Articles

  • Ornstein, Joseph T., Elise N Blasingame, and Jake S. Truscott (2024). How to Train Your Stochastic Parrot: Large Language Models for Political Texts, forthcoming in Political Science Research & Methods. [PDF] [R Package]

  • Ornstein, Joseph T., Amanda J. Heideman, Bryant J. Moy, and Kaylyn Jackson Schiff (2024). Hometown Advantage: Voter Preferences for Community Embeddedness in Local Contests, forthcoming in Journal of Experimental Political Science. [PDF]

  • Blasingame, Elise N., Christina L. Boyd, Robert F. Carlos, Joseph T. Ornstein (2024). How the Trump Administration’s Quota Policy Transformed Immigration Judging. American Political Science Review 118(4): 1688-1703. [DOI] [PDF] [Dataverse]

  • Ornstein, Joseph T. (2023). Zone Defense: Why Liberal Cities Build Too Few Homes. Journal of Theoretical Politics 6(2): 189-216. [DOI] [PDF]

  • Einstein, Katherine Levine, Joseph T. Ornstein, & Maxwell Palmer (2022). Who Represents the Renters? Housing Policy Debate 33(6): 1554-1568. [DOI] [PDF]

  • Ornstein, Joseph T., Jude C. Hays and Robert J. Franzese (2022). The Interest Premium for Left Government: Regression Discontinuity Estimates. Economics & Politics 34(3): 429-443. [PDF] [Replication Materials]

  • Ornstein, Joseph T., Hammond, Ross. A., Padek, Maggie, Mazzucca, Stephanie, & Brownson, Ross. C. (2020). Rugged landscapes: complexity and implementation science. Implementation Science 15:1-9. [PDF] [Technical Appendix]

  • Ornstein, Joseph T. (2020). Stacked Regression and Poststratification. Political Analysis 28: 293-301. [DOI] [PDF] [Appendix] [Replication Materials] [R Package]

  • Luke, Douglas A., Joseph T. Ornstein, Todd B. Combs, Lisa Henriksen, & Maggie Mahoney (2020). Moving From Metrics to Mechanisms to Evaluate Tobacco Retailer Policies: Importance of Retail Policy in Tobacco Control. American Journal of Public Health. 110: 431-433. [DOI] [PDF] [Dashboard]

  • Ornstein, Joseph T. & Ross A. Hammond (2017). The Burglary Boost: A Note On Detecting Contagion Using the Knox Test. Journal of Quantitative Criminology, 33(1): 65-75. [DOI] [PDF] [NetLogo Code] [R Code]

  • Ornstein, Joseph T. & Robert Z. Norman (2014). Frequency of monotonicity failure under Instant Runoff Voting: estimates based on a spatial model of elections. Public Choice, 161:1-9. [DOI] [PDF] [NetLogo Code] [Post-Publication Comments]

  • Hammond, Ross A. & Joseph T. Ornstein (2014). A Model of Social Influence on Body Mass Index. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1331:34-42. [PDF]

  • Hammond, Ross A. et al. (2012). A Model of Food Reward Learning with Dynamic Reward Exposure. Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience 6:82. [PDF]

Book Chapters

  • Getting the Most Out of Surveys: Multilevel Regression And Poststratification (Chapter 5). In Causality in Policy Studies (ed. Alessia Damonte & Fedra Negri), Springer Nature, 2023. [DOI]

  • Agent-Based Models in the Social Sciences (Chapter 4) and Agent-Based Models in Public Health (Chapter 5). In New Horizons in Modeling and Simulation for Social Epidemiology and Public Health (ed. Daniel Kim). Wiley Press, 2021. [DOI]

Working Papers

  • Ornstein, Joseph T. (2024). Probabilistic Record Linkage Using Pretrained Text Embeddings. [PDF] [R Package]

  • Ornstein, Joseph T. (2024). Election Timing Revisited: Evidence from California’s Voter Participation Rights Act. [PDF]

  • Ornstein, Joseph T. & JBrandon Duck-Mayr. Gaussian Process Regression Discontinuity. [PDF]