My research interests span various fields including political economy, cliometrics, political psychology and behavior, and authoritarian politics. Substantively, I am particularly interested in exploring historical legacies and junctures, the psychology of public opinion in non-democratic regimes, and comparative development. Besides that, I am interested in studying freedom as a concept at the intersection of politics, economics, humanities, and psychology. I apply various computational methods of statistics, econometrics, and machine learning to surveys, field and natural experiments, and in the context of causal modeling in qualitative research designs.