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56
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28897
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1830
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2016 - Gladys M. Kammerer Award, American Political Science Association (APSA)

Overview

Dustin Tingley is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States. Their research spans several intersecting fields including sociology and political science, global and planetary change, economics and econometrics, statistics and probability, and artificial intelligence. The primary focus lies in topics related to climate change, sustainability, social psychology, and environmental governance.

Frequent themes in their work include:

  • Climate Change and Geoengineering
  • Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
  • Climate Change Policy and Economics
  • Social Acceptance of Renewable Energy
  • Environmental Education and Sustainability
  • Social and Intergroup Psychology
  • Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration

Among recent publications are:

  • "Scaling up behavioral science interventions in online education," 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Abstraction and Detail in Experimental Design," 2022, American Journal of Political Science
  • "Creating Climate Coalitions: Mass Preferences for Compensating Vulnerability in the World's Two Largest Democracies," 2022, American Political Science Review
  • "The Effects of Naming and Shaming on Public Support for Compliance with International Agreements: An Experimental Analysis of the Paris Agreement," 2021, International Organization
  • "Redefine statistical significance," 2025, UNC Libraries

Publications appear frequently in venues such as:

  • International Organization
  • Harvard Dataverse
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Harvard Data Science Review
  • Energy Research & Social Science

Tingley has contributed a book titled Uncertain Futures published by Cambridge University Press in 2023.

Collaboration is a notable aspect of their work, with frequent coauthors including Nikhar Gaikwad, Federica Genovese, Alexander F. Gazmararian, Helen V. Milner, and Robert O. Keohane. These collaborations reflect a network of scholars engaged in related research areas.

In recognition of scholarly contributions, Tingley received the Gladys M. Kammerer Award from the American Political Science Association in 2016.

Best Publications

  • A general approach to causal mediation analysis.

    Kosuke Imai;Luke Keele;Dustin Tingley

  • mediation: R Package for Causal Mediation Analysis

    Dustin Tingley;Teppei Yamamoto;Kentaro Hirose;Luke Keele

  • Redefine statistical significance

    Daniel J. Benjamin;James O. Berger;Magnus Johannesson;Magnus Johannesson;Brian A. Nosek;Brian A. Nosek

  • Structural topic models for open ended survey responses

    Margaret E. Roberts;Brandon M. Stewart;Dustin Tingley;Christopher Lucas

  • Unpacking the Black Box of Causality: Learning about Causal Mechanisms from Experimental and Observational Studies

    Kosuke Imai;Luke Keele;Dustin Tingley;Teppei Yamamoto

  • stm: An R Package for Structural Topic Models

    Margaret E. Roberts;Brandon M. Stewart;Brandon M. Stewart;Dustin Tingley

  • “Who are these people?” Evaluating the demographic characteristics and political preferences of MTurk survey respondents:

    Connor Huff;Dustin Tingley

  • Monoamine oxidase A gene (MAOA) predicts behavioral aggression following provocation

    Rose McDermott;Dustin Tingley;Jonathan Cowden;Giovanni Frazzetto

  • Computer-Assisted Text Analysis for Comparative Politics

    Christopher Lucas;Richard A. Nielsen;Margaret E. Roberts;Brandon Michael Stewart

  • Experimental designs for identifying causal mechanisms

    Kosuke Imai;Dustin Tingley;Teppei Yamamoto

  • The structural topic model and applied social science

    Margaret Roberts;Brandon Stewart;Dustin Tingley;Edoardo Airoldi

  • Causal Mediation Analysis Using R

    Kosuke Imai;Luke Keele;Dustin Tingley;Teppei Yamamoto

  • Who supports global economic engagement? The sources of preferences in American foreign economic policy

    Helen V. Milner;Dustin H. Tingley

  • Donors and domestic politics: Political influences on foreign aid effort

    Dustin Tingley

  • The Choice for Multilateralism: Foreign Aid and American Foreign Policy

    Helen V. Milner;Dustin Tingley

  • THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF U.S. FOREIGN AID: AMERICAN LEGISLATORS AND THE DOMESTIC POLITICS OF AID

    Helen V. Milner;Dustin H. Tingley

  • Public Opinion and Foreign Aid: A Review Essay

    Helen V. Milner;Dustin Tingley

  • Beliefs about Climate Beliefs: The Importance of Second-Order Opinions for Climate Politics

    Matto Mildenberger;Dustin Tingley

  • stm: R Package for Structural Topic Models

    Margaret Roberts;Brandon Stewart;Dustin Tingley

  • Conditional Cooperation and Climate Change

    Dustin Tingley;Michael Tomz

  • Experimental Designs for Identifying Causal Mechanisms (with discussions)

    Kosuke Imai;Dustin Tingley;Teppei Yamamoto

Frequent Co-Authors

Kosuke Imai
Kosuke Imai Harvard University
Luke Keele
Luke Keele University of Pennsylvania
David Cesarini
David Cesarini New York University
Thomas D. Cook
Thomas D. Cook University of Wisconsin–Madison
Brian A. Nosek
Brian A. Nosek Center for Open Science
Don A. Moore
Don A. Moore University of California, Berkeley
Marco Perugini
Marco Perugini University of Milano-Bicocca
Andy P. Field
Andy P. Field University of Sussex
Anthony G. Greenwald
Anthony G. Greenwald University of Washington
Zoltan Dienes
Zoltan Dienes University of Sussex

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