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How Campaigns Respond to Ballot Position: A New Mechanism for Order Effects (2022)
Journal Article
Gulzar, S., Ruiz, N., & Robinson, T. (2022). How Campaigns Respond to Ballot Position: A New Mechanism for Order Effects. Journal of Politics, 84(2), 1256-1261. https://doi.org/10.1086/715594000

An established finding on ballot design is that top positions on the ballot improve the electoral performance of parties or candidates because voters respond behaviorally to salient information. This article presents evidence on an additional unexplo... Read More about How Campaigns Respond to Ballot Position: A New Mechanism for Order Effects.

When Do Voters Respond to Campaign Finance Disclosure? Evidence from Multiple Election Types (2022)
Journal Article
Robinson, T. S. (2023). When Do Voters Respond to Campaign Finance Disclosure? Evidence from Multiple Election Types. Political Behavior, 45, 1309–1332. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11109-021-09766-y

In recent American elections political candidates have actively emphasized features of their fundraising profiles when campaigning. Yet, surprisingly, we know comparatively little about how financial information affects vote choice specifically, whet... Read More about When Do Voters Respond to Campaign Finance Disclosure? Evidence from Multiple Election Types.

Citizens from 13 countries share similar preferences for COVID-19 vaccine allocation priorities (2021)
Journal Article
Ducha, R., Roopea, L. S., Violatoa, M., Fuentes Becerrab, M., Robinson, T. S., Bonnefon, J., …Clarke, P. M. (2021). Citizens from 13 countries share similar preferences for COVID-19 vaccine allocation priorities. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118(38), Article e2026382118. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2026382118

How does the public want a COVID-19 vaccine to be allocated? We conducted a conjoint experiment asking 15,536 adults in 13 countries to evaluate 248,576 profiles of potential vaccine recipients that varied randomly on five attributes. Our sample incl... Read More about Citizens from 13 countries share similar preferences for COVID-19 vaccine allocation priorities.

The MIDAS Touch: Accurate and Scalable Missing-Data Imputation with Deep Learning (2021)
Journal Article
Lall, R., & Robinson, T. (2022). The MIDAS Touch: Accurate and Scalable Missing-Data Imputation with Deep Learning. Political Analysis, 30(2), 179-196. https://doi.org/10.1017/pan.2020.49

Principled methods for analyzing missing values, based chiefly on multiple imputation, have become increasingly popular yet can struggle to handle the kinds of large and complex data that are also becoming common. We propose an accurate, fast, and sc... Read More about The MIDAS Touch: Accurate and Scalable Missing-Data Imputation with Deep Learning.

Nativist Policy: the comparative effects of Trumpian politics on migration decisions (2020)
Journal Article
Duch, R. M., Laroze, D., Reinprecht, C., & Robinson, T. S. (2022). Nativist Policy: the comparative effects of Trumpian politics on migration decisions. Political Science Research and Methods, 10(1), 171-187. https://doi.org/10.1017/psrm.2020.33

Firms in the USA rely on highly skilled immigrants, particularly in the science and engineering sectors. Yet, the recent politics of immigration marks a substantial change to US immigration policy. We implement a conjoint experiment that isolates the... Read More about Nativist Policy: the comparative effects of Trumpian politics on migration decisions.