JESSICA GOTTLIEB
Bush School of Government & Public Service
Texas A&M University
1037 Allen Building
College Station, TX 77843
[email protected]
(979) 458-8018 (office)
http://people.tamu.edu/~jgottlieb
Academic Appointments
Assistant Professor, Bush School of Government & Public Service, Texas A&M University
September 2013 – present
Education
Ph.D. Political Science, Stanford University, 2013
M.A. Economics, Stanford University, 2011
B.A. Political Science and International Studies, cum Laude, Yale University, 2004
Research
PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
Gottlieb, Jessica. 2016. “Greater Expectations? A Field Experiment to Improve Accountability in
Mali.” American Journal of Political Science 60(1): 143-157.
Gottlieb, Jessica. 2016. “Why Might Information Exacerbate the Gender Gap in in Civic
Participation? Evidence from Mali.” World Development 86: 95-110.
Gottlieb, Jessica, Guy Grossman and Amanda Robinson. 2016. “Do Men and Women Have
Different Policy Preferences in Africa? Determinants and Implications of Gender Gaps in Policy
Prioritization.” British Journal of Political Science.
Gottlieb, Jessica. 2015. “The Logic of Party Collusion in a Democracy: Evidence from Mali.”
World Politics 67(1): 1-36.
Gottlieb, Jessica. 2016. “Common Knowledge and Voter Coordination: Experimental Evidence
from Mali.” In Voting Experiments, ed. André Blais, Jean-François Laslier, and Karine Van der
Straeten. New York: Springer Press.
Gottlieb, Jessica. 2013. “Civic and Political Behavior in Mali: Constraints and Possibilities.”
Stability: International Journal of Security & Development 2(2): 19, pp. 1-5.
WORKING PAPERS
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Gottlieb, Jessica. 2016. “Explaining Variation in Broker Strategies: A Lab-in-the-Field
Experiment in Senegal.” Revise & Resubmit at Comparative Political Studies.
Gottlieb, Jessica and Horacio Larreguy. 2016. “An Informational Theory of Electoral
Targeting: Evidence from Senegal.” Under Review.
Adida, Claire, Jessica Gottlieb, Eric Kramon and Gwyneth McClendon. 2016. “Salience and
Coordination Jointly moderate the Impact of Information on Vote Choice: Experimental
Evidence from Benin.” Under Review.
Adida, Claire, Jessica Gottlieb, Eric Kramon and Gwyneth McClendon. “How Coethnicity
Moderates the Effect of Information on Voting Behavior: Experimental Evidence from Benin.”
Under Review.
Gottlieb, Jessica, Guy Grossman, Horacio Larreguy and Benjamin Marx. “The Effect of
Administrative Unit Creation on Electoral Behavior: Evidence from Senegal.” Under Review.
Gottlieb, Jessica and Amanda Robinson. “The Effects of Matrilineality on Gender Differences in
Political Behavior across Africa.”
RESEARCH IN PROGRESS
Can Inter-governmental Competition Improve Local Public Expenditures in a Poor Democracy?
Experimental Evidence from Mali (with Katrina Kosec).
The Foundations of Judicial Legitimacy: A Comparative Study of Public Support for Courts
(with Joe Ura).
Grants & Fellowships
RESEARCH GRANTS
2015
2015
2015
2015
2015
2015
2014
2014
2014
2013
2012
Conflict and Development Center, Texas A&M University, $40,000
TAMU Bush School, College of Liberal Arts and Law School Deans’ grant,
$30,000 (with Sahar Aziz, Jim Rogers and Joe Ura)
World Bank, Impact Evaluation Preparation Grant, $25,000 (with Guy Grossman
and Felipe Dunsch)
IPA Peace & Recovery Program Seed Grant (with Katrina Kosec), $7,500
PESCA, Texas A&M University, $9,990
Conflict and Development Center, Texas A&M University, $10,000
Experiments in Governance and Politics (EGAP), $217,851 (with Claire Adida,
Eric Kramon, and Gwyneth McClendon)
Conflict and Development Center, Texas A&M University, $30,400
Scowcroft Institute for International Affairs, Texas A&M University, $2,500
PESCA, Texas A&M University, $10,000
Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA) Evidence to Action Research
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2011
2010
2010
2010
2010
2003
2003
Challenge, UC Berkeley, $5,000
Vice Provost for Graduate Education Diversity Dissertation Research
Opportunity, Stanford University, $4,975
International Growth Centre (with James Fearon), London School of Economics
and the UK Department for International Development, $36,978
Global Underdevelopment Action Fund (with James Fearon), Freeman Spogli
Institute for International Studies at Stanford University, $40,000
National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant, $12,000
Graduate Research Opportunity Fund, Stanford University, $4,999
Frank M. Patterson Research Prize, Yale University, $3,000
Sunrise Travel Research Award, Yale University, $2,000
FELLOWSHIPS
2012-2013
2010-2013
2009
Pre-doctoral Fellow, Center for Democracy Development and the Rule of Law
(CDDRL), Stanford University
Stanford Interdisciplinary Graduate Fellowship, Stanford University
Center for African Studies Graduate Fellowship, Stanford University
Presentations
INVITED TALKS
Columbia University, New York, February 3, 2016.
