Andrew B. Hall
Davies Family Professor of Political Economy
Graduate School of Business, Stanford University
Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution
I use data to study how to organize collective decision-making and design democratic systems of governance, combining large-scale datasets with econometric and machine-learning tools to quantify and understand how different ways of designing governance systems affect outcomes.
I am an advisor to the Wearables Business Group at Meta Platforms, where I use internal and external data and research to inform AI and AR strategy, understand the future of these technologies and their role in society, and help to better organize decision-making around them. Previously, I was an advisor to the Governance Team in Global Affairs at Meta. I am also a consultant to the a16z crypto research team, where I study decentralized governance.
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Academic Publications
- Polarization and State Legislative Elections. Forthcoming, American Journal of Political Science. With Cassandra Handan-Nader and Andrew C. Myers.
- Are Dead People Voting by Mail? Evidence from Washington State Administrative Data. Forthcoming, Election Law Journal. With Jennifer Wu, Chenoa Yorgason, Hanna Folsz, Cassandra Handan-Nader, Andrew Myers, Tobias Nowacki, Daniel M. Thompson, and Jesse Yoder.
- Election-Denying Republican Candidates Underperformed in the 2022 Midterms. Forthcoming, American Political Science Review. With Janet Malzahn.
- Who Runs for Congress? A Study of State Legislators and Congressional Polarization. 2024. Quarterly Journal of Political Science. With Connor Phillips and Jim Snyder.
- Decomposing the Source of the Gender Gap in Legislative Committee Service: Evidence from U.S. States. 2023. Political Science Research & Methods. With Julia Payson and Alexander Fouirnaies. [Replication materials]
- How Do Electoral Incentives Affect Legislator Behavior? 2022. American Political Science Review. With Alexander Fouirnaies. [Replication materials]
- Does Homeownership Influence Political Behavior? Evidence from Administrative Data. 2022. Journal of Politics. With Jesse Yoder. [Replication materials]
- How Did Absentee Voting Affect the 2020 U.S. Election? 2021. Science Advances. With Jesse Yoder, Cassandra Handan-Nader, Andrew Myers, Tobias Nowacki, Daniel M. Thompson, Jennifer A. Wu, and Chenoa Yorgason. [Replication materials]
- Economic Distress and Voting: Evidence from the Subprime Mortgage Crisis. 2021. Political Science Research & Methods. With Jesse Yoder and Nishant Karandikar. [Replication materials]
- Universal Vote-by-Mail Has No Impact on Partisan Turnout or Vote Share. 2020. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. With Daniel M. Thompson, Jennifer A. Wu, and Jesse Yoder. [Replication materials]
- How Divisive Primaries Hurt Parties: Evidence From Near-Runoffs. 2020. Journal of Politics. With Alexander Fouirnaies.
- Wealth, Slave Ownership, and Fighting for the Confederacy: An Empirical Study of the American Civil War. 2019. American Political Science Review. With Connor Huff and Shiro Kuriwaki. [Replication materials]
- How Newspapers Reveal Political Power. 2019. Political Science Research and Methods. With Pamela Ban, Alexander Fouirnaies, and James M. Snyder, Jr. [Replication materials]
- Who Punishes Extremist Nominees? Candidate Ideology and Turning Out the Base in U.S. Elections. 2018. American Political Science Review With Daniel M. Thompson. [Replication materials]
- Do Shark Attacks Influence Presidential Elections? Reassessing a Prominent Finding on Voter Competence. 2018. Journal of Politics With Anthony Fowler. [Replication materials] [Response to Achen and Bartels].
- How Do Interest Groups Seek Access to Committees? 2018. American Journal of Political Science. With Alexander Fouirnaies. [Replication materials]
- The Majority-Party Disadvantage: Revising Theories of Legislative Organization. 2017. Quarterly Journal of Political Science With James J. Feigenbaum and Alexander Fouirnaies.
