Synchronous Poster Sessions

The list of posters from graduate students approaching the job market, presented during synchronous sessions.

Tuesday, July 14

2:30pm to 4:30pm Eastern time (11:30am to 1:30pm Pacific time)

Ye Wang (New York University)
Causal Inference under Temporal and Spatial Interference
Gemma Dipoppa (University of Pennsylvania)
How Criminal Organizations Expand to Strong States: Migrants’ Exploitation and Vote Buying in Northern Italy
Christopher Schwarz (New York University)
Agnostic Sensitivity Analysis

Ali Ahmed (New York University)
When Inequality Matters: The Role of Wealth during England’s Democratic Transition
Kathryn Baragwanath (UCSD)
Co-authors: Ella Bayi
Collective Property Rights Reduce Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon

Thomas Leavitt (Columbia University)
Drawing Causal Inferences from Difference-in-Differences Designs under Uncertainty in Parallel Trends
Kimberly Turner (Southern Illinois University Carbondale)
A Win or A Flop? Identifying and Estimating Unintended Protest Costs in Measuring Success Outcomes
Jeremy Bowles (Harvard University)
When Electoral Access Does Not Promote Participation
Rachel Porter (University of North Carolina)
Co-authors: Sarah Treul, Maura McDonald
Changing the Dialogue: Candidate Position-Taking in Primary Elections

Alessio Albarello (University of Rochester)
Who Gets Their Way in Coalition Policy?
Gustavo Diaz (University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign)
A Variable Selection Approach to Spillovers in Observational Studies
Connor Jerzak (Harvard University)
A General Method for Detecting & Characterizing Interference in Field Experiments

Tzu-Ping Liu (University of California Davis)
Co-authors: Takanori Fujiwara
Contrastive Multiple Component Analysis (cMCA): Applying the Contrastive Learning Method to Identify Political Subgroups
Evan Rosenman (Stanford University)
Co-authors: Nitin Viswanathan
Using Poisson Binomial Models to Reveal Voter Preferences
Naijia Liu (Princeton University)
Latent factor approach to missing not at random
Gento Kato (University of California, Davis)
Co-authors: Tzu-Ping Liu, Samuel Fuller
Non-Parametric Bridging of Non-Parametric Ideological Scales: Application to Mapping Voters on Politicians’ Ideological Space

Yuki Atsusaka (Rice University)
Co-authors: Randy Stevenson, Ahra Wu
Bias-Corrected Crosswise Estimators for Sensitive Inquiries
Caroline Lancaster (UNC Chapel Hill)
Value Shift: Immigration Attitudes and the Sociocultural Divide
Zoe Nemerever (University of California San Diego)
Urban-Rural Divide in State Political Parties
Haosen Ge (Princeton University)
Measuring Regulatory Barriers Using Annual Reports of Firms

2:30pm to 4:30pm Eastern time (11:30am to 1:30pm Pacific time)

Matthew Tyler (Stanford University)
Rigorous Subjectivity: Demystifying and Improving Human Coding with Statistical Models
Andrew Halterman (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Extracting Political Events from Text Using Grammatical Dependency Parsing and Machine Learning
Shiyao Liu (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Beyond Topics: Semi-Supervised Learning for Texts from a Measurement Perspective

Shiro Kuriwaki (Harvard University)
Clustering large-scale ballot data with varying choice sets
Kazuma Mizukoshi (University College London)
A new multilevel-based indicator for party system nationalization
Sidak Yntiso (New York University)
Co-authors: Sanford Gordon
Attributable Risk of Race: Detecting Partisan and Racial Gerrymandering
Gabriel Madson (Duke University)
The Heuristic Issue Voter: Issue Preferences and Candidate Choice

Omer Faruk Yalcin (Pennsylvania State University)
Measuring Political Elite Networks with WikiData
Adam Breuer (Harvard University)
Co-authors: R. Eilat (Facebook Research), U. Weinsberg (Facebook Research)
Friend or Faux: Social Network-Based Early Detection of Fake User Accounts on Facebook
Patrick Chester (New York University)
Framing Democracy: Identifying Autocratic Anti-Democratic Propaganda Using Word Embeddings
Sean Norton (UNC-Chapel HIll)
Who Do You Think You’re Fooling? Examining the Internal Russian Disinformation Campaign

Natalia Lamberova (University of California, Los Angeles)
The Puzzling Politics of R&D: Signaling Competence through Risky Projects
Matthew Graham (Yale University)
Certain. Wrong. Misinformed? Evaluating Survey-Based Measures of Political Misperceptions
Erin Rossiter (Washington University in St. Louis)
The Consequences of Social Interaction on Outparty Affect and Stereotypes
Co-recipient of the best poster award in applications

Benjamin Guinaudeau (University of Konstanz)
Co-authors: Simon Roth (University of Konstanz)
Floor Speeches and Ideological Position: Estimating Ideology of Representatives
Patrick Wu (University of Michigan)
Co-authors: Walter R. Mebane, Jr.
Joint Image-Text Classification Using A Transformer-Based Architecture
Yin Yuan (University of California, San Diego)
Decoding Propaganda Slogans in China: Reading Between the Lines Using Word Embeddings

Nadiya Kostyuk (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)
Diffusion of Cybersecurity Policies
Seo-young Silvia Kim (California Institute of Technology)
Donation Dynamics: Do Critical Campaign Events Influence Contributions?
Flavio Souza (Texas A&M University)
Multiplicative Interactions in Error Correction Models
Ryden Butler (Arts and Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis)
Learning from Likes: The Effect of Social Engagement Feedback on Politicians’ Social Media Communications