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59
Citations
21248
World Ranking
118
National Ranking
70

Research.com Recognitions

  • 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

Alan S. Gerber is affiliated with Yale University in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within the social sciences and psychology, with significant contributions to political science, behavioral studies, and autism research.

The scientist's main fields of study include Social Sciences with 49 publications and Psychology with 25 publications. Within these broader areas, key subfields of focus are Clinical Psychology, Sociology and Political Science, Cognitive Neuroscience, Political Science and International Relations, and Economics and Econometrics.

Alan S. Gerber's primary topics of research cover Autism Spectrum Disorder Research, Electoral Systems and Political Participation, Family and Disability Support Research, Misinformation and Its Impacts, Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development, Behavioral and Psychological Studies, and Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies.

Among their frequent coauthors are:

  • Eric M. Patashnik
  • Gregory A. Huber
  • Conor M. Dowling
  • Matthew D. Lerner
  • Scott Bokemper

The scientist's work appears regularly in several publication venues. The most frequent include:

  • Autism Research
  • Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
  • British Journal of Political Science
  • Harvard Dataverse
  • Vaccine

Representative recent papers by Alan S. Gerber include:

  • "One in a Million: Field Experiments on Perceived Closeness of the Election and Voter Turnout," 2020, American Economic Journal Applied Economics
  • "Timing of COVID-19 vaccine approval and endorsement by public figures," 2020, Vaccine
  • "Multi-informant International Perspectives on the Facilitators and Barriers to Employment for Autistic Adults," 2020, Autism Research
  • "Persuasive messaging to increase COVID-19 vaccine uptake intentions," 2021, Vaccine
  • "Autism Heterogeneity in a Densely Sampled U.S. Population: Results From the First 1,000 Participants in the RI-CART Study," 2020, Autism Research

Alan S. Gerber has also authored books published by Princeton University Press, including two editions of Unhealthy Politics published in 2020.

The scientist has received several awards, including:

  • Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (2014)
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2009)
  • Heinz I. Eulau Award, American Political Science Association (APSA) (2003)

Best Publications

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

    Alan S. Gerber;Donald P. Green

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

    Alan S. Gerber;Donald P. Green;Christopher W. Larimer

  • Get Out the Vote!: How to Increase Voter Turnout

    Donald P. Green;Alan S. Gerber

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

    Alan S. Gerber;Gregory A. Huber;David Doherty;Conor M. Dowling

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

    Alan S. Gerber;Donald P. Green;Ron Shachar

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

    Alan Gerber;Dean Karlan;Daniel Bergan

  • Does the Media Matter? A Field Experiment Measuring the Effect of Newspapers on Voting Behavior and Political Opinions

    Alan S. Gerber;Dean Karlan;Daniel Bergan

  • Descriptive Social Norms and Motivation to Vote: Everybody's Voting and so Should You

    Alan S. Gerber;Todd Rogers

  • 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

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

    Alan Gerber

  • Promoting Transparency in Social Science Research

    E. Miguel;C. Camerer;K. Casey;J. Cohen

  • MISPERCEPTIONS ABOUT PERCEPTUAL BIAS

    Alan Gerber and;Donald Green

  • The Big Five Personality Traits in the Political Arena

    Alan S. Gerber;Alan S. Gerber;Gregory A. Huber;David Doherty;Conor M. Dowling

  • Getting Out the Vote in Local Elections: Results from Six Door-to-Door Canvassing Experiments

    Donald P. Green;Alan S. Gerber;David W. Nickerson

  • Partisanship, Political Control, and Economic Assessments

    Alan S. Gerber;Gregory A. Huber

  • Partisan Bias in Factual Beliefs About Politics

    John G. Bullock;Alan Gerber;Alan Gerber;Seth J. Hill;Gregory Huber

  • Rational Learning and Partisan Attitudes

    Alan Gerber;Donald P. Green

  • Personality Traits and Participation in Political Processes

    Alan S. Gerber;Gregory A. Huber;David Doherty;Conor M. Dowling

  • Partisanship and Economic Behavior: Do Partisan Differences in Economic Forecasts Predict Real Economic Behavior?

    Alan S. Gerber;Gregory A. Huber

  • Do Statistical Reporting Standards Affect What Is Published? Publication Bias in Two Leading Political Science Journals

    Alan Gerber;Neil Malhotra

  • Equal Votes, Equal Money: Court-Ordered Redistricting and Public Expenditures in the American States

    Stephen Ansolabehere;Alan Gerber;Jim Snyder

  • Publication Bias in Empirical Sociological Research : Do Arbitrary Significance Levels Distort Published Results?

    Alan S. Gerber;Neil Malhotra

  • An Experiment Testing the Relative Effectiveness of Encouraging Voter Participation by Inducing Feelings of Pride or Shame

    Alan S. Gerber;Donald P. Green;Christopher W. Larimer

  • Disagreement and the Avoidance of Political Discussion: Aggregate Relationships and Differences across Personality Traits

    Alan S. Gerber;Gregory A. Huber;David Doherty;Conor M. Dowling

  • Personality and the Strength and Direction of Partisan Identification

    Alan S. Gerber;Gregory A. Huber;David Doherty;Conor M. Dowling

Frequent Co-Authors

Donald P. Green
Donald P. Green Columbia University
Gregory A. Huber
Gregory A. Huber Yale University
Stephen Ansolabehere
Stephen Ansolabehere Harvard University
Eric Schickler
Eric Schickler University of California, Berkeley
David W. Nickerson
David W. Nickerson Temple University
Kevin Arceneaux
Kevin Arceneaux Sciences Po
James M. Snyder
James M. Snyder Harvard University
Daniel P. Kessler
Daniel P. Kessler Stanford University
Dean Karlan
Dean Karlan Northwestern University

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