Jessica Gottlieb

Peer-Reviewed Publications

Gottlieb, Jessica, Adrienne LeBas, and Janica Magat. Forthcoming. "Can Social Intermediaries Build the State? Evidence from an Experiment in Lagos, Nigeria." British Journal of Political Science.

Gottlieb, Jessica. 2024. "How Economic Informality Constrains Demand for Programmatic Policy." American Journal of Political Science 68(1): 271-288. 

Blair, Robert A., Jessica Gottlieb, Brendan Nyhan, Laura Paler, Pablo Argote and Charlene Stainfield. 2024. "Interventions to Counter Misinformation: Lessons from the Global North and Applications to the Global South." Current Opinion in Psychology 55:101732. 

Baron, Hannah, Robert A. Blair, Jessica Gottlieb, Laura Paler. 2024. "An Events-Based Approach to Understanding Democratic Erosion." PS: Political Science and Politics.

Robinson, Amanda and Jessica Gottlieb. 2021. "How to Close the Gender Gap in Political Participation: Lessons from Matrilineal Societies in Africa." British Journal of Political Science 51(1): 68-92. Winner of the African Politics Conference Group (APCG) Best Article Award. 

Gottlieb, Jessica and Horacio Larreguy. 2020. "An Informational Theory of Electoral Targeting in Young Clientelistic Democracies: Evidence from Senegal." Quarterly Journal of Political Science 15(1): 73-104.

Adida, Claire, Jessica Gottlieb, Eric Kramon and Gwyneth McClendon. 2020. "When Does Information Influence Voters? The Joint Importance of Salience and Coordination." Comparative Political Studies 53(6): 851-891 . 

Adida, Claire, Jessica Gottlieb, Eric Kramon and Gwyneth McClendon. 2019. "Response Bias in Survey Measures of Voter Behavior: Implications for Measurement and Inference." Journal of Experimental Political Science 6(3): 192-198. 

Thad Dunning and 27 other collaborators. 2019. "Voter information campaigns and political accountability: Cumulative findings from a pre-registered meta-analysis of coordinated trials." Science Advances 5(7): eaaw2612. 

Gottlieb, Jessica and Katrina Kosec. 2019. "The Countervailing Effects of Competition on Public Goods Provision: When Bargaining Inefficiencies Lead to Bad Outcomes." American Political Science Review 113(1): 88-107. 

Gottlieb, Jessica, Guy Grossman, Horacio Larreguy and Benjamin Marx. 2019.  "The Effect of Administrative Unit Creation on Electoral Behavior: Evidence from Senegal."  Journal of Politics 81(2): 631-647.  

Gottlieb, Jessica, Guy Grossman and Amanda Robinson. 2018. "Do Men and Women Have Different Policy Preferences in Africa? Determinants and Implications of Gender Gaps in Policy Prioritization.” British Journal of Political Science 48(3): 611-636.  

Adida, Claire, Jessica Gottlieb, Eric Kramon and Gwyneth McClendon. 2017. "Reducing or Reinforcing In-Group Preferences? An Experiment on Information and Ethnic Voting." Quarterly Journal of Political Studies 12(4): 437-477. Winner of the African Politics Conference Group (APCG) Best Article Award.

Gottlieb, Jessica. 2017. "Explaining Variation in Broker Strategies: A Lab-in-the-Field Experiment in Senegal." Comparative Political Studies 50(11): 1556-1592. 

Gottlieb, Jessica. 2016. "Greater Expectations? A Field Experiment to Improve Accountability in Mali." American Journal of Political Science 60(1): 143-157. 

Gottlieb, Jessica. 2016. "Why Might Information Exacerbate the Gender Gap in Civic Participation? Evidence from Mali." World Development 86: 95-110. 

Gottlieb, Jessica. 2015. "The Logic of Party Collusion in a Democracy: Evidence from Mali.” World Politics 67(1): 1-36. 

Book Chapters

Adida, Claire, Jessica Gottlieb, Eric Kramon and Gwyneth McClendon. 2019. "Under What Conditions Does Performance Information Influence Voting Behavior? Lessons from Benin." In Information, Accountability and Cumulative Learning: Lessons from Metaketa I.  Dunning, T., G. Grossman, M. Humphreys, S. Hyde, and C. McIntosh (editors). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.  Winner of the 2019 Best Book in Experimental Research by the Experimental Research Section of APSA. 

Gottlieb, Jessica. 2016. "Common Knowledge and Voter Coordination: Experimental Evidence from Mali." In Voting Experiments, ed. André Blais, Jean-François Laslier, and Karine Van der Straeten. New York: Springer Press. 

Other Publications

Blair, Robert A., Jessica Gottlieb, Brendan Nyhan, Laura Paler, Pablo Argote, and Charlene J. Stainfield. Interventions to Counter Misinformation: Lessons from the Global North and Applications to the Global South. USAID DRG Learning, Evaluation and Research Activity II. July 2023. 

Gottlieb, Jessica, Adrienne LeBas, Samad Karimov, Janica Magat, Maria P Perez Argüelles, Daniel Steiman and Augustin Vallejo. "Taxing the Informal Sector: Market Vendors and Tax Appeals in Lagos State".  Report to the Lagos Internal Revenue Service. March 2022. 

Bleck, Jaimie, Jessica Gottlieb, Katrina Kosec, and Lindsey Boss.  2021. "Women's Voices in Civil Society Organizations: Evidence from a Civil Society Mapping Project in Mali." IFPRI Issue Brief.  International Food Policy Research Institute. April 2021. 

Baron, Hannah, Robert A. Blair, Jessica Gottlieb and Shelby Grossman. 2019. "Democratic Erosion in Comparative Perspective: Lessons from a Multi-University Consortium." In "The US in Comparative Perspective." Finkel, Eugene, Adria Lawrence, and Andrew Mertha (editors). CP: Newsletter of the Comparative Politics Organized Section of the American Political Science Association 29(1): 77-84.

Gottlieb, Jessica and Katrina Kosec. 2019. "Competitive elections are good for democracy – just not every democracy." The Conversation. January 3, 2019.

Gottlieb, Jessica. 2017. "Measuring and Interpreting the Gender Gap in Political Participation." In “Symposium: Women/Gender and Comparative Politics.” Golder, Matt and Sona Golder (editors). CP: Newsletter of the Comparative Politics Organized Section of the American Political Science Association 27(1): 1-109.

Gottlieb, Jessica. 2013. “Civic and Political Behavior in Mali: Constraints and Possibilities.” Stability: International Journal of Security & Development 2(2): 19, pp. 1-5. 

Gottlieb, Jessica. "Why Mali is making headlines (and why we should care)." The Monkey Cage. June 6, 2012.