Gonzalo Di Landro |Ph.D. candidate

I am a Political Science Ph.D. candidate at Rice University specializing in gender and politics, with a focus on party behavior and mass political behavior in Western democracies.   

My dissertation offers novel insights into the political economy of gender inequality by positioning political parties and their behavior as a major driver of the gender voting gap. Methodologically, my research articulates a wide array of quantitative tools, including observational data, historical data, quasi-experimental, and experimental designs.  

My dissertation has been supported by Rice University's Social Science Research Institute and the American Political Science Association's Centennial Center for Political Science and Public Affairs.  My work has been published or is forthcoming at the British Journal of Political Science and Legislative Studies Quarterly.

Before coming to Rice, I studied at  Universidad de la República, where I obtained a Bachelor's degree in Political Science and a Graduate Diploma in Economics. During my time there, I also worked as a research assistant on projects on parties, labor reforms, and the welfare state in the Southern Cone (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Uruguay).  In Spring 2024 I was a Junior Visiting Scholar at Nuffield College (University of Oxford) and the Center for Political Research - CEVIPOF (Sciences Po).