My research examines gender and political behavior in Latin America, focusing on how citizens seek information and engage with politics in digital environments. I use computational social science methods, combining experiments and digital trace data with causal inference and text-as-data approaches.
Publications
- Batista, Carolina. F.T., Calvo, Ernesto, & Telhami, Shibley. (2026). The use of confirmation and refutation frames in fact-checking war-related misinformation. Research & Politics, 13(1), 10.1177/20531680261426513
- Batista da Silva, Flávia; Batista, Carolina F.T., & Calvo, Ernesto. (2026). Partisan Messages and Support for Democratic Institutions: Evidence from Survey Experiments in Brazil, Chile, and Colombia. Latin American Politics and Society, 68(1), 122–142. 10.1017/lap.2026.10045
Book Chapter
- Batista, Carolina F. T., & Calvo, Ernesto. 2025. “Switching Off.” In The Law and Politics of Constitution Making, 285–301. Routledge.
Under Review
- Batista, Carolina F. T., & Calvo, Ernesto. 2025. “What Lost Elections Tell Us about the Demand for News.”
Works in progress
- Batista, Carolina F.T. “Resilient Women, Reactive Men: Gendered News Engagement in Elections”
- Batista, Carolina F.T. “Speaking of Abortion: What Voices Reveal About Gender and Moral Punishment”
- Alvarado, Juan Diego; Batista, Carolina F.T.; Ziaei, Rojin; Calvo, Ernesto & Ciampaglia, Giovanni Luca. “The electoral business cycle of Wikipedia: What elections reveal on partisanship and the supply of information online.”