Alan S. Gerber

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Alan S. Gerber

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Alan S. Gerber's Degrees

PhD Political Science University of California, Berkeley
Masters Political Science University of California, Berkeley
Bachelors Political Science University of California, Berkeley

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Alan S. Gerber's Published Works

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The Effects of Canvassing, Telephone Calls, and Direct Mail on Voter Turnout: A Field Experiment (2000) (1177)
Social Pressure and Voter Turnout: Evidence from a Large-Scale Field Experiment (2008) (1151)
Field Experiments: Design, Analysis, and Interpretation (2012) (882)
Get Out the Vote!: How to Increase Voter Turnout (2004) (746)
Personality and Political Attitudes: Relationships across Issue Domains and Political Contexts (2010) (598)
Does the Media Matter? A Field Experiment Measuring the Effect of Newspapers on Voting Behavior and Political Opinions (2006) (597)
Voting May Be Habit-Forming: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment (2003) (597)
Descriptive Social Norms and Motivation to Vote: Everybody's Voting and so Should You (2009) (436)
How Large and Long-lasting Are the Persuasive Effects of Televised Campaign Ads? Results from a Randomized Field Experiment (2011) (433)
Estimating the Effect of Campaign Spending on Senate Election Outcomes Using Instrumental Variables (1998) (432)
The Big Five Personality Traits in the Political Arena (2011) (391)
Partisan Bias in Factual Beliefs About Politics (2013) (366)
Getting Out the Vote in Local Elections: Results from Six Door-to-Door Canvassing Experiments (2003) (308)
Partisanship, Political Control, and Economic Assessments (2010) (260)
Rational Learning and Partisan Attitudes (1998) (248)
Personality Traits and Participation in Political Processes (2011) (243)
Do Statistical Reporting Standards Affect What Is Published? Publication Bias in Two Leading Political Science Journals (2008) (220)
Equal Votes, Equal Money: Court-Ordered Redistricting and Public Expenditures in the American States (2002) (203)
Partisanship and Economic Behavior: Do Partisan Differences in Economic Forecasts Predict Real Economic Behavior? (2009) (199)
The effects of canvassing, direct mail, and telephone contact on voter turnout: A field experiment (2000) (159)
An Experiment Testing the Relative Effectiveness of Encouraging Voter Participation by Inducing Feelings of Pride or Shame (2010) (150)
Publication Bias in Empirical Sociological Research (2008) (150)
Comparing Experimental and Matching Methods Using a Large-Scale Voter Mobilization Experiment (2006) (148)
Personality and the Strength and Direction of Partisan Identification (2012) (139)
Testing for Publication Bias in Political Science (2001) (135)
The Effect of a Nonpartisan Get-Out-the-Vote Drive: An Experimental Study of Leafletting (2000) (132)
Do phone calls increase voter turnout?: a field experiment. (2001) (125)
Disagreement and the Avoidance of Political Discussion: Aggregate Relationships and Differences across Personality Traits (2012) (123)
The Mismeasure of Campaign Spending: Evidence from the 1990 U.S. House Elections (1994) (111)
Testing the Accuracy of Regression Discontinuity Analysis Using Experimental Benchmarks (2009) (110)
Field Experiments and Natural Experiments (2008) (110)
The Underprovision of Experiments in Political Science (2003) (108)
Personal Income and Attitudes toward Redistribution: A Study of Lottery Winners (2006) (99)
Personality Traits and the Consumption of Political Information (2011) (93)
Identifying the Effect of All-Mail Elections on Turnout: Staggered Reform in the Evergreen State* (2013) (88)
Grassroots Mobilization and Voter Turnout in 2004 (2005) (88)
The Enduring Effects of Social Pressure: Tracking Campaign Experiments Over a Series of Elections (2010) (85)
Problems and Methods in the Study of Politics: The illusion of learning from observational research (2004) (84)
Timing of COVID-19 vaccine approval and endorsement by public figures (2020) (80)
Does Campaign Spending Work? (2004) (79)
Big Five Personality Traits and Responses to Persuasive Appeals: Results from Voter Turnout Experiments (2013) (78)
Is There a Secret Ballot? Ballot Secrecy Perceptions and Their Implications for Voting Behaviour (2012) (76)
Partisan Mail and Voter Turnout: Results From Randomized Field Experiments (2003) (74)
Understanding the 2007 – 2008 Global Financial Crisis : Lessons for Scholars of International Political Economy (2012) (73)
