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Overview

Daniel L. Nielson is affiliated with The University of Texas at Austin in the United States. Their work primarily spans the social sciences, with a strong focus on sociology and political science, economics and econometrics, political science and international relations, safety research, and communication. They have published extensively across these fields, contributing notably to the understanding of political accountability, taxation, and local governance.

The researcher has produced a range of recent papers, including:

  • Owning It: Accountability and Citizens' Ownership over Oil, Aid, and Taxes (2021), The Journal of Politics
  • Do Indirect Taxes Bite? How Hiding Taxes Erases Accountability Demands from Citizens (2023), The Journal of Politics
  • Foreign aid, oil revenues, and political accountability: Evidence from six experiments in Ghana and Uganda (2020), The Review of International Organizations
  • Electoral Institutions and Electoral Cycles in Investment Incentives: A Field Experiment on Over 3,000 U.S. Municipalities (2020), American Journal of Political Science
  • Individualized Text Messages about Public Services Fail to Sway Voters: Evidence from a Field Experiment on Ugandan Elections (2021), Journal of Experimental Political Science

Their collaborative work includes frequent partnerships with several scholars, such as Michael G. Findley, J. C. Sharman, Brandon De La Cuesta, Lucy Martin, and Helen V. Milner. These collaborations often intersect with themes in political accountability and governance.

Daniel L. Nielson's publications are frequently found in venues such as:

  • The Journal of Politics
  • The Review of International Organizations
  • American Journal of Political Science
  • Business and Politics
  • Harvard Dataverse

Their research topics cover a variety of themes with particular emphasis on:

  • Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies
  • Taxation and Compliance Studies
  • Local Government Finance and Decentralization
  • Media Influence and Politics
  • Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth
  • Social Media and Politics
  • Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy

Among their contributions to academic literature is a book titled Signatures for Sale: How Nominee Services for Shell Companies are Abused to Conceal Beneficial Owners, published in 2022 by Washington, DC: World Bank eBooks. This work aligns with their interest in transparency, governance, and regulatory challenges.

Best Publications

  • Delegation and agency in international organizations

    Darren G. Hawkins;David A. Lake;Daniel L. Nielson;Michael J. Tierney

  • Delegation to International Organizations: Agency Theory and World Bank Environmental Reform

    Daniel L. Nielson;Michael J. Tierney

  • More Dollars than Sense: Refining Our Knowledge of Development Finance Using AidData

    Michael J. Tierney;Daniel L. Nielson;Darren G. Hawkins;J. Timmons Roberts

  • Delegation and Agency in International Organizations: Delegation under anarchy: states, international organizations, and principal-agent theory

    Darren Hawkins;David A. Lake;Daniel L. Nielson;Michael J. Tierney

  • Foreign Aid Shocks as a Cause of Violent Armed Conflict

    Richard A. Nielsen;Michael G. Findley;Zachary S. Davis;Tara Candland

  • Bridging the rationalist–constructivist divide: re-engineering the culture of the World Bank

    Daniel L. Nielson;Michael J. Tierney;Catherine Elizabeth Weaver

  • Supplying Trade Reform: Political Institutions and Liberalization in Middle‐Income Presidential Democracies

    Daniel L. Nielson

  • Field experiments in strategy research

    Aaron K. Chatterji;Michael Findley;Nathan M. Jensen;Stephan Meier

  • Delegation and Agency in International Organizations: Who delegates? Alternative models of principals in development aid

    Mona M. Lyne;Daniel L. Nielson;Michael J. Tierney

  • Global Shell Games: Experiments in Transnational Relations, Crime, and Terrorism

    Michael G. Findley;Daniel L. Nielson;Jason Campbell Sharman

  • Controlling coalitions: Social lending at the multilateral development banks

    Mona M. Lyne;Daniel L. Nielson;Michael J. Tierney

  • Yielding Sovereignty to International Institutions: Bringing System Structure Back In1

    Scott Cooper;Darren Hawkins;Wade Jacoby;Daniel Nielson

  • Theory, Data, and Hypothesis Testing: World Bank Environmental Reform Redux

    Daniel L. Nielson;Michael J. Tierney

  • Constitutional Change in Colombia Policy Adjustment Through Institutional Reform

    Daniel L. Nielson;Matthew Soberg Shugart

  • Voter information campaigns and political accountability: Cumulative findings from a preregistered meta-analysis of coordinated trials.

    Thad Dunning;Guy Grossman;Macartan Humphreys;Susan D. Hyde

  • Dodging Adverse Selection: How Donor Type and Governance Condition Aid’s Effects on School Enrollment

    Zachary Christensen;Dustin Homer;Daniel L. Nielson

  • Who Controls Foreign Aid? Elite versus Public Perceptions of Donor Influence in Aid-Dependent Uganda

    Michael G. Findley;Adam S. Harris;Helen V. Milner;Daniel L. Nielson

  • Citizen preferences and public goods: comparing preferences for foreign aid and government programs in Uganda

    Helen V. Milner;Daniel L. Nielson;Michael G. Findley

  • Using Field Experiments in International Relations: A Randomized Study of Anonymous Incorporation1

    Michael G. Findley;Daniel L. Nielson;Jason Campbell Sharman

  • Dependence Networks and the International Criminal Court

    Jay Goodliffe;Darren Hawkins;Christine Horne;Daniel L. Nielson

  • The choice among aid donors: The effects of multilateral vs. bilateral aid on recipient behavioral support

    Michael G. Findley;Helen V. Milner;Daniel L. Nielson

  • Global Shell Games: List of Figures

    Michael G. Findley;Daniel L. Nielson;J. C. Sharman

  • Foreign Aid Shocks as a Cause of Violent Armed Conflict

    Michael Findley;Rich Nielsen;Tara Candland;Daniel L. Nielson

  • Foreign Aid Shocks as a Cause of Violent Armed Conflict Supporting Information Appendix

    Richard A. Nielsen;Michael G. Findley;Zachary S. Davis;Tara Candland

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael G. Findley
Michael G. Findley The University of Texas at Austin
Jason Campbell Sharman
Jason Campbell Sharman University of Cambridge
Helen V. Milner
Helen V. Milner Princeton University
Stephan Meier
Stephan Meier Columbia University
David A. Lake
David A. Lake University of California, San Diego
Nathan M. Jensen
Nathan M. Jensen The University of Texas at Austin
Scott Morgenstern
Scott Morgenstern University of Pittsburgh
Stephen Knack
Stephen Knack World Bank
Craig McIntosh
Craig McIntosh University of California, San Diego
Macartan Humphreys
Macartan Humphreys Social Science Research Center Berlin

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