About the Authors

Janet M. Box-Steffensmeier

Contributed equally to this work with: Janet M. Box-Steffensmeier, Raphael C. Cunha

steffensmeier.2@osu.edu

Affiliation Department of Political Science, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Raphael C. Cunha

Contributed equally to this work with: Janet M. Box-Steffensmeier, Raphael C. Cunha

Affiliation Department of Political Science, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Roumen A. Varbanov

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Statistics, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, United States of America

Yee Shwen Hoh

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Political Science, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Margaret L. Knisley

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Mary Alice Holmes

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Political Science, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JMBS RCC. Performed the experiments: JMBS RCC RAV YSH MLK MAH. Analyzed the data: RCC RAV. Wrote the paper: JMBS RCC RAV YSH MLK MAH.