Self-prophecy effects and voter turnout: An experimental replication (2003) (73)
Publication Bias in Two Political Behavior Literatures (2010) (65)
Personality and Political Behavior (2009) (63)
Field Experiments on Political Behavior and Collective Action (2009) (62)
Do Perceptions of Ballot Secrecy Influence Turnout? Results from a Field Experiment (2011) (62)
Does Church Attendance Cause People to Vote? Using Blue Laws' Repeal to Estimate the Effect of Religiosity on Voter Turnout (2008) (59)
Tracking Opinion over Time: A method for Reducing Sampling Error (1999) (58)
Do Phone Calls Increase Voter Turnout? An Update (2005) (58)
Does canvassing increase voter turnout? A field experiment. (1999) (57)
Getting out the youth vote: Results from randomized field experiments (2001) (56)
EQUAL VOTES, EQUAL MONEY:COURT-ORDERED REDISTRICTING AND THE DISTRIBUTION OFPUBLIC EXPENDITURES IN THE AMERICAN STATES (2002) (52)
A Cautionary Note on the Use of Matching to Estimate Causal Effects: An Empirical Example Comparing Matching Estimates to an Experimental Benchmark (2010) (51)
Reporting Guidelines for Experimental Research: A Report from the Experimental Research Section Standards Committee (2014) (50)
Introduction to Social Pressure and Voting: New Experimental Evidence (2010) (50)
Why People Vote: Estimating the Social Returns to Voting (2016) (48)
Publication Bias in Empirical Sociological Research: Do Arbitrary Significance Levels Distort Published Results? (2008) (48)
The Persuasive Effects of Direct Mail: a Regression Discontinuity Approach (2008) (48)
Correction to Gerber and Green (2000), Replication of Disputed Findings, and Reply to Imai (2005) (2005) (47)
The Downstream Benefits of Experimentation (2002) (45)
Rethinking Why People Vote Voting as Dynamic Social Expression (2013) (45)
Personality Traits and the Dimensions of Political Ideology (2009) (44)
Self-Interest, Beliefs, and Policy Opinions (2017) (40)
Does Church Attendance Cause People to Vote? Using Blue Laws’ Repeal to Estimate the Effect of Religiosity on Voter Turnout (2008) (40)
The Persuasive Effects of Direct Mail: A Regression Discontinuity Based Approach (2010) (40)
The Effects of Filing Fees and Petition Requirements on U. S. House Elections (1996) (39)
One in a Million: Field Experiments on Perceived Closeness of the Election and Voter Turnout (2017) (39)
Does Incarceration Reduce Voting? Evidence about the Political Consequences of Spending Time in Prison (2017) (36)
Field Experiments on Voter Mobilization: An Overview of a Burgeoning Literature (2017) (34)
Can Incarcerated Felons Be (Re)integrated into the Political System? Results from a Field Experiment (2015) (33)
Baseline, Placebo, and Treatment: Efficient Estimation for Three-Group Experiments (2010) (32)
Do Robotic Calls From Credible Sources Influence Voter Turnout or Vote Choice? Evidence From a Randomized Field Experiment (2012) (30)
Persuasive messaging to increase COVID-19 vaccine uptake intentions (2021) (29)
Incumbency Advantage and the Persistence of Legislative Majorities (1997) (28)
Unhealthy Politics: The Battle over Evidence-Based Medicine (2017) (27)
Polarized We Govern (2017) (26)
A national survey reveals public skepticism about research-based treatment guidelines. (2010) (26)
Citizens’ Policy Confidence and Electoral Punishment: A Neglected Dimension of Electoral Accountability (2011) (25)
Assessing the Stability of Psychological and Political Survey Measures (2013) (25)
The Politics of Regulation : From New Institutionalism to New Governance (2017) (23)
Recent Advances in the Science of Voter Mobilization (2005) (22)
Using Battleground States as a Natural Experiment to Test Theories of Voting (2009) (22)
The public wants information, not board mandates, from comparative effectiveness research. (2010) (22)
Can Registration-Based Sampling Improve the Accuracy of Midterm Election Forecasts? (2006) (21)
Promoting the General Welfare: New Perspectives on Government Performance (2006) (18)
A field experiment shows that subtle linguistic cues might not affect voter behavior (2016) (18)
Do Arbitrary Significance Levels Distort Published Results (2008) (18)
Cambridge Handbook of Experimental Political Science: Field Experiments in Political Science (2011) (17)
Comparing Experimental and Matching Methods using a Large-Scale Field Experiment on Voter Mobilization (2004) (16)
African Americans' Congressional Careers and the Democratic House Delegation (1996) (16)
Partisan Bias in Factual Beliefs about (2015) (16)
Get Out the Vote (2017) (15)
Who Wants to Discuss Vote Choices with Others? Polarization in Preferences for Deliberation (2013) (13)
