The 13th Annual Conference will be held on March 6-7, 2020 at the Silver Center for Arts and Science in Hemmerdinger Hall, Jurow Lecture Hall, and Silverstein Lounge. Please enter at 31 Washington Place, New York, NY 10003.
The program for paper presentations is below, and the program for the poster session is available here. Information about nearby hotels is below the program. Register for the conference by February 23 by filling out this form.
NYU provides reasonable accommodations to people with disabilities. Requests for accommodations for events and services should be submitted at least two weeks before the date of the accommodation needed. Please email kimberly.borden@nyu.edu or call (212) 992-9675 for assistance.
Friday, March 6:
8:30-9:00 am | Registration and Breakfast: Silverstein Lounge, 100 Washington Square East, NYU |
9:00-9:10 am | Welcome: Hemmerdinger Hall (next to Silverstein Lounge), NYU |
9:10-10:00 am | Victoria Shineman, University of Pittsburgh
Discussant: Abraham Aldama, University of Pennsylvania |
10:00-10:50 am | Andrzej Baranski, NYU Abu Dhabi
“Majoritarian Bargaining over Budgetary Divisions and Policy” (with Nicholas Haas and Rebecca Morton) Discussant: Sanford Gordon, NYU |
10:50-11:20 am | Break |
11:20 am-12:10 pm | Vittorio Merola, Stony Brook University
“Partisan Bias in Factual Knowledge: Expressive Reporting or Motivated Learning?” (with Benjamin Lyons and Jason Reifler) Discussant: Julia Payson, NYU |
12:10-1:00 pm | Anna Wilke, Columbia University
“How Does the State Replace the Community? Experimental Evidence on Crime Control from South Africa” Discussant: David Stasavage, NYU |
1:00-1:45 pm | Lunch |
1:45-2:00 pm | Remarks from Tage Rai, Associate Editor for Social and Behavioral Sciences, Science Magazine |
2:00-2:50 pm | Erin Rossiter, Washington University Saint Louis
“The Consequences of Social Interaction on Outparty Affect and Stereotypes” Discussant: Patrick Egan, NYU |
2:50-3:40 pm | Boris Ginzburg, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
“Counting on My Vote Not Counting: Expressive Voting in Committees” (with José-Alberto Guerra and Warn N. Lekfuangfu) Discussant: Hye Young You, NYU |
3:40-4:00 pm | Break |
4:00-5:30 pm | Methods Panel:
Joshua Kertzer, Harvard University, and Chagai Weiss, University of Wisconsin “Abstraction and Detail in Experimental Design” (with Ryan Brutger, Jonathan Renshon and Dustin Tingley) Graeme Blair, UCLA “When to Worry About Sensitivity Bias: A Social Reference Theory and Evidence from 30 Years of List Experiments” (with Alexander Coppock and Margaret Moor) Discussants: Jonathan Woon, University of Pittsburgh, and Naoki Egami, Princeton/Columbia University |
5:30-6:30 pm | Poster Session. List of posters here. With Women Also Know Stuff table (Melissa Michelson). |
6:30-9:00 pm | Hors d’oeuvres and drinks |
Saturday, March 7:
8:30-9:00 am | Breakfast: Silverstein Lounge |
9:00-9:50 am | Anita Ravishankar, University of Michigan/DC Police Department/The Lab @ DC
“Can knowledge of historical and cultural context have an impact on policing? A Randomized Evaluation of Police Training in Washington, DC” (with Kevin Wilson) Discussant: Eric Dickson, NYU |
9:50-10:40 am | Scott Abramson, University of Rochester
“What Do We Learn About Voter Preferences From Conjoint Experiments?” (with Korhan Koçak and Asya Magazinnik) Discussant: Arturas Rozenas, NYU |
10:40-11:10 am | Break |
11:10 am-12:00 pm | Juan Pereyra, Universidad de la República
“Does political gridlock undermine checks and balances? A Lab Experiment” (with Alvaro Forteza and Irene Mussio) Discussant: Catherine Hafer, NYU |
12:00-12:50 pm | Julien Senn, University of Zurich
“Other-regarding preferences and redistributive politics” (with Thomas Upper and Ernst Fehr) Discussant: Reuben Kline, Stony Brook University |
12:50-1:50 pm | Lunch |
1:50-3:30 pm | Identity Panel 1
Konstantinos Matakos, King’s College London “Group Identification and Redistribution in Democracies: An Experiment” (with Shaun Hargreaves Heap, Emma Manifold and Dimitrios Xefteris) Sarah Khan, Yale University “Canvassing the Gatekeepers: A Field Experiment to Increase Women’s Electoral Turnout in Pakistan” (with Ali Cheema, Shandana Khan Mohmand and Asad Liaqat) Discussants: Dominik Duell, University of Essex, and Michael Gilligan, NYU |
3:30-3:50 pm | Break |
3:50-5:30 pm | Identity Panel 2
Devorah Manekin, Hebrew University of Jerusalem “Effective for Whom? Ethnic Identity and Nonviolent Resistance” (with Tamar Mitts) Kristin Michelitch, Vanderbilt University “Can Personal Narrative Counter Negative Attitudes towards Muslim Refugees and Citizens? Evidence from Kenya” (with Jeremy Horowitz) Discussants: Yamil Velez, Columbia University, and Kimuli Kasara, Columbia University |
6:00 pm | Dinner/Reception for organizers, presenters, and discussants |
Several nearby hotels that may be convenient for conference participants are as follows: