Selected Published
Articles (see CV for full list)
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| “How Much Should We Trust
Estimates from Multiplicative
Interaction Models? Simple Tools
to Improve Empirical Practice”
(with J. Mummolo and Y. Xu).
Political Analysis (Forthcoming). |
| "Improving refugee
integration through data-driven
algorithmic assignment". Science. 2018. |
| "A
randomized controlled design
reveals barriers to citizenship
for low-income immigrants.”
Proceedings of the National
Academy of Sciences. 2018. |
"Protecting
Unauthorized Immigrant Mothers Improves
their Children's Mental Health" (with
D. Lawrence, L. Marten, B. Black, L.
Figueroa, M. Hotard, T. Jimenez, F. Mendoza,
M. Rodriguez, J. Swartz, D. Laitin). Science.
2017.
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| "Europeans support
a proportional allocation of asylum
seekers" (with K. Bansak and D.
Hangartner). Nature Human Behaviour.
2017. |
"The
Number of Choice Tasks and Survey Satisficing
in Conjoint Experiments" (with K.
Bansak, D. Hopkins, and T. Yamamoto). Political
Analysis.
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"Providing
driver's licenses to unauthorized
immigrants in California improves traffic
safety'' (with D. Lawrence and H.
Lueders). Proceedings of the National
Academy of Sciences. 2017.
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"Expanding
prenatal care to unauthorized immigrant
women and the effects on infant health"
((with J. Swartz, D. Lawrence, and M.
Rodriguez). Obstetrics & Gynecology.
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| "How
economic, humanitarian, and religious
concerns shape European attitudes toward
asylum seekers" (with K. Bansak and D.
Hangartner). Science. 2016. |
| "Catalyst
or Crown: Does Naturalization Promote the
Long-Term Social Integration of Immigrants?"
(with D. Hangartner and G. Pietrantuono). American
Political Science Review. Forthcoming. |
"When
Lives Are Put on Hold: Lengthy Asylum
Processes Decrease Employment Among
Refugees" (with D. Hangartner and D.
Lawrence). Science Advances. 2016.
Media Coverage: Link.
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"Does
Direct Democracy Hurt Immigrant
Minorities? Evidence from Naturalization
Decisions in Switzerland" (with D.
Hangartner). American
Journal of Political Science.
Forthcoming 2015.
Link to project
website and media coverage: citizenship.ch |
"Naturalization
Fosters the Long-Term Political
Integration of Immigrants" (with D.
Hangartner and
G. Pietrantuono).
Proceedings
of the National Academy of Sciences.
2015.
Link to project website
and media coverage: citizenship.ch
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| "Do
Lower Caseloads Improve the Effectiveness of
Active Labor Market Policies? New Evidence
from German Employment Offices" (with B.
Hofmann, G. Krug, and K. Wolf). Scandinavian
Journal of Economics. Forthcoming 2015. |
"Does
Lean Capability Building Improve Labor
Standards? Evidence from the Nike Supply
Chain" (with G. Distelhorst and R.
Locke). Management Science. Forthcoming.
2015.
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"Validating
vignette and conjoint survey experiments
against real-world behavior" (with T.
Yamamoto and D. Hangartner). Proceedings
of the National Academy of Sciences.
2015.
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| "Comparative
Politics and the Synthetic Control Method"
(with A. Abadie and A. Diamond). American
Journal of Political Science. 2015. |
"Assessing
the External Validity of Election RD
Estimates: An Investigation of the
Incumbency Advantage" (with A. Hall
and J. Snyder). Journal of Politics.
2015.
Link
to: Online
appendix
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"Consumer Demand
for the Fair Trade Label: Evidence from a
Field Experiment" (with M. Hiscox and S.
Sequeira). Review of Economics and
Statistics. 2015.
Media Coverage: Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Boston
Review, Monkey
Cage, New
Yorker
Link to: Online
appendix
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"On
the Validity of the Regression
Discontinuity Design for Estimating
Electoral Effects: New Evidence from Over
40,000 Close Races" (with A. Eggers,
O. Folke, A. Fowler, A. Hall, and J.
Snyder). American
Journal of Political Science.
2015.
Link to: Online
appendix |
"Reality
Bites: The Limits of Framing E ffects for
Salient and Contested Policy Is-
sues" (with M. Bechtel, D. Hangartner,
M. Helbling). Political Science Research
and Methods. 2015. |
"Do Concerns
about Labour Market Competition Shape
Attitudes Toward Immigration? New
Evidence" (with M. Hiscox and Y.
Margalit). Journal of
International Economics. 2015.
Link to: Online
appendix
|
"The
Hidden American Immigration Consensus: A
Conjoint Analysis of Attitudes Toward
Immigrants" (with D. Hopkins). American
Journal of Political Science.
