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 |
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Why People Vote: Estimating the Social Returns to Voting |
Alan S. Gerber, Gregory A. Huber, David Doherty and Conor M. Dowling |
Political Science | British Journal of Political Science | 2016 |
When Do Governments Resort to Election Violence? |
Emilie M. Hafner-Burton, Susan D. Hyde and Ryan S. Jablonski |
Political Science | British Journal of Political Science | 2013 |
Varieties of Capitalist Interest and Capitalist Power: A Response to Swenson |
Jacob S. Hacker, Paul Pierson |
Political Science | Studies in American Political Development | 2004 |
Congress as a Handler of Challenges: The Historical Record |
David R. Mayhew |
Political Science | Studies in American Political Development | 2015 |
The Political Effects of Policy Drift: Policy Stalemate and American Political Development |
Daniel J. Galvin and Jacob S. Hacker |
Political Science | Studies in American Political Development | 2020 |
Bringing the Welfare State Back In: The Promise (and Perils) of the New Social Welfare History |
Jacob S. Hacker |
Political Science | Journal of Policy History | 2005 |
The “Proper Organs” for Presidential Representation: A Fresh Look at the Budget and Accounting Act of 1921 |
John Dearborn |
Political Science | Journal of Policy History | 2019 |
Lying About Borrowing |
Dean Karlan, Jonathan Zinman |
Economics | Journal of the European Economic Association | 2008 |
When Curiosity Kills the Profits: An Experimental Examination |
Julian Jamison, Dean Karlan |
Economics | Games and Economic Behavior | 2008 |
Finding Missing Markets (and a Disturbing Epilogue): Evidence from an Export Crop Adoption and Marketing Intervention in Kenya. |
Nava Ashraf, Xavier Gine, Dean Karlan |
Economics | Journal of Agricultural Economics | 2009 |
Observing Unobservables: Identifying Information Asymmetries with a Consumer Credit Field Experiment. |
Dean Karlan, Jonathan Zinman |
Economics | Advances in Economic Analysis & Policy | 2010 |
Deposit Collectors |
Nava Ashraf, Dean Karlan, Wesley Yin |
Economics | Advances in Economic Analysis & Policy | 2006 |
Social Connections and Group Banking |
Dean Karlan |
Economics | Economic Journal | 2007 |
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 |
Expanding Credit Access: Using Randomized Supply Decisions to Estimate the Impacts in Manila |
Dean Karlan, Jonathan Zinman |
Economics | Review of Financial Studies | 2009 |
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 |
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 |
Participation in a School Incentive Program in India. |
Dean Karlan, Sharon Barnhardt, Stuti Khemani |
Economics | Journal of Development Studies | 2009 |
Female Empowerment: Impact of a Commitment Savings Product in the Philippines. |
Nava Ashraf, Dean Karlan, Wesley Yin |
Economics | World Development | 2009 |
Adaptive Experimental Design using the Propensity Score |
Dean Karlan, Jinyong Hahn, Keisuke Hirano |
Interdisciplinary | Journal of Business and Economic Statistics | 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.
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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.