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Basics

Name Julio S. Solís Arce
Label PhD Candidate in Government
Email jsolisarce@g.harvard.edu
Phone +1 617 290 8291
Website https://juliosolisar.github.io

Education

  • 2021 - 2028

    Cambridge, MA, USA

    PhD
    Harvard University
    Government
    • Subfields: Comparative Politics; Political Methodology; Political Economy of Development
  • 2018 - 2020

    Cotonou, Benin

    Master’s
    African School of Economics (ASE)
    Mathematics, Economics and Statistics
  • 2011 - 2018

    Mexico City, Mexico

    BA
    Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM)
    Political Science (with distinction)

Research

Software Development

Research Experience

  • 2022 - 2024

    Cambridge, MA, USA

    Research Assistant
    Harvard University, Department of Economics
    Supervisor: David Yang
  • 2019 - 2021

    Berlin, Germany

    Predoctoral Research Fellow
    WZB Berlin Social Science Center
    Supervisor: Macartan Humphreys

Teaching Experience

  • Spring 2025

    Cambridge, MA, USA

    Main Instructor, GOV 97 Comparing Societies: Cross-Cultural Approaches to Politics
    Harvard University
  • Fall 2024

    Cambridge, MA, USA

    Teaching Fellow, DEV 101 Economic Development: Theory and Evidence
    Harvard Kennedy School
    • Faculty: Eliana La Ferrara and Dani Rodrik
  • Spring 2024

    Cambridge, MA, USA

    Teaching Fellow, GOV 2003 Causal Inference with Applications
    Harvard University
    • Faculty: Kosuke Imai
  • Fall 2023

    Cambridge, MA, USA

    Teaching Fellow, GOV 50 Data Science for the Social Sciences
    Harvard University
    • Faculty: Matt Blackwell

Other Relevant Training

Empirical Implications of Theoretical Models (EITM) Summer Institute
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Summer 2025
Association for Comparative Economic Studies (ACES) Summer School
African School of Economics, Zanzibar, Tanzania Summer 2025
Toulouse Summer School in Quantitative Social Sciences
Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) and IAST Summer 2022

Affiliations

  • 2025 - 2025
    Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW Kiel)
    Visiting Researcher, International Development and Global Cooperation & Social Cohesion Units
  • 2025 - 2026
    University of Botswana
    Visiting Researcher, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Political & Administrative Studies
  • 2024 - Present
    Culture, Cognition, Coevolution Lab
    Graduate Student Affiliate
  • 2024 - Present
    Center for International Development (CID)
    Graduate Student Affiliate
  • 2024 - 2025
    Weatherhead Center for International Affairs
    Graduate Student Associate
  • 2022 - Present
    Institute for Quantitative Social Science (IQSS)
    Graduate Student Affiliate

Presentations

  • 2025
    Yale Identity & Conflict Lab
    Delphi, Greece
  • 2025
    Thurgau Experimental Economics Meeting
    Thurgau, Switzerland and Konstanz, Germany
  • 2024
    American Political Science Association Annual Conference
    Philadelphia, USA
  • 2023
    American Political Science Association Annual Conference
    Los Angeles, USA
  • 2022
    Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse (IAST) Political Economy Workshop
    Toulouse, France
  • 2021
    Pan-African Scientific Research Council COVID-19 Conference
    Virtual
  • 2021
    American Political Science Association Annual Conference
    Seattle, USA / Virtual

Referee

  • Nature: Communications Medicine

Professional Service

Skills

R
Statistical modeling
Data analysis
Causal inference
Python
Data processing
Machine learning
NLP

Languages

Spanish
Native
English
Proficient
French
B1
German
B1

References

Macartan Humphreys
WZB Berlin Social Science Center, macartan.humphreys@wzb.eu
Torben Iversen
Harvard University, iversen@fas.harvard.edu
Eliana La Ferrara
Harvard Kennedy School of Government, elaferrara@hks.harvard.edu
Pia Raffler
Harvard University, praffler@gov.harvard.edu
Leonard Wantchekon
Princeton University and African School of Economics, lwantche@princeton.edu