Publications


Experimental Evidence on the Financial Consequences of International Organization Legitimacy


Jiseon Chang, Mirko Heinzel, Daniel L. Nielson

Review of International Organizations, Online, 2025


Tariffs and corporate political activity: a survey experiment on US businesses


Lindsay R. Dolan, Robert Kubinec, Daniel L. Nielson, Jiakun Jack Zhang

Business and Politics, 2025


Banking bad? A global field experiment on risk, reward, and regulation


Michael G. Findley, D. Nielson, J. C. Sharman

American Journal of Political Science, 2024


Do Indirect Taxes Bite? How Hiding Taxes Erases Accountability Demands from Citizens


Brandon de la Cuesta, Lucy Martin, H. Milner, D. Nielson

Journal of Politics, 2023


Can Loss Aversion Increase Savings? Experimental Evidence from Tanzania


W. Sandholtz, P. Carroll, D. Nielson, Flora Myamba, Joseph Price, P. Roessler

Social Science Research Network, 2022


Signatures for Sale: How Nominee Services for Shell Companies are Abused to Conceal Beneficial Owners


Daniel Nielson, J.C. Sharman

Stolen Assets Recovery Initiative, World Bank & UNODC, 2022


Individualized Text Messages about Public Services Fail to Sway Voters: Evidence from a Field Experiment on Ugandan Elections


Ryan S. Jablonski, Mark T. Buntaine, D. Nielson, Paula M. Pickering

Journal of Experimental Political Science, 2021


Owning It: Accountability and Citizens’ Ownership over Oil, Aid, and Taxes


Brandon de la Cuesta, Lucy Martin, H. Milner, D. Nielson

Journal of Politics, 2021


Electoral Institutions and Electoral Cycles in Investment Incentives: A Field Experiment on Over 3,000 U.S. Municipalities *


Nathan M. Jensen, Michael G. Findley, D. Nielson

American Journal of Political Science, 2020


Foreign aid, oil revenues, and political accountability: Evidence from six experiments in Ghana and Uganda


Brandon de la Cuesta, Lucy Martin, H. Milner, D. Nielson

Review of International Organizations, 2020


Budgets, SMS Texts, and Votes in Uganda


Mark T. Buntaine, S. Bush, Ryan S. Jablonski, D. Nielson, Paula M. Pickering

Information, Accountability, and Cumulative Learning, 2019


Escaping the Disengagement Dilemma: Two Field Experiments on Motivating Citizens to Report on Public Services


Mark T. Buntaine, D. Nielson, Jacob T. Skaggs

British Journal of Political Science, 2019


Oil and aid revenue produce equal demands for accountability as taxes in Ghana and Uganda


Brandon de la Cuesta, H. Milner, D. Nielson, Stephen F. Knack

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2019


The elusive sources of legitimacy beliefs: Civil society views of international election observers


D. Nielson, Susan D. Hyde, J. Kelley

Revista Internacional de Organizaciones, 2019


Voter information campaigns and political accountability: Cumulative findings from a preregistered meta-analysis of coordinated trials


T. Dunning, G. Grossman, M. Humphreys, Susan D. Hyde, Craig McIntosh, G. Nellis, Claire L. Adida, Eric Arias, Clara Bicalho, Taylor C. Boas, Mark T. Buntaine, Simon Chauchard, A. Chowdhury, J. Gottlieb, F. D. Hidalgo, Marcus Holmlund, Ryan S. Jablonski, Eric Kramon, Horacio Larreguy, Malte M. Lierl, J. Marshall, Gwyneth H. McClendon, M. Melo, D. Nielson, Paula M. Pickering, Melina R. Platas, Pablo Querubin, Pia J. Raffler, N. Sircar, N. Sircar

Science Advances, 2019


SMS texts on corruption help Ugandan voters hold elected councillors accountable at the polls


Mark T. Buntaine, Ryan S. Jablonski, D. Nielson, Paula M. Pickering

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2018


The Economic Roots of Anti-immigrant Prejudice in the Global South: Evidence from South Africa


