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
- Calvo, Ernesto; Batista, Carolina F. T.; & Telhami, Shibley. Forthcoming. “The use of Confirmation and Refutation frames in Fact-Checking War Related Misinformations.” Research & Politics.
- Batista, Flávia; Batista, Carolina F. T.; & Calvo, Ernesto. Forthcoming. “Affective Polarization and Support for Democratic Institutions: Evidence from Survey Experiment in Brazil, Chile, and Colombia.” Conditionally approved at Latin American Politics and Society (LAPS).
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.”