Alicia Cooperman, PhD

Climate change increasingly shapes political relationships within and across countries. My research applies core political questions of distributive politics, collective action, and democratic accountability to critical policy issues in development and the environment, especially water policy and climate change. Through in-depth applied field research, causal inference methodologies, and rigorous statistical analysis, I provide a deeper awareness of local social and political realities and their influence on sustainable development.
 

My work is forthcoming or has been published in American Political Science Review, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Political Analysis, Comparative Political Studies, Global Environmental Change, and WIREs Water, among others. I have received generous funding from multiple sources including the National Science Foundation, the Fulbright-Hays Program, and Evidence in Governance and Politics (EGAP). I have conducted extensive applied research in Brazil (2016-2017 and 2022) using field experiments, survey experiments, original household surveys, analysis of climate and electoral data, and qualitative methods. 

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I received a Ph.D. in Political Science from Columbia University in 2019. I received a Master of International Affairs (MIA) in 2013 from UC San Diego’s School of Global Policy & Strategy (formerly IR/PS). I graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Stanford University in 2008 with a B.A. in Human Biology.

 

I have current or former affiliations with the Household Water Insecurity Experiences (HWISE) - Research Coordination Network (RCN), Princeton Behavioral Science for Policy Lab (BSPL), Princeton Brazil LAB, Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV) in Rio de Janeiro - RJ, Brazil, and Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC) in Fortaleza - CE, Brazil.