2026 Rebecca B. Morton Conference on Experimental Political Science
The 2026 Rebecca B. Morton Conference on Experimental Political Science will be held at NYU on March 6-7, 2026.
If you are interested in attending the conference, please register here by February 27th.
A hotel block for conference presenters and attendees is reserved at the Washington Square Hotel (link). Unbooked rooms will start to be released on February 19th.
Scroll down for program details.
Location
Hemmerdinger Hall and Silverstein Lounge
Silver Center for Arts and Sciences
31 Washington Pl., New York, NY 10012
Program
Friday, March 6
| 12:30-1:15 PM | Registration and Lunch |
| 1:15-1:25 PM | Welcome |
| 1:30-2:20 PM | Soledad Prillaman, Stanford University, Social Incentives and Women’s Public Participation in Rural India
Discussant: John Marshall, Columbia University |
| 2:20-3:10 PM | Jonathan Woon, University of Pittsburgh, Awareness and Fairness: Epistemology of Justice, History, and Institutional Repair
Discussant: Dimitri Landa, New York University |
| 3:10-4:00 PM | Zeyang Yu, Princeton University, Randomization Inference with Sample Attrition
Discussant: Donald Green, Columbia University |
| 4:00-4:20 PM | Break |
| 4:20-5:50 PM | Panel on Misperceptions:
Dot Sawler, University of Rochester, Changing Partisan Minds, Not Hearts Beatrice Montano, Columbia University, Misperceptions of gender norms and political advocacy: experimental evidence from rural Tanzania Discussant: Alexander Coppock, Northwestern University |
| 6:00-8:30 PM | Graduate Student Poster Session, Hors d’oeuvres, and Drinks |
Saturday, March 7
| 8:30-9:00 AM | Breakfast |
| 9:00-9:50 AM | Narrelle Gilchrist, Princeton University, Repeating the Mistakes of the Past? A History and Peace Education Field Experiment in Nigeria
Discussant: Michael Gilligan, New York University |
| 9:50-10:40 AM | Sarah Thompson, Cornell University, Improving Police Service Delivery: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in a Fragile Context
Discussant: Carolina Torreblanca, University of Pennsylvania |
| 10:40 -11:10 AM | Break |
| 11:10-12:00 PM | Carlo Prato, Columbia University, Learning from the Lie: What Anti-Democratic Proposals Teach Voters about Candidates
Discussant: Arturas Rozenas, New York University |
| 12:00-1:00 PM | Lunch |
| 1:00-1:50 PM | Tara Grillos, Purdue University, Designing Participation: Experimental Evidence from Development Decision-Making in Kenya
Discussant: Cyrus Samii, New York University |
| 1:50-2:40 PM | Naila Shofia, National University of Singapore, You’re Fired, My Lord: Democratic Narratives and Accountability in the World’s Third Largest Democracy
Discussant: Alexis Palmer, Tulane University |
| 2:40-3:30 PM | Alexander Coppock, Northwestern University, A meta-reanalysis of a decade of candidate choice conjoint experiments
Discussant: Tara Slough, New York University |
| 4:00-6:00 PM | Happy Hour
28 W. Houston |
Poster Presenters
| Umutcan Ay | Anissa Joseph | Yuri Saldarriaga |
| Jintae Bae | Munroe Kim | Eric Scheuch |
| Aphra Chen | Yeji Lee | Sangyong Son |
| CJ Fleck | Jingyue Lei | Georgy Tarasenko |
| Chengyu Fu | Morrey Liedke | Ikromjon Tuhtasunov |
| Alper Sukru Gencer | Yue Lin | Abhyudaya Tyagi |
| Natasha Goel | Samuel Liu | |
| Jimmy Graham | Daniel Markovits | |
| Muyao Hang | Justin Melnick | |
| Adam Hobbs | Nino Petriashvili |