Connor Jerzak

Research interests

Publications

• Chinese vs. World Bank development projects: Insights from earth observation and computer vision on wealth gains in Africa, 2002–2013

  World Development · 2026 · 10.1016/j.worlddev.2026.107328

• Ultras in Egypt: State, Revolution, and the Power of Public Space

  Journal · 2025 · 10.31235/osf.io/bn9w2_v1

• MiniMax Learning of Interpretable Factored Stochastic Policies from Conjoint Data, with Uncertainty Quantification

  arXiv (Cornell University) · 2025 · 10.48550/arxiv.2504.19043

• Linking datasets on organizations using half a billion open-collaborated records

  Political Science Research and Methods · 2024 · 10.1017/psrm.2024.55

• A Scoping Review of Earth Observation and Machine Learning for Causal Inference: Implications for the Geography of Poverty

  Journal · 2024 · 10.31219/osf.io/vrw6d

• The Composition of Descriptive Representation

  Journal · 2023 · 10.31235/osf.io/9hqnp

• Linking Datasets on Organizations Using Half A Billion Open-Collaborated Records

  arXiv (Cornell University) · 2023 · 10.48550/arxiv.2302.02533

• Integrating Earth Observation Data into Causal Inference: Challenges and Opportunities

  arXiv (Cornell University) · 2023 · 10.48550/arxiv.2301.12985

• The Composition of Descriptive Representation

  American Political Science Review · 2023 · 10.1017/s0003055423000680

• Conceptualizing Treatment Leakage in Text-based Causal Inference

  arXiv (Cornell University) · 2022 · 10.48550/arxiv.2205.00465

• Conceptualizing Treatment Leakage in Text-based Causal Inference

  Proceedings of the 2022 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies · 2022 · 10.18653/v1/2022.naacl-main.413

• Image-based Treatment Effect Heterogeneity

  arXiv (Cornell University) · 2022 · 10.48550/arxiv.2206.06417

• Estimating Causal Effects Under Image Confounding Bias with an Application to Poverty in Africa

  arXiv (Cornell University) · 2022 · 10.48550/arxiv.2206.06410

• An Improved Method of Automated Nonparametric Content Analysis for Social Science

  Political Analysis · 2022 · 10.1017/pan.2021.36

• Replication Data for: An Improved Method of Automated Nonparametric Content Analysis for Social Science

  Harvard Dataverse · 2021 · 10.7910/dvn/avnzr6

• The impact of a transportation intervention on electoral politics: Evidence from E-ZPass

  Research in Transportation Economics · 2020 · 10.1016/j.retrec.2019.100809

• Readme2: An R Package for Improved Automated Nonparametric Content Analysis for Social Science

  Journal · 2018

• Do Higher Housing Values Make Communities More Conservative? Evidence from the Introduction of E-ZPass

  SSRN Electronic Journal · 2016 · 10.2139/ssrn.2780539

• The EU’s Democratic Deficit and Repeated Referendums in Ireland

  International Journal of Politics Culture and Society · 2014 · 10.1007/s10767-014-9185-8

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