Publications

“Weighty Politics: Weight-Based Discrimination in U.S. Elections,” with Claire Gothreau. Conditionally Accepted, Journal of Politics.

“A Replication and Extension of Willer et al. (2013) Overdoing Gender: A Test of the Masculine Overcompensation Thesis,” with Claire Gothreau. Conditionally Accepted, Journal of Experimental Political Science.

“Prevalence and Predictors of Exclusionary Behavior Across 14 Societies,” (2025), with Andrzej Baranski. PNAS Nexus 4 (1), with Andrzej Baranski. Link. Replication File.

“‘My History or Our History?’ Historical Revisionism and Entitlement to Lead”, (2024), American Political Science Review 118 (4): 1778-1802, with Emmy Lindstam. Pre-Print. Link. Replication File.

• Winner of the APSA Experimental Research Section’s Best Paper Award 2022.
• Winner of the ISPP Roberta Sigel Best Conference Paper by Early Career Member Award 2023.

“@Who? Investigating Possible Errors in Studies Linking Survey and Twitter Data,” (2024), Journal of Quantitative Description: Digital Media 4, with Marten Appel. Link. Replication File.

“Despite Misinformation, Low Trust, and Conflict in Somalia, High Demand for Vaccines and a Negative Endorsement Effect of non-State Authorities,” (2023), Nature Scientific Reports 13(1): 21689, with Laurits Aarslew and Prabin Khadka. Link.

“The Timing of Communication and Retaliation in Bargaining: An Experimental Study,” (2023) Journal of Economic Psychology, 96 (102621): 1-20, with Andrzej Baranski. Link.

“Pork versus Policy: Experimental Evidence on Majoritarian Bargaining with Real-World Consequences,” (2023) Journal of Politics, 85 (2): 537-552, with Andrzej Baranski and Rebecca B. Morton. Link. Replication File.

“Be Explicit: Identifying and Addressing Misaligned Goals in Collaborative Research Teams,” (2023) PS: Political Science & Politics, 56 (1): 82-87. Link. Replication File.

“Organizational Identity and Positionality in Randomized Control Trials: Considerations and Advice for Collaborative Research Teams,” (2022) PS: Political Science & Politics, 55 (4): 749-753, with Katherine Haenschen, Tanu Kumar, Costas Panagopoulos, Kyle Peyton, Nico Ravanilla, and Michael Sierra-Arévalo. Link.

“Through Their Own Eyes: The Implications of COVID-19 for PhD Students,” (2022) Journal of Experimental Political Science, 9 (1): 1-21, with Aida Gureghian, Cristel Jusino Diaz and Abby Williams. Link. Replication File.

“Polarizing Information and Support for Reform,” (2021) Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 185: 883-901, with Mazen Hassan, Sarah Mansour and Rebecca B. Morton. Link. Data.

“Does Political Affirmative Action Work, and for Whom? Theory and Evidence on India’s Scheduled Areas,” (2020) American Political Science Review, 114 (4): 1230-1246, with Saad Gulzar and Benjamin Pasquale. Link. Pre-print. Appendix. Replication File.

• Winner of the Lawrence Longley Award from the Representation and Electoral Systems section of APSA for the best article published in 2020.
• Reprinted in the Handbook on Economics of Discrimination and Affirmative Action, 2023.

“If They Endorse It, I Can’t Trust It: How Out-Group Leader Endorsements Undercut Public Support for Civil War Peace Settlements,” (2020) American Journal of Political Science, 64 (4): 982-1000, with Prabin Khadka. Link. Pre-print. Replication File. 

“Negative Campaigns, Interpersonal Trust, and Prosocial Behavior: The Mediating Effect of Democratic Experience,” (2020) Electoral Studies, 63: 1-14, with Mazen Hassan and Rebecca B. Morton. Link.

“Saying versus doing: a new donation method for measuring ideal points” (2018) Public Choice, 176 (1-2): 79-106, with Rebecca B. Morton. Link.

“Narrative Persuasion,” with Emmy Lindstam. In: Nai, A., Grömping, M., & Wirz, D. (Eds.) (Forthcoming 2025). Elgar Encyclopedia of Political Communication. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing.