JOURNAL ARTICLES 2000-PRESENT
“Should I Cast an Ill-Informed Ballot? Examining the Contours of the Normative Obligation to Vote” (with Gregory A. Huber, David Doherty, and Conor M. Dowling) 2019. American Politics Research.
“The Comparative Effectiveness on Turnout of Positively Versus Negatively Framed Descriptive Norms in Mobilization Campaigns” (with Gregory A. Huber, Albert H. Fang, and Catlan E. Reardon) 2018. American Politics Research.
“Does Incarceration Reduce Voting? Evidence about the Political Consequences of Spending Time in Prison” (with Gregory A. Huber, Marc Meredith, Daniel R. Biggers, and David J. Hendry) 2017. Journal of Politics.
“The Effect on Turnout of Campaign Mobilization Messages Addressing Ballot Secrecy Concerns: A Replication Experiment” (with Gregory A. Huber, Albert H. Fang, and Catlan E. Reardon) 2017. PLOS ONE.
“Do Subtle Linguistic Interventions Priming a Social Identity as a Voter Have Outsized Effects on Voter Turnout? Evidence From a New Replication Experiment” (with Gregory A. Huber and Albert H. Fang) 2017. Political Psychology.
“Are Voting Norms Conditional? How Electoral Context and Peer Behavior Shape the Social Returns to Voting” (with Gregory A. Huber, David Doherty, and Conor M. Dowling) 2017. Journal of Politics.
“Nongovernmental Campaign Communication Providing Ballot Secrecy Assurances Increases Turnout: Results From Two Large-Scale Experiments” (with Gregory A. Huber, Albert H. Fang, and Andrew Gooch) 2017. Political Science Research and Methods.
“Can Political Participation Prevent Crime? Results from a Field Experiment About Citizenship, Participation, and Criminality” (with Gregory A. Huber, Daniel R. Biggers, and David J. Hendry) 2017. Political Behavior.
“Combining Double Sampling and Bounds to Address Nonignorable Missing Outcomes in Randomized Experiments” (with Alexander Coppock, Donald P. Green, and Holger L. Kern) 2017. Political Analysis.
“The Generalizability of Social Pressure Effects on Turnout Across High-Salience Electoral Contexts” (with Gregory A. Huber, Albert H. Fang, and Andrew Gooch) 2017. American Politics Research.
“Self Interest, Beliefs, and Policy Opinions: Understanding How Economic Beliefs Affect Immigration Policy Preferences” (with Gregory A. Huber, Daniel R. Biggers, and David J. Hendry) 2017. Political Science Research Quarterly.
“Why Don’t People Vote in U.S. Primary Elections? Assessing Theoretical Explanations for Reduced Participation” (with Gregory A. Huber, Daniel R. Biggers, and David J. Hendry) 2017. Electoral Studies.
“Reply to Bryan et al.: Variation in Context Unlikely Explanation of Nonrobustness of Noun Versus Verb Results” (with Gregory A. Huber, Daniel R. Biggers, and David J. Hendry) 2016. Proceeding of the National Academy of Sciences.
“Voter Mobilization, Experimentation, and Translational Social Science” (with Donald P. Green) 2016. Perspectives on Politics.
“Does Church Attendance Cause People to Vote? Using Blue Laws’ Repeal to Estimate the Effect of Religiosity on Voter Turnout” (with Jonathan Gruber and Daniel M. Hungerman) 2016. British Journal of Political Science.
“A Field Experiment Shows That Subtle Linguistic Cues Might Not Affect Voter Behavior” (with Gregory A. Huber, Daniel R. Biggers, and David J. Hendry) 2016. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
“Why People Vote: Estimating the Social Returns to Voting” (with Gregory A. Huber, David Doherty, and Conor M. Dowling) 2016. British Journal of Political Science.
“Partisan Bias in Factual Beliefs about Politics” (with John G. Bullock, Seth J. Hill and Gregory A. Huber) 2015. Quarterly Journal of Political Science.
“Can Incarcerated Felons Be (Re)integrated into the Political System? Results from a Field Experiment” (with Gregory A. Huber, Marc Meredith, Daniel R. Biggers, and David J. Hendry) 2014. American Journal of Political Science.
