Jack D. Walker

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I’m a pre-doctoral fellow at Yale University working with Prof. Alan S. Gerber and Prof. Gregory A. Huber on behavioral research in American politics. I’m affiliated with the Institution for Social and Policy Studies, the Center for the Study of American Politics, and the Tobin Center for Economic Policy.

I’m broadly interested in public opinion, voting, and causal inference methods. My developing research agenda includes the use of large-scale data to study political behavior—particularly how individuals respond to political events—and how researchers can better measure these dynamics.

I help drive research on the Stanford-Arizona-Yale Presidential Election Study (SAY24) (N=130,000), in collaboration with YouGov, working on end-to-end survey/poll design, experimental modules, data analysis, and manuscript preparation.

I received my B.A. in political science and art history, cum laude, from Columbia University. At Columbia, I researched voting with Prof. Donald P. Green, polarization with Prof. Justin H. Phillips, and bureaucratic politics and separation of powers with Prof. Michael M. Ting.

You can email me at jack [dot] walker [at] yale [dot] edu. I tweet occasionally via @walkerdjack. Connect with me on LinkedIn here.

Research in progress
  1. "How Stable are Popular Attitudinal and Social-Psychological Scales? A Practical Guide for Political Science Researchers" (with Alan S. Gerber, Gregory A. Huber, and Mackenzie Lockhart).
  2. "Measuring the Effects of Campaign Events" (with Alan S. Geber, Gregory A. Huber, and Mackenzie Lockhart).
  3. "Can Debates Matter? Evidence from the 2024 Biden-Trump Debate" (with Alan S. Gerber, Gregory A. Huber, Mackenzie Lockhart, and Douglas Rivers).
Grants and fellowships