Trabajos de Investigación

Mis intereses de investigación incluyen la participación de los Latinos en los procesos politicos en EE. UU, particularmente cuando estos procesos estan relacionados con la inmigración. También he trabajado en proyectos enfocados en la política sobre el cambio climatico, especialmente en el contexto internacional. Estas son mis investigaciones actuales:

Lopez, Jennifer, Seo-young Silvia Kim, and R. Michael Alvarez. 2022. “Latinos, Group Identity, and Equal Opportunity on the 2020 California Ballot.” Social Science Quarterly, 103(7).

Abstract:

Objective: Racial minority groups are often assumed to support equal opportunity policies, with most research focused on biracial contexts between Whites and Blacks. With a unique opportunity to study richer contexts from California’s 2020 elections, we test whether Latino voters supported ballot measures associated with equal opportunity. Methods: Using data on vote choice for Propositions 15 (raising commercial property taxes) and 16 (repealing prohibition of affirmative action) from a post-election survey of California registrants, we use logistic regression to test whether Latino support for equal opportunity policies is higher than that of Whites. Results: For both propositions, while Latino support was higher than White support, it was not statistically different when controlled for partisanship. Conclusion: There is little evidence to suggest that California Latinos support equal opportunity policies more strongly than White voters. This lukewarm support may explain the fates of both propositions in the election.

Eisenstadt, Todd, and Jennifer Lopez. 2023. “‘Leading with the International’ and the Stringency Gap Between Nations’ Outward-Looking and Domestic Climate Policies.” Climate, 11(9), 192.

Abstract: Analysts have noted an ambition gap widening between international climate policy (enacted by the United Nations) and domestic climate policy (what nations propose at home and as their contributions to the UN). We document this gap by constructing indexes of domestic and international climate policy performance, showing that nations tend to “lead with the international.” Using these climate policy indexes, longstanding fossil fuel subsidies by country, and other data, we find that international policy and fossil fuel subsidies can help explain nations’ greenhouse gas emissions, but that domestic policy formulated since the 1990s does not. We then break the sample into subsets according to international and domestic policy stringency, finding that international policy and fossil fuel subsidies is associated with nations’ emissions, while domestic policy stringency is not. We conclude that emissions can be partly explained by commitments made at international fora, but not by stringent domestic climate policies.

Estos son mis trabajos en desarrollo:

Lopez, Jennifer. “Latinos, Physical and Psychological Distance, and Attitudes to the Border.”