John B Holbein
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 919155 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | John B Holbein |
| NOMBRES | John B |
| APELLIDO | Holbein |
| FIRMA | HOLBEIN J B |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Virginia |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5099-3395 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 27 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 348 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 27 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2016 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 12 |
Changing the Scope of Conflict? Voter Registration and George Floyd’s Murder
Prior work has often studied how focusing events – in particular police killings of unarmed people – affect citizens’ attitudes. Do focusing events also affect citizens’ behaviors – changing the scope of conflict by incorporating prospective voters into the political system? We take as an empirical case the murder of George Floyd. Using nationwide voter file data from the United States, we leverage regression discontinuity in time methods to show…
Do STEM Students Vote? 12
Pundits, politicians, and academics have long worried about potentially low rates of civic participation among STEM-oriented students. Does studying STEM actually decrease the odds that young people will be actively involved in democracy? To answer this question, we created a dataset of over 23 million students in the United States, matched to national validated voting records. This novel dataset is the largest known individual-level dataset in t…
Navigating Potential Pitfalls in Difference-in-Differences Designs
Work on the electoral effects of gun violence in the U.S. relying on difference-in-differences designs has produced findings ranging from null to substantively large effects. However, as difference-in-difference designs, on which this research relies, have exploded in popularity, scholars have documented several methodological issues including potential violations of parallel-trends and unaccounted for treatment effect heterogeneity. These pitfal…
Is that ethical? An exploration of political scientists’ views on research ethics
What do political scientists think about research ethics? What research practices do they find acceptable? Using a survey conducted with the American Political Science Association, we explore perceptions of ethics among 362 political scientists. We find that political scientists do not place much relative weight on ethics when evaluating research. We do, however, find that researchers view different modes of inquiry as having different potential …
Do sleep disruptions promote social fragmentation
Sleep changes predate shifts in mood/affect, thought processing, mental and physical health, civic engagement, and contextual circumstances, among other things. Theory predicts that these changes may lead to shifts in political and social beliefs. Do sleep disruptions shape how individuals see the world, the people around them, and themselves in relation to others? In this article, we use daily survey data from the 77 waves ( N ≈ 460,000) of the …
Is Voting Transformative? Expanding and Meta-Analyzing the Evidence
Refocusing Civic Education
Schools have traditionally taken a "just-the-facts-ma'am" approach to civic education, focusing on governmental structures and political systems. We argue that preparing young people to engage with democracy requires far more than rote memorization of facts and figures. Schools should be laboratories of democracy, where young people's civic intentions are converted into civic behaviors. We argue that to realize that transformation, educators must…
Racially Distinctive Names Signal Both Race/Ethnicity and Social Class
Researchers studying discrimination and bias frequently conduct experiments that use racially distinctive names to signal race or ethnicity. The evidence that these studies provide about racial discrimination depends on the assumption that the names researchers use differ only based on perceived race and not some other factor. In this article, we assess this common assumption using data from five different studies (n = 1,004; 2,002; 1,035; 5,631;…
Homeschooling the Right
The rapid rise of homeschooling over the past five decades in the United States has for too long gone unnoticed in contemporary discussions of American politics. In Homeschooling the Right, Brown unfolds this vitally important but previously underexplored phenomenon of the rise of a network of parents, advocates, and partisan organizations that have lent their support to the homeschooling movement. Using a variety of data sources, interviews, and…
Patient traits shape health-care stakeholders' choices on how to best allocate life-saving care
Making Young Voters
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. Making Young Voters investigates what lies at the core of this gap. The authors' in-depth, interdisciplinary approach reveals that political apathy is not the reason for low levels of youth turnout. Rather, young people too often fail to follow through on their political i…
The Democracy of Dating
How much does politics affect relationship building? Previous experimental studies have come to vastly different conclusions – ranging from null to truly transformative effects. To explore these differences, this study replicates and extends previous research by conducting five survey experiments meant to expand our understanding of how politics does/does not shape the formation of romantic relationships. We find that people, indeed, are influenc…
Do Street‐Level Bureaucrats Discriminate Based on Religion? A Large‐Scale Correspondence Experiment among American Public School Principals
