Post-doctoral research fellow
I study how citizens organize and process economic and political information.
Core research interests: Technology & Politics, Public Opinion, Text as Data and related methods. (Google Scholar)
Geographic Boundaries and Local Economic Conditions Matter for Views of the Economy. 2022. Political Analysis. With James Bisbee.
Paper | Code and data
Don’t Republicans Tweet Too? Using Twitter to Assess the Consequences of Political Endorsements by Celebrities. Perspectives on Politics, 2020. With Vaccari, C., Nagler, J. & Tucker, J. A. PDF | Monkey Cage summary
Democratic deconsolidation revisited: Young Europeans are not dissatisfied with democracy. Research & Politics, 2019. PDF (open-access)
How Many People Live in Political Bubbles on Social Media? Evidence from Linked Survey and Twitter Data. Sage Open, 2019. With Gregory Eady, Jonathan Nagler, Andrew Guess, and Joshua Tucker. PDF (open-access) | Summaries: Pacific Standard, Main chart
The Happiness Gap in Eastern Europe. Journal of Comparative Economics, 2016. With Simeon Djankov and Elena Nikolova. PDF | Summary: Financial Times blog | Ungated SSRN & OSF pre-prints
The Distinctness of Social and Economic Identities. With Suzanna Linn, Jonathan Nagler.
SSRN | Local pre-print
Division Does Not Imply Predictability: Demographics Continue to Reveal Little About Voting and Partisanship. With Seo-young Silvia Kim.
Pre-print | Code on Github | MPSA Slides | Podcast
Donate To Help Us Fight Back: Mobilization Rhetoric in Political Fundraising. With Seo-young Silvia Kim and Brian Brew.
What People Learn From Twitter: Evidence from a Panel Survey Combined with Direct Observation of Social Media Activity. Paper with Greogy Eady, Richard Bonneau, Joshua Tucker and Jonathan Nagler. MPSA Slides.
What Matters to Voters? Examining Micro-Level and Macro-Level Drivers of Citizens’ Economic and Life Evaluations. Project with James Bisbee.
Predicting Economic Evaluations. A methodological summary.
“People Like Me Are Falling Behind:” Measuring Perceptions of Inequality Using Novel Survey Questions. Paper with Suzanna Linn, Jonathan Nagler, and Nathan Morse.
Affective polarization and belief in voter fraud. (Monkey Cage, January 2021.) Supplementary analysis
Trump supporters who think he didn’t keep his promises are more likely to vote for Joe Biden in 2020. (Monkey Cage, October 2020)
Explaining reactions to Tweets about the Squad (Washington Post, Monkey Cage analysis)
Ideological estimation with Twitter data. Methodological supplement explaining approach.
Fiscal tightening and economic growth (VoxEu.org)
Article in Raising Lower-Level Wages: When and Why It Makes Economic Sense