Junlong Zhou (New York University)

Abstract: Estimating the heterogeneous treatment effect is essential to assess the generality and mechanism of randomized experiments. In this paper, we propose an extension of the regression forest combining mixed-effects to analyze heterogeneous treatment effect using aggregated data sets. We show that including mixed-effects can improve estimation by accounting for the cluster-level...

Samuel Baltz (University of Michigan)

Abstract: Despite the salience and importance of electoral system reform, both in the political science literature and in the contemporary politics of many democracies, little direct attention has been paid to the following question: how might the results of a specific election have been...

Soichiro Yamauchi (Harvard University)

Abstract: Estimating population quantities such as public opinions from survey data is a fundamental task in many social science studies. In political science, there is a growing interest in estimating public opinions at the level smaller than the entire nation, such as states (Lax and Phillips...

Fernando Rocha Rosario (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)

Abstract: In this paper I expose a technique which formalizes the political analysis using modal logic and theory of rational choice. For represent the...

Nuannuan Xiang and Kevin Quinn (University of Michigan)

*Award for Best Graduate Student Poster - Methods*

Abstract: In this paper, we develop a class of Gaussian Process models to estimate treatment effects with time-series cross-sectional data, in which a subset of units...

Shusei Eshima (Harvard University), Tomoya Sasaki (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and Kosuke Imai (Harvard University)

Abstract: For a long time, many social scientists have conducted content analysis by using their substantive knowledge and manually coding documents. In recent years, however, fully automated...

Melody Huang (University of California, Los Angeles), Erin Hartman (University of California, Los Angeles), Naoki Egami (Columbia University) and Luke Miratrix (Harvard University)

*Award for Best Graduate Student Poster - Methods*

Sooahn Shin (Harvard University)

Abstract: How can we measure issue-specific ideal points using roll-call votes? Ideal points have been widely used for measuring ideology, yet its nature of latent space makes it difficult to target a...

Ali Kagalwala (Texas A&M University), Andrea Junqueira (Texas A&M University), Guy D. Whitten (Texas A&M University), Laron K. Williams (University of Missouri) and Cameron Wimpy (Arkansas State University)

Andrea Junqueira (Texas A&M University), Ali Kagalwala (Texas A&M University), Andrew Philips (University of Colorado Boulder) and Guy Whitten (Texas A&M University)

Abstract: In this paper, we...

ByungKoo Kim, Yuki Shiraito and Saki Kuzushima (University of Michigan)

Abstract: Social scientists often analyze a corpus with a citation network among its documents, such as the corpus of the U.S. Supreme Court decisions. Existing topic models for document networks assume that the topic of a citation is...

Jacob Brown (Harvard University), Matthew Blackwell (Harvard University), Sophie Hill (Harvard University), Kosuke Imai (Harvard University) and Teppei Yamamoto (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Abstract:  It is now widely recognized that conditioning on variables affected by a treatment can induce post-treatment bias when estimating causal...

Angela Chesler (University of Notre Dame)

Abstract: Scholars of international relations, comparative politics, and peace and conflict studies are often interested in questions concerning the triggers of extreme political outcomes such as war, coups, and genocide. In a causal chain, a trigger is an immediate cause that can be...

Soubhik Barari (Harvard)

Abstract: In an era where many Internet news-seekers prefer to watch rather than read their news, YouTube plays an important role in mass political communication, but remains entirely unstudied by political...

Elisha Cohen (Emory University)

Abstract: Outcome tests, a method that can be used for evaluating bias in selection making processes, are especially useful when using administrative datasets that contain only observations after the selection process has occurred. I show the outcome test lower bound derived by Knox, Lowe, and Mummolo (...

Fabricio Vasselai (University of Michigan)

Abstract: The main advantage of using Supervised Machine Learning (SML) techniques to detect election fraud would be resorting to model-free or model-ensemble approaches, instead of usual...