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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Associations between Social Determinants of Health and Post-Hospitalization Rehabilitation Among Critically Ill Older Adults |
Snigdha Jain, Terrence E. Murphy, Jason R. Falvey, Linda Leo-Summers, Emma Zang, Thomas M. Gill, Harlan M. Krumholz, and Lauren E. Ferrante |
Public Health | Annals of the American Thoracic Society | 2025 |
| Treating, Fast and Slow: Americans’ Understanding of and Responses to Low-Value Care |
Mark Schlesinger and Rachel Grob |
Public Health | The Milbank Quarterly | 2017 |
| Hallucination-Free? Assessing the Reliability of Leading AI Legal Research Tools |
Varun Magesh, Faiz Surani, Matthew Dahl, Mirac Suzgun, Christopher D. Manning, and Daniel E. Ho |
Law | Journal of Empirical Legal Studies | 2025 |
| 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 |
| Enhancing Academic Performance and Social and Emotional Competence With the RULER Feeling Words Curriculum |
Marc A. Brackett, Susan E. Rivers, Maria R. Reyes, Peter Salovey |
Psychology | Learning and Individual Differences | 2012 |
| Toward an Understanding of Structural Racism: Implications for Criminal Justice |
Julian M. Rucker and Jennifer A. Richeson |
Psychology | Science | 2021 |
| Bayesian Estimation and Model Selection in Group-Based Trajectory Models |
Emma Zang and Justin T. Max |
Psychology | Psychological Methods | 2020 |
| Peer Pressure Against Prejudice: A High School Field Experiment Examining Social Network Change |
Elizabeth Levy Paluck |
Psychology | Journal of Experimental Social Psychology | 2010 |
| Changing Environments by Changing Individuals: The Emergent Effects of Psychological Intervention |
Joseph T. Powers, Jonathan E. Cook, Valerie Purdie-Vaughns, Julio Garcia, Nancy Apfel, and Geoffrey L. Cohen |
Psychology | Psychological Science | 2015 |
| Fiscal Centralization and Inequality in Children’s Economic Mobility |
Rourke O’Brien, Manuel Schechtl, and Zachary Parolin |
Sociology | American Sociological Review | 2025 |
| Sex-Selective Abortion Bans and the Birth Outcomes of Asian Immigrants |
Emma Zang, Keitaro Okura, and Melissa Tian |
Sociology | Social Science & Medicine | 2025 |
| Race and State in City Police Spending Growth 1980 to 2010 |
Robert Vargas and Philip McHarris |
Sociology | Sociology of Race and Ethnicity | 2016 |
| The Interplay of Race/Ethnicity and Education in Fertility Patterns |
Emma Zang, Chloe Sariego and Anirudh Krishnan |
Sociology | Population Studies | 2022 |
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.






