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IPR Working Papers
Politics, Institutions, and Public Policy
The Prevalence of Smartphone Use Among a Wired Group of Young Adults by Eszter Hargittai and Su Jung Kim (WP-11-01)
Overwhelmed and Underinformed? How Americans Keep Up with Current Events in the Age of Social Media by
Eszter Hargittai, W. Russell Neuman, and Olivia Curry (WP-11-02)
How Do the Elderly Fare in Medical Malpractice Litigation, Before and After Tort Reform? Evidence from Texas, 1988–2007
by Myungho Paik, Bernard Black, David Hyman, William Sage, and Charles Silver (WP-11-03)
Candidate Preferences and Expectations of Election Outcomes: Evidence from the American Life Panel by Adeline Delavande
and Charles F. Manski (WP-11-05)
Interviewing Wealthy Americans by Benjamin Page, Larry Bartels, and Jason Seawright (WP-11-07)
What Affluent Americans Want from Politics by Benjamin Page and Cari Lynn Hennessy (WP-11-08)
Learning More from Political Communication Experiments: The Importance of Pretreatment Effects by James Druckman and
Thomas Leeper (WP-11-09)
Counter-Framing Effects by Dennis Chong and James Druckman (WP-11-10)
Congressional Campaign Communications in an Internet Age by James Druckman (WP-11-11)
Deterrence and the Death Penalty: Partial Identification Analysis Using Repeated Cross Sections by Charles F. Manski and
John Pepper (WP-11-12)
Deterrence and the Death Penalty: Partial Identification Analysis
Using Repeated Cross Sections
“Imposing certain assumptions implies that adoption of a death penalty statute increases homicide, but other
assumptions imply that the death penalty deters it. Thus, society at large can draw strong conclusions only if there is a
consensus favoring particular assumptions. Without such a consensus, data on sanctions and murder rates cannot settle
the debate about deterrence.” (p.34, WP-11-12)
Wealthy Americans, Philanthropy, and the Common Good by Benjamin Page, Fay Lomax Cook, and Rachel Moskowitz
(WP-11-13)
Education Policy
Information Is Not Enough: Cultural Capital, Cultural Capital Translators, and College Access for Disadvantaged Students
by James Rosenbaum and Michelle Naffziger (WP-11-04)
Can High Schools Reduce College Enrollment Gaps with a New Counseling Model? by Jennifer Stephan and
James Rosenbaum (WP-11-06)
Instructional Advice and Information Seeking Behavior in Elementary Schools: Exploring Tie Formation as a Building Block in
Social Capital Development by James Spillane, Chong Min Kim, and Kenneth Frank (WP-11-14)
Wealthy Americans, Philanthropy, and the Common Good
“We have rediscovered something important that has long been true: Many wealthy Americans make extraordinarily
generous contributions of their time, effort, and money to a wide range of charitable causes. At the same time, we find
that this generosity has certain limits. These limits deserve serious discussion if we want to further improve the practice
of philanthropy in the United States.” (p.14, WP-11-13)
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