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 ascending 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.

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.