Adam S. Harris, Michael G. Findley, D. Nielson, Kennard L. Noyes

2018


The Orchestration of Global Standards Combatting Anonymous Incorporation: A Field Experiment


D. Nielson, Brigham Young, Michael G. Findley, J. Sharman

2018


Anonymous shell companies: A global audit study and field experiment in 176 countries


Brent B. Allred, Michael G. Findley, D. Nielson, J. Sharman

Journal of International Business Studies, 2017


Correction to: Anonymous shell companies: A global audit study and field experiment in 176 countries


Brent B. Allred, Michael G. Findley, D. Nielson, J. Sharman

Journal of International Business Studies, 2017


External Validity in Parallel Global Field and Survey Experiments on Anonymous Incorporation


Michael G. Findley, B. Laney, D. Nielson, J. Sharman

Journal of Politics, 2017


Taxation without representation ? experimental evidence from Ghana and Uganda on citizen action toward taxes, oil, and aid


Brandon de la Cuesta, Helen V. Milner, Daniel L. Nielson, Stephen F. Knack

2017


Who Controls Foreign Aid? Elite versus Public Perceptions of Donor Influence in Aid-Dependent Uganda


Michael G. Findley, Adam S. Harris, H. Milner, D. Nielson

International Organization, 2017


‘Ground-Truthing’ Chinese Development Finance in Africa: Field Evidence from South Africa and Uganda


E. Muchapondwa, D. Nielson, Bradley C. Parks, Austin Strange, M. Tierney

2016


Field Experiments in Strategy Research


A. Chatterji, Michael G. Findley, Nathan M. Jensen, Stephan Meier, Daniel L. Nielson

Social Science Research Network, 2014


Does International Law Matter


Shima Baradaran, Michael G. Findley, D. Nielson, J. Sharman

2013


Using Field Experiments in International Relations: A Randomized Study of Anonymous Incorporation1


Michael G. Findley, D. Nielson, J. Sharman

International Organization, 2013


Dependence Networks and the International Criminal Court


J. Goodliffe, Darren Hawkins, C. Horne, D. Nielson

2012


Foreign Aid Shocks as a Cause of Violent Armed Conflict


Richard A. Nielsen, Michael G. Findley, Z. Davis, T. Candland, D. Nielson

2011


More Dollars than Sense: Refining Our Knowledge of Development Finance Using AidData


Michael J. Tierney, Daniel L. Nielson, Darren Hawkins

2011


Foreign Aid Shocks as a Cause of Violent Armed Conflict *


Richard A. Nielsen, Michael G. Findley, Z. Davis, T. Candland, Daniel L. Nielson

2010


Foreign Aid Shocks as a Cause of Violent Armed Conflict Supporting Information Appendix


Richard A. Nielsen, Michael G. Findley, Z. Davis, T. Candland, Daniel L. Nielson

2010


Yielding Sovereignty to International Institutions: Bringing System Structure Back In1


Scott Cooper, Darren Hawkins, W. Jacoby, D. Nielson

2008


Scope and Trade Agreements


Scott Morgenstern, A. Tamayo, P. Faucher, D. Nielson

Canadian Journal of Political Science/Revue canadienne de science politique, 2007


Theory, Data, and Hypothesis Testing: World Bank Environmental Reform Redux


D. Nielson, M. Tierney

International Organization, 2005


Constitutional Change in Colombia


D. Nielson, M. Shugart

1999


Conclusion: Latin American Foreign Policy and International Environmental Regimes


G. MacDonald, D. Nielson

Latin American Environmental Policy in International Perspective, 1997


Endowing The Environment: Multilateral Development Banks And Environmental Lending In Latin America


D. Nielson, M. A. Stern

Latin American Environmental Policy in International Perspective, 1997


Latin American Environmental Policy in International Perspective


G. MacDonald, D. Nielson, M. A. Stern

1996