Ana De La O, Assistant Professor of Political Science at Yale, is also affiliated with the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies and the Institution of Social and Policy Studies. She earned her PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her research interests include causes and consequences of redistribution, politics of public goods provision, effects of anti-poverty programs on the political behavior of recipients in developing countries and the use of field experimental research methods. She is currently writing a book manuscript that explores the proliferation of Conditional Cash Transfers in Latin America.