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Wheldon, Tallapragada, and Thompson (2025) examine whether political ideology is associated with trust in scientists as sources of cancer information in the United States. They analyze cross-sectional data from the 2024 Health Information National Trends Survey, a nationally representative survey of U.S. adults. They find that overall trust in scientists is high (86%), but it declines as respondents become more politically conservative. Each one-point shift toward conservatis

Gagliarducci, Paserman, and Patacchini (2025) examine whether hurricanes influence legislators’ support for climate-related environmental policy. They analyze data on federal disaster declarations (1989–2020) matched to U.S. House districts, combined with records of sponsorship and cosponsorship of “green” bills. They find that representatives from hurricane-hit districts are more likely to support environmental legislation, especially in the year after a storm. The effect is

Matter and Hodler (2024) ask whether Google’s web search personalization creates ideological segregation in election-related search results during the 2020 U.S. election. They study this using a large-scale field experiment with 150 synthetic users (“bots”) assigned different partisan browsing habits and locations across 25 U.S. cities, issuing identical election-related Google searches over several months. They find substantial personalization in search results, driven mainl

Full Citation and Link to Article Bagwe, G., Margitic, J., & Stashko, A. (2025). Polling place location and the costs of voting. Journal...

This paper investigates how partisan control over redistricting influences seat shares in the U.S. House of Representatives. Using...

This study asks whether large-scale tuition subsidies increase political participation. Using 16.4 million FAFSA records linked to...

This paper investigates whether U.S. voters registered in two states strategically choose where to vote—favoring swing states or states...

This study investigates whether the quality of aid project management affects violent conflict in Africa. Using geo-coded data on all...

This study investigates whether infrastructure spending can boost support for authoritarian regimes by examining Nazi Germany’s Autobahn...

This study asks whether stronger church-state ties—specifically through U.S. faith-based initiatives—affect religiosity and conservative...

This study examines whether the Voting Rights Act (VRA) of 1965 improved police treatment of African Americans by analyzing FBI Uniform...

The research investigates whether natural disasters reduce public attention to politics, enabling legislators to favor special-interest...

This study investigates whether right-wing terrorism increases support for populist parties in Germany. Using data from German...