Policy Agendas, Participation, and Nationalization in American Local Government

Joint with Samuel G.Z. Asher

Targeted Advertising and Candidate Entry

Joint with Saikun Shi.

What do News Readers Want?

Joint with Shoshana Vasserman and Cameron Pfiffer.

Media Consolidation

Joint with Josh McCrain, Nicola Mastrorocco, and Arianna Ornaghi.

Revise and resubmit at the Review of Economics and Statistics.

Policy Decay and Political Competition

Forthcoming, Quarterly Journal of Political Science.

Joint with Steve Callander.

Media and Intraparty Ideological Movements: How Fox News Built the Tea Party

Journal of Political Institutions and Political Economy (2026) 7(1): 95–119.

Joint with Zhao Li.

The Impact of Online Competition on Local Newspapers: Evidence from the Introduction of Craigslist

Review of Economic Studies (2025) 92(3): 1738-1772.

Joint with Milena Djourelova and Ruben Durante.

Ideological Competition

American Journal of Political Science (2023) 67(3): 687-700.

Joint with Federica Izzo and Steve Callander.

How Campaign Ads Stimulate Political Interest

Review of Economics and Statistics (2023) 105(2): 292–310.

Joint with Nathan Canen.

A Method for Measuring Investigative Journalism in Local Newspapers

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2021) 118(30).

Joint with Eray Turkel, Rhett Owen, Anish Saha, and Shosh Vasserman.

Media Influence on Vote Choices: Unemployment News and Incumbents' Electoral Prospects

American Journal of Political Science (2021) 65(2):278--293.

Joint with Marcel Garz.

Related interview at Not Another Politics Podcast.

Political Advertising Online and Offline

American Political Science Review (2021) 115(1): 130--149.

Joint with Erika Franklin Fowler, Mike Franz, Zac Peskowitz, and Travis Ridout.

Does Residential Sorting Explain Geographic Polarization?

Political Science Research and Methods. (2020) 8(2):215--231.

Joint with Steven Webster.

Related op-ed in The Atlantic.

Media coverage in The New York Times.

Local News and National Politics

American Political Science Review (2019) 113(2): 372--384.

Joint with Josh McCrain.

Related blog posts in the LSE USAPP Blog and the Monkey Cage.

Media coverage in Nature Human Behavior, Motherboard, The Weeds, Vox, Salon, New York Magazine, and the The Seattle Post-Intelligencer.

Agency Problems in Political Campaigns: Media Buying and Consulting

American Political Science Review. (2018) 112(2):231--248.

Joint with Zac Peskowitz.

Dividing the Dollar with Formulas

The Journal of Politics (2018) 80(2):479--493.

Bias in Cable News: Persuasion and Polarization

American Economic Review (2017) 107(9):2565--2599.

Joint with Ali Yurukoglu.

Media coverage in Vox, The Washington Post, Wonkblog, Bloomberg View, and Mother Jones.

Dynamic Policymaking with Decay

American Journal of Political Science (2017) 61(1):50--67.

Joint with Steve Callander.

Parties and Electoral Performance in the Market for Political Consultants

Legislative Studies Quarterly (2015) 40(3):441-470.

Joint with Zac Peskowitz.

Media coverage in The New York Times' blog The Upshot and NPR's Marketplace.

Testing Theories of Congressional-Presidential Interaction with Veto Override Rates

Political Analysis (2012) 20(4):501-519.