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Manuscripts under review

  1. “Race, Violence, and the Effectiveness of Protest.” (James Druckman, Jennifer Oser, Lior Sheffer, Devorah Manekin, Tamar Mitts, Jae Yeon Kim, and Liz McKenna)

    • Presented at the 2025 APSA

  2. “Threat, Opportunity, and Linked Fate: How Political Cues Condition the Effects of Perceived Discrimination.” (Jae Yeon Kim, Joan Cho, DG Kim, and Taeku Lee)

    • Presented at the 2022, 2023, 2024 APSA, Harvard, UC Berkeley, UCLA, Johns Hopkins, Dartmouth, Wesleyan
Working papers

  1. “Reconstructing Implementation as Politics.” (with Akshay Mangla)

    • Presented at the 2025 APSA

  2. “Fear as a Psychological Cost: Evidence from Two List Experiments Among SNAP Applicants.” (with Pamela Herd, Eric Giannella, Sebastian Jilke, Donald Moynihan, and Nathaniel Olin)

    • Presented at the 2025 APSA, APPAM, NYU, Equity and Access in Algorithms, Mechanisms, and Optimization (EEAMO), Korea University

  3. “Crossing the Finish Line: The Role of Attention and Reminders in SNAP Application Completion.” (with Eric Giannella, Zhaowen Guo, Pamela Herd, Sebastian Jilke, and Donald Moynihan)

    • Presented at the 2025 APPAM

  4. “Space and Place in WIC: Vendor Accessibility and Administrative Burden.” (with Zhaowen Guo, Eric Giannella, Pamela Herd, Sebastian Jilke, and Donald Moynihan)

    • Presented at the 2025 National WIC Association annual conference

  1. “Contracting for Fair AI: A Computational Text Analysis of State AI Procurement Contracts.” (with Aniket Kesari)

    • Presented at the 2025 APPAM; Johns Hopkins SAIS; 2026 Duke Conference on Society-Centered AI

  2. “AI and the American Contracting State.”

  3. “Privacy Law Diffusion Across US State Legislatures.” (with Aniket Kesari)

  1. “Plumbing Public Administration: Aligning Academic Research and Government Practice in Field Experiments.” (with Florian Keppeler)

    • Presented at the University of Toronto, 2024 PMRC, and 2024 Korean Summer Workshop on Causal Inference

  1. “Between Donors and Democracy: How Civic Organizations Navigate Competing Definitions of Impact.” (with Liz McKenna)

  2. “Higher Education as Safety Net Infrastructure.” (with Milan de Vries and Tyler Simko)

  1. “Democratic Exclusion: Understanding Nativist Backlash in East Asia.” (with Aram Hur and Taeku Lee)
Peer-reviewed conference and workshop proceedings
  1. “Intersectional Bias in Hate Speech and Abusive Language Datasets.” (Jae Yeon Kim, Carlos Ortiz, Sarah Nam, Sarah Santiago, and Vivek Datta), 2020, Proceedings of the Fourteenth International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM), Data Challenge Workshop [replication]
Edited volume book chapters

  1. APSA Task Force Book Chapter on AI, the Public Sector, and Policymaking (with Baobao Zhang, Johannes Himmelreich, Mila Gascó-Hernandez, and Diane Coyle, in progress)

  2. “Machines Do Not Decide Hate Speech: Machine Learning, Power, and the Intersectional Approach.” (Jae Yeon Kim) In C. Strippel, S. Paasch-Colberg, M. Emmer & J. Trebbe (Eds.), Challenges and Perspectives of Hate Speech Analysis, 2022, (pp. 261-275). Digital Communication Research (open-access book series by the German Communication Association)

Media and public writing

  1. “Building Civic Muscle.” (Jae Yeon Kim), APSA’s Civic Engagement Section Podcast (Civic Café), June 17, 2025

  2. “Policy Brief: Validated Names for Studying Discrimination Based on Race, Citizenship, and Socioeconomic Status.” (Charles Crabtree, Jae Yeon Kim, S. Michael Gaddis, and John B. Holbein), Berkeley Interdisciplinary Migration Initiative, November 5, 2024

  3. “The Uneven Landscape of Civic Opportunity In the United States: What We Discovered While Mapping The Modern Agora.” (Jae Yeon Kim), HistPhil, January 25, 2024

  4. “Behind the Paper: The Unequal Landscape of Civic Opportunity in America.” (Jae Yeon Kim), Springer Nature: Social Sciences Community, November 13, 2023

  5. “Episode 3.4: Race-based Coalitions in Three Chinatowns.” (Jae Yeon Kim), Scope Conditions, June 14, 2023

  6. “Good Troublemakers Are the Key to Fixing Democracy in South Korea.” (Jae Yeon Kim), Korea Pro, May 16, 2022

  7. “Thanks to Trump’s Rhetoric, Asian Americans Are Moving Toward the Democratic Party.” (Nathan Chan, Jae Yeon Kim, and Vivien Leung), Washington Post’s Monkey Cage, March 30, 2021

  8. “The Three Tales of Chinatown: Why Racism Is Not Enough to Create a Race-based Coalition among Marginalized Groups.” (Jae Yeon Kim), UC Berkeley Canadian Studies Program, March 29, 2021

  9. “How I Accidentally became Interested in Data Science” (Jae Yeon Kim), UC Berkeley D-Lab, February 24, 2020

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