Jessica Gottlieb

Working Papers 

Baron, Hannah, Robert Blair, Danny Choi, Laura Gamboa, Jessica Gottlieb, Amanda Robinson, Steven Rosenzweig, Megan Turnbull, and Emily West. January 2022. "Couples Therapy for a Divided America: Assessing the Effects of Reciprocal Group Reflection on Partisan Polarization." Paper. Pre-registration. Policy brief. Q&A with partner. Revise & Resubmit.

Bleck, Jaimie, Jessica Gottlieb, and Katrina Kosec. 2024. "When Will Civil Society Monitor the State? Evidence from Mali." Paper. Pre-registration. Under Review.

Gottlieb, Jessica, Claire Adida, and Richard Moussa. 2022. "Reducing Misinformation in a polarized context: experimental evidence from Côte d’Ivoire." Pre-registration. Pre-print. Policy brief. Under Review.

Blair, Robert A., Jessica Gottlieb, Marie Schenk and Christopher Woods. 2023. "Depolarization and Its Discontents: Experimental Evidence on Affective Polarization and Willingness to Confront Racism and Misinformation from Two Online Workshops." Pre-registration. Under Review. 

Blair, Robert A., Jessica Gottlieb, Marie Schenk and Christopher Woods. 2023. "Depolarizing Within the Comfort of Your Party: Experimental Evidence from Online Workshops." Pre-registration. Pre-print. Under Review. Honorable Mention for APSA Political Psychology Best Paper Award 2024.

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.

Ankori-Karlinsky, Lee-Or, Robert A. Blair, Jessica Gottlieb and Samantha Moore-Berg. 2023. "Content that's as Good as Contact? Vicarious Intergroup Contact and the Promise of Depolarization at Scale." Under Review.

Gottlieb, Jessica, Florian M. Hollenbach, and Thiago Moreira. 2023. "Fiscal Capacity, Preferences over Taxation, and Distributional Consequences. " Pre-registration: original and updates. In Progress.

Gottlieb, Jessica and Florian M. Hollenbach. "When the Social Contract Breaks: Fiscal Capacity Moderates the Link between Taxation and Voting." January 2022.  

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). 

Gottlieb, Jessica, Adrienne LeBas, and Janica Magat. "Resilience and Risk in the Informal Sector: Responses to Economic and Security Risks of COVID-19 in Lagos, Nigeria." July 2020. Wave 1 report. PAP. Policy brief. Washington Post article.

Gottlieb, Jessica, Horacio Larreguy and Shelley Liu. "The Effect of Education on Traditional Institutions: Evidence from Nigeria and Senegal." March 2017. PDF.

Work in Progress

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).

Private-sector support for programmatic candidates: Evidence from Senegal. (with Abhit Bhandari and Lucas Borba). Pre-registration.

Vulnerability, Narratives, and Political Behavior. (with Eric Dickson). 

Retired Projects

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).