Mellissa Meisels, Yale, "Strategic Campaign Attention to Abortion Before and After Dobbs"

The Toronto Data Workshop brings together academia and industry to share data science and AI best practice. We are broadly interested, but especially in the code- and data-centric aspects of a project that are often glossed over. We meet weekly for an hour and most talks are recorded.

This week Mellissa Meisels will be discussing "Strategic Campaign Attention to Abortion Before and After Dobbs".

Everyone is welcome. The meeting will be help online via Zoom.

BIO: Mellissa Meisels is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Yale University, where she is also affiliated with the Institution for Social and Policy Studies and Center for the Study of American Politics. Her research centers on the U.S. Congress, money in politics, electoral campaigns, and political organizations. Much of this work investigates the strategic choices of candidates and financial contributors in congressional campaigns, with an emphasis on primary elections. To do so, she employs original data, natural language processing, causal inference tools, experiments, and structural estimation of formal models. Her research is forthcoming and published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Politics, British Journal of Political Science, and Political Science Research and Methods.