World Bank, Washington, DC, December 15, 2015.
Washington University, St. Louis, September 17, 2015.
London School of Economics and Political Science, London, April 30, 2015.
Experiments Workshop, University of Texas at Austin, April 30, 2014.
World Bank’s Annual Bank Conference on Development Economics (ABCDE), Washington,
DC, May 8, 2012.
International Growth Centre’s Political Economy Workshop, London School of Economics,
September 22, 2011.
CDDRL’s “Better Governance for Better Health” conference, April 26, 2010.
SELECTED CONFERENCE PAPERS & WORKSHOPS
Yale Symposium on Gender and Sexuality in Africa, New Haven, CT, February 26-27, 2016.
“Brokering Votes: Clientelism in Comparative Perspective,” Berkeley, February 27-28, 2015.
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World Bank’s “Impact Evaluation in Governance,” Istanbul, January 27-30, 2015.
Southern Political Science Association, New Orleans, January 16, 2015.
Stata’s Texas Microeconomics Conference, Dallas, November 7-8, 2014.
Midwest Group on African Political Economy, Columbus, September 20, 2014.
APSA Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, August 28-9, 2014.
Experiments in Governance and Politics (EGAP), Berkeley, April 11-12, 2014.
Voting Experiments Workshop, University of Montreal, March 28-29, 2014.
ASSA Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, January 3-5, 2014.
African Studies Association Annual Meeting, Baltimore, November 23, 2013.
MPSA Annual Meeting, Chicago, April 14, 2012.
Working Group on African Political Economy’s (WGAPE) national conference, Berkeley, May
25, 2012.
Teaching Experience
TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY, BUSH SCHOOL OF GOVERNMENT & PUBLIC SERVICE
Institutions and Development, Fall 2014 & 2015.
Political Economy of Development in Africa, Spring 2014, 2015 & 2016.
Field Research Methods, Spring 2014, Fall 2014 & 2015.
International Affairs Capstone, Spring 2015 & 2016.
Professional Service
Reviewer for American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, World
Politics, British Journal of Political Science, Comparative Political Studies, Political Behavior,
Journal of African Economies.
Conference co-organizer, “Public Goods Provision and the Efficacy of Governance,” Stanford
University, 2012, and “Better Governance for Better Health,” Stanford University, 2010.
Staff, Evaluation Gap Working Group, Center for Global Development, 2005-2007.
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Field Work
Mali 2015, “Mechanisms for Strengthening Accountability to the Rural Poor: Experimental
Evidence from Public Expenditures in Mali.”
Guinea 2015, “Fighting Irregularities in HR: A Field Experiment on Public Sector Reform in
Guinea.”
Benin 2015, “Can Common Knowledge Improve Common Goods? A Field Experiment in an
African Democracy.”
Senegal 2014, “Local leader influence, electoral behavior and redistribution: A lab-in-the-field
experiment in Senegal.”
Senegal 2012, “Who benefits from clientelism? Determinants of bloc voting in Senegal.” Pilot
to develop and test coordination game in six villages, identify project staff and host institution.
Mali 2010 - 2011, “Does raising voter expectations improve accountability? A field experiment.”
PI for $100,000 field experiment on the impact of information on voting and civic behavior.
Randomized civic education intervention in 370 villages and 5,560-person household survey.
Liberia 2008, “Evaluating the impact of a Community-Driven Development Program in Liberia.”
PI’s: James Fearon, Macartan Humphreys, and Jeremy Weinstein. Managed survey and
behavioral games in 80 rural villages, trained enumerators, supervised data entry.
Mali 2008, “Local democracy and public goods provision in Mali.” Chief survey in 15 villages.
Professional Organizations
2013-present
2011-present
2007-present
2008-present
2012-present
2012-present
2006-2007
Evidence in Governance and Politics (EGAP)
American Political Science Association
Working Group on African Political Economy (WGAPE)
Midwest Political Science Association
West African Research Association (WARA)
African Studies Association
Evaluation Gap Working Group, Center for Global Development
Skills
Languages: English (native), French (fluent), Spanish (basic proficiency)
Software: Stata and R statistical packages, ArcGIS (mapping and spatial analysis),
LaTeX (document preparation), FrontlineSMS (mass two-way mobile communication)
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