“Reporting Balance Tables, Response Rates, and Manipulation checks in Experimental Research: A Reply from the Committee that Prepared the Reporting Guidelines” (with Kevin Arceneaux, Cheryl Boudreau, Conor Dowling, Sunshine Hillygus, Thomas Palfrey, Daniel R. Biggers, and David J. Hendry) 2014. Journal of Experimental Political Science.
“Reporting Guidelines for Experimental Research: A Report from the Experimental Research Section Standards Committee” (with Kevin Arceneaux, Cheryl Boudreau, Conor M. Dowling, Sunshine Hillygus, Thomas Palfrey, Daniel R. Biggers, and David J. Hendry) 2014. Journal of Experimental Political Science.
“Doctor Knows Best: Physician Endorsements, Public Opinion, and the Politics of Comparative Effectiveness Research” (with Eric M. Patashnik, David Doherty, and Conor M. Dowling) 2014. Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law.
“Ballot Secrecy Concerns and Voter Mobilization: New Experimental Evidence About Message Source, Context, and the Duration of Mobilization Effects” (with Gregory A. Huber, Daniel R. Biggers, and David J. Hendry) 2014. American Politics Research.
“Promoting Transparency in Social Science Research” (with Miguel E, Camerer C. Casey K, Cohen J, Esterling KM, Glennerster R, Green DP, Humphreys M, Imbens G, Laitin D, Madon T, Nelson L, Nosek BA, Petersen M, Sedlmayr R, Simmons JP, Simonsohn U, Van der Laan M.) 2014. Science.
“Identifying the Effect of All-Mail Elections on Turnout: Staggered Reform in the Evergreen State” (with Gregory A. Huber, and Seth J. Hill) 2013. Political Science Research and Methods.
“Who Wants to Discuss Vote Choices with Others? Polarization in Preferences for Deliberation” (with Gregory A. Huber, David Doherty, Conor M. Dowling, and Seth J. Hill) 2013. Public Opinion Quarterly.
“Do Perceptions of Ballot Secrecy Influence Turnout? Results from a Field Experiment” (with Gregory A. Huber, David Doherty, Conor M. Dowling, and Seth J. Hill) 2013. American Journal of Political Science.
“Big Five Personality Traits and Responses to Persuasive Appeals: Results from Voter Turnout Experiments” (with Gregory A. Huber, David Doherty, Conor M. Dowling, and Costas Panagopoulos) 2012. Political Behavior.
“Assessing the Stability of Psychological and Political Survey Measures” (with Gregory A. Huber, David Doherty, and Conor M. Dowling) 2012. American Politics Research.
“Personality and the Strength and Direction of Partisan Identification” (with Gregory A. Huber, David Doherty, and Conor M. Dowling) 2012. Political Behavior.
“Do Robotic Calls From Credible Sources Influence Voter Turnout or Vote Choice? Evidence From a Randomized Field Experiment” (with Daron R. Shaw, Donald P. Green, and James G. Gimpel) 2012. Journal of Political Marketing.
“Is There a Secret Ballot? Ballot Secrecy Perceptions and Their Implications for Voting Behaviour” (with Gregory A. Huber, David Doherty, and Conor M. Dowling) 2012. British Journal of Political Science.
“Disagreement and the Avoidance of Political Discussion: Aggregate Relationships and Differences across Personality Traits” (with Gregory A. Huber, David Doherty, and Conor M. Dowling) 2012. American Journal of Political Science.
“Assessing the Stability of Psychological and Political Survey Measures” (with Gregory A. Huber, David Doherty, and Conor M. Dowling) 2012. American Politics Research.
“Citizens’ Policy Confidence and Electoral Punishment: A Neglected Dimension of Electoral Accountability” (with Gregory A. Huber, David Doherty, and Conor M. Dowling) 2011. Journal of Politics.
“The Politicization of Evidence-Based Medicine: The Limits of Pragmatic Problem Solving in an Era of Polarization” (with Eric M. Patashnik) 2011. California Journal of Politics and Policy.