Ballot Secrecy Concerns and Voter Mobilization (2014) (13)
Corruption and the Growth of Campaign Spending (2002) (11)
Does TV Advertising Explain the Rise of Campaign Spending ? (2002) (11)
Reassessing the Effects of Personality on Political Attitudes and Behaviors: Aggregate Relationships and Subgroup Differences (2009) (11)
Doctor knows best: physician endorsements, public opinion, and the politics of comparative effectiveness research. (2014) (11)
Equal Votes, Equal Money: Court-Ordered Redistricting and the Public Spending in the American States (2002) (11)
The Generalizability of Social Pressure Effects on Turnout Across High-Salience Electoral Contexts: Field Experimental Evidence From 1.96 Million Citizens in 17 States (2017) (10)
Are Voting Norms Conditional? How Electoral Context and Peer Behavior Shape the Social Returns to Voting (2017) (10)
Field Experiments and the Study of Political Behavior (2010) (10)
Legislative Parties in an Era of Alternating Majorities (2017) (9)
Problem Solving in a Polarized Age: Comparative Effectiveness Research and the Politicization of Evidence-Based Medicine (2010) (8)
The Politicization of Evidence-Based Medicine: The Limits of Pragmatic Problem Solving in an Era of Polarization (2011) (8)
UNHEALTHY POLITICS (2020) (8)
Partisanship and Economic Behavior: (2009) (8)
Why don't people vote in U.S. primary elections? Assessing theoretical explanations for reduced participation (2017) (8)
Experimental evidence for a pure collaboration effect (2019) (7)
Governing in a Polarized Age: Elections, Parties, and Political Representation in America (2017) (7)
Where Measures Meet History: Party Polarization during the New Deal and Fair Deal (2017) (7)
Do Subtle Linguistic Interventions Priming a Social Identity as a Voter Have Outsized Effects on Voter Turnout? Evidence From a New Replication Experiment (2018) (7)
The challenge of bringing voter mobilization to scale: An evaluation of youth vote 2002 phone banking campaigns (2003) (7)
Combining Double Sampling and Bounds to Address Nonignorable Missing Outcomes in Randomized Experiments (2017) (5)
Combining Double Sampling and Bounds to Address Non-Ignorable Missing Outcomes in Randomized Experiments (2016) (5)
Persuading US White evangelicals to vaccinate for COVID-19: Testing message effectiveness in fall 2020 and spring 2021 (2021) (5)
Reporting Balance Tables, Response Rates and Manipulation Checks in Experimental Research: A Reply from the Committee that Prepared the Reporting Guidelines (2015) (5)
Double Sampling for Nonignorable Missing Outcome Data in Randomized Experiments (2014) (5)
Testing persuasive messaging to encourage COVID-19 risk reduction (2020) (5)
Voter Mobilization, Experimentation, and Translational Social Science (2016) (5)
Evaluations of candidates’ non-policy characteristics from issue positions: Evidence of valence spillover (2021) (4)
What Has Congress Done (2017) (4)
The Comparative Effectiveness on Turnout of Positively Versus Negatively Framed Descriptive Norms in Mobilization Campaigns (2018) (4)
The Congressional Incumbency Advantage over Sixty Years: Measurement, Trends, and Implications (2017) (3)
Instrumental Variables Estimation Using Quasi-Instrumental Variables, with an Application to Campaign Spending (2004) (3)
Field Experiment, Politics, and Culture: Testing Social Psychological Theories regarding Social Norms Using a Field Experiment in Japan (2009) (3)
The voting experience and beliefs about ballot secrecy (2019) (3)
Partisan Bias in Responses to Factual Questions (2010) (3)
Monte Carlo Simulation of the Biases in Misspecified Randomization Checks (2005) (3)
Four essays on the effects of political institutions (1994) (3)
Parties within Parties: Parties, Factions, and Coordinated Politics, 1900–1980 (2017) (3)
Why Don't People Vote in Primaries? Assessing Theoretical Explanations for Reduced Participation in Primary Elections (2015) (3)
Nongovernmental Campaign Communication Providing Ballot Secrecy Assurances Increases Turnout: Results From Two Large-Scale Experiments* (2017) (2)
Sham Surgery: Market Failures, Government Failures, and the Problem of Inadequate Medical Evidence (2006) (2)
A Baseline for Incumbency Effects (2017) (2)
Experimental Evidence about Whether ( and Why ) Electoral Closeness Affects Turnout (2017) (2)
Reply to Bryan et al.: Variation in context unlikely explanation of nonrobustness of noun versus verb results (2016) (2)
Self Interest, Beliefs, and Policy Opinions: Understanding the Economic Source of Immigration Policy Preferences (2014) (1)
The effect on turnout of campaign mobilization messages addressing ballot secrecy concerns: A replication experiment (2017) (1)
