In many animals, the winners of a fight are more likely to win subsequent contests, while the
losers tend to lose their following fights. Such winner and loser effects can have a large …

There is widespread concern that political “deepfakes”—fabricated videos synthesized by
deep learning—pose an epistemic threat to democracy as a uniquely credible form of …

The research leadership relations capture the directed and critical relations from leading
authors to participating authors in research collaborations. Studying the formation …

Academia and political campaigners conventionally cast gender stereotypes as an electoral
liability for women in politics. Incongruent stereotype expectations place women in a double …

This study investigates whether incidental electoral successes of women contribute to
sustained gender parity in Finland, a leader in gender equality. Utilizing election lotteries …

Do incumbents have an electoral advantage and if so, do these advantages differ across
gender? In this study, I estimate the electoral advantages enjoyed by incumbents in 10 …

This paper documents an important but mostly overlooked reason for female
underrepresentation in politics: gender gaps in the recontest likelihood of candidates. Using …

The study of urban and local politics in the United States has long been hindered by a lack
of centralized sources of election data. We introduce a new database of about 78,000 …

Objective To assess the effectiveness of a hospital physical therapy (PT) referral triggered by
scores on a mobility assessment embedded in the electronic health record (EHR) and …

Women tend to experience a substantial decline in their labour income after their first child is
born, while men do not. Do such 'child penalties' also exist in the political arena? Using …