Publications

Peer-reviewed journal articles

Computational social science, democracy, and civic resilience

  1. “The Unequal Landscape of Civic Opportunity in America.” (Milan de Vries, Jae Yeon Kim, and Hahrie Han) Nature Human Behaviour, Online First in November 2023 [replication] [supplementary materials]

  2. “Civil Society, Realized: Equipping the Mass Public to Express Choice and Negotiate Power.” (Hahrie Han+ and Jae Yeon Kim+) The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 2022, 699(1), 175-185 (+ = co-lead authors.)

Computational social science, pandemic politics, hate crime, and misinformation

  1. “COVID-19 and Asian Americans: How Elite Messaging and Social Exclusion Shape Partisan Attitudes.” (Nathan Chan, Jae Yeon Kim, and Vivien Leung) Perspectives on Politics, Online First in December 2021 [replication]

  2. “Misinformation and Hate Speech: The Case of Anti-Asian Hate Speech During the COVID-19 Pandemic.” (Jae Yeon Kim+ and Aniket Kesari+) Journal of Online Trust and Safety, 2021, 1(1) [replication] (+ = co-lead authors.)

Urban and local politics

  1. “How Other Minorities Gained Access: The War on Poverty and Asian American and Latino Community Organizing.” (Jae Yeon Kim), Political Research Quarterly, Online First in December 2020 [replication]

  2. “Racism Is Not Enough: Minority Coalition Building in San Francisco, Seattle, and Vancouver.” (Jae Yeon Kim), Studies in American Political Development, 2020, 34(2), 195-215 [replication]

  3. “Integrating Human and Machine Coding to Measure Political Issues in Ethnic Newspaper Articles.” (Jae Yeon Kim), Journal of Computational Social Science, 2021, 4(2), 585-612 [replication]

    • Winner of the 2020 Western Political Science Association Don T. Nakanishi Award

Race and social science theories and methodologies

  1. “Rewiring Linked Fate: Bringing Back History, Agency, and Power.” (Reuel Rogers+ and Jae Yeon Kim+) Perspectives on Politics, Online First in December 2021 [replication] (+ = co-lead authors.)

  2. “Validated Names for Experimental Studies on Ethnicity and Race.” (Charles Crabtree, Jae Yeon Kim, S. Michael Gaddis, John B. Holbein, Cameron Guage, and William Marx) Nature Scientific Data, Online First in March 2023 [replication] [supplementary materials] [R package]

Gender and ethnicity in East Asia

  1. “Contested Identity and Prejudice Against Co-ethnic Refugees: Evidence from South Korea.” (Jae Yeon Kim and Taeku Lee) Political Research Quarterly, 2023, 76(3), 1433-1444 [replication]

  2. “Identity and Status: When Counterspeech Increases Hate Speech Reporting and Why.” (Jae Yeon Kim, Jaeung Sim, and Daegon Cho) Information Systems Frontiers, Online First in January 2022 [replication]

Data science pedagogy and training

  1. “Training Computational Social Science Ph.D. Students for Academic and Non-Academic Careers.” (Aniket Kesari+, Jae Yeon Kim+, Sono Shah+, Taylor Brown+, Tiago Ventura+, and Tina Law+) PS: Political Science & Politics, Online First in September 2023 (+ = co-lead authors.) [slides] [website] (created for the 2024 International Conference for Computational Social Science tutorial)

  2. “Teaching Computational Social Science for All.” (Jae Yeon Kim and Margaret Ng) PS: Political Science & Politics, 2022, 55(3), 605-609

Manuscripts under review

Data science and social policy implementation

  1. “Administrative Checkpoints, Burdens, and Human-centered Design: Increasing Interview Access to Raise SNAP Participation.” (Jae Yeon Kim, Pamela Herd, Sebastian Jilke, Donald Moynihan, and Kerry Rodden)
    • Revise & resubmit at the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management
    • Project partner: Colorado State Government, Code for America

Race and solidarity politics

  1. “Unlinking Linked Fate: The Push and Pull Factors of Group Consciousness.” (Jae Yeon Kim, Joan Cho, DG Kim, and Taeku Lee) [pre-registration]
    • Presented at 2022, 2023, 2024 APSA, Harvard, UC Berkeley, UCLA, Johns Hopkins, Dartmouth, Wesleyan
  2. “Solidarity Between People of Color: Two Blockage Experiments Suggest It Is Casual and Resistant to Divisive Threats.” (Jae Yeon Kim, Efrén Pérez, and Kasheena Rogbeer)
    • Revise & resubmit at the Journal of Experimental Political Science
  3. “Steady as It Goes: Three Studies Stress-Testing Political Solidarity Between People of Color.” (Kasheena Rogbeer, Jae Yeon Kim, and Efrén Pérez)

Working papers

Data science and social policy implementation

  1. “Problematizing Policy Implementation.” (with Akshay Mangla)

  2. “Evaluating the Impacts of Answering Sensitive Questions on SNAP Application Completions.” (with Pamela Herd, Nathaniel Olin, Eric Gianella, and Donald Moynihan) [pre-registration]

    • Project partner: California State Government, Code for America

  3. “Evaluating Form Modifications to Make It Easier to Report Income on Benefits Applications.” (with Blair Read, Stephanie Tepper, and Mary Clair Turner) [pre-registration]

    • Project partner: Federal Office of Evaluation Sciences, California State Government, Code for America

  4. “Geography Matters: WIC Vendor Accessibility and Administrative Burden.” (with Zhaowen Guo, Eric Giannella, Pamela Herd, and Sebastian Jilke)

    • Project partner: New York State Government, Code for America

  5. “Civic Tech in the U.S. Safety Nets: Reducing Administrative Burden by Rewiring Public Organizations.” (with Eric Gianella and Maximilian Hell)

  6. “The Alignment Problem: The Case of Field Experiments in the U.S. Safety Nets.” (with Florian Keppeler)

Tech policy adoption and implementation

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

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

Big data and civic engagement

  1. “Navigating the Thicket: Metrics Management in U.S. Civic Life.” (with Liz McKenna)

  2. “Politicians & Protest.” (with Lior Sheffer, James Druckman, Jennifer Oser, Devorah Manekin, Tamar Mitts, and Liz McKenna)

  3. “Historical Legacies and Civic Inequality in America.” (with Milan de Vries and Hahrie Han)

    • Presented at 2024 APSA and 2024 WPSA

  4. “MapAgora: American Civic Opportunity Datasets.” (with Milan de Vries)

Race and social science theories and methodologies

  1. “Everyday Experiences and Asian American Identity.” (wth 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. “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)

Research brief

  1. “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

  2. “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

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

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

  5. “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

  6. “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

Public writing

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

  2. “Why Teaching Social Scientists How To Code Like A Professional Is Important.” (Jae Yeon Kim), UC Berkeley D-Lab, September 23, 2020

  3. “Five Principles to Get Undergraduates Involved in Real-world Data Science Projects.” (Jae Yeon Kim), SAGE Ocean, June 24, 2020

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

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