Research

Work in progress

• Julian E. Gerez. "Unequal Before the Law: Statebuilding, Political Incentives, and Selective Drug Enforcement."
• [Draft]
• Julian E. Gerez. "Electoral Accountability for Counternarcotics Enforcement: Evidence from Colombia."
• Draft available upon request.
• Elena Barham and Julian E. Gerez. "The Unintended Consequences of Counternarcotics: Evidence from Peru."
• Draft available upon request.
• Julian E. Gerez. "Firearms, Local Policing, and Lethal Force: Evidence from Brazil"
• Draft available upon request.
• Julian E. Gerez and Simone Paci. "Taxation at the Edge of Morality: A Statewide Experiment on Tobacco Enforcement in California"
• Draft of pre-analysis plan available upon request.

Publications

The politics of capital punishment

• Julian E. Gerez and Michael G. Miller. "The Electoral Dynamics of Capital Punishment Commutations." State Politics and Policy Quarterly (2024).
• [Paper (open access)] [Appendix] [Replication code]

COVID-19 vaccines in Latin America: information, collective action and diplomacy

• Elena Barham, Sarah Z. Daly, Julian E. Gerez, John Marshall, and Oscar Pocasangre. "Vaccine Diplomacy: How COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution in Latin America Increases Trust in Foreign Governments." World Politics (2023).
• [Paper] [Appendix] [Pre-print] [Replication materials]
• Argote, Pablo, Elena Barham, Sarah Z. Daly, Julian E. Gerez, John Marshall, and Oscar Pocasangre. "Messages that Increase COVID-19 Vaccine Acceptance: Evidence from Online Experiments in Six Latin American Countries." PLOS One (2021).
• [Paper (open access)] [Appendix] [Replication materials]
• Argote, Pablo, Elena Barham, Sarah Z. Daly, Julian E. Gerez, John Marshall, and Oscar Pocasangre. "The Shot, the Message, and the Messenger: COVID-19 Vaccine Acceptance in Latin America." npj Vaccines (2021).
• [Paper (open access)] [Appendix] [Replication materials]