Clara Bicalho

Clara Bicalho

(pronounced bee-KAH-leeoh)

PhD Student, UC Berkeley

 

I am a Political Science PhD Student and a Research Associate at the Center of the Politics of Development at UC Berkeley.

My dissertation project focuses on land policies and minority political representation in Latin America. I study the emergence of communal titling policies for indigenous and Afrodescendant communities (quilombos) in Brazil and the political mobilization and representation of these groups. In previous and ongoing work, I also study the role of information and social signaling on political attitudes and behavior.

I am committed to reproducibility and research transparency. Some platforms I co-created for that purpose include the DDWizard, a web app for defining and inspecting research designs, and the Metaketa I Meta-Analysis dashboard for real-time sensitivity analysis of research results.

You can find a copy of my CV here.

Research

Peer-Reviewed Publications

[3] 2021. ““If we move, it moves with us:” Physical Distancing in Africa during COVID-19” (with Melina Platas and Leah Rosenzweig). World Development 142 (2021) 105379.
article | appendix | replication files | pre-analysis plan | The Washington Post

[2] 2019. “Voter information campaigns and political accountability: Cumulative findings from a preregistered meta-analysis of coordinated trials.” (with Thad Dunning et al.) Science Advances 5.7 (2019): eaaw2612.
article | replication files | pre-analysis plan

[1] 2019. “Meta-Analysis” (with Thad Dunning, Anirvan Chowdhury, Guy Grossman, Macartan Humphreys, Susan D. Hyde, Craig Mcintosh, and Gareth Nellis) in Information, Accountability, and Cumulative Learning: Lessons from Metaketa I. Thad Dunning, Guy Grossman, Macartan Humphreys, Susan D. Hyde, and Craig Mcintosh (Eds.). Cambridge University Press.
book chapter | replication files | pre-analysis plan

Working Papers

“Prognostic Balance: Using the Informativeness of Covariates for More Powerful, Specific, and Meaningful Placebo Tests” (with Thad Dunning and Adam Bouyamourn)

Software

and Applications

Software

[1] 2019. DesignLibrary: Library of Research Designs (with Graeme Blair, Jasper Cooper, Alexander Coppock, Macartan Humphreys, Neal Fultz, and Lily Medina). R package version 0.1.4, URL https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/DesignLibrary/index.html

RShiny Applications

DDWizard (with Sisi Huang and Markus Konrad). This web app allows users to select and customize research designs from a library of templates, simulate data, and obtain diagnostic statistics such as power, bias, and root mean squared error of estimates. The app is an interface for using the DeclareDesign framework and R packages that does not require knowledge of R and allows easy sharing of designs.
Read more | Github repo

Metaketa I Meta-Analysis Dashboard. This interface implements the core meta-analyses for the Metaketa I study and allows users to explore sensitivity of results to alternative specifications.

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