Joshua Kalla
Bio
Joshua Kalla is a Professor of Political Science at Yale University, with a secondary appointment in Statistics & Data Science. He is also a Resident Fellow at the Institution for Social and Policy Studies and the Center for the Study of American Politics. He received his B.A. from Yale and his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley.
His research in American politics lies at the intersection of political behavior, campaigns, and causal inference, with a particular focus on field experimentation. He studies questions such as how political campaigns persuade voters, how interpersonal conversations can reduce prejudice, and how citizens consume and respond to political media. His work has appeared in Science, the American Political Science Review, the American Journal of Political Science, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and the Journal of Politics, among other outlets.
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Education
- Ph.D.: University of California, Berkeley, 2018
- B.A.: Yale University, 2014
Articles
- 2023-12-23 - “Candidate Ideology and Vote Choice in the 2020 US Presidential Election” in American Politics Research
Interviews:
- 2022-09-06 - “Data and politics: Kalla on persuasion, prejudice, and decision making”, Yale News
Fields of Interests
- American Politics
- Quantitative Methods
