Research

Publications

• "Does the Gift Keep on Giving?  House Leadership PAC Donations Before and After Majority Status" with John Aldrich, Andrew Ballard, and David Rohde.  Journal of Politics.  2017. 79 (4): 1449-1453.

• “Getting the Message Across: Evaluating Think Tank Influence in Congress” Public Choice.  2018. 175:347-366.

• “Physicians with Multiple Paid Medical Malpractice Claims: Are They Outliers or Just Unlucky?” with Bernard Black and David Hyman. International Review of Law and Economics  Volume 58, June 2019, Pages 146-157  

• "The Efficacy of Measuring Judicial Ideal Points: The Mis-Analogy of IRTs" with Mathew D. McCubbins and Kristen Renberg. International Review of Law and Economics , Fall 2021

• “Environmentalism among Poor and Rich Countries: A Natural Language Processing Approach” with Tana Johnson Review of International Political Economy. Fall 2021

• ``Inducing Polarization? The Effect of Congressional Procedure and Partisan Lawmaking on Ideal Point Estimation'' with Austin Bussing (Forthcoming at Journal of Political Institutions and Political Economy)

• “How Random Are Paid Medical Malpractice Claims?” with Bernard Black, David Hyman, and David Magid. Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Health Forum. 2023; 4(2): e225436. doi:10.1001/jamahealthforum.2022.5436

• “Leveraging Predictive Modelling from Multiple Sources of Big Data to Improve Sample Efficiency and Reduce Survey Nonresponse Error.” With David Dutwin, Patrick Coyle, Ipek Bilgen, and Ned English Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology. Accessed August 28, 2023. https://doi. org/10.1093/jssam/smad016

• “Setting the Committee Agenda: Measuring Speaker Influence in Congressional Hearings” with Robert Shaffer (Conditional Acceptance at Political Science Research Methods)

• “Can Deliberation Have Lasting Effects? Reflections on ‘America in One Room”’ with James Fishkin, Alice Sui, Valentin Bolotnyy, and Norman Bradburn (Forthcoming American Political Sci- ence Review)

• “State Capacity and Covid-19 Responses: Comparing the U.S. States” with Kiran Auerbach and Hannah Ridge (Forthcoming from State Politics and Policy Quarterly)

Papers Under Review and Working Papers

• “Influence of Institutions on Behavior: an Inverse Propensity Weighting Approach to Overcome for Selection Bias in Multi-nation Surveys” with John Aldrich, Victoria Dounoucos and Haohan Chen (Revise and Resubmit at Political Science Research Methods)

• “From Hearings to Legislation: Idea Transmission and the Writing of Laws in Congress” (Under Review) Data and code 

• “Do Actions Speak Louder than Words? How Parties Reward Loyal Speech and Voting Behavior" with Andrew Ballard and Shahryar Minhas (Under Review)

• "Presidential Ads, Campaign Contributions, and Asymmetric Polarization: A Matching and Reweighting Approach” with Bernard Black  (Under Review)

• “Using Active and Deep Learners to Identify Congressional Delegation to Administrative Agencies” with Gregory Spell

• "Setting the Committee Agenda: Congressional Speaker Influence in Committee Hearings" with Robert Shaffer

• "Parties and Agenda Setting: A Final Passage Approach to Ideal Point Estimation"

• "The Trouble with Coarsening: Coarsened Exact Matching as a Balancing Strategy" with Bernard Black and Parth Lalkiya  

• "Dividing the Question: Concurrences on the Supreme Court and Ideal Point Estimation” with Mathew D. McCubbins and Kristen Renberg. 

• “How Random Are Paid Medical Malpractice Claims?” with Bernard Black and David Hyman

Works in Progress

“Taking Law Seriously: Counting Concurrences in the Modeling of Judicial Ideology” with Mathew D. McCubbins and Kristen Renberg 

“Assessing Bayesian Instrumental Variables Approaches” with Bernard Black 

“Matching Methods: A Comparison of Various Matching and Reweighting Strategies for Pure Observational Studies”  with Bernard Black 

“Measuring Precedent on the Supreme Court within a Network of Citations: a Network-Structure Based Approach” with Mathew D. McCubbins and Kristen Renberg

“A Guide to Using IRT Methods to Measure Latent Traits in Political Science” with Mathew D. McCubbins

“Using Ideas as my Maps: Tracing the Flow of Ideas Through the Legislative Process” 

“Money Doesnt Talk (It Swears): Tracing Ideation in Major Financial Legislation”