Consumer Contributors and the Returns to Fundraising: A Microeconomic Analysis (1994) (1)
Can Raising the Stakes of Election Outcomes Increase Participation? Results from a Large-Scale Field Experiment in Local Elections (2022) (1)
The Effects of Ballot Access Rules on U.S. House Elections (1996) (1)
of Legislative Majorities (2016) (1)
Introduction (2004) (1)
The Electoral Connection, Age 40 (2017) (1)
People vote because they’re worried others will think less of them if they don’t. (2016) (0)
Opposition To Guidelines: The Authors Reply (2010) (0)
LIST OF FIGURES AND TABLES (1994) (0)
Getting Out the Vote in Local Elections in the United States (2023) (0)
Can Political Participation Prevent Crime? Results from a Field Experiment About Citizenship, Participation, and Criminality (2017) (0)
Promoting the General Welfare (2017) (0)
Behavioral Political Science and Voter Turnout (2018) (0)
When Does Increasing Mobilization Effort Increase Turnout? Evidence from a Field Experiment on Reminder Calls (2020) (0)
Health Risks and Voting: Emphasizing Safety Measures Taken to Prevent COVID-19 Does Not Increase Willingness to Vote in Person (2023) (0)
Monte Carlo Simulation of Bias Associated with Random Contact Rates (2005) (0)
1. The Medical Guesswork Problem (2018) (0)
CCES 2014, Team Module of Yale University (YAL) (2016) (0)
Quick Read Synopsis (2005) (0)
The Jewish Community Center of Greater New Haven and The Jewish Federation of Greater New Haven (2004) (0)
Race, Reform, and Regulation of the Electoral Process: New Directions in the Study of Voter Mobilization (2011) (0)
The Motivation to Vote: Explaining Electoral Participation André Blais and Jean-François Daoust, Vancouver: UBC Press, 2020, pp. 156. (2022) (0)
Can Political Participation Prevent Crime? Results from a Field Experiment About Citizenship, Participation, and Criminality (2017) (0)
Conclusion: Postenactment Coalition Building (and Other Strategies for Sustaining Reform in a Polarized Age) (2018) (0)
THE EFFECT ON TURNOUT OF MOBILIZATION CAMPAIGN COMMUNICATIONS ADDRESSING BALLOT SECRECY CONCERNS : A REPLICATION EXPERIMENT (2016) (0)
VII Book Reviews / Comptes Rendus (2022) (0)
Zero Credit Policymaking: Governmental Performance, Partisan Polarization and the Politics of Evidence-Based Medicine (2010) (0)
COURT-ORDERED REDISTRICTING AND THE DISTRIBUTION OF PUBLIC EXPENDITURES IN THE AMERICAN STATES 1 (2000) (0)
CASE STUDY 2 : GET OUT THE VOTE Why Randomize ? (2019) (0)
Experimental evidence for a pure collaboration effect (2019) (0)
Zero-Credit Politics (2020) (0)
6. Electoral Competition, Polarization, and the Breakdown of Elite- Led Social Learning (2018) (0)
Doctor Knows Best (2020) (0)
Telephone campaigns to encourage child vaccination : are they effective? (2013) (0)
Conclusion (2020) (0)
Introduction (2020) (0)
Intensified Partisanship in Congress: Institutional Effects (2017) (0)
PAN volume 14 issue 1 Cover and Front matter (2006) (0)
Voting behavior is unaffected by subtle linguistic cues: evidence from a psychologically authentic replication (2020) (0)
1. The Illusion of Learning from Observational Research (2020) (0)
Full Title: Does Incarceration Reduce Voting? Evidence about the Political Consequences of Spending Time in Prison Short Title: Does Incarceration Reduce Voting? (2016) (0)
The Limits of Professional Self-Regulation (2020) (0)
PAN volume 10 issue 4 Cover and Front matter (2002) (0)
4. The Limits of Professional Self- Regulation (2018) (0)
Replication Data for: The effect on turnout of campaign mobilization messages addressing ballot secrecy concerns: A replication experiment (2017) (0)
Has Television Increased the Cost of Campaigns (1999) (0)
Personality and the Strength and Direction of Partisan Identification (2011) (0)
APPENDIX TO CHAPTER 3 (2020) (0)
Should I Cast an Ill-Informed Ballot? Examining the Contours of the Normative Obligation to Vote (2019) (0)
Subtle linguistic cues may not affect voter behavior: new evidence (2016) (0)
Mobilizing Young Voters Through IT: A Field Experiment (2005) (0)
3. Doctor Knows Best (2020) (0)
PREFACE TO THE PAPERBACK EDITION (2020) (0)
The Medical Guesswork Problem (2020) (0)
How Voters Use Contextual Information to Reward and Punish: Credit Claiming, Legislative Performance, and Democratic Accountability (2021) (0)
Sham Surgery (2020) (0)
Big Five Personality Traits and Responses to Persuasive Appeals: Results from Voter Turnout Experiments (2012) (0)
Field Experimental Evidence that Messages Designed to Increase Perceived Electoral Closeness Increase Turnout + # (2022) (0)

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Yale University