Dustin Tingley
Harvard University · Environmental Science and Public Policy
Active 2000–2026
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About
Dustin Tingley is the Thomas D. Cabot Professor of Public Policy with a joint appointment in the Harvard Kennedy School of Public Policy and the Harvard Government Department. He currently serves as Interim Vice Provost for Advances in Learning and has previously held the position of Deputy Vice Provost for Advances in Learning. His research spans international relations, international political economy, climate change, causal inference, data science and machine learning, and digital education, with a primary focus on the political economy of climate change and energy transitions. Dustin's recent book, co-authored with Alex Gazmararian, titled "Uncertain Futures: How to Unlock the Climate Impasse," was published by Cambridge University Press and highlights the perspectives of individuals directly involved in the energy transition, including local commissioners, energy company executives, mayors, unions, and community members navigating uncertain futures in coal country. His earlier book on American foreign policy, co-authored with Helen Milner and published in 2015, received the Gladys M. Kammerer Award for the best book in the field of U.S. national policy. Dustin Tingley has taught courses on the politics of climate change and the environment, data science, international relations, and the business and political economy of the energy sector at Harvard Business School. He chairs Harvard's Standing Committee on Climate Education and co-chairs the Standing Committee on Public…
Research topics
- Political Science
- Computer Science
- Psychology
- Social psychology
- Sociology
- Law and economics
- Cognitive psychology
- Mathematics
- Economics
- Data science
Selected publications
Scaling up behavioral science interventions in online education
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2020 · 198 citations
Senior authorCorrespondingOnline education is rapidly expanding in response to rising demand for higher and continuing education, but many online students struggle to achieve their educational goals. Several behavioral science interventions have shown promise in raising student persistence and completion rates in a handful of courses, but evidence of their effectiveness across diverse educational contexts is limited. In this study, we test a set of established interventions over 2.5 y, with one-quarter million students,…
Abstraction and Detail in Experimental Design
American Journal of Political Science · 2022 · 157 citations
Abstract Political scientists designing experiments often face the question of how abstract or detailed their experimental stimuli should be. Typically, this question is framed in terms of trade‐offs relating to experimental control and generalizability: the more context introduced into studies, the less control, and the more difficulty generalizing the results. Yet, we have reason to question this trade‐off, and there is relatively little systematic evidence to rely on when calibrating the degr…
American Political Science Review · 2022-04-13 · 136 citations
articleOpen accessSenior authorCorrespondingCombating climate change requires large economic adjustments with significant distributional implications. To build coalitions of support, scholars and policy makers propose compensating individuals who will bear decarbonization’s costs. What are the determinants of public opinion regarding climate compensation and investment? We theorize that climate policy vulnerability and climate change vulnerability induce support for distinct types of climate policy. Fielding original surveys in the United…
International Organization · 2021 · 78 citations
1st authorCorrespondingAbstract How does naming and shaming affect public support for compliance with international agreements? We investigated this question by conducting survey experiments about the Paris Agreement, which relies on social pressure for enforcement. Our experiments, administered to national samples in the United States, produced three sets of findings. First, shaming by foreign countries shifted domestic public opinion in favor of compliance, increasing the political incentive to honor the Paris Agree…
Cambridge University Press eBooks · 2023-07-06 · 49 citations
bookSenior authorWhy is the world not moving fast enough to solve the climate crisis? Politics stand in the way, but experts hope that green investments, compensation, and retraining could unlock the impasse. However, these measures often lack credibility. Not only do communities fear these policies could be reversed, but they have seen promises broken before. Uncertain Futures proposes solutions to make more credible promises that build support for the energy transition. It examines the perspectives of workers,…
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Frequent coauthors
- 103 shared
Helen V. Milner
Princeton Public Schools
- 53 shared
Jon Pevehouse
University of Wisconsin–Madison
- 49 shared
Rose McDermott
- 43 shared
Rick K. Wilson
- 37 shared
Beth Miller
Cancer Care Ontario
- 37 shared
Ron Rogowski
University of California, Los Angeles
- 36 shared
Jennifer Nicoll
Stockport NHS Foundation Trust
- 36 shared
Diana Owen
Georgetown University
Education
- 2005
B.A., Environmental Science and Public Policy
Harvard University
- 2006
M.A., Environmental Science and Public Policy
Harvard University
- 2010
Ph.D., Environmental Science and Public Policy
Harvard University
Awards & honors
- Gladys M. Kammerer Award for the best book published in the…
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