John B. Holbein

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Book

Making Young Voters

[1] Holbein, John B. and D. Sunshine Hillygus. Making Young Voters: Converting Civic Attitudes into Civic Action. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2020 ★ Reviewed in: Public Opinion Quarterly, LA Review of Books, Perspectives on Politics, The Journal of Politics

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[38] Charles Crabtree and John B. Holbein. "How Strong Is the Evidence for Peaceful Resistance? Not Very." Conditionally Accepted, American Political Science Review
[37] Charles Crabtree, John B. Holbein, Mitchell Bosley, and Semra Sevi. “Can AI Help Reduce Prejudice? Evaluating the Effectiveness of AI-Powered Personalized Persuasion on Support for Transgender Rights” Forthcoming, PNAS Nexus
[36] Hans Hassell and John B. Holbein. "Changing the Scope of Conflict? Voter Registration and George Floyd’s Murder" Forthcoming, British Journal of Political Science
[35] Gaddis, S. Michael, Natasha Quadlin, Charles Crabtree, John B. Holbein, and Edvard Nergård Larsen. "Missing Results of Discrimination: A Systematically Comparative Meta-Analysis and Re-Examinations of Racial, Gender, and Intersectional Discrimination using Correspondence Audits" Conditionally Accepted, Sociological Science
[34] Hans Hassell and John B. Holbein. "Navigating Potential Pitfalls in Difference-in-Differences Designs: Reconciling Conflicting Findings on Mass Shootings’ Effect on Electoral Outcomes" American Political Science Review 119, no. 1 (2025): 240-260.
[33] D'Wayne Bell, Jing Feng, John B. Holbein and Jonathan Smith. "Do STEM Students Vote?" American Educational Research Journal Vol. 61; no. 1 (2024): 48-73
[32] Mia Costa, Charles Crabtree, John B. Holbein, and Michelangelo Landgrave. "Is that Ethical? An Exploration of Political Scientists’ Views on Research Ethics" Research & Politics 10, no. 4 (2023): 20531680231209553.
[31] Tyler Reny, Ben Newman, John B. Holbein, and Hans Hassell. "Public mass shootings cause large surges in Americans' engagement with gun policy." PNAS nexus 2, no. 12 (2023): pgad407.
[30] Holbein, John B and Charles Crabtree. "Do Sleep Disruptions Promote Social Fragmentation?" Politics and the Life Sciences Vol. 42; no. 2 (2023): 205-233
[29] Hillygus, D. Sunshine and John B. Holbein. "Refocusing Civic Education to Help Young People Develop the Skills They Need to Engage in Democracy" Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science Vol. 705; no. 1 (2023): 73-94
[28] Holbein, John B., Marcos Rangel, Raeal Moore, and Michelle Croft. “Is Voting Transformative? Expanding and Meta-Analyzing the Evidence” Political Behavior Vol. 45, no. 3 (2023): 1015-1044
[27] Crabtree, Charles D., S. Michael Gaddis, Cameron Guage, John B. Holbein, Jae Yeon Kim, and William W. Marx. "Validated Names for Experimental Studies on Ethnicity and Race" Nature: Scientific Data. Vol. 10, no. 130 (2023)
[26] Gaddis, S. Michael, Charles Crabtree, John B. Holbein, and Edvard Nergård Larsen. "Racially Distinctive Names Signal Race and Class" Sociological Science. Vol. 9 (2022): 454-472
[25] Block, Ray, Charles Crabtree, John B. Holbein, and Quin Monson. "Conceptual and Empirical Issues that Arise When Using Correspondence Audits to Measure Racial Discrimination." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Vol. 119, no. 38 (2022): e2210695119
[24] Mo, Cecilia Hyunjung, John B. Holbein, and Elizabeth Mitchell Elder. "Civilian National Service Programs Can Powerfully Increase Youth Voter Turnout." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Vol 119, no. 29 (2022): e2122996119 ★ Featured in Science Magazine
[23] Barber, Michael, and John B. Holbein. "400 million voting records show profound racial and geographic disparities in voter turnout in the United States." PloS one 17, no. 6 (2022): e0268134.
[22] Crabtree, Charles D., John B. Holbein, and Quin Monson. "Patients' Traits Shape Healthcare Providers' Choices on How to Best Allocate Life-Saving Care" Nature Human Behaviour 6 (2022): 244-257
[21] Holbein, John B., Catherine Bradshaw, Nicholas Ialongo, B. Kal Munis, Jill Rabinowitz. "Promoting Voter Turnout: An Unanticipated Impact of Early Childhood Preventive Interventions." Prevention Science. Vol. 23 (2022): 192-203
