Jake Bowers

Articles, Chapters, Reports

  • Wong, Cara, Bowers, Jake, Rubenson, Daniel, Fredrickson, Mark, and Rundlett, Ashlea. 2026. "A Two Path Theory of Context Effects: Pseudoenvironments and Social Cohesion". In: British Journal of Political Science . [link]
  • Christopher Grady, Nuole Chen, Matt Winters, Busta Chiona, Mwayi Masumbu, Jake Bowers, and Boniface Dulani. 2026. "Public Service Provision and the Virtuous Circle: Evidence from Malawi". In: Studies in Comparative International Development . [link]
  • Jake Bowers, Natasha Greenberg, Morgan Holmes, and Daniel N. Posner. 2024. "Tensions in Knowledge Accumulation Using Coordinated Intervention Experiments To Improve Public Policy". In: The Oxford Handbook of Methodological Pluralism in Political Science . Ed. by Janet M. Box-Steffensmeier and Dino P. Christenson and Valeria Sinclair-Chapman. Oxford University Press . [link]
  • David Yokum and Jake Bowers. 2024. "The Value of Pre-Analysis Plans". In: Next Generation Evidence: Strategies for More Equitable Social Impact . Ed. by Kelly Fitzsimmon and Tamar Bauer. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press . [link]
  • Nathaniel Rabb, Jake Bowers, David Glick, Kevin H. Wilson, and David Yokum. Jul. 2022. "The influence of social norms varies with ``others'' groups: Evidence from COVID-19 vaccination intentions". In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 119.29 . [link]
  • Luke Olson and Jake Bowers. May 2022. "10 Things to Know About Writing Academic Papers in LaTeX". In: EGAP Methods Guides . [link]
  • Nathaniel Rabb, Megan Swindal, David Glick, Jake Bowers and Anna Tomasulo, Zayid Oyelami, Kevin Wilson, and David Yokum. Apr. 2022. "The limits of nudges: Results of a statewide vaccination {RCT}". In: Nature . [link]
  • Bowers, Jake and Rebecca Wolfe. Nov. 2021. "10 Conversations that Implementers and Evaluators Need to Have". In: EGAP Methods Guides . [link]
  • Bowers, Jake, Christopher Grady, and Gustavo Diaz. Jan. 2021. "Estimating Average Treatment Effects in Block Randomized Experiments: A Conversation at the No Rules of Thumb Cafe". In: EGAP Standards Discussion . [link]
  • Rabb, Nathaniel, Glick, David, Houston, Attiyya, Bowers, Jake, and Yokum, David. 2021. "No evidence that collective-good appeals best promote COVID-related health behaviors". In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118.14 . National Acad Sciences . [link]
  • Bowers, Jake and Leavitt, Thomas. 2020. "Causality & Design-Based Inference". In: The SAGE Handbook of Research Methods in Political Science and International Relations . Ed. by Luigi Curini and Robert Franzese. Sage Publications Ltd . [link]
  • Bowers, Jake. Jan. 2019. "10 Things to Know About Hypothesis Testing". In: EGAP Methods Guides . [link]
  • Bowers, Jake and F. Testa, Paul. 2019. "Better Government, Better Science: The Promise of and Challenges Facing the Evidence-Informed Policy Movement". In: Annual Review of Political Science 22 . Annual Reviews . [link]
  • Bowers, Jake, Desmarais, Bruce A, Frederickson, Mark and Ichino, Nahomi, Lee, Hsuan-Wei, and Wang, Simi. 2018. "Models, methods and network topology: Experimental design for the study of interference". In: Social Networks 54 , pp. 196--208 . Elsevier . [link]
  • Bowers, Jake, Higgins, Nathaniel, Karlan, Dean, Tulman, Sarah, and Zinman, Jonathan. 2017. "Challenges to replication and iteration in field experiments: Evidence from two direct mail shots". In: American Economic Review 107.5 , pp. 462--65 . [link]
  • Bowers, Jake, Cooper, Jasper, and Wilke, Anna. Jan. 2016. "10 Things to Know About Cluster Randomization". In: EGAP Methods Guides (rev. 2022) . [link]
