Winner of the 2020 Outstanding Book Award Presented by the Public and Nonprofit Section
of the National Academy of Management Winner of the 2019 Louis Brownlow Book Award …

Administrative burdens are the frictions that people face in their encounters with public
services, leading to meaningful costs that include learning, compliance, and psychological …

In 2016, 90% of young Americans reported an interest in politics. 80% intended to vote. Yet
only 43% of people between the ages of 18 and 29 ended up actually casting a ballot …

Recent years have seen a dramatic growth in the study of frictions that individuals
experience, especially in their interactions with the public sector, creating both the potential …

Polarisation is often seen as mainly negative for the functioning of democracies, but one of
its saving graces could be that it raises the stakes of politics and encourages participation …

I study the effects of voting costs—specifically, distance to polling location—using
geographic discontinuities. Opposite sides of boundaries between voting precincts are …

We combine deed-level data on homeownership with administrative data on voter turnout in
local and national elections for more than 18 million individuals in Ohio and North Carolina …

Children are among the few social groups that are systematically and universally
disenfranchised. Although children are citizens worthy of equal moral treatment and rights …

US states increasingly require identification to vote—an ostensible attempt to deter fraud that
prompts complaints of selective disenfranchisement. Using a difference-in-differences …

We study the characteristics and behavior of small campaign donors and compare them to
large donors by building a dataset including all the 340 million individual contributions …