Politics, Groups, and Identities (forthcoming)
This paper analyzes over 180,000 staff contracts from the U.S. House of Representatives to revisit assumptions about how member demographics and party affiliation influence the representation of women and people of color among senior, DC, and district staff.
Journal of Asian Public Policy, 17(3): 725–746
A conjoint experiment evaluating how policy design shapes intergroup conflict over ageing policy.
Working paper
This paper shows that bureaucratic discretion activates active representation only in agencies with higher shares of female managers, revealing that representational behavior emerges when identity-based willingness meets institutional opportunity.
Working paper
A stacked difference-in-differences study of predictive algorithms in child protection, showing that algorithm adoption reduces analytical capacity without improving operational capacity.
Working paper
This paper using an event-study and IV design to evaluate how California’s board gender quota reshaped women’s representation across organizational levels.