Horacio Larreguy is an Associate Professor of Economics and Political Science at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM) in Mexico and a Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse (IAST) and Toulouse School of Economics (TSE). Before, he was an Assistant and Associate Professor of Government at Harvard University between July 2013 and June 2021, and a Visiting Researcher at the Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) and Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse (IAST) between September 2020 and July 2022. Horacio is an Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) affiliated professor, CesIfo research fellow, and an Evidence in Governance and Politics (EGAP) member.

Horacio received his Ph.D. in Economics from MIT in 2013. His research is on political economy and development, mostly in Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa. He has particularly worked on the importance of information for political accountability, vote buying, and when education fosters political participation. More recently, motivated by the COVID-19 infodemic and increasing political polarization, he has implemented various projects on misinformation and accountability under polarization in Bolivia, Finland, Latvia, South Africa, Turkey, and Zimbabwe. Horacio’s methodological focus is on causal identification using both observational and experimental data, and whenever possible, he uses social network analysis. He has conducted large-scale experiments in Australia, Bolivia, Egypt, Kenya, Liberia, Mexico, Morocco, Senegal, South Africa, Turkey, Uganda, and Zimbabwe. Horacio has published at the AEJ: Applied Economics, American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Econometrica, Economic Journal, Journal of Politics, Journal of the European Economic Association, Nature Human Behavior, PLoS ONE, Review of Economics and Statistics, Science Advances, among other journals.  Horacio has served as a consultant for various international organizations and is currently an Associate Editor of the Economic Journal.