[20] Block, Ray, Charles Crabtree, John B. Holbein, and Quin Monson. "Are Americans Less Likely to Reply to Emails from Black People Relative to White People?" Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Vol. 118, no. 52 (2021): e2110347118
[19] Pfaff, Steven, Charles Crabtree, Holger L. Kern, and John B. Holbein. "Do Street‐Level Bureaucrats Discriminate Based on Religion? A Large‐Scale Correspondence Experiment among American Public School Principals" Public Administration Review. Vol. 81, no. 2 (2021): 244-259
[18] Easton, Matt and John B. Holbein. "The Democracy of Dating: How Political Affiliations Shape Relationship Formation." Journal of Experimental Political Science. Vol. 8, no. 3 (2021): 260-272.
[17] Barber, Michael and John B. Holbein. "The Participatory and Partisan Impacts of Mandatory Vote-by-Mail" Science Advances Vol. 6, no. 35 (2020): eabc7685 ★ Featured in Science Magazine
[16] Hassell, Hans, John B. Holbein, and Matthew Baldwin. "Mobilize for Our Lives? School Shootings and Democratic Accountability in U.S. Elections" American Political Science Review. Vol. 114, no. 4 (2020): 1375-1385 ★ Best Paper in Elections, Public Opinion, and Voting Behavior Award [American Political Science Association; 2020]
[15] Holbein, John B. and Marcos Rangel. "Does Voting Have Upstream and Downstream Consequences? Regression Discontinuity Tests of the Transformative Voting Hypothesis." The Journal of Politics. Vol. 82, no. 4 (2020): 1196-1216
[14] Holbein, John B., D. Sunshine Hillygus, Matthew A. Lenard, Christina Gibson-Davis, Darryl V. Hill, and. "The Development of Students’ Engagement in School, Community, and Democracy" British Journal of Political Science. Vol. 50, no. 4 (2020): 1439-1457
[13] Hassell, Hans, John B. Holbein, and Matt Miles. "There Is No Liberal Media Bias in Which News Stories Political Journalists Choose to Cover" Science Advances Vol. 6, no. 14 (2020): eaay9344
[12] Akee, Randall, William Copeland, John B. Holbein, and Emilia Simeonova. "Human Capital and Voting Behavior across Generations: Evidence from an Income Intervention." American Political Science Review 114, no. 2 (2020): 609-616 ★ Best Paper in Political Behavior [Midwest Political Science Association, 2018]
[11] Dynes, Adam and John B. Holbein. "Noisy Retrospection: The Effect of Party Control on Policy Outcomes" American Political Science Review 114, no. 1 (2020): 237-257.
[10] Schafer, Jerome and John B. Holbein. "When Time Is of the Essence: A Natural Experiment on How Time Constraints Influence Elections" The Journal of Politics 82, no. 2 (2020): 418-432
[9] Fraga, Bernard and John B. Holbein. "Measuring Youth and College Student Voter Turnout." Electoral Studies 65, no. 3 (2020).
[8] Holbein, John B., Jerome Schafer, and David Dickinson. "Insufficient Sleep Reduces Voting and Other Prosocial Behaviors." Nature Human Behaviour 3, May (2019): 492-500. [Impact Factor: 24.25]
[7] Carnes, Nicholas and John B. Holbein. "Do Public Officials Exhibit Social Class Biases when they Handle Casework? Evidence from Multiple Correspondence Experiments" PLOS ONE 14, no. 3 (2019).
[6] Holbein, John B. and Hans J.G. Hassell. "When Your Group Fails: The Effect of Race-Based Performance Signals on Citizen Voice and Exit" Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory 29, no. 2 (2019): 268–286. ★ Beryl A. Radin Award for the best article in Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory [Public Management Research Association, 2019]
[5] Holbein, John B. “Childhood Skill Development and Adult Political Participation.” American Political Science Review 111, no. 3 (2017): 572-583.
[4] Holbein, John B. & Helen F. Ladd. “Accountability pressure: Regression discontinuity estimates of how No Child Left Behind influenced student behavior.” Economics of Education Review 58 (2017): 55-67
[3] Ladd, Helen F., Charles T. Clotfelter, and John B. Holbein. “The Growing Segmentation of the Charter School Market in North Carolina” Education Finance and Policy 12, no. 4 (2017): 536-563.
[2] Holbein, John B. “Left Behind? Citizen Responsiveness to Government Performance Information.” American Political Science Review 110, no. 2 (2016): 353-368.
[1] Holbein, John B. and D. Sunshine Hillygus. "Making Young Voters: The Impact of Preregistration on Youth Turnout." American Journal of Political Science 60, no. 2 (2016): 364-382 [Correction] [Additional analysis].

