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Jacob W Bowers

Professor

Research Interests

Political methodology
Applied statistics
Political behavior

Education

Ph.D, University of California, Berkeley

Additional Campus Affiliations

Professor, Political Science
Professor, Statistics
Professor, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Affiliate, Center for Social & Behavioral Science

Recent Publications

Bowers, J., Greenberg, N., Holmes, M., & Posner, D. N. (Accepted/In press). Tensions in Knowledge Accumulation Using Coordinated Intervention Experiments to Improve Public Policy. In J. M. Box-Steffensmeier, D. P. Christenson, & V. Sinclair-Chapman (Eds.), Oxford Handbook of Engaged Methodological Pluralism in Political Science (Oxford Handbooks). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780192868282.013.22

Rabb, N., Swindal, M., Glick, D., Bowers, J., Tomasulo, A., Oyelami, Z., Wilson, K. H., & Yokum, D. (2022). Evidence from a statewide vaccination RCT shows the limits of nudges. Nature, 604(7904), E1-E7. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-04526-2

Rabb, N., Bowers, J., Glick, D., Wilson, K. H., & Yokum, D. (2022). The influence of social norms varies with “others” groups: Evidence from COVID-19 vaccination intentions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 119(29), Article e2118770119. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2118770119

Rabb, N., Glick, D., Houston, A., Bowers, J., & Yokum, D. (2021). No evidence that collective-good appeals best promote COVID-related health behaviors. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 118(14), Article e2100662118. https://doi.org/10.1073/PNAS.2100662118

Bowers, J., & Leavitt, T. (2020). Causality and Design-Based Inference. In L. Curini, & R. Franzese (Eds.), The SAGE Handbook of Research Methods in Political Science and International Relations (pp. 769-804). SAGE Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4135/9781526486387.n44

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