2015.
Link to: Online
appendix
Media Coverage: Washington
Post |
"Causal
Inference in Conjoint Analysis:
Understanding Multi-Dimensional Choices
via Stated Preference Experiments''
(with D. Hopkins and T. Yamamoto). Political Analysis. 2014.
Link to: Online
appendix.
Link to: Example
Scripts to Estimate AMCE from Conjoint
Data |
"Political
Capital: Corporate Connections and Stock
Investments in the U.S. Congress, 2004-2008" (with A. Eggers). Quarterly
Journal of Political Science. 2014.
Link to: Online
appendix.
|
"Kernel
Regularized Least Squares: Reducing
Misspecification Bias with a Flexible and
Interpretable Machine Learning Approach"
(with C. Hazlett). Political Analysis.
2014.
Link
to: Online
Appendix
Link to: Companion
Software |
Preferences for
International Redistribution: The Divide
Over the Eurozone Bailouts" (with M. Bechtel and Y.
Margalit). American
Journal of Political Science.
2014.
Link to: Online
appendix
Media
Coverage: New
York Times |
| "Public
Attitudes toward Immigration" (with D.
Hopkins). Annual Review of Political
Science. 2014. |
"Who Gets a
Swiss Passport? A Natural Experiment in
Immigrant Discrimination"
(with D. Hangartner). American
Political Science Review. 2013.
Link to: Online Appendix
Link
to project website and media coverage: citizenship.ch
|
"Capitol
Losses: The Mediocre Performance of
Congressional Stock Portfolios, 2004-2008" (with A. Eggers).
Journal of
Politics. 2013.
Link
to: Online Appendix
Media Coverage: Bloomberg, Wall Street Journal,
Barrons, The
Atlantic, US
Today, Boston
Globe, ABC
News, Yahoo
Finance, The
Hill, Washington
Post, New
York Times |
|
"ebalance:
A Stata Package for Entropy Balancing"
(with Y. Xu). Journal of Statistical Software.
2013.
Link to: Companion
Software |
"Entropy
Balancing: A Multivariate Reweighting Method
to Produce Balanced Samples in Observational
Studies." Political Analysis. 2012.
Link to: Online appendix
Link to: Companion
Software |
"How
Lasting is Voter Gratitude? An Analysis of
the Short- and Long-term Electoral Returns
to Beneficial Policy" (with M.
Bechtel). American
Journal of Political Science. 2011.
Link to:
Online
appendix
Media Coverage: Die
Zeit, Neue
Zuericher Zeitung
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"Synth:
An R Package for Synthetic Control Methods
in Comparative Case Studies"
(with A.
Abadie and A. Diamond). Journal of
Statistical Software. 2011.
Link to: Companion Software
|
"Attitudes Towards
Highly Skilled and Low Skilled Immigration:
Evidence from a Survey Experiment" (with
M. Hiscox). American
Political Science Review. 2010.
Link to: Online
appendix
Media Coverage: New York Times, Der Spiegel |
"Synthetic
Control Methods for Comparative Case
Studies: Estimating the Effect of
California's Tobacco Control Program"
(with A. Abadie and A. Diamond). Journal of the
American Statistical Association.
2010.
Link to: Companion
Software.
Amstat News Article |
"MPs
for Sale? Estimating Returns to Office
in Post-War British Politics" (with A.
Eggers). American
Political Science Review. 2009.
Media Coverage: Guardian, The Independent |
"Opium
for the Masses: How Foreign Free Media Can
Stabilize Authoritarian Regimes" (with
H. Kern). Political
Analysis. 2009.
Link
to: Online Supplement
Media
Coverage: New York Times |
"Incumbency
as a Source of Spillover Effects in Mixed
Electoral Systems: Evidence from a
Regression-Discontinuity Design" (with
H. Kern). Electoral
Studies. 2008.
Link to: Online appendix
|
"Educated
Preferences:
Explaining Individual Attitudes Toward
Immigration in Europe" (with M. Hiscox).
International Organization. 2007.
Links
to online appendices:
PDF (Contains
our formal discussion of open-economy models
of immigration)
PDF
(Analysis of Immigrant Skill Data)
PDF (Results
of Robustness Checks)
PDF (Results
with Recoded Dependent Variables)
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"Learning
to
Love Globalization: The Effects of Education
on Individual Attitudes Toward International
Trade" (with M. Hiscox). International
Organization. 2006.
Links
to online appendices:
PDF (Results
for Robustness Checks and Additional Surveys)
PDF
(Analysis of economic literacy vs.
tolerance) |
| "Electoral
Balancing, Divided Government, and Midterm
Loss in German State Elections" (with H.
Kern). Journal of
Legislative Studies. 2006. |