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Kevin Grieco is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Local Government Revenue Initiative. He completed his PhD in Political Science at the University of California, Los Angeles in 2024. He studies how low-capacity governments raise taxes and enforce policies. His current work focuses on fiscal capacity and traditional political institutions in Sierra Leone. In his research he collects original quantitative and qualitative data, uses field experiments to answer causal questions, and often collaborates with local government and civil society partners.