with Jacaranda M. Pérez), in: Instituto Electoral del Distrito Federal.  Grandes Temas para un Observatorio Electoral Ciudadano, Vol. III – Sistema Político Electoral, IEDF, Dec. 2007, p211-232.
• Campaign finance reform and electoral competition: Comment (with Thomas Stratmann). Public Choice vol. 133, no. 1-2, October 2007, p107-110.
• Political Institutions, Policymaking Processes, and Policy Outcomes in Mexico. With Allyson Benton, Fabrice Lehoucq, Benito Nacif, and Gabriel Negretto Inter-American Development Bank working paper #R-512, September 2005.  This study was part of a multi-country project that informed the IPES 2006 Report: The Politics of Policies.
• La evidencia de una elección confiable. Revista Nexos 346, October 2006.
• Fraud or human error in Mexico’s presidential election? Voices of Mexico 77, CISAN-UNAM, Oct-Dec. 2006.
• Competition policy for elections:  Do campaign contribution limits matter? (with Thomas Stratmann). Public Choice, vol. 127, no. 1-2, April 2006, 177-206. (pdf).
• Campaign Finance Law, Electoral Competition, and Economic Policy. Ph. D. Dissertation, George Mason University, may 2006.

Working papers

• Supply or demand? Politics and the 3×1 Program for Migrants. (with Covadonga Meseguer). CIDE Working Paper-Political Studies #228, June 2011.
  
• The political economy of collective remittances: The 3×1 program in Mexico. (with Covadonga Meseguer). IBEI working paper 2009/22. October, 2009.
• Committee leadership in Mexico’s Chamber of Deputies, 1997 – 2006. (with Joy Langston). CIDE Working Paper-Political Studies #217, Dec. 2009.
• Electoral institutions and democratic consolidation in the Mexican states, 1990 – 2004. (with Sandra Ley). CIDE Working Paper-Political Studies #208, Dec. 2008.
• The past as future: prior political experience and career choices in Mexico, 1997-2006. (with Joy Langston). CIDE Working Paper-Political Studies #207, Dec. 2008.
• Collective remittances and the state: the 3×1 program in Mexican municipalities (with Covadonga Meseguer). CIDE Working Paper-International Studies #175, Oct. 2008.