Working paper with Jonne Kamphorst, Liesbet Hooghe, and Gary Marks Download the manuscript here This paper investigates how and why the contemporary gender gap in voting emerges—specifically, why women are more likely to support GAL (Green–Alternative–Liberal) parties and less likely to support TAN (Traditional–Authoritarian–Nationalist) parties than men. Grounded in social role theory, we argue that the gender gap is not solely rooted in early-life traits or stable psycholog

PNAS 2023, with Ruixue Jia , Margaret Roberts , and Eddie Yang Download the manuscript here This paper documents how U.S.–China political tensions have reshaped scientific production in the United States. We study NIH-initiated investigations that began in 2018 and targeted undisclosed foreign funding, with most cases involving China. Using large-scale publication data from 2010–2021, we compare U.S. life scientists who had collaborated with researchers in China to similar s

Electoral Studies, 2021 , with Stan Wong Download the manuscript here This paper examines how a major anti-regime protest—the 2014 Umbrella Movement in Hong Kong—shaped electoral outcomes in the city. Using fine-grained constituency-level election data, we show that citizens living closer to the protest sites were more likely to shift away from the pro-democracy opposition in the subsequent legislative election. A one–standard deviation decrease in distance to the protest sit