Bio
Dr. John Ternovski is an Assistant Professor and Analyst at the Office of Labor and Economic Analysis in the Department of Economics and Geosciences. He is a multi-disciplinary social scientist specializing in the application of behavioral science to causal inference. He has designed and analyzed over two hundred large-scale field experiments in collaboration with government and non-government organizations.
He grew up in the Los Angeles area, but spent most of his life on the East Coast. He enjoys hiking, travel, and film.
Education
PhD, Political Science, Yale University (2021)
MA, Statistics, Yale University (2020)
MPhil, Political Science, Yale University (2020)
MSc, Social Science of the Internet, University of Oxford (2014)
BA, Economics, Dartmouth College (2009)
Professional Experience
Assistant Professor and Analyst, Office of Labor and Economic Analysis, U.S. Air Force Academy (2022-Present)
Postdoctoral Fellow, McCourt School of Public Policy, Georgetown University (2021-2022)
Postdoctoral Fellow, Office of Evaluation Sciences, US General Services Administration (2021-2022)
Senior Research Fellow, Student Social Support Lab, Harvard Kennedy School (2014-2017)
Director of Analytics, Analyst Institute, Washington DC (2009-2014)
Research and Scholarly Interests
Behavioral economics
Causal inference
Experimental economics
Publications
Ternovski, J., Keppeler, F., Jilke, S., & Vogel, D. (2025). Financial Incentives for COVID19 Vaccination: A Cluster Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Network Open, 8(2).
Jilke, S., Keppeler, F., Ternovski, J., Vogel, D., & Yoeli, E. (2024). Policy makers believe money motivates more than it does. Scientific Reports, 14(1), 1901.
Ternovski, J. (2024). Making sense of voting habits : Applying the process model of behavior change to a series of large-scale get-out-the-vote experiments. Journal of Experimental Political Science, 11(2), 175-190.
Ternovski, J., Kalla, J., & Aronow, P. (2022). The negative consequences of informing voters about deepfakes: evidence from two survey experiments. Journal of Online Trust and Safety, 1(2).
Ternovski, J., & Orr, L. (2022). A note on increases in inattentive online survey-takers since 2020. Journal of Quantitative Description: Digital Media, 2.
Ternovski, J., & Yasseri, T. (2020). Social complex contagion in music listenership: A natural experiment with 1.3 million participants. Social Networks, 61, 144-152.
Rogers, T., Green, D. P., Ternovski, J., & Young, C. F. (2017). Social pressure and voting: A eld experiment conducted in a high-salience election. Electoral Studies, 46, 87-100.
Rogers, T., Ternovski, J., & Yoeli, E. (2016). Potential follow-up increases private contributions to public goods. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 113(19), 5218-5220.
Coppock, A., Guess, A., & Ternovski, J. (2016). When treatments are tweets: A network mobilization experiment over Twitter. Political Behavior, 38, 105-128.