Macartan Humphreys

Macartan Humphreys

Columbia University and WZB Berlin

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Teaching 

Applying for a PhD

August 23, 2015September 21, 2018 admin

Every year a lot of prospective students ask me about how applications to Columbia work. This page describes the kinds

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Cumulation Projects Research Standards 

Integrated Inferences

August 23, 2015April 9, 2018 admin

Alan Jacobs and I have been working on figuring out principles for simultaneously drawing inferences from qualitative and quantitative data.

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Teaching 

Honors Thesis Seminar 2015-16

August 23, 2015August 23, 2015 admin 0 Comments

Syllabus

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Teaching 

SSDS 2015-16

August 20, 2015August 24, 2015 admin
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Research Integrity Research Standards 

Research integrity

August 20, 2015September 12, 2016 admin Cumulation, Research Integrity

I have been thinking a lot about the problem of publication bias and analysis bias in empirical research.   Even

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Teaching 

How to write

August 20, 2015March 24, 2017 admin

[Intended primarily for students writing their senior theses.] Sections Your Front Matters In your Front Matter: Include an abstract, table

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Teaching 

How to read

August 20, 2015 admin Interactive reading

Here is an approach. Skim. First skim over the reading to get a sense of the themes it covers. In

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Comments 

What Has Been Learned from the Deworming Replications: A Nonpartisan View

August 20, 2015August 23, 2015 admin

A heated discussion on the value of mass deworming campaigns followed the release by a team of epidemiologists (Aiken et

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Development 

More on Worms

August 20, 2015August 23, 2015 admin

1 August 2015. It’s been a disturbing thing watching the spat this week between economists and epidemiologists over the Miguel-Kremer

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Teaching 

How to critique

August 20, 2015August 23, 2015 admin seminars, teaching

Here are some pointers on the things to look for when discussing or reviewing a paper. Discussants Generally discussants have

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Causal Inference Research Standards 

Resources on causal inference

August 3, 2015July 18, 2018 admin Identification Strategies, OLS, SUTVA

Pedagogical material Lectures / Short Course Of causes and postulates: Slides for Berlin Summer School 2018   Ten strategies for

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Comments 

On the Ethics of Field Experimentation

August 3, 2015August 3, 2015 admin

2 November 2014. Social science researchers are increasingly using field experimental methods to try to answer all kinds of questions

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Dev Experiment Projects Uganda 

Flattening Political Access

July 22, 2015August 16, 2018 admin

There is unequal access to political power everywhere. One striking regularity is that in many areas women and poorer voters

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Dev Projects 

Violence Against Women

July 1, 2015September 12, 2016 admin

Sarah Kahn, Summer Lindsey and I are working with SDD direct and city governments in Madhya Pradesh to examine strategies

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CDR Conflict Congo Dev Experiment 

Post Conflict Development

June 23, 2015August 16, 2018 admin

Raul Sanchez de la Sierra, Peter van der Windt and I  implemented a large field experiment in East Congo to

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Dev Discrimination Experiment Projects 

Housing Discrimination in NYC

June 23, 2015March 9, 2018 admin Discrimination

In a project with Al Fang and Andy Guess, we worked with the New York Commission on Human Rights  to

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Projects 

Political Communication

March 25, 2015August 25, 2015 admin 0 Comments

A lot of the work of politics often seems to be about persuading people of your position. But in practice

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CDR Dev Liberia Projects 

Post Conflict Community Cohesion in Liberia

February 20, 2015September 12, 2016 admin

Published August 2015:  How Does Development Assistance Affect Collective Action Capacity? Results from a Field Experiment in Post-Conflict Liberia (Gated

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Books Experiment Projects Uganda 

Coethnicity

January 28, 2015April 9, 2018 admin

One of the first field experimental projects I worked on (around 2005) sought to figure out why ethnic heterogeneity is so

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Books Observational Projects 

Natural Resources

January 23, 2015April 9, 2018 admin 0 Comments

There is a good bit of evidence that countries often do not benefit as much as you might expect from

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