Revisions Requested

[20] D'Wayne Bell, John B. Holbein, Sam Imlay, and Jonathan Smith. "Which Colleges Increase Voting Rates?" Invitation to Revise and Resubmit at American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
[19] Michael Bloem, John B. Holbein, Sam Imlay, and Jonathan Smith. “Voting Among Siblings” Invitation to Revise and Resubmit at American Economic Journal: Economic Policy
[18] Charles Crabtree, John B. Holbein, Cecilia Hyunjung Mo, and J. Quin Monson. “Micro-Inequities Against Asian Americans: Evidence from a Large-Scale Field Experiment” Invitation to Revise and Resubmit at the American Political Science Review
[17] Charles Crabtree, Will Elliott, John B. Holbein, Devontae Lacasse, and Jayanth Uppaluri. "What Does the Public Really Want in College Admissions?" Invitation to Revise and Resubmit at Nature Human Behaviour
[16] Charles Crabtree, S. Michael Gaddis, and John B. Holbein. "How Should Researchers Signal Race in Correspondence Audits? Considering The Validity of Names and Photographs" Rejection with an Invitation to Resubmit at the Journal of Politics
[15] Michael Gaddis, Charles Crabtree, John B. Holbein, and Steve Pfaff. "Racial/Ethnic Discrimination in Interactions with the U.S. Public Education System: A Correspondence Audit of Principals." Invitation to Revise and Resubmit at Sociology of Education
[14] Michael Gaddis, Charles Crabtree, John B. Holbein, and Steve Pfaff. "Local Political Party Voting Context Moderates Public School Principals’ Levels of Racial/Ethnic Discrimination" Invitation to Revise and Resubmit at the Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics
[13] Charles Crabtree, John B. Holbein, and Kiyoteru Tsutsui. "The Tyranny of Alphabetical Ordering: The Uneven Distribution of Authorship Credits by Authors' Country of Origin" Invitation to Revise and Resubmit at the Journal of Informetrics
[12] Charles Crabtree and John B. Holbein. "Attention-Check Failure as a Survey-Level Diagnostic of Human Participation in Online Surveys" Rejection with an Invitation to Resubmit at Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Additional Works Under Review

[11] Hans Hassell, Taylor Hill, and John B. Holbein. "Do ICE Arrests Spark Electoral Action?" Under Review
[10] Charles Crabtree, John B. Holbein, Cecilia Hyunjung Mo, and Surili Sheth. "Do Virtual Museums Highlighting the Experiences of Minorities Persuade Visitors? Evidence From a Study on Bias Toward Asian Americans" Under Review
[9] Charles Crabtree, Michael Gaddis, and John B. Holbein. "Shifting Paradigms: Nine Decades of Identity and Discrimination Scholarship in Academic Research" Under Review
[8] Hans Hassell, John B. Holbein, Kevin Reuning, and Cindy West. "The Electoral Consequences of Social Protest in Contemporary America" Under Review

Additional Working Papers

[7] Charles Crabtree, John B. Holbein, and Cecilia Hyunjung Mo. "Cultural Assimilation Weakens Workers’ Discriminatory Preferences Against Potential Asian Bosses"
[6] Charles Crabtree, John B. Holbein, Cecilia Hyunjung Mo, and Maya Lu. "The China Penalty: Measuring and Understanding a Blanket Bias Against Chinese Immigrants Across 22 Nations"
[5] Charles Crabtree, John B. Holbein, Bart Bonikowski, and Kiyoteru Tsutsui. "Attention Checks Measure More Than Attention: Comparing Class Bias Across Survey Quality Indicators"
[4] Charles Crabtree, John B. Holbein, Cecilia Hyunjung Mo, and Surili Sheth. "Forever Foreign? Differential Linguistic Assimilation Standards for Asian Immigrants"
[3] Gaddis, S. Michael, Edvard Nergård Larsen, Charles Crabtree, and John B. Holbein. "How Prevalent is Racial Discrimination Against Black and Hispanic Americans Across Contexts? A Meta-Analysis of Correspondence Audits."
[2] John B. Holbein, W. Ben McCartney, and Calvin Zhang. "Development, Exit, and Political Change: Evidence from Opportunity Zones"
[1] John B. Holbein, Charles Crabtree, and Zander Furnas. "How Liberal Are Professors? What Existing Measures Can and Cannot Tell Us"