DeclareDesign: A package to help characterize and diagnose research designs
Graeme Blair, Jasper Cooper, Alex Coppock and I are developing an R package that provides tools to formally characterize research designs,
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Projects
Integrated Inferences
Alan Jacobs and I have been working on figuring out principles for simultaneously drawing inferences from qualitative and quantitative data.
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Flattening Political Access
There is unequal access to political power everywhere. One striking regularity is that in many areas women and poorer voters
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Violence Against Women
Sarah Kahn, Summer Lindsey and I are working with SDD direct and city governments in Madhya Pradesh to examine strategies
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Housing Discrimination in NYC
In a project with Al Fang and Andy Guess, we worked with the New York Commission on Human Rights to
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Political Communication
A lot of the work of politics often seems to be about persuading people of your position. But in practice
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Post Conflict Community Cohesion in Liberia
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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Coethnicity
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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Natural Resources
There is a good bit of evidence that countries often do not benefit as much as you might expect from
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Coalitions
Politics is all about coalitions. Who teams up with whom to get what. A lot of foundational theoretic research in
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Much of my earlier research focused on political violence, this included work on the origin and duration of conflicts, the drivers
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