Sarah Chatfield
Biographic Data
| ID | 333154 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sarah Chatfield |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sarah |
| FAMILY NAME | Chatfield |
| SIGNATURE | CHATFIELD S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Denver |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9193-5244 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 63 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Undercover(ture) Agents
In the 1800s, British and American legislatures began to pass statutes that revised the legal doctrine of coverture, under which women lost most economic and legal rights after marriage. Nineteenth-century legal cases in England and the United States concerning married women’s credit, property, and labor during coverture’s sunset illustrate the trade-offs inherent in attaining legal autonomy through monetization. Judicial constructions of married…
Ideas of Power
Chasing Equality
Journal Article Chasing Equality: Women's Rights and US Public Policy by Susan Gluck Mezey and Megan A. Sholar Get access Susan Gluck Mezey and Megan A. Sholar. Boulder, CO, Lynne Rienner, 2023. 255 pp.Paper, $28.95. Sara Chatfield Sara Chatfield University of Denver https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9193-5244 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, qqad128, https://doi.org/10.1093/psquar/qq…
Target Estimation and Adjustment Weighting for Survey Nonresponse and Sampling Bias
We elaborate a general workflow of weighting-based survey inference, decomposing it into two main tasks. The first is the estimation of population targets from one or more sources of auxiliary information. The second is the construction of weights that calibrate the survey sample to the population targets. We emphasize that these tasks are predicated on models of the measurement, sampling, and nonresponse process whose assumptions cannot be fully…
Causal inference and American political development
Mind the gap
Facial Dominance and Electoral Success in Times of War and Peace
Do voters prefer dominant looking candidates in times of war? By replicating previous survey experiments, we find that respondents do prefer candidates with dominant facial features when war is salient. We then investigate whether these survey results generalize to the real world. Examining US Senate elections from 1990 to 2006, we test whether voters prefer candidates with dominant facial features in wartime elections more than in peacetime elec…
Married Women's Economic Rights Reform in State Legislatures and Courts, 1839–1920
Beginning in 1839 and continuing through the early twentieth century, the American states passed laws expanding married women's economic rights, including the right to own property and sign contracts. In almost every state, these significant legal changes took place before women had the right to vote. I argue that married women's economic rights reform is best understood as a piecemeal, iterative process in which multiple state-level institutions…
Double trouble
The purpose of this study was to provide an initial investigation into the work–family conflict (WFC) experiences of individuals who hold a second job. Specifically, we proposed two opposing theoretical arguments regarding the relationship between WFC and four measures of well-being: life satisfaction, physical health, emotional exhaustion, and exercise for individuals who hold two jobs. In a sample of individuals working two jobs, we tested whet…
An Empirical Justification for the Use of Draft Lottery Numbers as a Random Treatment in Political Science Research
Over the past several years, there has been growing use of the draft lottery instrument to study political attitudes and behaviors (see, e.g., Bergan 2009; Erikson and Stoker 2011; Henderson 2012; Davenport 2015). Draft lotteries, held in the United States from 1969 to 1972, provide a potentially powerful design; in theory, they should provide true randomization for the “treatment” of military service or behavioral reactions to the threat of such…
Is Federalism a Political Safety Valve? Evidence from Congressional Decision Making, 1960–2005
American federalism is often described as a system that contains "political safety valves," or institutional mechanisms that ensure that major policy reforms can be created, even during periods of intense political conflict. By granting discretion to the states, for example, scholars claim that Congress can ensure that diverse constituencies receive their preferred policies. In this article, we examine Congress's pattern of delegating discretion …
Who Matches? Propensity Scores and Bias in the Causal Effects of Education on Participation
In a recent study, Kam and Palmer (2008) employ propensity score matching to assess whether college attendance causes participation after reducing selection bias due to pre-adult factors. After matching the authors find no correlation, upending a major pillar in political science. However, we argue that this study has serious flaws and should not be the basis for rejecting the traditional view of an "education effect" on participation. We match o…
Who Matches? Propensity Scores and Bias in the Causal Effects of Education on Participation
In a recent study, Kam and Palmer (2008) employ propensity score matching to assess whether college attendance causes participation after reducing selection bias due to pre-adult factors. After matching the authors find no correlation, upending a major pillar in political science. However, we argue that this study has serious flaws and should not be the basis for rejecting the traditional view of an "education effect" on participation. We match o…
Double trouble
The purpose of this study was to provide an initial investigation into the work–family conflict (WFC) experiences of individuals who hold a second job. Specifically, we proposed two opposing theoretical arguments regarding the relationship between WFC and four measures of well-being: life satisfaction, physical health, emotional exhaustion, and exercise for individuals who hold two jobs. In a sample of individuals working two jobs, we tested whet…
Facial Dominance and Electoral Success in Times of War and Peace
Do voters prefer dominant looking candidates in times of war? By replicating previous survey experiments, we find that respondents do prefer candidates with dominant facial features when war is salient. We then investigate whether these survey results generalize to the real world. Examining US Senate elections from 1990 to 2006, we test whether voters prefer candidates with dominant facial features in wartime elections more than in peacetime elec…