Although public administration scholars have long studied discrimination on the basis of race/ethnicity , class , and gender , little to no research exists on whether street‐level bureaucrats provide differential services based on the religious identity of their constituents. This article reports the results from a large‐scale correspondence study of street‐level bureaucrats in the American public school system. The authors emailed the principals…
Mobilize for Our Lives? School Shootings and Democratic Accountability in U.S. Elections
Gun violence is a large and growing problem in the United States. Many reformers look towards elections to spur policy change in this area. In this paper, we explore the effects of school shootings on electoral mobilization and election outcomes. We pair data from several sources that measure validated voter registration; validated voter turnout; and the electoral performance of officials at the local, state, and federal levels with regression di…
Making Young Voters
In Making Young Voters, we provide a new framework for understanding voter turnout. Our perspective focuses on the gap between turnout intentions and turnout behaviour. While many young people want to vote and intend to do so, few follow through on these intentions because of the obstacles, distractions, and diversions that get in the way. We combine theory from diverse academic fields - including psychology, economics, education, and child devel…
Does Voting Have Upstream and Downstream Consequences? Regression Discontinuity Tests of the Transformative Voting Hypothesis
Voting is a central pillar of political science research; indeed, scholars have long addressed questions like, “Who votes?,” “Why do people vote?,” and “What interventions increase voting?” However, only a few have considered whether voting changes adjacent civic dispositions and behaviors. In this paper, we explore the effects of voting shocks on young citizens’ political interest, memberships, social awareness, and political knowledge in the le…
When Time Is of the Essence
Foundational theories of voter turnout suggest that time is a key input in the voting decision, but we possess little causal evidence about how this resource affects electoral behavior. In this article, we use over two decades of elections data and a novel geographic regression discontinuity design that leverages US time zone boundaries. Our results show that exogenous shifts in time allocations have significant political consequences. Namely, we…
The Development of Students’ Engagement in School, Community and Democracy
This article explores the origins of youth engagement in school, community and democracy. Specifically, it considers the role of psychosocial or non-cognitive abilities, like grit or perseverance. Using a novel original large-scale longitudinal survey of students linked to school administrative records and a variety of modeling techniques – including sibling, twin and individual fixed effects – the study finds that psychosocial abilities are a st…
Measuring youth and college student voter turnout
Human Capital and Voting Behavior across Generations
Despite clear evidence of a sharp income gradient in voting participation, it remains unclear whether income truly causes voting. In this article, we investigate how exogenous increases in unearned income affect voting in U.S. elections for two generations (parents and children) from the same household. In contrast to predictions made by current models of voting, we find the income shock had no effect on parents' voting behaviors. However, we als…
Noisy Retrospection
Retrospective voting is vital for democracy. But, are the objective performance metrics widely thought to be relevant for retrospection-such as the performance of the economy, criminal justice system, and schools, to name a few-valid criteria for evaluating government performance? That is, do political coalitions actually have the power to influence the performance metrics used for retrospection on the timeline introduced by elections? Using diff…
When Your Group Fails
In recent years, performance-based accountability reforms have become widespread—particularly in the public education system—as a means of enhancing service delivery and citizens' knowledge of and engagement with government. While an ever-growing literature has considered the overall effects of these administrative systems, few have fully considered the effect these have on underlying subgroups of relevance and inequalities in responses across th…
Author Correction
Insufficient sleep reduces voting and other prosocial behaviours
Childhood Skill Development and Adult Political Participation
Recent child development research shows that the psychosocial or noncognitive skills that children develop-including the ability to self-regulate and integrate in social settings-are important for success in school and beyond. Are these skills learned in childhood also important for adult political behaviors like voting? In this article, I use a unique school-based 20-year field experiment to explore whether children who develop psychosocial skil…
Do Street‐Level Bureaucrats Discriminate Based on Religion? A Large‐Scale Correspondence Experiment among American Public School Principals
Although public administration scholars have long studied discrimination on the basis of race/ethnicity , class , and gender , little to no research exists on whether street‐level bureaucrats provide differential services based on the religious identity of their constituents. This article reports the results from a large‐scale correspondence study of street‐level bureaucrats in the American public school system. The authors emailed the principals…
Childhood Skill Development and Adult Political Participation
