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 Publicationsort ascending Year
The Effect of Randomized School Admissions on Voter Participation.

Justine S. Hastings, Thomas Kane, Douglas Staiger, Jeffrey Weinstein

Interdisciplinary Journal of Public Economics 2007
Segregation and Black Political Efficacy

Elizabeth Oltmans Ananat, Ebonya Washington

Interdisciplinary Journal of Public Economics 2009
Reformulating Competition? Gasoline Content Regulation and Wholesale Gasoline Prices

Jen Brown, Justine Hastings, Erin Mansur, and Sofia Villas-Boas

Economics Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 2008
Information, School Choice, and Academic Achievement: Evidence from Two Experiments.

Justine S. Hastings, Jeffrey M. Weinstein

Economics Quarterly Journal of Economics 2008
Trust and Social Collateral

Dean Karlan, Markus Mobius, Tanya Rosenblat, Adam Szeidl

Economics Quarterly Journal of Economics 2009
Valuing the Vote: The Redistribution of Voting Rights and State Funds following the Voting Rights Act of 1965

Elizabeth U. Cascio and Ebonya Washington

Interdisciplinary Quarterly Journal of Economics 2014
The Price Ain’t Right? Hospital Prices and Health Spending on the Privately Insured

Zack Cooper, Stuart Craig, Martin Gaynor, and John Van Reenen

Interdisciplinary Quarterly Journal of Economics 2018
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
How Black Candidates Affect Voter Turnout

Ebonya Washington

Political Science Quarterly Journal of Economics 2006
What's Advertising Content Worth? Evidence from a Consumer Credit Marketing Field Experiment

Dean Karlan, Marianne Bertrand, Sendhil Mullainathan, Eldar Shafir, Jonathan Zinman

Economics Quarterly Journal of Economics 2010
Lethal Incompetence: Voters, Officials, and Systems

Jonathan Bendor, John G. Bullock

Political Science Critical Review 2008
Is the Internet Bridging the Gender Gap? The Case of Political Science

Daniel M. Butler, Richard J. Butler

Political Science Economics of Education Review 2009
The Internet's Effect on Women's Coauthoring Rates and Academic Job Market Decisions: The Case of Political Science

Daniel M. Butler, Richard J. Butler

Political Science Economics of Education Review 2011
Do Modern Forms of Human Capital Matter in Primitive Economies? Comparative Evidence from Bolivia

Ricardo Godoy, Dean Karlan, Shanti Rabindran, Tomas Huanca

Economics Economics of Education Review 2005
How Do Public Goods Providers Play Public Goods Games?

Daniel M. Butler and Thad Kousser

Political Science Legislative Studies Quarterly 2015
Peer Pressure Against Prejudice: A High School Field Experiment Examining Social Network Change

Elizabeth Levy Paluck

Psychology Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 2010
US Laws Relating to Decision-Making on Behalf of P

Stephen Latham

Bioethics Book chapter 2023
Accountability Reconsidered: Introduction

Charles M. Cameron, Brandice Canes-Wrone, Sanford C. Gordon, and Gregory A. Huber

Political Science Book chapter 2023
Accountability Reconsidered: Conclusion: Assessing Contemporary Accountability

Charles M. Cameron, Brandice Canes-Wrone, Sanford C. Gordon, and Gregory A. Huber

Political Science Book chapter 2023
Can Citizens Assess Policies Based on Programs’ Costs and Benefits? The Role of Yardsticks and Contextual Information in Democratic Accountability

Eric M. Patashnik, Patrick Tucker, and Alan S. Gerber

Political Science Book chapter 2023

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.