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) Disciplinesort descending Publication Year
Of Stasis and Movements: Climate Legislation in the 111th Congress

Nathaniel Loewentheil

Law ISPS working paper 2013
Analysis of the Distribution of Phase 1 of the Federal Paycheck Protection Program

Benjamin Della Rocca and Nate Loewentheil

Law ISPS working paper 2020
From Legal Transplants to Policy Irritants: Chinese Economic Expansion and Global Legal Change

Kevin Byrne Keller

Law American Journal of Comparative Law 2025
Chain Novel, or Markov Chain? Estimating the Authority of U.S. Supreme Court Case Law

Matthew Dahl

Law Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 2024
Explaining Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Advance Care Planning: A Decomposition Analysis

Yifan Lou, Emma Zang, and Qianqian Li

Public Health Journal of Pain and Symptom Management 2025
Geographic Disparities in Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias Using Bayesian Multistate Life Table Methods

Jason Wong and Emma Zang

Public Health Innovation In Aging 2024
A Novel Time Use Approach on Successful Aging: Racial and Gender Disparities in Daily Productive Engagement

Jason Wong, Siyao Lu, Yifan Lou, Emma Zang, and Deborah Carr

Public Health Innovation In Aging 2024
Clean Air Act 1990 and Its Long-Term Impact on Mortality Risk Among Older Adults in the United States

Siyao Lu and Emma Zang

Public Health Innovation In Aging 2024
Upward Mobility Context and Health Outcomes and Behaviors during Transition to Adulthood: The Intersectionality of Race and Sex

Emma Zang and Melissa Tian

Public Health Journal of Health and Social Behavior 2024
Regional Disparities in Cognitive Life Expectancy: The Role of Birth and Current Residence in the United States

Jason Wong and Emma Zang

Public Health Health and Place 2025
Novel Indices of State- and County-Level Social Disadvantage in Older Americans and Disparities in Mortality

Yi Wang, Emma X. Zang, Kendra Davis-Plourde, Thomas M. Gill, and Robert Becher

Public Health Health and Place 2025
Co-Evolution of Cognitive and Health Trajectories Among U.S. Older Adults with Cognitive Impairment

Yifan Lou, Emma Zang, and Yanjun Wu

Public Health Innovation In Aging 2025
Racial/Ethnic Disparities in PM2.5-Attributable Cardiovascular Mortality Burden in the United States

Yiqun Ma, Emma Zang, Ijeoma Opara, Yuan Lu, Harlan M. Krumholz & Kai Chen

Public Health Nature Human Behaviour 2023
Intergenerational Relation Trajectories in Multi-Child Families and Depressive Symptoms of Older Parents in China

Chang Yu, Jiaowei Gong, and Emma Zang

Public Health Innovation In Aging 2025
Long-Term Exposure to Wildland Fire Smoke PM2.5 and Mortality in the Contiguous United States

Yiqun Ma, Emma Zang, Yang Liu, and Kai Chen

Public Health Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2024
Sex-Selective Abortion Bans and the Birth Outcomes of Asian Immigrants

Emma Zang, Keitaro Okura, and Melissa Tian

Public Health Social Science & Medicine 2025
A Novel Time Use Approach on Daily Active Engagement with Life: The Intersectionality of Race and Gender

Jason Wong, Siyao Lu, Yifan Lou, Emma Zang, and Deborah Carr

Public Health The Gerontologist 2024
Long-Term Exposure to Fine Particulate Matter and Academic Performance Among Children in North Carolina

Pak Hung Lam, Emma Zang, Dieyi Chen, et. al

Public Health JAMA Network Open 2023
Spatial and racial/ethnic disparities in cardiovascular mortality attributable to PM2.5 components in the contiguous United States

Ying Hu, Lingzhi Chu, Stefano Renzetti, Emma Zang, Ijeoma Opara, Yuan Lu, Erica S. Spatz, Harlan M. Krumholz, and Kai Chen

Public Health Science Advances 2026
Obtaining Population-Based Estimates for Survey Data Using Bayesian Hierarchical Models With Poststratification

Yunxuan Zhang, Thomas M. Gill, Karen Bandeen-Roche, Robert D. Becher, Kendra Davis-Plourde, Emma X. Zang

Public Health American Journal of Epidemiology 2025

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.