Jessica Gottlieb

Working Papers 

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. Revise & Resubmit. Honorable Mention for APSA Political Psychology Best Paper Award 2024.

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. "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. "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, 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.

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).

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).