Better Government Lab in Print
Our Publications
Jae Yeon Kim, Pamela Herd, Sebastian Jilke, Donald Moynihan, Kerry Rodden. 2024. Administrative Checkpoints, Burdens, and Human-Centered Design: Increasing Interview Access to Raise SNAP Participation. Better Government Lab Working Paper.
Moynihan, Donald. 2024. The New Progressives? The Emergence of Civic Tech in the United States and its Implications for Governing. Better Government Lab Working Paper.
Pamela Herd and Donald Moynihan. How Administrative Burdens Can Affect Health, October 2nd, 2020 Health Affairs.
Olsen, Asmus Leth, Jonas Høgh Jeppesen, and Donald P. Moynihan. “The Unequal Distribution of Opportunity: A National Audit Study of Bureaucratic Discrimination in Primary School Access.” American Journal of Political Science.
Christensen, Julian and Donald P. Moynihan. “Motivated Reasoning and Policy Information: Politicians are More Resistant to Debiasing Interventions than the General Public.” Behavioral Public Policy.
Baekgaard, Martin, Mette Kjærgaard Thomsen and Donald P. Moynihan. 2020. “Why Do Policymakers Support Administrative Burdens? The Roles of Deservingness, Political Ideology and Personal Experience.” Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory
Herd, Pamela and Donald Moynihan. 2020. “Administrative Burdens in the Time of COVID-19.” Focus
Christensen, Julian, Lene Arøe, Martin Baekgaard, Pamela Herd and Donald P. Moynihan. 2020. “Human Capital and Administrative Burden: The Role of Cognitive Resources in Citizen-State Interactions.” Public Administration Review
Herd, Pamela and Donald Moynihan. 2018. Administrative Burden: Policymaking by Other Means. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.
Bhargava, S., & Manoli, D. (2015). Psychological frictions and the incomplete take-up of social benefits: Evidence from an IRS field experiment. American Economic Review, 105(11), 3489-3529.
Guyton, J., Langetieg, P., Manoli, D., Payne, M., Schafer, B., & Sebastiani, M. (2017). Reminders and recidivism: using administrative data to characterize nonfilers and conduct EITC outreach. American Economic Review, 107(5), 471-75.
In the News
Interviews
Lawmakers Consider 2 Plans For Monthly Payments To Address Child Poverty, National Public Radio February 19, 2021
The Race to Dismantle Trump’s Immigration Policies, The New Yorker, February 1, 2021
What the New Federal Eviction Moratorium Means, Bloomberg, September 2 2020
Are You Eligible for Food Stamps Now? Maybe, but It’s Complex, The New York Times, July 17, 2020
The Safety Net Got a Quick Patch. What Happens After the Coronavirus? The New York Times, March 31, 2020
Medical Bills are their Own Trauma, The Nation, March 20, 2020
The Trump administration plans to kick 700,000 off food stamps during a pandemic, Vox, March 20, 2020
Q&A: Sometimes Bureaucracy Is Intentionally Complex The American Prospect, February 19, 2019
The Weeds Podcast: Policy by Other Means The Weeds/Vox, February 13, 2019
Media Coverage
What Democrats can learn from Mitt Romney Vox, Feb 23, 2021
America’s vaccine distribution needs a shot in the arm, The Weeds, January 5 2021
Take the Quiz: Could You Manage as a Poor American?, The New York Times, January 28, 2020
Video Interviews
Administrative Burden: Keynote, University College Dublin
Administrative Burden, Discussion, Blavatnik School, University of Oxford
Death by a Thousand Paper Cuts: Curbing Immigration with Administrative Burdens