Jerik Cruz
Graduate Research Fellow
email jpdcruz@mit.edu
Jerik Cruz is a PhD student focused on political economy, methodology, and comparative politics. His current research examines the politics of state capacity, governance in the knowledge economy, and democratic erosion in the Global South. Right before his PhD studies at MIT, he was a researcher and lecturer at the Department of Economics at the Ateneo de Manila University, and has led policy studies commissioned by the Asian Development Bank, the United Nations Development Program, and the International Labour Organization on issues such as urban development, COVID-19 response, and industrial and innovation policy. He is a recipient of the MIT Homer A. Burnell Presidential Graduate Fellowship.
Projects
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News November 2023
[MIT News] Rewarding Excellence in Open Data
Graduate research fellow, Jerik Cruz, was one of several recipients of the second annual MIT Prize for Open Data.
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News August 2023
Unearthing the Hidden Stories of Budgets and Audit Reports
We catch up with Jerik Cruz, MIT PhD Candidate in Political Science and MIT GOV/LAB Graduate Fellow, about his development of a new large-scale dataset with underused audit reports.
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Projects October 2019
Dissertation and Seed Grants
A compilation of research projects and outcomes by MIT Political Science graduate students supported by MIT GOV/LAB.