An Empirical Justification for the Use of Draft Lottery Numbers as a Random Treatment in Political Science Research
Over the past several years, there has been growing use of the draft lottery instrument to study political attitudes and behaviors (see, e.g., Bergan 2009; Erikson and Stoker 2011; Henderson 2012; Davenport 2015). Draft lotteries, held in the United States from 1969 to 1972, provide a potentially powerful design; in theory, they should provide true randomization for the “treatment” of military service or behavioral reactions to the threat of such…
Causal inference and American political development
Married Women's Economic Rights Reform in State Legislatures and Courts, 1839–1920
Beginning in 1839 and continuing through the early twentieth century, the American states passed laws expanding married women's economic rights, including the right to own property and sign contracts. In almost every state, these significant legal changes took place before women had the right to vote. I argue that married women's economic rights reform is best understood as a piecemeal, iterative process in which multiple state-level institutions…
Mind the gap
Is Federalism a Political Safety Valve? Evidence from Congressional Decision Making, 1960–2005
American federalism is often described as a system that contains "political safety valves," or institutional mechanisms that ensure that major policy reforms can be created, even during periods of intense political conflict. By granting discretion to the states, for example, scholars claim that Congress can ensure that diverse constituencies receive their preferred policies. In this article, we examine Congress's pattern of delegating discretion …
Who Matches? Propensity Scores and Bias in the Causal Effects of Education on Participation
In a recent study, Kam and Palmer (2008) employ propensity score matching to assess whether college attendance causes participation after reducing selection bias due to pre-adult factors. After matching the authors find no correlation, upending a major pillar in political science. However, we argue that this study has serious flaws and should not be the basis for rejecting the traditional view of an "education effect" on participation. We match o…
Is Federalism a Political Safety Valve? Evidence from Congressional Decision Making, 1960–2005
American federalism is often described as a system that contains "political safety valves," or institutional mechanisms that ensure that major policy reforms can be created, even during periods of intense political conflict. By granting discretion to the states, for example, scholars claim that Congress can ensure that diverse constituencies receive their preferred policies. In this article, we examine Congress's pattern of delegating discretion …
An Empirical Justification for the Use of Draft Lottery Numbers as a Random Treatment in Political Science Research
Over the past several years, there has been growing use of the draft lottery instrument to study political attitudes and behaviors (see, e.g., Bergan 2009; Erikson and Stoker 2011; Henderson 2012; Davenport 2015). Draft lotteries, held in the United States from 1969 to 1972, provide a potentially powerful design; in theory, they should provide true randomization for the “treatment” of military service or behavioral reactions to the threat of such…
Double trouble
The purpose of this study was to provide an initial investigation into the work–family conflict (WFC) experiences of individuals who hold a second job. Specifically, we proposed two opposing theoretical arguments regarding the relationship between WFC and four measures of well-being: life satisfaction, physical health, emotional exhaustion, and exercise for individuals who hold two jobs. In a sample of individuals working two jobs, we tested whet…
Married Women's Economic Rights Reform in State Legislatures and Courts, 1839–1920
Beginning in 1839 and continuing through the early twentieth century, the American states passed laws expanding married women's economic rights, including the right to own property and sign contracts. In almost every state, these significant legal changes took place before women had the right to vote. I argue that married women's economic rights reform is best understood as a piecemeal, iterative process in which multiple state-level institutions…
Facial Dominance and Electoral Success in Times of War and Peace
Do voters prefer dominant looking candidates in times of war? By replicating previous survey experiments, we find that respondents do prefer candidates with dominant facial features when war is salient. We then investigate whether these survey results generalize to the real world. Examining US Senate elections from 1990 to 2006, we test whether voters prefer candidates with dominant facial features in wartime elections more than in peacetime elec…
Target Estimation and Adjustment Weighting for Survey Nonresponse and Sampling Bias
We elaborate a general workflow of weighting-based survey inference, decomposing it into two main tasks. The first is the estimation of population targets from one or more sources of auxiliary information. The second is the construction of weights that calibrate the survey sample to the population targets. We emphasize that these tasks are predicated on models of the measurement, sampling, and nonresponse process whose assumptions cannot be fully…
Causal inference and American political development
Mind the gap
Chasing Equality
Journal Article Chasing Equality: Women's Rights and US Public Policy by Susan Gluck Mezey and Megan A. Sholar Get access Susan Gluck Mezey and Megan A. Sholar. Boulder, CO, Lynne Rienner, 2023. 255 pp.Paper, $28.95. Sara Chatfield Sara Chatfield University of Denver https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9193-5244 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, qqad128, https://doi.org/10.1093/psquar/qq…
Ideas of Power
Undercover(ture) Agents
In the 1800s, British and American legislatures began to pass statutes that revised the legal doctrine of coverture, under which women lost most economic and legal rights after marriage. Nineteenth-century legal cases in England and the United States concerning married women’s credit, property, and labor during coverture’s sunset illustrate the trade-offs inherent in attaining legal autonomy through monetization. Judicial constructions of married…
Economics (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Electoral Systems and Political Participation (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Econometrics (4 works) · Artificial Intelligence (3 works)