Peer-Reviewed Publications

  1. Wu, Jennifer D. (2026). "Political Geography of Identity: Measuring Local Determinants of Pan-Ethnicity among Asian Americans." The Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics. (Local PDF, Journal)

  2. Wu, Jennifer D. and Gregory A. Huber. (2025). "How and When Candidate Race Affects Inferences about Ideology and Group Favoritism."Political Science Research and Methods. (Local PDF, Journal)

    This paper previously circulated as “Racialized Candidate Inferences in American Politics: Perceived Ingroup Favoritism Is More Difficult for Black Candidates to Overcome than Ideological Stereotypes.”

  3. Cooper, Zack, Amanda Kowalski, Eleanor N. Powell, and Jennifer D. Wu. (2024). "Politics and Healthcare Spending in the United States: A Case Study from the Passage of the 2003 Medicare Modernization Act." Journal of Health Economics. (NBER Working Paper, Journal)

    Press coverage: The Economist, Politico, The New York Times

  4. Wu, Jennifer D. (2023). "National Origin Identity and Descriptive Representativeness: Understanding Preferences for Asian Candidates and Representation." Public Opinion Quarterly. (Local PDF, Journal)

  5. Wu, Jennifer D. (2022). "Understanding Pan-Asian Identity: How and When Threat Affects Asian and National Origin Identity Attachment." Politics, Groups, and Identities. (Local PDF, Journal)

  6. Wu, Jennifer D. and Gregory A. Huber. (2021). "How Does Job Loss Affect Voting? Understanding Economic Voting Using Novel Data on COVID-19-Induced Individual-Level Unemployment Shocks." American Politics Research. (Local PDF, Journal)

  7. Wu, Jennifer D. and Gregory A. Huber. (2021). "Partisanship Differences in Social Distancing May Originate in Norms and Beliefs: Results from Novel Data." Social Science Quarterly. (Local PDF, Journal)

  8. Wu, Jennifer D. (2020). "Work Requirements and Perceptions of Medicaid Deservingness." American Politics Research. (Local PDF, Journal)

Working Papers

  1. Wu, Jennifer D. and Gregory A. Huber. "What’s in a Slogan? Meaning, Interpretation, and Underlying Conflict among Those Endorsing Black Lives Matter and All Lives Matter"

  2. Turner, Ian and Jennifer D. Wu. "Identity, Citizen Expectations, and Representative Bureaucracy: Theory and Experimental Evidence"

  3. Wu, Jennifer D. "Shared Identity versus Policy Congruence: Unpacking Descriptive Representation and Candidate Policy Positions"

Works in Progress

The Importance of Identity Importance: Measuring the Relationship between Identity and Political Behavior

External Perceptions of Asian Pan-ethnicity

Understanding the Effects of Campaign Appeals and Pandering among Asian Americans

The Political Psychology of Disconnectedness (with Hilary Izatt)