Recent child development research shows that the psychosocial or noncognitive skills that children develop-including the ability to self-regulate and integrate in social settings-are important for success in school and beyond. Are these skills learned in childhood also important for adult political behaviors like voting? In this article, I use a unique school-based 20-year field experiment to explore whether children who develop psychosocial skil…
Making Young Voters
Recent research has cast doubt on the potential for various electoral reforms to increase voter turnout. In this article, we examine the effectiveness of preregistration laws, which allow young citizens to register before being eligible to vote. We use two empirical approaches to evaluate the impact of preregistration on youth turnout. First, we implement difference‐in‐difference and lag models to bracket the causal effect of preregistration impl…
Left Behind? Citizen Responsiveness to Government Performance Information
Do citizens respond to policy-based information signals about government performance? Using multiple big datasets-which link for the first time large-scale school administrative records and individual validated voting behavior-I show that citizens react to exogenous school failure signals provided by No Child Left Behind. These signals cause a noticeable increase in turnout in local school board elections and increase the competitiveness of these…
Human Capital and Voting Behavior across Generations
Despite clear evidence of a sharp income gradient in voting participation, it remains unclear whether income truly causes voting. In this article, we investigate how exogenous increases in unearned income affect voting in U.S. elections for two generations (parents and children) from the same household. In contrast to predictions made by current models of voting, we find the income shock had no effect on parents' voting behaviors. However, we als…
Does Voting Have Upstream and Downstream Consequences? Regression Discontinuity Tests of the Transformative Voting Hypothesis
Voting is a central pillar of political science research; indeed, scholars have long addressed questions like, “Who votes?,” “Why do people vote?,” and “What interventions increase voting?” However, only a few have considered whether voting changes adjacent civic dispositions and behaviors. In this paper, we explore the effects of voting shocks on young citizens’ political interest, memberships, social awareness, and political knowledge in the le…
Measuring youth and college student voter turnout
Noisy Retrospection
Retrospective voting is vital for democracy. But, are the objective performance metrics widely thought to be relevant for retrospection-such as the performance of the economy, criminal justice system, and schools, to name a few-valid criteria for evaluating government performance? That is, do political coalitions actually have the power to influence the performance metrics used for retrospection on the timeline introduced by elections? Using diff…
Mobilize for Our Lives? School Shootings and Democratic Accountability in U.S. Elections
Gun violence is a large and growing problem in the United States. Many reformers look towards elections to spur policy change in this area. In this paper, we explore the effects of school shootings on electoral mobilization and election outcomes. We pair data from several sources that measure validated voter registration; validated voter turnout; and the electoral performance of officials at the local, state, and federal levels with regression di…
When Your Group Fails
In recent years, performance-based accountability reforms have become widespread—particularly in the public education system—as a means of enhancing service delivery and citizens' knowledge of and engagement with government. While an ever-growing literature has considered the overall effects of these administrative systems, few have fully considered the effect these have on underlying subgroups of relevance and inequalities in responses across th…
Racially Distinctive Names Signal Both Race/Ethnicity and Social Class
Researchers studying discrimination and bias frequently conduct experiments that use racially distinctive names to signal race or ethnicity. The evidence that these studies provide about racial discrimination depends on the assumption that the names researchers use differ only based on perceived race and not some other factor. In this article, we assess this common assumption using data from five different studies (n = 1,004; 2,002; 1,035; 5,631;…
The Democracy of Dating
How much does politics affect relationship building? Previous experimental studies have come to vastly different conclusions – ranging from null to truly transformative effects. To explore these differences, this study replicates and extends previous research by conducting five survey experiments meant to expand our understanding of how politics does/does not shape the formation of romantic relationships. We find that people, indeed, are influenc…
Navigating Potential Pitfalls in Difference-in-Differences Designs
Work on the electoral effects of gun violence in the U.S. relying on difference-in-differences designs has produced findings ranging from null to substantively large effects. However, as difference-in-difference designs, on which this research relies, have exploded in popularity, scholars have documented several methodological issues including potential violations of parallel-trends and unaccounted for treatment effect heterogeneity. These pitfal…
Is Voting Transformative? Expanding and Meta-Analyzing the Evidence
The Development of Students’ Engagement in School, Community and Democracy
