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Social Sciences and Humanities D-index 56 Citations 19,766 165 World Ranking 1134 National Ranking 563

Research.com Recognitions

Awards & Achievements

2014 - Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science

2009 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

2003 - Heinz I. Eulau Award, American Political Science Association (APSA)

Overview

What is he best known for?

The fields of study he is best known for:

  • Law
  • Statistics
  • Politics

His primary areas of study are Social psychology, Politics, Public relations, Get out the vote and Turnout. His Social psychology research incorporates elements of Voting and Voting behavior. His Politics research incorporates elements of Taxable income and State.

His Public relations research is multidisciplinary, relying on both Transparency and Program evaluation. In Get out the vote, he works on issues like Advertising, which are connected to Phone and Public opinion. His Turnout study incorporates themes from Incentive, Norm and Mobilization.

His most cited work include:

  • The Effects of Canvassing, Telephone Calls, and Direct Mail on Voter Turnout: A Field Experiment (859 citations)
  • Social Pressure and Voter Turnout: Evidence from a Large-Scale Field Experiment (714 citations)
  • Field Experiments: Design, Analysis, and Interpretation (525 citations)

What are the main themes of his work throughout his whole career to date?

His primary areas of investigation include Politics, Social psychology, Voter turnout, Turnout and Voting. His biological study spans a wide range of topics, including Public relations and Public administration. As part of his studies on Social psychology, Alan S. Gerber often connects relevant subjects like Treatment and control groups.

His Voter turnout study combines topics in areas such as Social pressure, Advertising, Field and Phone. His work on Direct mail and Newspaper as part of general Advertising research is frequently linked to Haven, thereby connecting diverse disciplines of science. His Turnout study integrates concerns from other disciplines, such as Norm, Demographic economics and Mobilization.

He most often published in these fields:

  • Politics (40.94%)
  • Social psychology (38.19%)
  • Voter turnout (32.28%)

What were the highlights of his more recent work (between 2015-2021)?

  • Social psychology (38.19%)
  • Turnout (29.53%)
  • Politics (40.94%)

In recent papers he was focusing on the following fields of study:

Alan S. Gerber mainly focuses on Social psychology, Turnout, Politics, Voting and Voter turnout. The various areas that Alan S. Gerber examines in his Social psychology study include Perception, Phenomenon and Ideology. His Turnout study also includes

  • Mobilization together with Get out the vote and Reciprocity,
  • Secrecy, which have a strong connection to Internet privacy.

His work on Voting behavior as part of general Politics study is frequently connected to Evidence-based medicine, therefore bridging the gap between diverse disciplines of science and establishing a new relationship between them. His Voting research is multidisciplinary, incorporating perspectives in Test, Prison and Set. As part of one scientific family, Alan S. Gerber deals mainly with the area of Voter turnout, narrowing it down to issues related to the Field, and often Scale and Public relations.

Between 2015 and 2021, his most popular works were:

  • Does Church Attendance Cause People to Vote? Using Blue Laws’ Repeal to Estimate the Effect of Religiosity on Voter Turnout (33 citations)
  • Why People Vote: Estimating the Social Returns to Voting (29 citations)
  • Does Incarceration Reduce Voting? Evidence about the Political Consequences of Spending Time in Prison (22 citations)

In his most recent research, the most cited papers focused on:

  • Law
  • Statistics
  • Politics

The scientist’s investigation covers issues in Social psychology, Turnout, Politics, Voting and Voter turnout. His Social psychology study focuses on Social pressure in particular. Turnout and Religiosity are frequently intertwined in his study.

His work carried out in the field of Politics brings together such families of science as Mathematics education, Representation, Criminology and Demographic economics. His research integrates issues of Repeal and Church attendance in his study of Voting. His study focuses on the intersection of Voter turnout and fields such as Field with connections in the field of Phone.

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Best Publications

The Effects of Canvassing, Telephone Calls, and Direct Mail on Voter Turnout: A Field Experiment

Alan S. Gerber;Donald P. Green.
American Political Science Review (2000)

1731 Citations

Social Pressure and Voter Turnout: Evidence from a Large-Scale Field Experiment

Alan S. Gerber;Donald P. Green;Christopher W. Larimer.
American Political Science Review (2008)

1516 Citations

Get Out the Vote: How to Increase Voter Turnout

Donald P. Green;Alan S. Gerber.
(2015)

1305 Citations

Field Experiments: Design, Analysis, and Interpretation

Alan S. Gerber;Donald P. Green.
(2012)

1272 Citations

Personality and Political Attitudes: Relationships across Issue Domains and Political Contexts

Alan S. Gerber;Gregory A. Huber;David Doherty;Conor M. Dowling.
American Political Science Review (2010)

889 Citations

Does the media matter? A field experiment measuring the effect of newspapers on voting behavior and political opinions

Alan Gerber;Dean Karlan;Daniel Bergan.
Research Papers in Economics (2009)

842 Citations

Voting May Be Habit-Forming: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment

Alan S. Gerber;Donald P. Green;Ron Shachar.
American Journal of Political Science (2003)

836 Citations

Estimating the Effect of Campaign Spending on Senate Election Outcomes Using Instrumental Variables

Alan Gerber.
American Political Science Review (1998)

607 Citations

How large and long-lasting are the persuasive effects of televised campaign ads? Results from a randomized field experiment

Alan S. Gerber;James G. Gimpel;Donald P. Green;Daron R. Shaw.
American Political Science Review (2011)

607 Citations

Partisan Bias in Factual Beliefs about Politics

John G Bullock;Alan S Gerber;Seth J Hill;Gregory A Huber.
Quarterly Journal of Political Science (2015)

519 Citations

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