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
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
Too Much Knowledge, Too Little Power: An Assessment of Political Knowledge in Highly Policed Communities

Vesla Weaver, Gwen Prowse, and Spencer Piston

Political Science Journal of Politics 2019
Toward an Understanding of Structural Racism: Implications for Criminal Justice

Julian M. Rucker and Jennifer A. Richeson

Psychology Science 2021
Tracking Opinion Over Time - A Method for Reducing Sampling Error

 Donald P. Green, Alan S. Gerber, SL De Boef, SL

Political Science Public Opinion Quarterly 1999
Tragic, but not Random: The Social Contagion of Nonfatal Gunshot Injuries

Andrew V. Papachristos, Christopher Wildeman, Elizabeth Roberto

Interdisciplinary Social Science & Medicine 2014
Trajectories of General Health Status and Depressive Symptoms Among Persons With Cognitive Impairment in the United States

Emma Zang,  Anna Guo, Christina Pao, Nancy Lu, Bei Wu and Terri R. Fried

Interdisciplinary Journal of Aging and Health 2022
Trajectories of Relapse in Randomised, Placebo-Controlled Trials of Treatment Discontinuation in Major Depressive Disorder: An Individual Patient-Level Data Meta-Analysis

Ralitza Gueorguieva, Adam M. Chekroud, John H. Krystal

Medicine The Lancet 2017
Treating, Fast and Slow: Americans’ Understanding of and Responses to Low-Value Care

Mark Schlesinger and Rachel Grob

Public Health The Milbank Quarterly 2017
Trust and Social Collateral

Dean Karlan, Markus Mobius, Tanya Rosenblat, Adam Szeidl

Economics Quarterly Journal of Economics 2009
Two Centuries of Presidential Elections

David R. Mayhew

Political Science Presidential Studies Quarterly 2021
Tying Odysseus to the Mast: Evidence from a Commitment Savings Product in the Philippines

Nava Ashraf, Dean Karlan, Wesley Yin

Economics Quarterly Journal of Economics 2006
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

 

Interdisciplinary PLOS ONE 2021
Unbiased Estimation of the Average Treatment Effect in Cluster-Randomized Experiments

Joel A. Middleton and Peter M. Aronow

Political Science Statistics, Politics, and Policy 2015
Understanding the Party Brand: Experimental Evidence on the Role of Valence

Daniel M. Butler and Eleanor Neff Powell

Political Science Journal of Politics 2014
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
US Laws Relating to Decision-Making on Behalf of P

Stephen Latham

Bioethics Book chapter 2023
Using Cluster Randomized Field Experiments to Study Voting Behavior

Kevin Arceneaux

Political Science Annals of the American Academy for Political and Social Science 2005
Using Experimental Economics to Measure Social Capital and Predict Financial Decisions

Dean Karlan

Economics American Economic Review 2005
Using Experiments to Estimate the Effects of Education on Voter Turnout

Rachel Milstein Sondheimer, Donald P. Green

Political Science American Journal of Political Science 2010
Using Random Judge Assignments to Estimate the Effects of Incarceration and Probation on Recidivism Among Drug Offenders

Donald P. Green, Daniel Winik

Political Science Criminology 2010

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.