This article explores the origins of youth engagement in school, community and democracy. Specifically, it considers the role of psychosocial or non-cognitive abilities, like grit or perseverance. Using a novel original large-scale longitudinal survey of students linked to school administrative records and a variety of modeling techniques – including sibling, twin and individual fixed effects – the study finds that psychosocial abilities are a st…
When Time Is of the Essence
Foundational theories of voter turnout suggest that time is a key input in the voting decision, but we possess little causal evidence about how this resource affects electoral behavior. In this article, we use over two decades of elections data and a novel geographic regression discontinuity design that leverages US time zone boundaries. Our results show that exogenous shifts in time allocations have significant political consequences. Namely, we…
Insufficient sleep reduces voting and other prosocial behaviours
Refocusing Civic Education
Schools have traditionally taken a "just-the-facts-ma'am" approach to civic education, focusing on governmental structures and political systems. We argue that preparing young people to engage with democracy requires far more than rote memorization of facts and figures. Schools should be laboratories of democracy, where young people's civic intentions are converted into civic behaviors. We argue that to realize that transformation, educators must…
Patient traits shape health-care stakeholders' choices on how to best allocate life-saving care
Making Young Voters
Recent research has cast doubt on the potential for various electoral reforms to increase voter turnout. In this article, we examine the effectiveness of preregistration laws, which allow young citizens to register before being eligible to vote. We use two empirical approaches to evaluate the impact of preregistration on youth turnout. First, we implement difference‐in‐difference and lag models to bracket the causal effect of preregistration impl…
Left Behind? Citizen Responsiveness to Government Performance Information
Do citizens respond to policy-based information signals about government performance? Using multiple big datasets-which link for the first time large-scale school administrative records and individual validated voting behavior-I show that citizens react to exogenous school failure signals provided by No Child Left Behind. These signals cause a noticeable increase in turnout in local school board elections and increase the competitiveness of these…
Childhood Skill Development and Adult Political Participation
Recent child development research shows that the psychosocial or noncognitive skills that children develop-including the ability to self-regulate and integrate in social settings-are important for success in school and beyond. Are these skills learned in childhood also important for adult political behaviors like voting? In this article, I use a unique school-based 20-year field experiment to explore whether children who develop psychosocial skil…
When Your Group Fails
In recent years, performance-based accountability reforms have become widespread—particularly in the public education system—as a means of enhancing service delivery and citizens' knowledge of and engagement with government. While an ever-growing literature has considered the overall effects of these administrative systems, few have fully considered the effect these have on underlying subgroups of relevance and inequalities in responses across th…
Author Correction
Insufficient sleep reduces voting and other prosocial behaviours
Making Young Voters
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. Making Young Voters investigates what lies at the core of this gap. The authors' in-depth, interdisciplinary approach reveals that political apathy is not the reason for low levels of youth turnout. Rather, young people too often fail to follow through on their political i…
The Democracy of Dating
How much does politics affect relationship building? Previous experimental studies have come to vastly different conclusions – ranging from null to truly transformative effects. To explore these differences, this study replicates and extends previous research by conducting five survey experiments meant to expand our understanding of how politics does/does not shape the formation of romantic relationships. We find that people, indeed, are influenc…
Do Street‐Level Bureaucrats Discriminate Based on Religion? A Large‐Scale Correspondence Experiment among American Public School Principals
Although public administration scholars have long studied discrimination on the basis of race/ethnicity , class , and gender , little to no research exists on whether street‐level bureaucrats provide differential services based on the religious identity of their constituents. This article reports the results from a large‐scale correspondence study of street‐level bureaucrats in the American public school system. The authors emailed the principals…
Mobilize for Our Lives? School Shootings and Democratic Accountability in U.S. Elections
Gun violence is a large and growing problem in the United States. Many reformers look towards elections to spur policy change in this area. In this paper, we explore the effects of school shootings on electoral mobilization and election outcomes. We pair data from several sources that measure validated voter registration; validated voter turnout; and the electoral performance of officials at the local, state, and federal levels with regression di…
Making Young Voters
In Making Young Voters, we provide a new framework for understanding voter turnout. Our perspective focuses on the gap between turnout intentions and turnout behaviour. While many young people want to vote and intend to do so, few follow through on these intentions because of the obstacles, distractions, and diversions that get in the way. We combine theory from diverse academic fields - including psychology, economics, education, and child devel…
