Research at CAIDS
CAIDS faculty and staff not only support the research and teaching initiatives of the Tulane community but also participate in their own scholarly activities and advance their own research agendas around data across different fields.
Our faculty has advanced multi-disciplinary fields using data science through the production of research publications, datasets, and community-engaged scholarship.
Featured Research:
Our faculty uses data methodologies, such as experiments, regression, and causal inference, to answer research questions.
Fumarco, Luca, Benjamin Harrell, Patrick Button, David J. Schewegman, and E Dils. 2024. “Gender Identity, Race, and Ethnicity Discrimination in Access to Mental Health Care: Evidence from an Audit Correspondence Field Experiment.” American Journal of Health Economics, 10(2): 182-214. https://doi.org/10.1086/728931.
Raj, Anita, Melissa Evans, Namratha Rao, Emma DeLeon, Jacquelyne Thoni Howard, Katherine Theall, K. S. James, and Arnab K. Dey. 2024. Status of Women in New Orleans – 2024. The Junior League of New Orleans.
Levendis, John. 2023. Time Series Econometrics: Learning Through Replication (2nd ed) Springer Nature.
Harrell, Benjamin, Luca Fumarco, Patrick Button, David Schwegman, and Kyla Denwood. 2023. “The Impact of COVID-19 on Access to Mental Healthcare Services”. AEA Papers and Proceedings, 113:420-2. https://doi.org/10.1257/pandp.20231058.
Balfe, Catherine, Patrick Button, Mary Penn, and David Schwegman. 2023. “Infrequent Identity Signals and Detection Risks in Audit Correspondence Studies.” Field Methods, 35(1): 3-17. https://doi.org/10.1177/1525822X211057623.
Levendis, John and Aaron Lowen 2022. What Same-Sex Adoption Laws Can Tell Us About the Gender Wage Gap in the United States. Journal of Family and Economic Issues, 1-17.
Button, Patrick, Mashfiqur Khan, and Mary Penn. 2022. “Do Stronger Employment Discrimination Protections Decrease Reliance on Social Security Disability Insurance? Evidence from the Social Security Reforms.” Journal of the Economics of Ageing, 22(June): 100370. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeoa.2022.100370.
Burn, Ian, Patrick Button, Luis Munguia Corella, and David Neumark. 2022. “Does Ageist Language in Job Ads Predict Age Discrimination in Hiring?” Journal of Labor Economics, 40(3): 613-67. https://doi.org/10.1086/717730
Button, Patrick, and Brigham Walker. 2020. “Employment Discrimination Against Indigenous Peoples in the United States: Evidence from a Field Experiment.” Labour Economics, 65(Aug.): 101851. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.labeco.2020.101851.
Bui, Truc T. M., Patrick Button, and Elyce G. Picciotti. 2020. “Early Evidence on the Impact of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) and the Recession on Older Workers.” Public Policy & Aging Report, 30(4): 154-59. https://doi.org/10.1093/ppar/praa029.
Dicle, Mehmet F., and John Levendis. 2020. Historic Risk and Implied Volatility. Global Finance Journal, 45, 100475.
Hall, Joshua, John Levendis and Alexandre Ribeiro Scarcioffolo (2020). The Efficient Corruption Hypothesis and the Dynamics between Economic Freedom, Corruption, and National Income. Journal of Developing Areas, 54(3): 161-175.
Our faculty critically studies how data is used throughout society and within digital infrastructures to construct new knowledge through datasets and encourage collaboration.
- Howard, Jacquelyne Thoni. 2024. "Zoom Etiquette Guides: Negotiating Between Workplace Professionalism and Gendered Homeplace Surveillance in the Videoconferencing Borderlands" in Nunes, Mark, and Cassandra Ozog, eds. “You're Muted": Performance, Precarity, and the Logic of Zoom. Bloomsbury Academic.
- Howard, Jacquelyne Thoni, Clare Daniel, Enilda Romero-Hall, Niya Bond, and Liv Newman. 2020-Present. “Feminist Pedagogy for Teaching Online Digital Guide and Recovery Project,” Digital Archival Project and Dataset that received the 2024-Open-Source Award from the Canadian Social Knowledge Institute.
- Adams, Kate and Jacquelyne Thoni Howard, 2017-Present. “This Beautiful Sisterhood of Books Project.” Digital Archival Project and Dataset that was peer reviewed by the Recovery Hub for American Women Writers.
Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
Our faculty promotes the use of collaborative pedagogies when teaching about data topics and developing data-related student programming.
- Romero-Hall, Enilda, Clare Daniel, Jacquelyne Thoni Howard, Niya Bond, Liv Newman, 2025. “A Feminist Scholars Collective Supporting the Growth and Dissemination of a Digital Guide: A Collaborative Autoethnography,” Journal of Electronic Publishing (JEP) special issue, “On Gathering.” 2025.
- Howard, Jacquelyne Thoni and Rachel Tabor, 2023. “From a Zoom Crisis Response to Feminist Talking Circles: Leveraging Digital Tools to Reconsider Collaborative Feedback Practices in the Digital Humanities,” for the Digital Humanities in Times of Crisis Special Edition, IJHAC: A Journal of Digital Humanities.
- Howard, Jacquelyne Thoni, 2023 “Interdisciplinary Technology Communities: Using Feminist Epistemologies and Pedagogy in a DH Lab to Promote Social Good through Undergraduate Student Programming,” in Digital Humanities and Laboratories: Perspectives on Knowledge, Infrastructure and Culture, Routledge, November 2023.
- Button, Patrick, LaPorchia A. Collins, Augustine Denteh, Benjamin Harrell*, Elliott Isaac, Mónica I. García[1]Pérez, and Engy Ziedan. 2021. “Teaching Controversial and Contemporary Topics in Economics Using a Jigsaw Literature Review Activity.” Journal of Economic Education, 52(4): 286-95. https://doi.org/10.1080/00220485.2021.1963373.