  • Bowers, Jake, Fredrickson, Mark, and Aronow, Peter M. 2016. "Research Note: A more powerful test statistic for reasoning about interference between units". In: Political Analysis 24.3 , pp. 395-403 . [link]
  • Bowers, Jake and Voors, Maarten. 2016. "Six Steps to a Better Relationship with Your Future Self, V 2.0". In: Revista de Ciencia Politica 36.3 , pp. 829--848 . [link]
  • Bowers, Jake. 2014. "Comment: Method games---A proposal for assessing and learning about methods". In: Sociological Methodology 44.1 , pp. 112--117 . Sage Publications Sage CA: Los Angeles, CA . [link]
  • Bowers, Jake, Fredrickson, Mark M, and Panagopoulos, Costas. 2013. "Reasoning about Interference Between Units: A General Framework". In: Political Analysis 21.1 , pp. 97--124 . SPM-PMSAPSA . [link]
  • Wong, Cara, Bowers, Jake, Williams, Tarah, and Drake, Katherine. Oct. 2012. "Bringing the Person Back In: Boundaries, Misperceptions, and the Measurement of Racial Context". In: Journal of Politics 74.4 , pp. 1153--1170 . [link]
  • Bowers, Jake. 2011. "Making Effects Manifest in Randomized Experiments". In: Cambridge Handbook of Experimental Political Science . Ed. by Druckman, James N. and Green, Donald P. and Kuklinski, James H. and Lupia, Arthur. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press . [link]
  • Bowers, Jake. 2011. "Six steps to a better relationship with your future self.". In: The Political Methodologist 18.2 , pp. 2--8 . [link]
  • Hansen, Ben B. and Bowers, Jake. Sept. 2009. "Attributing Effects to A Cluster Randomized Get-Out-The-Vote Campaign.". In: Journal of the American Statistical Association 104.487 , pp. 873---885 . [link]
  • Jennings, {M.} Kent, Stoker, Laura, and Bowers, Jake. 2009. "Politics across Generations: Family Transmission Reexamined". In: The Journal of Politics 71.03 , pp. 782--799 . [link]
  • Hansen, Ben B and Bowers, Jake. 2008. "Covariate Balance in Simple, Stratified and Clustered Comparative Studies". In: Statistical Science 23 , pp. 219 . [link]
  • Jake Bowers, Burns, Nancy, Ensley, Michael J., and Kinder, Donald R.. 2005. "Analyzing the 2000 National Election Study". In: Political Analysis 13.1 , pp. 109--111 . SPM-PMSAPSA . [link]
  • Bowers, Jake and Drake, Katherine W. 2005. "EDA for HLM: Visualization when probabilistic inference fails". In: Political Analysis 13.4 , pp. 301--326 . SPM-PMSAPSA . [link]
  • Bowers, Jake. 2004. "Does moving disrupt campaign activity?". In: Political Psychology 25.4 , pp. 525--543 . Wiley Online Library . [link]
  • Bowers, Jake. 2004. "Using R to Keep it Simple: Exploring Structure in Multilevel Dataset". In: The Political Methodologist 12.2 . [link]
  • Bowers, Jake and Ensley, Michael. 2003. "Issues in Analyzing Data from the Dual-Mode 2000 American National Election Study". In: ANES Technical Report Series nes010751 . [link]
  • Stoker, Laura and Bowers, Jake. Sept. 2002. "Erratum to ``Designing multi-level studies: sampling voters and electoral contexts'' [Electoral Studies 21 (2002) 235-267]". In: Electoral Studies 21.3 , pp. 535--536 . [link]
  • Stoker, Laura and Bowers, Jake. Jun. 2002. "Designing Multi-Level Studies: Sampling Voters and Electoral Contexts". In: Electoral Studies 21 , pp. 235--267 . Reprinted in \emph{The Future of Election Studies}. 2002. Franklin and Wlezien eds. Elsevier Science.. [link]
  • Bowers, Jake. 1998. "Black Threat and Christian Fundamentalist Threat". In: ANES Pilot Study Report Series nes008497 . [link]
  • Stoker, Laura and Bowers, Jake. Aug. 1997. "Contextual analysis and the NES". In: The Political Psychologist .
  • Bowers, Jake. 1995. "ANES Pilot Study Efforts to Measure Values and Predispositions". In: ANES Technical Report Series nes010136 . [link]