Rate My Professor Kyle Peyton

Dr Kyle Peyton is Senior Research Fellow at the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research in the Faculty of Business and Economics at the University of Melbourne. He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science with departmental distinction from Yale University, along with an M.A. in Statistics and Data Science and an M.Phil. in Political Science from the same institution. He earned a B.B.A. in Accounting and Economics summa cum laude from the Quinlan School of Business at Loyola University Chicago. His academic appointments include Senior Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne since 2024, Research Fellow at the Australian Catholic University from 2021 to 2023, and Postdoctoral Fellow in Law and Social Science at Yale Law School from 2020 to 2021. He previously served as Research Fellow at the Melbourne Institute from 2013 to 2016 and held teaching and consulting roles at Yale University.

Peyton’s research focuses on experimental design and analysis, poverty and socio-economic disadvantage, drivers of income inequality and mobility, and survey methodology. Key publications include “A field experiment on community policing and police legitimacy” in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2019), “Does Trust in Government Increase Support for Redistribution? Evidence from Randomized Survey Experiments” in American Political Science Review (2020), and “Beliefs about minority representation in policing and support for diversification” in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2022). He has received awards including the James G. March Award for Outstanding Dissertation in Political Science from Yale University and the Best Dissertation in Experimental Methods from the American Political Science Association.