The external validity of causal findings is a focus of long-standing debates in the social
sciences. Although the issue has been extensively studied at the conceptual level, in …

" Experiments are a central methodology in the social sciences. Scholars from every
discipline regularly turn to them. Practitioners rely on experimental evidence in evaluating …

Vigilante violence, often targeting religious and sectarian minorities and preceded by
unsubstantiated rumors, has taken the lives of many citizens in India and Pakistan in recent …

Partisans rarely punish their party at the polls for violating democratic norms or cheating in
elections. However, we know little about the underlying reasons. I examine why partisans …

Experimental designs in the social sciences have received increasing attention due to their
power to produce causal inferences. Nevertheless, experimental research faces limitations …

While results from individual Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs) often do not hold beyond
their setting, the accumulation of many RCTs can be used to guide policy. But how many …

Theories of international relations (IR) typically make predictions intended to hold across
many countries, yet existing experimental evidence testing their micro-foundations relies …

With growing numbers of forcibly displaced people and their tendency to spatially cluster,
destination countries around the world consider dispersing them over their territory. While …

Theories of IR typically make predictions intended to hold across many countries.
Nonetheless, existing experimental evidence testing the micro-foundations of IR theories …

Do citizens in democracies view foreign policies as more violative of human rights based on
the governing regime's type? We hypothesize that in democratic societies, there is an …