The 2023 Rebecca B. Morton Conference on Experimental Political Science was held at NYU on March 3-4, 2023.
Program
Friday, March 3
| 12:30-1:15 PM | Registration and Lunch |
| 1:15-1:25 PM | Welcome |
| 1:30-2:20 PM | Kai Ou, Florida State University, “How Do Women Improve Political Outcomes? Theory, Experiments, and Observational Evidence”
Discussant: Julia Payson, New York University |
| 2:20-3:10 PM | Abhit Bhandari, Temple University, “Connections, Gender, and Access to State-Facilitated Private-Sector Development: Evidence from Senegal”
Discussant: Tara Slough, New York University |
| 3:10-4:00 PM | Molly Offer-Westort and Leah Rosenzweig, University of Chicago, “Testing interventions to address vaccine hesitancy on Facebook in East and West Africa”
Discussant: John Marshall, Columbia University |
| 4:00-4:20 PM | Break |
| 4:20-5:10 PM | Mark Pickup, Simon Fraser University, “What Counts as Racism? American Norms, Partisan Norms, and Personal Beliefs About Racism“
Discussant: Yamil Velez, Columbia University |
| 5:10-6:00 PM | Rajeshwari Majumdar, New York University, “Reducing Prejudice and Support for Religious Nationalism Through Conversations on WhatsApp“
Discussant: Don Green, Columbia University |
| 6:15-7:30 PM | Poster Session |
| 7:00-9:00 PM | Hors d’oeuvres |
Saturday, March 4
| 9:30-10:00 AM | Breakfast |
| 10:00-10:50 AM | Jerome Shafer, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, “The Effect of Unconditional Cash Transfers on Voting Participation: Evidence from the Finnish Basic Income Experiment“
Discussant: Chris Dawes, New York University |
| 10:50-11:40 AM | Lisa Argyle, Brigham Young University, “Partisan Politics and AI-Generated Dialogue: Using Language Models to Improve Divisive Political Discussions“
Discussant: Arthur Spirling and Alexis Palmer, New York University |
| 11:40 AM-12:00 PM | Break |
| 12:00-12:50 PM | Shir Raviv, Tel-Aviv University, “When Do Citizens Resist The Use of Algorithmic Decision-making in Public Policy? Theory and Evidence“
Discussant: Pat Egan, New York University |
| 12:50-1:30 PM | Lunch |
| 1:30-2:20 PM | Emily West, University of Pittsburgh, “Cross-Partisan Discussion De-Polarizes White Americans’ Racial Policy Preferences“
Discussant: Bryant Moy, New York University |
| 2:20-3:10 PM | Jeremy Bowles, Stanford University, “Exposure to Counter-Attitudinal Media in a Dominant Party State“
Discussant: Eunji Kim, Columbia University |
| 3:10-4:00 PM | Juan Morales, Wilfrid Laurier University, “Can social backlash stifle free speech?“
Discussant: Eric Dickson, New York University |
| 4:30-6:30 PM | Happy Hour for organizers, presenters, and discussants
Ernie’s Bar at the The Half Pint, 76 W 3rd St |
Poster Presenters
| Chloe Ahn | Alexander Gazmararian |
Claudia Marangon
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Eddie Yang |
| Daniella Alva | Zoe Ge | Nicholas Ottone | Tony Zirui Yang |
| Curtis Bram |
Dan Glasserman
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Adam Panish | Linan Yao |
| Kirill Chmel | Violeta Haas | Eric Scheuch | Dvir Yogev |
| Soohyun Cho | Veronica Hurtado | Xiaoxiao Shen | |
| Geneva Cole | Arvind Krishnamurthy | Natan Skigin | |
| Jiawei Fu | Colombe Ladreit | Julieta Valenzuela |