Keeping the State Weak: Economic Informality and the Weak-State Trap in Sub-Saharan Africa. Under Contract 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. "The Democratic Erosion Event Dataset (DEED)." 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.
Gottlieb, Jessica, Claire Adida, and Richard Moussa. 2024. "Reducing Misinformation When Motivated to Consume: Experimental Evidence from Côte d’Ivoire." Pre-registration. Pre-print. Policy brief. 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.
Bleck, Jaimie, Jessica Gottlieb, Katrina Kosec and Jordan Kyle. 2024. “How Local Leaders View Transparency and Discretion in Humanitarian Aid Distribution: Evidence from Mali.” In Progress.
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).
Local Governance and Crisis Response in Mali. (with Jaimie Bleck, Katrina Kosec, and Jordan Kyle). Pre-registration.
Polarization and Power. (with Anne Meng and Diana Z. O'Brien).
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.