Does Voting Have Upstream and Downstream Consequences? Regression Discontinuity Tests of the Transformative Voting Hypothesis
Voting is a central pillar of political science research; indeed, scholars have long addressed questions like, “Who votes?,” “Why do people vote?,” and “What interventions increase voting?” However, only a few have considered whether voting changes adjacent civic dispositions and behaviors. In this paper, we explore the effects of voting shocks on young citizens’ political interest, memberships, social awareness, and political knowledge in the le…
When Time Is of the Essence
Foundational theories of voter turnout suggest that time is a key input in the voting decision, but we possess little causal evidence about how this resource affects electoral behavior. In this article, we use over two decades of elections data and a novel geographic regression discontinuity design that leverages US time zone boundaries. Our results show that exogenous shifts in time allocations have significant political consequences. Namely, we…
The Development of Students’ Engagement in School, Community and Democracy
This article explores the origins of youth engagement in school, community and democracy. Specifically, it considers the role of psychosocial or non-cognitive abilities, like grit or perseverance. Using a novel original large-scale longitudinal survey of students linked to school administrative records and a variety of modeling techniques – including sibling, twin and individual fixed effects – the study finds that psychosocial abilities are a st…
Measuring youth and college student voter turnout
Human Capital and Voting Behavior across Generations
Despite clear evidence of a sharp income gradient in voting participation, it remains unclear whether income truly causes voting. In this article, we investigate how exogenous increases in unearned income affect voting in U.S. elections for two generations (parents and children) from the same household. In contrast to predictions made by current models of voting, we find the income shock had no effect on parents' voting behaviors. However, we als…
Noisy Retrospection
Retrospective voting is vital for democracy. But, are the objective performance metrics widely thought to be relevant for retrospection-such as the performance of the economy, criminal justice system, and schools, to name a few-valid criteria for evaluating government performance? That is, do political coalitions actually have the power to influence the performance metrics used for retrospection on the timeline introduced by elections? Using diff…
Racially Distinctive Names Signal Both Race/Ethnicity and Social Class
Researchers studying discrimination and bias frequently conduct experiments that use racially distinctive names to signal race or ethnicity. The evidence that these studies provide about racial discrimination depends on the assumption that the names researchers use differ only based on perceived race and not some other factor. In this article, we assess this common assumption using data from five different studies (n = 1,004; 2,002; 1,035; 5,631;…
Homeschooling the Right
The rapid rise of homeschooling over the past five decades in the United States has for too long gone unnoticed in contemporary discussions of American politics. In Homeschooling the Right, Brown unfolds this vitally important but previously underexplored phenomenon of the rise of a network of parents, advocates, and partisan organizations that have lent their support to the homeschooling movement. Using a variety of data sources, interviews, and…
Patient traits shape health-care stakeholders' choices on how to best allocate life-saving care
Is that ethical? An exploration of political scientists’ views on research ethics
What do political scientists think about research ethics? What research practices do they find acceptable? Using a survey conducted with the American Political Science Association, we explore perceptions of ethics among 362 political scientists. We find that political scientists do not place much relative weight on ethics when evaluating research. We do, however, find that researchers view different modes of inquiry as having different potential …
Do sleep disruptions promote social fragmentation
Sleep changes predate shifts in mood/affect, thought processing, mental and physical health, civic engagement, and contextual circumstances, among other things. Theory predicts that these changes may lead to shifts in political and social beliefs. Do sleep disruptions shape how individuals see the world, the people around them, and themselves in relation to others? In this article, we use daily survey data from the 77 waves ( N ≈ 460,000) of the …
Is Voting Transformative? Expanding and Meta-Analyzing the Evidence
Refocusing Civic Education
Schools have traditionally taken a "just-the-facts-ma'am" approach to civic education, focusing on governmental structures and political systems. We argue that preparing young people to engage with democracy requires far more than rote memorization of facts and figures. Schools should be laboratories of democracy, where young people's civic intentions are converted into civic behaviors. We argue that to realize that transformation, educators must…
Do STEM Students Vote? 12
Pundits, politicians, and academics have long worried about potentially low rates of civic participation among STEM-oriented students. Does studying STEM actually decrease the odds that young people will be actively involved in democracy? To answer this question, we created a dataset of over 23 million students in the United States, matched to national validated voting records. This novel dataset is the largest known individual-level dataset in t…
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