Publications

About Our Publications

On this page you will find a list of publications by ISPS Affiliates, including peer-reviewed journal articles, policy briefs, and working papers.

When possible, Publications are linked to Projects and Data via the ISPS KnowledgeBase.

Title Author(s) Discipline Publication Yearsort ascending
Yes, But What’s the Mechanism? (Don’t Expect an Easy Answer)

John G. Bullock, Donald P. Green, Shang E. Ha

Political Science Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 2010
The First of the Month Effect: Consumer Behavior and Store Responses

Justine Hastings and Ebonya Washington

Economics American Economic Journal: Economic Policy 2010
Baseline, Placebo, and Treatment: Efficient Estimation for Three-Group Experiments

Gerber, Alan S., Donald P. Green, Edward H. Kaplan and Holger L. Kern

Political Science Political Analysis 2010
The Consequences of Child Soldiering

Christopher Blattman and Jeannie Annan

Economics Review of Economics and Statistics 2010
Are Coethnics More Effective Counterinsurgents? Evidence from the Second Chechen War

Jason Lyall

Political Science American Political Science Review 2010
Personality and Political Attitudes: Relationships across Issue Domains and Political Contexts

Alan S. Gerber, Gregory A. Huber, David Doherty, Conor M. Dowling, and Shang E. Ha

Political Science American Political Science Review 2010
International Scrutiny and Pre-Electoral Fiscal Manipulation in Developing Countries

Hyde, Susan D., Angela O’Mahony

Political Science Journal of Politics 2010
Problem Solving in a Polarized Age: Comparative Effectiveness Research and the Politicization of Evidence-Based Medicine

Alan S. Gerber and Eric M. Patashnik

Political Science Forum 2010
Cross-cutting Cleavages and Ethnic Voting: An Experimental Study of Cuisinage in Mali

Thad Dunning, Lauren Harrison

Political Science American Political Science Review 2010
Were Newspapers More Interested in pro-Obama Letters to the Editor in 2008? Evidence from a Field Experiment

Daniel M. Butler, Emily Schofield

Political Science American Politics Research 2010
The Future of Field Experiments in International Relations

Susan D. Hyde

Political Science Annals of the American Academy for Political and Social Science 2010
The Impact of Electoral Debate on Public Opinions: An Experimental Investigation of the 2005 New York City Mayoral Election

Sendhil Mullainathan, Ebonya Washington and Julia R. Azari

Political Science 2010
Strategies for Dealing with the Problem of Non-Overlapping Units of Assignment and Outcome Measurement in Field Experiments

Ana L. De La O, Daniel Rubenson

Political Science 2010
Experimental Research on Democracy and Development

Ana L. De La O, Leonard Wantchekon

Political Science 2010
Social Identity, Electoral Institutions and the Number of Candidates

Eric S. Dickson, Kenneth Scheve

Political Science British Journal of Political Science 2010
Observing Unobservables: Identifying Information Asymmetries with a Consumer Credit Field Experiment.

Dean Karlan, Jonathan Zinman

Economics Advances in Economic Analysis & Policy 2010
What's Advertising Content Worth? Evidence from a Consumer Credit Marketing Field Experiment

Dean Karlan, Marianne Bertrand, Sendhil Mullainathan, Eldar Shafir, Jonathan Zinman

Economics Quarterly Journal of Economics 2010
Adaptive Experimental Design using the Propensity Score

Dean Karlan, Jinyong Hahn, Keisuke Hirano

Interdisciplinary Journal of Business and Economic Statistics 2010
The World Wide Web and the U.S. Political News Market

Norman H. Nie, Derwin W. Miller, III, Saar Golde, Daniel M. Butler, and Kenneth Winneg

Political Science American Journal of Political Science 2010
Corruption and Inequality at the Crossroad: A Multi-Method Study of Bribery and Discrimination in Latin America

Brian J. Fried, Paul Lagunes, Atheendar Venkataramani

Political Science Latin American Research Review 2010

ISPS Working Paper Series

ISPS advances interdisciplinary research in the social sciences that aims to shape public policy and inform democratic deliberation. The ISPS network includes scholars and students from many departments in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and from Yale’s graduate and professional schools as well as select experts from other institutions. The ISPS Working Paper Series provides a platform for ISPS affiliates to make their work available for public consumption and discussion.

ISPS Working Paper Series

Featured Books by ISPS Faculty

ISPS Sponsored Publications

ISPS Politics & Policy Book Series: A series striving to place policy- and law-making in historical and comparative perspective, reflecting the broad, multidisciplinary character of ISPS.

ISPS journals

ISPS Journal: A biannual publication that serves to highlight ISPS scholars’ publications and as a development piece for foundations and interested donors.

GOTV website: A website compiling results from a wide array of voter mobilization field experiments. Findings from these scientifically measured studies of various Get-Out-the-Vote methods offer valuable insight into which methods are most effective in mobilizing voter turnout (Note: the website indexes GOTV experiments published before 2006).

The Bulletin of Yale University includes several issues devoted to ISPS (PDF): 2000-2002, 2002-2004, 2004-2006, and 2006-2008.