Research & Teaching

Work in Progress

"Personal, Economic, and Institutional Returns: Reconceptualizing Material Interests for Redistributive Education Preferences" (submitted)

"Group Heuristics and Omnibus Policies: How Benefits to the "Average American" Explain Public Support for the Farm Bill" with Stephen Ansolabehere (under review)

"Information Provision and Support for Inheritance Taxation: Evidence from Representative Survey Experiments in Germany" with Luna Bellani, Mark Kapteina & Guido Schwerdt, Working Paper No. 22, Cluster of Excellence “The Politics of Inequality”, University of Konstanz. Working paper available here.  

"The Policy Dimension of Political Polarization: Education Politics across the Urban-Rural Divide" 

"Contextualizing Willingness to Invest in Public Education Across the Urban-Rural Divide"

"Death, Taxes, and Family: How Information Shapes Attitudes Towards the US Federal Estate Tax" with Patrick Sullivan

"Local versus National: Estimating the Effect of Income (Mis)perceptions on Beliefs and Preferences" with Katy Morris & Andrew McNeil

"The Effects of Blame Avoidance and Credit-Claiming on Support for Welfare State Retrenchment: A Survey Experiment" with Nils Röper & Tobias Wiß

Published Work

Berriochoa, K.M. & Busemeyer, M.R. (2025) Keeping up with the Joneses? Perceptions of mobility and opportunity within local knowledge economies across Germany. Acta Politica. (Online)

Bellani. L, Berriochoa, K. M., & Fabella, V. M. (2023). Social Mobility and Education Policy: A District Level Analysis of Legislative Behavior. Socio-Economic Review, Vol.00, No.0, 1–39.(Online).

Berriochoa, K. M. (2022). The Effect of Ethnic and Racial Diversity on School Funding across the Urban-Rural Divide. Journal of Education Finance, 47(3), 275-295. (Online). 

Goirizelaia, M., & Berriochoa, K. (2019). News from the Old Country: Media Consumption by the Basque Diaspora in the United States. Communication & Society, 32(3).  (Online).

Chan, C. S. & Berriochoa, K., (2015). Psychology of Asian Americans. In Integrating  Multiculturalism and Intersectionality Into the Psychology Curriculum: Strategies for Instructors. Ed. Jasmine Mena & Kathryn Quina. American Psychological Association, 2019. 89-103. Print.

Berriochoa, K., (2014) “Saving Euskara: The Basque Language Renaissance.” Becoming Basque: Ethnic Heritage of Boise’s Grove Street. Ed. John Bieter, Dave Lachiondo, John Ysursa, Larry Burke, Patty Miller, & Todd Shallat. Investigate Boise Community Research Series, Vol. 5. Boise State University, 2014. 30-48. Print & Online. 

Wampler, B., Lewis, R., & Berriochoa, K., (2013) “Engaging Citizens to Expand Accountability,” In Accountability in Context. Ed. Peter Spink, Jacqueline Brigagao, and Gonzalo Delamaza. Sao Paulo: Editora da FGV, 2013. 33-60. Print.

Berriochoa, K., (2014) “Saving Euskara: The Basque language renaissance.” The Blue Review: Popular Scholarship in the Public Interest. Boise State University. Read here.  

Policy Research

Evaluation of Digital Library Access in Public Health Departments 

Fall 2017. National Network of Libraries of Medicine. 

In this project, I coordinated and conducted qualitative interviews of users of the Public Health Digital Library in Portland, Oregon. I oversaw the development of assessment measures, primary data collection (qualitative interviews) and rigorous data analysis (driven by research methods and goals), including coding of interview transcripts and analysis of emerging themes. The final product included a published report of evaluation results and policy recommendations.

Fall 2019. National Network of Libraries of Medicine. 

As lead researcher, I coordinated and conducted qualitative interviews of public health practitioners and administrators in local health districts in Colorado and Oregon. The final product included a published report of evaluation results and policy recommendations to improve access to peer-reviewed research in local public health districts. Geographical Information Systems (GIS) was also used in this analysis. 

Teaching

Politics & Public Administration, University of Konstanz

Economics, UMass Boston

Global Comparative Public Administration, UMass Boston

Public Affairs, UMass Boston

Basque, New England Basque Club