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 Publicationsort descending Year
Democratic and Republican Physicians Provide Different Care on Politicized Health Issues

Eitan D.  Hersh and Matthew N. Goldenberg

Interdisciplinary Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2016
Widespread Partisan Gerrymandering Mostly Cancels Nationally, But Reduces Electoral Competition

Christopher T. Kennya, Cory McCartan, Tyler Simkoa, Shiro Kuriwaki, and Kosuke Imai

Political Science Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2023
Generalizability of Heterogeneous Treatment Effect Estimates Across Samples

Alexander Coppock, Thomas J. Leeper, and Kevin J. Mullinix

Political Science Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2018
Political Practitioners Poorly Predict Which Messages Persuade the Public

David E. Broockman, Joshua L. Kalla, Christian Caballero, and Matthew Easton

Political Science Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2024
Changing Climates of Conflict: A Social Network Experiment in 56 Schools

Elizabeth Levy Paluck, Hana Shepherd and Peter M. Aronow

Interdisciplinary Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2016
Persuading US White Evangelicals to Vaccinate for COVID-19: Testing Message Effectiveness in Fall 2020 and Spring 2021

Scott E. Bokemper, Alan S. Gerber, Saad B. Omer, Gregory A. Huber

Political Science Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2021
Reply to Bryan et al.: Variation in Context Unlikely Explanation of Nonrobustness of Noun Versus Verb Results
Alan S. Gerber, Gregory A. Huber, Daniel R. Biggers, and David J. Hendry
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2016
Listen for a Change? A Longitudinal Field Experiment on Listening’s Potential to Enhance Persuasion

Erik Santoro, David E. Broockman, Joshua L. Kalla, and Roni Porat

Political Science Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2025
Clinical Trial Evidence Supporting FDA Approval of Novel Therapeutic Agents, 2005-2012

Nicholas S. Downing, Jenerius A. Aminawung, Nilay Shah, Harlan M. Krumholz, and Joseph S. Ross

Medicine Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) 2014
Sex-Selective Abortion Bans and the Birth Outcomes of Asian Immigrants

Emma Zang, Keitaro Okura, and Melissa Tian

Sociology Social Science & Medicine 2025
Tragic, but not Random: The Social Contagion of Nonfatal Gunshot Injuries

Andrew V. Papachristos, Christopher Wildeman, Elizabeth Roberto

Interdisciplinary Social Science & Medicine 2014
Sex-Selective Abortion Bans and the Birth Outcomes of Asian Immigrants

Emma Zang, Keitaro Okura, and Melissa Tian

Public Health Social Science & Medicine 2025
Political Ideology and Racial Preferences in Online Dating

Ashton Anderson, Sharad Goel, Gregory Huber, Neil Malhotra, Duncan J. Watts

Interdisciplinary Sociological Science 2014
When Politicians Cede Control of Resources: Land, Chiefs, and Coalition-Building in Africa

Kate Baldwin

Political Science Comparative Politics 2014
Doctor Knows Best: Physician Endorsements, Public Opinion, and the Politics of Comparative Effectiveness Research

Alan S. Gerber, Eric M. Patashnik, David Doherty, Conor M. Dowling

Interdisciplinary Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 2014
Between the Waves: Building Power for a Public Option

Jacob S. Hacker

Political Science Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 2021
Compounding Racialized Vulnerability: COVID-19 in Prisons, Jails, and Migrant Detention Centers

Matthew G.T. Denney  and Ramon Garibaldo Valdez

Interdisciplinary Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 2021
The Dog That Almost Barked: What the ACA Repeal Fight Says about the Resilience of the American Welfare State

Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson

Political Science Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 2018
Polarization, the Pandemic, and Public Trust in Health System Actors

Alessandro Del Ponte, Alan Gerber, and Eric M. Patashnik

Political Science Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 2023
Nativism or Economic Threat: Attitudes Toward Immigrants During the Great Recession

Judith L. Goldstein, Margaret E. Peters

Political Science International Interactions 2014

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.