- Long-Term Consequences of Election Results. 2017. British Journal of Political Science 47(2): 351-372. With Anthony Fowler. [Replication materials]
- Systemic Effects of Campaign Spending: Evidence From Corporate Campaign Contribution Bans in State Legislatures. 2016. Political Science Research and Methods. [Replication materials]
- The Elusive Quest for Convergence. 2016. Quarterly Journal of Political Science With Anthony Fowler. [Replication materials]
- Information and Wasted Votes: A Study of U.S. Primary Elections. 2015. Quarterly Journal of Political Science With James M. Snyder, Jr.
- Congressional Seniority and Pork: A Pig Fat Myth? 2015. European Journal of Political Economy With Anthony Fowler. [Replication materials]
- How Legislators Respond to Localized Economic Shocks: Evidence from Chinese Import Competition. 2015. Journal of Politics. With James J. Feigenbaum. [Replication materials]
- How Much of the Incumbency Advantage is Due to Scare-off? 2015. Political Science Research and Methods With James M. Snyder, Jr. [Replication materials]
- Assessing the External Validity of Election RD Estimates: An Investigation of the Incumbency Advantage. 2015. Journal of Politics. With Jens Hainmueller and James M. Snyder, Jr. [Replication materials]
- What Happens When Extremists Win Primaries? 2015. American Political Science Review. [Replication materials]
- On the Validity of the Regression Discontinuity Design for Estimating Electoral Effects: Evidence From Over 40,000 Close Races. 2015. American Journal of Political Science. With Andrew C. Eggers, Anthony Fowler, Jens Hainmueller, and James M. Snyder, Jr. [Replication materials]
- Disentangling the Personal and Partisan Incumbency Advantages: Evidence from Close Elections and Term Limits. 2014. Quarterly Journal of Political Science. With Anthony Fowler. [Replication materials]
- Partisan Effects of Legislative Term Limits. 2014. Legislative Studies Quarterly.
- The Financial Incumbency Advantage: Causes and Consequences. 2014. Journal of Politics With Alexander Fouirnaies.
- The Changing Value of Seniority in the U.S. House: Conditional Party Government Revised. 2014. Journal of Politics With Kenneth A. Shepsle.
Working Papers
- What Happens When Anyone Can Be Your Representative? Studying the Use of Liquid Democracy for High-Stakes Decisions in Online Platforms. With Sho Miyazaki.
- What Kinds of Incentives Encourage Participation in Democracy? Evidence from a Massive Online Governance Experiment. With Eliza Oak.
- Who Becomes a Member of Congress? Evidence from De-Anonymized Census Data. With Daniel M. Thompson, James J. Feigenbaum, and Jesse Yoder.
Writing on Tech and Product Governance
- Preparing for Generative AI in the 2024 Election: Recommendations and Best Practices Based on Academic Research. Stanford GSB and UChicago Harris School White Paper.
- Toppling the Internet's Accidental Monarchies: How to Design web3 Platform Governance. a16z crypto.
- Lightspeed Democracy: What web3 Organizations Can Learn from the History of Governance. a16z crypto.
- Platforms Need to Work with Their Users -- Not Against Them. With Ethan Bueno De Mesquita. Harvard Business Review.
- What the History of Democracy Can Teach Us About Blockchain Governance. The Defiant.
Book
- Who Wants to Run? How the Devaluing of Political Office Drives Polarization. University of Chicago Press.
Current Students
Graduated Students
- Julia Payson, Assistant Professor, NYU Politics
- Shea Streeter, Assistant Professor, UMich Polisci
- Dan Thompson, Assistant Professor, UCLA Political Science
- Jesse Yoder, Research Scientist, Meta Platforms
- Fang Guo, ML Engineer, Instacart
- Tobias Nowacki, Senior Data Scientist, Netflix
- Cassandra Handan-Nader, Assistant Professor, NYU
- Carl Gustafson, Data Scientist, Shipt