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) Disciplinesort descending Publication Year
Peer Pressure Against Prejudice: A High School Field Experiment Examining Social Network Change

Elizabeth Levy Paluck

Psychology Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 2010
Changing Environments by Changing Individuals: The Emergent Effects of Psychological Intervention

Joseph T. Powers, Jonathan E. Cook, Valerie Purdie-Vaughns, Julio Garcia, Nancy Apfel, and Geoffrey L. Cohen

Psychology Psychological Science 2015
Of Stasis and Movements: Climate Legislation in the 111th Congress

Nathaniel Loewentheil

Law ISPS working paper 2013
Analysis of the Distribution of Phase 1 of the Federal Paycheck Protection Program

Benjamin Della Rocca and Nate Loewentheil

Law ISPS working paper 2020
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
Racial/Ethnic Disparities in PM2.5-Attributable Cardiovascular Mortality Burden in the United States

Yiqun Ma, Emma Zang, Ijeoma Opara, Yuan Lu, Harlan M. Krumholz & Kai Chen

Public Health Nature Human Behaviour 2023
Long-Term Exposure to Fine Particulate Matter and Academic Performance Among Children in North Carolina

Pak Hung Lam, Emma Zang, Dieyi Chen, et. al

Public Health JAMA Network Open 2023
Treating, Fast and Slow: Americans’ Understanding of and Responses to Low-Value Care

Mark Schlesinger and Rachel Grob

Public Health The Milbank Quarterly 2017
Timing of COVID-19 Vaccine Approval and Endorsement by Public Figures

Bokemper, Scott E., Gregory A. Huber, Alan S. Gerber, Erin K. James, and Saad B. Omer

Interdisciplinary Vaccine 2021
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
Evaluating the Effect of Project Longevity on Group-Involved Shootings and Homicides in New Haven, Connecticut

Michael Sierra-Arévalo, Yanick Charette, Andrew V. Papachristos

Interdisciplinary Criminal Justice 2016
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
A Randomized Controlled Trial Evaluating the Effects of Police Body-Worn Cameras

David Yokum, Anita Ravishankar, Alexander Coppock

Interdisciplinary Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2017
How to Enhance Police Legitimacy and Reduce Gun Violence in Poor, Minority Communities

Michael Sierra-Arévalo

Interdisciplinary 2014
Are Health Care Services Shoppable? Evidence from the Consumption of Lower-Limb MRI Scans

Michael Chernew, Zack Cooper, Eugene Larsen-Hallock, Fiona Scott Morton

Interdisciplinary ISPS working paper 2018
How Social Learning Amplifies Moral Outrage Expression in Online Social Networks

William J. Brady, Killian McLoughlin, Tuan N. Doan and Molly J. Crockett

Interdisciplinary Science Advances 2021
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
The State from Below: Distorted Responsiveness in Policed Communities

Gwen Prowse, Vesla M. Weaver,  and Tracey L. Meares

Interdisciplinary Urban Affairs Review 2019
Doctor Knows Best: Physician Endorsements, Public Opinion, and the Politics of Comparative Effectiveness Research

Alan S. Gerber, Eric M. Patashnik, David Doherty, Conor M. Dowling

Interdisciplinary Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 2014
Estimating Average Causal Effects Under General Interference, with Application to a Social Network Experiment

Peter M. Aronow and Cyrus Samii

Interdisciplinary Annals of Applied Statistics 2017

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.