Research

Papers Under Review

Does Enfranchisement Equal Empowerment? - Evidence from Women’s Suffrage in Late 20th Century Switzerland

Partisan Incumbency Disadvantage - An Empirical Strategy to Exclude an Alternative Explanation
with Greg Chih-Hsin Shee
Working Paper (PDF) Online Appendix (PDF)

Performing Below Expectations - How to Conduct Survey Experiments on Identity Threat
with Anna M. Wilke and Tinghua Yu
Working Paper (PDF) Pre-Analysis Plan Online Appendix (PDF)

Working Papers

Deliberation with New Voters: When Women’s Suffrage Decreases Government Expenditure

Empowerment and Restraint – Evidence from Teenage Girls’ Clubs in Kenya
with Uchechi S. Anaduaka, Anna M. Wilke, and Tinghua Yu
Pre-Analysis Plan

Lessons that Spread: A Field Experiment on Spillover Effects from an HIV Media Campaign in Kenya
with Uchechi S. Anaduaka, Anna M. Wilke, and Tinghua Yu

Ranked Choice Voting and Candidate Electability in California’s Local Elections
with Karen Nershi

What Drives Support for Enfranchisement? - The Case of Swiss Female Suffrage

Work in Progress

A Field Experiment on Teenage Girl Empowerment in Lagos, Nigeria
with Uchechi S. Anaduaka, Cristina Mac Gregor Vanegas, and Anna M. Wilke

Media Literacy & Perceived Media Bias in the US - A Survey Experiment
with Greg Chih-Hsin Sheen

Funded Projects

2022-2025. Evaluation of SKY, a multi-media programme focused on teenage girls in Africa, implemented by Good Business Ltd (a grantee of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation). Co-PI with Uchechi S. Anaduaka, Anna M. Wilke, and Tinghua Yu. $475,000

2022–2026. ANR-DFG Grant (DeNazDB) “Who Became a Nazi? A Structured Database of the Denazification Questionnaires from French and American Occupation Zones in Germany, 1945–1949”. Co-PI with Mikkel Dack, Victor Gay, and Jan Stuckatz. Approx. $335,472
ANR Project Summary