ALEXANDER SAHN

RACE AND REPRESENTATION IN CAMPAIGN FINANCE 2020. American Political Science Review (WITH JAKE GRUMBACH)

Campaign finance is more racially unequal than voter turnout or Congressional representation, but the nomination of candidates of color can close this gap.

GENDER, RACE, AND INTERSECTIONALITY IN CAMPAIGN FINANCE 2020. Political Behavior (WITH JAKE GRUMBACH AND SARAH STASZAK)

Co-ethnic contributing behavior dominates co-gendered contributing with no evidence of intersectionality.

ACHIEVING STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE WITH CONTROL VARIABLES AND WITHOUT TRANSPARENCY 2020. Political Analysis (WITH GABE LENZ) 

A large portion of observational studies would not meet statistical significance without undisclosed covariate adjustment.

RACIAL DIVERSITY AND EXCLUSIONARY ZONING: EVIDENCE FROM THE GREAT MIGRATION

Backlash to the Great Migration caused cities to adopt exclusionary zoning; today, the median large city allows apartments on only 12% of residential land.

FAUX-RESPONSIVENESS AND ELECTION CYCLES IN THE PERMITTING OF HOUSING

Cities permit less housing before elections when mayors are running for re-election, especially when homeowners dominate.

THE EFFECTIVENESS OF LOBBYING IN PUBLIC MEETINGS: EVIDENCE FROM SAN FRANCISCO

Attendees of public meetings (older, whiter, homeowners) get the outcomes they want (slowing and blocking affordable housing).

SCOPE CONDITIONS, NUMERACY, AND THE EVALUATION OF POLICY (WITH AMY LERMAN AND LAURA STOKER)

Gain-loss framing has little effect on problems and policy solutions, which have bipartisan support.

RACE AND REPRESENTATION IN CAMPAIGN FINANCE 2020. American Political Science Review (with Jake Grumbach)

Campaign finance is more racially unequal than voter turnout or Congressional representation, but the nomination of candidates of color can close this gap.

GENDER, RACE, AND INTERSECTIONALITY IN CAMPAIGN FINANCE 2020. Political Behavior 
(with Jake Grumbach and Sarah Staszak)

Co-ethnic contributing behavior dominates co-gendered contributing with no evidence of intersectionality.

ACHIEVING STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE WITH CONTROL VARIABLES AND WITHOUT TRANSPARENCY 2020. Political Analysis (with Gabe Lenz) 

A large portion of observational studies would not meet statistical significance without undisclosed covariate adjustment.

RACIAL DIVERSITY AND EXCLUSIONARY ZONING: EVIDENCE FROM THE GREAT MIGRATION

Variation in exclusionary zoning can be explained by a backlash to the Great Migration; today, the median large city allows apartments on only 12% of residential land.

THE EFFECTIVENESS OF LOBBYING IN PUBLIC MEETINGS: EVIDENCE FROM SAN FRANCISCO

Attendees of public meetings (older, whiter, homeowners) turn out more, get the outcomes they want (slowing and blocking nearby, affordable housing projects).

FAUX-RESPONSIVENESS AND ELECTION CYCLES IN THE PERMITTING OF HOUSING

Cities permit less housing before elections when mayors are running for re-election, especially when homeowners dominate.

RACIAL THREAT, GENTRIFICATION, AND POLICE CALLS FOR SERVICE, invited to revise and resubmit at American Political Science Review (with Amy Lerman and Alyssa Mooney) 

A substantial number of citizen-police interactions originate from calls for service, which increase as neighborhoods shift.

PUBLIC OPINION ON POLICY SOLUTIONS: EVIDENCE ON EQUIVALENCE FRAMES (with Amy Lerman and Laura Stoker)

Equivalency frames affect the public's evaluation of social problems, but gain-loss framing does not impact evaluation of potential solutions.

CONSTRUCTING INTERVAL VARIABLES VIA FACETED RASCH MEASUREMENT AND MULTITASK DEEP LEARNING: A HATE SPEECH APPLICATION 
(with Chris Kennedy, Geoff Bacon, and Claudia von Vacano)

Application of IRT to crowdsourced labelled data combined with deep learning improves measurement of hate speech on social media 

THE REPRESENTATIONAL CONSEQUENCES OF CIVIL SERVICE REFORM (with Nick Kuipers)

Municipal civil service reform helped, not hurt, previously underrepresented foreign-born whites obtain government jobs