Keeping the State Weak: Economic Informality and the Weak-State Trap in Sub-Saharan Africa. In Production at Cambridge University Press.
Can Social Intermediaries Build the State? Taxation and State-building in Lagos, Nigeria. (with Adrienne LeBas).
Gottlieb, Jessica, Hannah Baron, Robert Blair, Laura Paler, Julie Weaver, and Benjamin Yoel. 2025. "The Democratic Erosion Event Dataset (DEED)." Revise & Resubmit.
Gottlieb, Jessica, Claire Adida, and Richard Moussa. 2025. "Reducing Misinformation When Motivated to Consume: Experimental Evidence from Côte d’Ivoire." Pre-registration. Pre-print. Policy brief. Revise & Resubmit.
Gottlieb, Jessica, Florian M. Hollenbach, and Thiago Moreira. 2025. "Fiscal Capacity, Distributional Consequences, and Preferences over Taxation." Pre-registration: original and updates. Paper. Under Review.
Bleck, Jaimie, Lucia Carrillo, Jessica Gottlieb, Sidiki Guindo, Katrina Kosec, Jordan Kyle, and Moumouni Soumano. 2025. "How Local Leaders View Transparency and Local Autonomy in Humanitarian Aid Distribution: Evidence from Mali." Pre-registration. Under Review.
Bleck, Jaimie, Jessica Gottlieb, and Katrina Kosec. 2024. "When Will Civil Society Monitor the State? Evidence from Mali." Paper. Pre-registration. Under Review.
Bhandari, Abhit, Jessica Gottlieb, and Lucas Borba. 2024. "Private-Sector Support for Programmatic Candidates: Evidence from a Senegalese Election." Pre-registration. Under Review.
Blair, Robert A., Jessica Gottlieb, Marie Schenk and Christopher Woods. 2023. "Persuading Americans to Depolarize Experimental Evidence from 5 Million Voters." Pre-registration. Under Review.
Gottlieb, Jessica and Adrienne LeBas. 2021. "Urban Brokers and Clientelistic Mobilization: Evidence from an Experiment in Nigeria." November 2021. PDF.
Gottlieb, Jessica. "The Decline of Collective Clientelism in the City: Theory and Evidence from Senegal." May 2021. PDF.
Gottlieb, Jessica. "Keeping the State Weak to Prevent Programmatic Claim-Making in Young Democracies." January 2021. Available at SSRN. Press coverage (in Senegal).
Polarization in Black and White. (with Damien Kelly, Anne Meng, and Andrew Ifedapo Thompson). Pre-registration.
Vulnerability, Narratives, and Political Behavior. (with Eric Dickson).
Being Seen by the State: Experimental Evidence from West Africa. (with Claire Adida, Leo Arriola, and Bilal Siddiqi).
Testing Strategies to Increase Tolerance across Polarized Lines. (with Mallory Compton and Brittany Perry). Pre-registration.
The Recourse Curse: An Experiment in Formalization. Design. (with Abhit Bhandari).
Gottlieb, Jessica and Florian M. Hollenbach. "When the Social Contract Breaks: Fiscal Capacity Moderates the Link between Taxation and Voting." January 2022.