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 | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Treating, Fast and Slow: Americans’ Understanding of and Responses to Low-Value Care |
Mark Schlesinger and Rachel Grob |
Public Health | The Milbank Quarterly | 2017 |
| How to Enhance Police Legitimacy and Reduce Gun Violence in Poor, Minority Communities |
Michael Sierra-Arévalo |
Interdisciplinary | 2014 | |
| Small Individual Loans and Mental Health: A Randomized Controlled Trial Among South African Adults |
Lia C.H. Fernald, Rita Hamad, Dean Karlan, Emily J. Ozer, Jonathan Zinman |
Interdisciplinary | BMC Public Health | 2008 |
| A Randomized Controlled Trial Evaluating the Effects of Police Body-Worn Cameras |
David Yokum, Anita Ravishankar, Alexander Coppock |
Interdisciplinary | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 2017 |
| Evaluating the Effect of Project Longevity on Group-Involved Shootings and Homicides in New Haven, Connecticut |
Michael Sierra-Arévalo, Yanick Charette, Andrew V. Papachristos |
Interdisciplinary | Criminal Justice | 2016 |
| U.S. Regional Differences in Physical Distancing: Evaluating Racial and Socioeconomic Divides During the COVID-19 Pandemic |
Emma Zang, Jessica West, Nathan Kim & Christina Pao
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Interdisciplinary | PLOS ONE | 2021 |
| Are Health Care Services Shoppable? Evidence from the Consumption of Lower-Limb MRI Scans |
Michael Chernew, Zack Cooper, Eugene Larsen-Hallock, Fiona Scott Morton |
Interdisciplinary | ISPS working paper | 2018 |
| Timing of COVID-19 Vaccine Approval and Endorsement by Public Figures |
Bokemper, Scott E., Gregory A. Huber, Alan S. Gerber, Erin K. James, and Saad B. Omer |
Interdisciplinary | Vaccine | 2021 |
| Prosperity Economics: Building an Economy for All |
Jacob S. Hacker and Nathaniel Loewentheil |
Interdisciplinary | 2012 | |
| Improving Public Support for Climate Action Through Multilateralism |
Michael M. Bechtel , Kenneth F. Scheve & Elisabeth van Lieshout |
Interdisciplinary | Nature Communications | 2022 |
| To Deceive or Not To Deceive: The Effect of Deception on Behavior in Future Laboratory Experiments |
Julian Jamison, Dean Karlan, Laura Schechter |
Interdisciplinary | Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization | 2008 |
| The State from Below: Distorted Responsiveness in Policed Communities |
Gwen Prowse, Vesla M. Weaver, and Tracey L. Meares |
Interdisciplinary | Urban Affairs Review | 2019 |
| How Social Learning Amplifies Moral Outrage Expression in Online Social Networks |
William J. Brady, Killian McLoughlin, Tuan N. Doan and Molly J. Crockett |
Interdisciplinary | Science Advances | 2021 |
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.
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 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.