“Personality Traits and Participation in Political Processes” (with Gregory A. Huber, David Doherty, Conor M. Dowling, Connor Raso, and Shang E. Ha) 2011. Journal of Politics.
“The Big Five Personality Traits in the Political Arena” (with Gregory A. Huber, David Doherty, and Conor M. Dowling) 2011. Annual Review of Political Science.
“How Large and Long-lasting Are the Persuasive Effects of Televised Campaign Ads? Results from a Randomized Field Experiment” (with James G. Gimpel, Donald P. Green, and Daron R. Shaw) 2011. American Political Science Review.
“The Persuasive Effects of Direct Mail: A Regression Discontinuity Based Approach” (with Daniel P. Kessler and Marc Meredith) 2011. Journal of Politics.
“Personality Traits and the Consumption of Political Information” (with Gregory A. Huber, David Doherty, and Conor M. Dowling) 2011. American Politics Research.
“Party Affiliation, Partisanship, and Political Beliefs: A Field Experiment” (with Gregory A. Huber and Ebonya Washington) 2010. American Political Science Review.
“A Cautionary Note on the Use of Matching to Estimate Causal Effects: An Empirical Example Comparing Matching Estimates to an Experimental Benchmark” (with Kevin Arceneaux and Donald P. Green) 2010. Sociological Methods & Research.
“A National Survey Reveals Public Skepticism About Research-Based Treatment Guidelines” (with Eric M. Patashnik, David Doherty, and Conor M. Dowling) 2010. Health Affairs.
“The Public Wants Information, Not Board Mandates, From Comparative Effectiveness Research” (with Eric M. Patashnik, David Doherty, and Conor M. Dowling) 2010. Health Affairs.
“An Experiment Testing the Relative Effectiveness of Encouraging Voter Participation by Inducing Feelings of Pride or Shame” (with Donald P. Green and Christopher W. Larimer) 2010. Political Behavior.
“The Enduring Effects of Social Pressure: Tracking Campaign Experiments Over a Series of Elections” (with Tiffany C. Davenport, Donald P. Green, Christopher W. Larimer, Christopher B. Mann, and Costas Panagopoulos) 2010. Political Behavior.
“Introduction to Social Pressure and Voting: New Experimental Evidence” (with Donald P. Green) 2010. Political Behavior.
“Publication Bias in Two Political Behavior Literatures” (with Neil Malhotra, Conor M. Dowling and David Doherty) 2010. American Politics Research.
“Baseline, Placebo, and Treatment: Efficient Estimation for Three-Group Experiments” (with Donald P. Green, Edward H. Kaplan, and Holger L. Kern) 2010. Political Analysis.
“Problem Solving in a Polarized Age: Comparative Effectiveness Research and the Politicization of Evidence-Based Medicine” (with Eric M. Patashnik) 2010. Forum.
“Personality and Political Attitudes: Relationships across Issue Domains and Political Contexts” (with Gregory A. Huber, David Doherty, Conor M. Dowling, and Shang E. Ha) 2010. American Political Science Review.
“Partisanship, Political Control, and Economic Assessments” (with Gregory A. Huber) 2010. American Journal of Political Science.
“Testing the Accuracy of Regression Discontinuity Analysis Using Experimental Benchmarks” (with Donald P. Green, Terence Y. Leong, Holger L. Kern, and Christopher W. Larimer) 2009. Political Analysis.
“Partisanship and Economic Behavior: Do Partisan Differences in Economic Forecasts Predict Real Economic Behavior?” (with Gregory A. Huber) 2009. American Journal of Political Science.
“Field Experiments on Political and Collective Action” (with Eline A. De Rooij and Donald P. Green) 2009. Annual Review of Political Science.
“Does the Media Matter? A Field Experiment Measuring the Effect of Newspapers on Voting Behavior and Political Opinions” (with Dean Karlan and Daniel Bergan) 2009. American Economic Journal: Applied Economics.
“Descriptive Social Norms and Motivation to Vote: Everybody’s Voting and So Should You” (with Todd Rogers) 2009. Journal of Politics.
“Do Statistical Reporting Standards Affect What is Published? Publication Bias in Two Leading Political Science Journals” (with Neil Malhotra) 2008. Quarterly Journal of Political Science.
