Research Interests
Political methodology
Applied statistics
Political behavior
Education
Ph.D, University of California, Berkeley
Additional Campus Affiliations
Associate Professor, Statistics
Recent Publications
Bowers, J., & Testa, P. F. (2019). Better government, better science: The promise of and challenges facing the evidence-informed policy movement. Annual Review of Political Science, 22, 521-542. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-polisci-050517-124041
Bowers, J., Desmarais, B. A., Frederickson, M., Ichino, N., Lee, H. W., & Wang, S. (2018). Models, methods and network topology: Experimental design for the study of interference. Social Networks, 54, 196-208. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socnet.2018.01.010
Wong, C. J., Bowers, J., Rubenson, D., Fredrickson, M., & Rundlett, A. (Accepted/In press). Maps in People's Heads: Assessing a New Measure of Context. Political Science Research and Methods. https://doi.org/10.1017/psrm.2018.51
Bowers, J., Higgins, N., Karlan, D., Tulman, S., & Zinman, J. (2017). Challenges to replication and iteration in field experiments: Evidence from two direct mail shots. American Economic Review, 107(5), 462-465. https://doi.org/10.1257/aer.p20171060
Bowers, J., & Voors, M. (2016). Cómo mejorar su relación con su futuro yo. Revista de Ciencia Politica, 36(3), 829-848. https://doi.org/10.4067/S0718-090X2016000300011