research

published papers, working papers, and work in progress

Published papers

2025

  1. PSRM
    Federalism and Ideology
    Political Science Research and Methods 2025

2021

  1. NatMed
    COVID-19 Vaccine Acceptance and Hesitancy in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
    with Julio S Solı́s Arce, Shana S WarrenNiccolò F MeriggiAlexandra ScaccoNina McMurryMaarten Voors, Amyn Abdul Malik, Samya Aboutajdine, Opeyemi Adeojo, and 64 others
    Nature Medicine 2021

2015

  1. RJE
    How (not) to Measure Russian Regional Institutions
    with Alexey Baranov, Egor MalkovLeonid Polishchuk, and Michael Rochlitz
    Russian Journal of Economics 2015
  2. PubChoice
    Ruling Elites’ Rotation and Asset Ownership: Implications for Property Rights
    Public Choice 2015

2014

  1. VoprEko
    Investment Climate and Government Turnover in Russian Regions
    Voprosy Ekonomiki (In Russian) 2014

Book chapters

  1. Palgrave
    Property Rights without Democracy: The Role of Elites’ Rotation and Asset Ownership
    In Dahlström, Carland and Wängnerud, Lena (eds.) Elites, Institutions and the Quality of Government 2015

Working papers

    1. Persuasion without Deception: Why Propaganda Works Even When Its Bias Is Known
      Draft
    2. Limits of Independent Media in Autocracies: Evidence from Local News in Russia
      Draft
    3. Still Watching, Less Persuaded: Attention to News Reduces Authoritarian Propaganda Effectiveness
      OSF Pre-Print
    4. Making, Updating, and Querying Causal Models using CausalQueries
      Conditionally Accepted at JSS

    Work in Progress

    1. Foreign Policy Debates Shape Refugees’ Psychological Integration
      OSF Pre-Print
    2. Sharing Accurate News in the Face of Government Repression: A “Mega-Study” in Wartime Russia
      with Julia Minson, Aaron Erlich, Christopher Higgins, Jordan Gans-Morse, and 24 others
      Draft
    3. Biases in the Measurement of Hidden Populations
      Data Collection
    4. Internet Access and Political Engagement: Evidence from South Africa
      with Anna M WilkeBenjamin LaughlinKholekile Malindi, and Alexis Jang
      Analysis
    5. Meta-Analysis of Effects of Propaganda
      with Linan Yao
      Data Collection