Ph.D. Candidate · Department of Political Science · Stanford University
myersa at stanford.edu
I am a third year Ph.D. candidate and the E. K. Potter Stanford Graduate Fellow in Political Science at Stanford University. My research pairs large-scale datasets with modern causal inference techniques and machine learning to study American elections, campaign finance, and election administration.
Polarization and State Legislative Elections (Joint with Cassandra Handan-Nader and Andrew B. Hall). Conditionally accepted, American Journal of Political Science.
Are Dead People Voting By Mail? Evidence From Washington State Administrative Records (Joint with Jennifer Wu, Chenoa Yorgason, Hanna Folsz, Cassandra Handan-Nader, Tobias Nowacki, Daniel M. Thompson, Jesse Yoder, and Andrew B. Hall). Forthcoming, Election Law Journal.
How Did Absentee Voting Impact the 2020 U.S. Election? (Joint with Jesse Yoder, Cassandra Handan-Nader, Tobias Nowacki, Daniel M. Thompson, Jennifer A. Wu, Chenoa Yorgason, and Andrew B. Hall). 2021. Science Advances.
Do Donors Punish Extremist Primary Nominees? Evidence from Congress and American State Legislatures.
Does Accountability Vary with Newspaper Coverage in State Legislatures?