Brutger, Ryan, Stephen Chaudoin, and Max Kagan. 2022. "Trade wars and election interference." The Review of International Organizations. [Open-access publisher link] 

Frake, Justin, Reuben Hurst, and Max Kagan. "Partisan sorting in the United States is large and rising." (Revise and resubmit at Nature Human Behavior.) [Link to SSRN preprint]

• Media mentions: Niskanen Center, UC Berkeley

Kagan, Max and Vanessa Burbano. "Asymmetry or Alignment? The Role of Ideology in Consumer Responses to Sociopolitical Stances." 

• Awards: AOM Annual Meeting Best Paper Designation (2025)

White, James, Reuben Hurst, and Max Kagan. "Corporate political stances and employee turnover." [Link to SSRN preprint]

Kagan, Max, Justin Frake and Reuben Hurst. "VRscores: A Voter Registration-Based Approach for Measuring Workforce Politics." [Link to SSRN preprint]

"Common Ownership and Political Competition" (with Reilly Steel and Calvin Thrall)

"Do anti-transgender laws hurt states' economic competitiveness?"

"Measuring Virtue: A Field Experiment on Motivations Behind Corporate Social Responsibility" (with Cedric Antunes and Daniel Nielson)

"Partisan Sorting of Young Adults" (with John Konicki)

"The politics of electric vehicles"

"Workplaces as Engines of Democratic Participation" (with Justin Frake and Reuben Hurst)