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 Yearsort ascending
Partisan and Nonpartisan Message Content and Voter Mobilization: Field Experimental Evidence

Costas Panagopoulos

Political Science Political Research Quarterly 2009
Experimental Justice: Random Judicial Assignment and the Partisan Process of Supreme Court Review

Matthew Hall

Interdisciplinary American Politics Research 2009
Who Is Mobilized to Vote? A Re-Analysis of 11 Field Experiments

Kevin Arceneaux, David W. Nickerson

Political Science American Journal of Political Science 2009
Do Congressional Candidates Have Reverse Coattails? Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design

David E. Broockman

Political Science Political Analysis 2009
Segregation and Black Political Efficacy

Elizabeth Oltmans Ananat, Ebonya Washington

Interdisciplinary Journal of Public Economics 2009
Sticking with Your Vote: Cognitive Dissonance and Political Attitudes.

Sendhil Mullainathan, Ebonya Washington

Interdisciplinary American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 2009
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
Trust and Social Collateral

Dean Karlan, Markus Mobius, Tanya Rosenblat, Adam Szeidl

Economics Quarterly Journal of Economics 2009
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
Female Empowerment: Impact of a Commitment Savings Product in the Philippines.

Nava Ashraf, Dean Karlan, Wesley Yin

Economics World Development 2009
Participation in a School Incentive Program in India.

Dean Karlan, Sharon Barnhardt, Stuti Khemani

Economics Journal of Development Studies 2009
Sticking with Your Vote: Cognitive Dissonance and Political Attitudes

Sendhil Mullainathan, Ebonya Washington

Political Science American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 2009
Descriptive Social Norms and Motivation to Vote: Everybody's Voting and So Should You

Alan S. Gerber and Todd Rogers

Political Science Journal of Politics 2009
Do Statistical Reporting Standards Affect What Is Published? Publication Bias in Two Leading Political Science Journals

Alan Gerber and Neil Malhotra

Interdisciplinary Quarterly Journal of Political Science 2008
Publication Bias in Empirical Sociological Research: Do Arbitrary Significance Levels Distort Published Results?

Alan S. Gerber and Neil Malhotra

Interdisciplinary Sociological Methods & Research 2008
Does Religion Distract the Poor? Income and Issue Voting Around the World

Ana L. De La O, Jonathan A. Rodden

Political Science Comparative Political Studies 2008
How International Election Observers Detect and Deter Fraud

Susan D. Hyde

Political Science 2008
Female Socialization: How Daughters Affect Their Legislator Fathers’ Voting on Women’s Issues

Ebonya Washington

Interdisciplinary American Economic Review 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
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

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 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.