Research

Peer Reviewed Papers:

Erin Walk, Elizabeth Parker-Magyar, Ahmet Akbiyik, Kiran Garimella, and Fotini Christia. Social Media Narratives across Platforms in Conflict: Evidence from Syria. The Journal of Politics 2025 87:2, 449-463. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/732997

Luca Badolato, Ari Decter-Frain, Nicholas J. Irons, Maria L. Miranda, Erin Walk, Elnura Zhalieva, Monica Alexander, Ugofilippo Basellini, Emilio Zagheni; The Limits of Predicting Individual-Level Longevity: Insights From the U.S. Health and Retirement Study. Demography 2026; 12464628. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/00703370-12464628

Erin Walk, Kiran Garimella, and Fotini Christia. Displacement and return in the internet Era: Social media for monitoring migration decisions in Northern Syria. World Dev. 2023, 168, 106268. doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2023.106268

Chris Hays, Zachary Schutzman, Manish Raghavan, Erin Walk, and Philipp Zimmer. Simplistic collection and labeling practices limit the utility of benchmark datasets for twitter bot detection. In Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2023, WWW ’23, page 3660–3669, New York, NY, USA, 2023. Association for Computing Machinery. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3543507.3583214 Best Paper Award.

Volha Charnysh, Jared Kalow, Evan Lieberman, and Erin Walk. How information about historic carbon emissions affects support for climate aid: evidence from a survey experiment. Climatic Change 2024 177, 174. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10584-024-03826-y

Working Papers:

Erin Walk, Dan Hopkins, Yphtach Lelkes, and Sean Westwood. Media Incentives and the Amplification of Ideological Outliers in U.S. Politics.

Erin Walk, Dan Hopkins, Yphtach Lelkes, and Sean Westwood. (2025). Ideological Extremity Rhetoric and the Dynamics of Party Perception.

Erin Walk, Yphtach Lelkes, and Sean Westwood. (2025). Citizens of Democracies Value Government Responsiveness to Crises Over Democratic Norms.

Erin Walk, Yphtach Lelkes, and Sean Westwood. Partisan Misperceptions as Pseudo-Beliefs. (2025). Under Revision.

Yphtach Lelkes, Ellie Mitchell, Erin Walk, and Sean Westwood. (2026). Public Responses to Atrocities Depend on Partisanship and Context, Not Labels.

Erin Walk, Derek Holliday, Yphtach Lelkes, and Sean Westwood (2024). Anti-Democratic Condemnation has Limited and Inconsistent Effects on Vote Choice and Democratic Attitudes. Available on SocArXiv. Under Review.

Volha Charnysh, Jared Kalow, Evan Lieberman, and Erin Walk. Place not Race: Identities, Social Proximity, and the Global Climate Emergency. (2024). Under Revision.

Erin Walk and Aliakbar Akbaritabar. Resolving the paradox between migration and collaboration of scholars worldwide. (2024). Available on SocArXiv. Under Review.

Erin Walk. Analyzing Mobile Viewership of Partisan YouTube. (2024).