Alan Gerber

About

Alan S. Gerber is the Sterling Professor of Political Science at Yale University, where he also serves as director of the Institution for Social and Policy Studies and holds professorships in economics, statistics, and data science. He has affiliations with the Yale School of Public Health and the Jackson School of Global Affairs. Gerber previously served as the Faculty of Arts and Sciences divisional director for the social sciences and was the inaugural FAS dean of social science from 2014 to 2021. His research focuses on the political economy of evidence production and use in public policy and organizations. He has extensively published on the application of experimental methods to the study of campaign communications and has designed and conducted experimental evaluations of numerous political communications programs, both partisan and non-partisan. Gerber co-authored a widely used book on field experiments with Donald Green, which serves as a key resource for researchers applying field experimental methods to social science problems. His academic honors include the Best Book Award from the American Political Science Association's Organized Section on Experimental Research, the Louis Brownlow Book Award, the Donald K. Price Book Award, and the Heinz Eulau Award for the best article in the American Political Science Review. He has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences, and the Society for Political…

Research topics

• Political Science
• Medicine
• Psychology
• Business
• Law
• Environmental health
• Pharmacology
• Family medicine
• Psychiatry
• Public relations

Selected publications

• Timing of COVID-19 vaccine approval and endorsement by public figures

  Vaccine · 2020 · 131 citations

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• Editorial Statement About <i>JCCAP</i> ’s 2023 Special Issue on Informant Discrepancies in Youth Mental Health Assessments: Observations, Guidelines, and Future Directions Grounded in 60 Years of Research

  Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology · 2023-01-02 · 52 citations

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• Polarization, the Pandemic, and Public Trust in Health System Actors

  Journal of Health Politics Policy and Law · 2023 · 14 citations

  CONTEXT: Public opinion on the performance of health system actors is polarized today, but it remains unclear which actors enjoy the most or the least trust among Democrats and Republicans, whether the COVID-19 pandemic has influenced how people view their own physicians, and whether doctors have retained the ability to influence public beliefs about policy issues. METHODS: The authors conducted two national surveys in 2022 and 2023 to examine these questions. FINDINGS: Democrats rated the perfo…

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• How Voters Use Contextual Information to Reward and Punish: Credit Claiming, Legislative Performance, and Democratic Accountability

  The Journal of Politics · 2021 · 8 citations

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  Research has shown that constituents do not evaluate legislators more favorably for claiming credit for delivering large grants than for delivering tiny ones. It remains unclear whether the observed lack of sensitivity to the amount of money claimed reflects indifference to grant size or a lack of contextual information. Building on Grimmer et al.’s Impression of Influence, we perform a survey experiment in which we give respondents information about both the absolute and relative size of projec…

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• Results from a Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial of a Single-Session Growth-Mindset Intervention for Internalizing Symptoms in Autistic Youth

  Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders · 2024-06-04 · 4 citations

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Frequent coauthors

• Donald P. Green

  Columbia University

  115 shared

• Gregory A. Huber

  Yale University

  96 shared

• Conor M. Dowling

  62 shared

• Eric M. Patashnik

  Providence College

  45 shared

• Mitchell Hoffman

  39 shared

• John Morgan

  The Royal Melbourne Hospital

  39 shared

• Collin Raymond

  38 shared

• David Doherty

  Loyola University Chicago

  35 shared

Awards & honors

• Best Book Award from the American Political Science Associat…
• Louis Brownlow Book Award
• Donald K. Price Book Award
• Heinz Eulau Award for the best article in the American Polit…
• Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

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