Benjamin Shaver

Benjamin Shaver

Postdoctoral Fellow at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management

Research

Published and Forthcoming Papers

"Signaling Ability Through Policy Change." Forthcoming, Journal of Politics.

Honorable Mention Best APSA 2024 Formal Theory Paper
Presentations: University of Chicago Political Science Department, University of Chicago Harris School, University of Chicago Center for Effective Government, Washington University Conference for Early Career Scholars in Theoretical Political Economy, MPSA, SIOE, and APSA

"A Model of Selection and Policy Concerns," with Álvaro Delgado-Vega. Forthcoming, Economic Journal.

Presentations: University of Chicago Harris School, University of Bern Economics Department, Washington University in St. Louis Political Science Department, MPSA, SIOE, and APSA

"Randomized evaluation of a school-based, trauma-informed group intervention for young women in Chicago," with Monica P. Bhatt, Jonathan Guryan, Harold A. Pollack, Cris Pinto, Lucia Delgado-Sanchez, Phoebe Lin, Molly Clark, Max Lubell, Makenzi Sumners, and Juan Castrejon. Science Advances, 2023.

Working Papers

"Dynamic Policy Development and Implementation: An Electoral Accountability Model," with Daniel Gibbs. Submitted.

Presentations: Washington University in St. Louis Political Science Department

"Cheap Talk with Costly Verification." Submitted.

Presentations: MPSA, University of Chicago Harris School, and University of Chicago Center for Effective Government

"Media Freedom, Nationalist Protests, and Audience Costs," with David Krosin. R&R, Journal of Theoretical Politics.

Presentations: Formal Theory Junior Scholar Symposium

"The Minimal Effects of Public Health Campaigns on Travel During the COVID Pandemic," with Adam Zelizer, Ethan Bueno de Mesquita, and Mehdi Shadmehr. R&R, Statistics and Public Policy.

Works in Progress

"Taking Credit, Avoiding Blame, and Delegation"

"Pledges and Payoffs: Evidence from NRA Resource Allocation in Congressional Campaigns, 2009–2017," with Gabriel Foy-Sutherland.

"How Representative Are School Board Members of Local and National Public Opinion? Evidence from Paired Public and Elite Surveys and an Experiment," with Adam Zelizer.

Presentations: MPSA
Rocky Mountain National Park – Summer 2023