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Selected Publications


Most Likely to Succeed: Long-Run Returns to Adolescent Popularity.

Journal Article Social currents · February 2017 Sociological explanations for economic success tend toward measures of embeddedness in longstanding social institutions, such as race and gender, or personal skills represented mainly by educational attainment. In this paper we seek a distinctively social ... Full text Cite

Cross-cutting Messages and Voter Turnout: Evidence from a Same-Sex Marriage Amendment

Journal Article Political Communication · July 2, 2016 Does disagreement stimulate political participation, or discourage it? Some researchers find that exposure to cross-cutting views demobilizes voters. Selection bias in the way individuals expose themselves to disagreement and other sources of endogeneity p ... Full text Cite