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.

Titlesort descending Author(s) Discipline Publication Year
Selling Health Data: De-Identification, Privacy, and Speech

Bonnie Kaplan

Bioethics ISPS working paper 2014
Serving the Law or Playing Politics? The Strategic Use of U.S. Attorney Appointments

Christina M. Kinane, Lauren Mattioli

Political Science Presidential Studies Quarterly 2022
Sham Surgery: The Problem of Inadequate Medical Evidence

Alan S. Gerber and Eric M. Patashnik

Interdisciplinary 2006
Sharp Bounds on the Variance in Randomized Experiments

Peter M. Aronow, Donald P. Green, Donald K. K. Lee

Interdisciplinary Annals of Statistics 2014
Should I Cast an Ill-Informed Ballot? Examining the Contours of the Normative Obligation to Vote

David Doherty, Conor M. Dowling, Alan S. Gerber, and Gregory A. Huber

Political Science American Politics Research 2019
Signaling and Counter-Signaling in the Judicial Hierarchy: An Empirical Analysis of En Banc Review

Deborah Beim, Alexander V. Hirsch, Jonathan P. Kastellec

Political Science American Journal of Political Science 2015
Signaling with Reform: How the Threat of Corruption Prevents Informed Policy-making

Keith E. Schnakenberg and Ian R. Turner

Political Science American Political Science Review 2019
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
Social and Economic Correlates of Depressive Symptoms and Perceived Stress in South African Adults.

Hamad, Lia Fernald, Dean Karlan, Jonathan Zinman

Economics Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 2008
Social Connections and Group Banking

Dean Karlan

Economics Economic Journal 2007
Social Identity, Electoral Institutions and the Number of Candidates

Eric S. Dickson, Kenneth Scheve

Political Science British Journal of Political Science 2010
Social Media, News Consumption, and Polarization: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Ro’ee Levy

Economics American Economic Review 2021
Social Networks and Gang Violence Reduction

Michael Sierra-Arévalo and Andrew V. Papachristos

Sociology Annual Review of Law and Social Science 2017
Social Pressure and Voter Turnout: Evidence from a Large-Scale Field Experiment

Alan S. Gerber, Donald P. Green, Christopher W. Larimer

Political Science American Political Science Review 2008
Social Pressure, Surveillance and Community Size: Evidence from Field Experiments on Voter Turnout

Costas Panagopoulos

Political Science Electoral Studies 2011
Sources of Bias in Retrospective Decision Making: Experimental Evidence on Voters’ Limitations in Controlling Incumbents

Gregory A. Huber, Seth J. Hill, Gabriel S. Lenz

Political Science American Political Science Review 2012
Spanish-Language Radio Advertisements and Latino Voter Turnout in the 2006 Congressional Elections: Field Experimental Evidence

Costas Panagopoulos and Donald P. Green

Political Science Political Research Quarterly 2010
Standing on Shaky Ground: Americans' Experiences with Economic Insecurity

Hacker, Jacob S., Philipp Rehm & Mark Schlesinger

Interdisciplinary 2010
Staying Out of Sight? Concentrated Policing and Local Political Action

Amy E. Lerman and Vesla Weaver

Political Science Annals of the American Academy for Political and Social Science 2014
Sticking with Your Vote: Cognitive Dissonance and Political Attitudes

Sendhil Mullainathan, Ebonya Washington

Political Science American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 2009

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.