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 |
Publication |
Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Social Media, News Consumption, and Polarization: Evidence from a Field Experiment |
Ro’ee Levy |
Economics | American Economic Review | 2021 |
| Observational Learning: Evidence from a Randomized Natural Field Experiment |
Hongbin Cai, Yuyu Chen, Hanming Fang |
Economics | American Economic Review | 2009 |
| Gender, Performance and Preferences: Do Girls and Boys Respond Differently to School Environment? Evidence from School Assignment by Randomized Lottery |
Justine S. Hastings, Thomas J. Kane, Douglas O. Staiger |
Economics | American Economic Review | 2006 |
| Vertical Relationships and Competition in Retail Gasoline Markets: Empirical Evidence from Contract Changes in Southern California |
Justine S. Hastings |
Economics | American Economic Review | 2004 |
| Does Price Matter in Charitable Giving? Evidence from a Large-Scale Natural Field Experiment. |
Dean Karlan, John List |
Economics | American Economic Review | 2007 |
| Community Size and Network Structure |
Hunt Alcott, Dean Karlan, Markus Mobius, Tanya Rosenblat, Adam Szeidl |
Economics | American Economic Review | 2007 |
| Credit Elasticities in Less Developed Countries: Implications for Microfinance. |
Dean S. Karlan, Jonathan Zinman |
Economics | American Economic Review | 2008 |
| Female Socialization: How Daughters Affect Their Legislator Fathers’ Voting on Women’s Issues |
Ebonya Washington |
Interdisciplinary | American Economic Review | 2008 |
| Using Experimental Economics to Measure Social Capital and Predict Financial Decisions |
Dean Karlan |
Economics | American Economic Review | 2005 |
| Market Power, Vertical Integration and the Wholesale Price of Gasoline |
Justine S. Hastings, Richard J. Gilbert |
Economics | Journal of Industrial Economics | 2005 |
| Does the Media Matter? A Field Experiment Measuring the Effect of Newspapers on Voting Behavior and Political Opinions |
Alan S. Gerber, Dean Karlan, Daniel Bergan |
Interdisciplinary | American Economic Journal: Applied Economics | 2009 |
| Sticking with Your Vote: Cognitive Dissonance and Political Attitudes. |
Sendhil Mullainathan, Ebonya Washington |
Interdisciplinary | American Economic Journal: Applied Economics | 2009 |
| Sticking with Your Vote: Cognitive Dissonance and Political Attitudes |
Sendhil Mullainathan, Ebonya Washington |
Political Science | American Economic Journal: Applied Economics | 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 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).
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