Research

• One Question at a Time: The Impact of the American Civil War on Mobilization for Women’s Suffrage

What incentivizes political mobilization?  Leveraging variation in the exposure to battles of men who enlisted in the Union Army, I show that increased exposure to deadly conflict resulted in lower levels of petitioning for women’s suffrage in the following years. I provide evidence that this is driven by tension with other political causes of the time and an entrenchment of traditional gender norms.

• Land Tenure Security and Deforestation: Experimental Evidence from Uganda, with Jennifer Alix-Garcia, Anne Bartlett, and Sarah Walker. Preliminary results, July 2023.

• Connections Between the New Economic Sociology and the Bloomington School, with Virgil Storr, in Elinor Ostrom and the Bloomington School: Building a New Approach to Policy and the Social Sciences edited by Jayme Lemke and Vlad Tarko, Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Agenda Publishing Limited, 2021.

• Competing Notions of Work and the Entrepreneurial Spirit of the US, with Stefanie Haeffele in The Future of Work edited by Stefanie Haeffele and Jessica Carges, forthcoming.