Dahyun Choi

Ph.D. Candidate
Department of Politics
Princeton University
dahyunc@princeton.edu

Hello! I am a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Politics at Princeton University, where I am affiliated with the Center for the Study of Democratic Politics, the Data-Driven Social Science Initiative, and the Program for Quantitative and Analytical Political Science. I work on questions in interest group and bureaucratic politics, political economy, and American political institutions, using computational methods that involve text analysis and large language models, along with causal inference techniques and formal modeling. I also develop methodologies for applications of machine learning. I am on the 2024-25 job market.


Manuscripts Under Review

Teaming Up Across Political Divides: Evidence from Climate Regulations

(Previously titled "Teaming up with the Enemy: Firms and the Information Environment of Climate Regulations.) [ | paper | ]

Quantifying Informative Signals from Interest Groups

(with Brandon Stewart and Denis Peskoff) Revise & Resubmit, Political Science Research and Methods [ | paper | ]

Learning from Noise: Applying Sample Complexity for Social Science Research

(with Perry Carter)

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Diminishing Regulatory Capacity and Corporate Political Disengagement: Evidence from State-Level Workforce Shocks

(with Kyuwon Lee)

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Selected Working Papers

How Do Bureaucrats Learn in Absence of Autonomous Sources of Expertise?

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Scientification of Politics? Interest Group Influence on Bureaucratic Expertise in Climate Change

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Politics of Academic Experts

(with Nolan McCarty)

Political Cycle of Government Innovation

(with John M. de Figueiredo)

Sample Complexity For Open-Ended Survey Responses

(with Perry Carter and Narrelle Gilchrist)

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A Dataset of Presidential Election Results at the Congressional District Level

(with Christian Baehr, Francesca Tang and Rocio Titiunik)