“Publication Bias in Empirical Sociological Research: Do Arbitrary Significance Levels Distort Published Results?” (with Neil Malhotra) 2008. Sociological Methods & Research.
“Social Pressure and Voter Turnout: Evidence from a Large-Scale Field Experiment” (with Donald P. Green and Christopher W. Larimer) 2008. American Political Science Review.
“Comparing Experimental and Matching Methods using a Large-Scale Voter Mobilization Experiment” (with Kevin Arceneaux and Donald P. Green) 2006. Political Analysis.
“Can Registration-Based Sampling Improve the Accuracy of Election Forecasts?” (with Donald P. Green) 2006. Public Opinion Quarterly.
“Personal Income and Attitudes toward Redistribution: A Study of Lottery Winners” (with Daniel J. Doherty and Donald P. Green) 2006. Political Psychology.
“Correction to Gerber and Green (2000), Replication of Disputed Findings, and Reply to Imai (2005)” (with Donald P. Green) 2005. American Political Science Review.
“Do Phone Calls Increase Voter Turnout? An Update” (with Donald P. Green) 2005. Annals of the American Academy for Political and Social Science.
“Recent Advances in the Science of Voter Mobilization” (with Donald P. Green) 2005. Annals of the American Academy for Political and Social Science.
“Grassroots Mobilization and Voter Turnout in 2004” (with Daniel E. Bergan, Donald P. Green, and Costas Panagopoulos) 2005. Public Opinion Quarterly.
“Does Campaign Spending Work? Field Experiments Provide Evidence and Suggest New Theory” (Alan S. Gerber) 2004. American Behavioral Scientist.
“Self-Prophecy Effects and Voter Turnout: An Experimental Replication” (with Jennifer K. Smith and Anton Orlich) 2003. Political Psychology.
“Getting out the Vote in Local Elections: Results from Six Door-to-Door Experiments” (with Donald P. Green) 2003. Journal of Politics.
“The Underprovision of Experiments in Political Science” (with Donald P. Green) 2003. Annals of the American Academy for Political and Social Science.
“Voting May be Habit Forming: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment” (with Donald P. Green and Ron Sachar) 2003. American Journal of Political Science.
“Equal Votes, Equal Money: Court-Ordered Redistricting and Public Expenditures in the American States” (with Stephen Ansolabehere and James Snyder) 2002. American Political Review.
“The Downstream Benefits of Experimentation” (with Donald P. Green) 2002. Political Analysis.
“Do Phone Calls Increase Voter Turnout? A Field Experiment” (with Donald P. Green) 2001. Public Opinion Quarterly.
“Testing for Publication Bias in Political Science” (with Donald P. Green and David W. Nickerson) 2001. Political Analysis.
“The Effects of Canvassing, Telephone Calls, and Direct Mail on Voter Turnout: A Field Experiment” (with Donald P. Green) 2000. American Political Science Review.
“The Effect of a Nonpartisan Get-Out-the Vote Drive: An Experimental Study of Leafletting” (with Donald P. Green) 2000. Journal of Politics.
BOOK CHAPTERS AND OTHER WRITINGS
“Field Experiments on Voter Mobilization: An Overview of a Burgeoning Literature” (with Donald P. Green) 2017. In Handbook of Economic Field Experiments, ed. Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee, copyright Elsevier B.V.
“New Directions in the Study of Voter Mobilization: Combining Psychology and Field Experimentation” (Alan S. Gerber) 2011. In Race, Reform, and Regulation of the Electoral Process: Recurring Puzzles in American Democracy, ed. Guy-Uriel E. Charles, Heather K Gerken, and Michael S Kang, Cambridge University Press.
“Field Experiments in Political Science” (Alan S. Gerber) 2011. In Handbook of Experimental Political Science, ed. Jamie Druckman, Donald P. Green, James Kuklinski, and Arthur Lupia, Cambridge University Press.
“Rethinking Why People Vote: Voting as Dynamic Social Expression” (with Todd Rogers and Craig Fox) 2011. In The Behavioral Foundations of Policy, ed. Eldar Shafir, Russell Sage Foundation.