Political Methodology Colloquium
Faculty Leaders: John Londregan/Kosuke ImaiCoordinator: Dustin Tingley
Day/Time: Fridays, noon-1:30 p.m.
Location: 127 Corwin Hall ** except where noted
| SPRING 2009 |
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| Date: | Presenter: | Topic: |
| Feb 6 |
Don Green (Yale) |
Treatment, Control, and Placebo: Efficient Estimation for Three-Group Experiments |
| Feb 13 |
Scott Ashworth and Josh Clinton (Princeton) | How Did the Swift-Boat Ads Work |
| Feb 20 |
***Cancelled*** | |
| Feb 27 |
Benjamin Lauderdale (Princeton) | What Identification Conditions for Ideal Point Estimators Teach Us About the Politicization of Citizens |
| Mar 6 |
Simon Jackman (Stanford) | Tracking Public Opinion Over the 2008 Election: a hierarchical, dynamic linear model |
| Mar 13 |
John Londregan (Princeton) | A Fireproof Gibbs Algorithm |
| Mar 27 |
Peter Bussieret (Princeton) Mike Miller (Princeton) |
A Political Foundation for Factor Misallocation in A Dual Sector Harris Todaro Economy (Bussieret) Democratic Stability and Economic Growth: Retrospective vs. Prospective Models (Miller) |
| April 3 |
***No Meeting due to the Midwest conference*** | |
| April 10 |
Dustin Tingley (Princeton) | The Dark Side of the Future: An Experimental Test of Commitment Problems in Bargaining |
| April 17 |
Jonathan Katz (Caltech) | Correcting For Survey Misreports Using Auxiliary Information With An Application To Estimating Turnout |
| April 24 | Kasia Hebda (Princeton) | Models of Informational Lobbying Coalitions |
| May 1 | Shigeo Hirano (Columbia) | Primary Competition and General Election Outcomes |
| May 8 |
Will Bullock (Princeton) |
TBA |
| FALL 2008 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Date: | Presenter: | Topic: |
| Sep 12 |
Jake Shapiro (Princeton) |
Can Hearts and Minds Be Bought? The Economics of Counterinsurgency in Iraq |
| Sep 19 |
Charles Manski (Northwestern) |
Adaptive Partial Policy Innovation: Coping with Ambiguity through Diversification |
| Sep 26 |
Jee-Kwang Park (Princeton) | An estimation of actual sampling errors in presidential approval polls: time-series factor analysis approach |
| Oct 3 |
Samuel S.H. Wang (Princeton) | Meta-Analysis of Presidential Polls: 'Prediction Is Hard, Especially Of The Future' |
| Oct 10 |
Alexandre d'Aspremont (Princeton) | Model Selection Through Sparse Maximum Likelihood Estimation for Multivariate Gaussian or Binary Data |
| Oct 17 | Jeff Lax (Columbia) | Estimating Public Opinion in the States: Gay Rights and Policy Responsiveness Paper 1 Paper 2 |
| Oct 24 *035 Robertson* |
Will Bullock and Dustin Tingley (Princeton) Seminar moved to 035 Robertson |
Congressional Responsiveness to Public Opinion Regarding the Central American-Dominican Republic Free Trade Agreement |
| Nov 7 | No Meeting | No Meeting |
| Nov 14 *300 Wallace* |
Richard Chiburis (Princeton) Seminar moved to 300 Wallace |
Approximately Most Powerful Tests for Moment Inequalities |
| Nov 21 |
TBA | Graduate Student Conference on Experiments in Interactive Decision Making and Group Dynamics |
| Dec 5 *023 Robertson* |
Aaron Strauss (Princeton) Seminar moved to 023 Robertson |
Planning the Optimal Get-out-the-vote Campaign Using Randomized Field Experiments |
| Dec 12 |
Teppei Yamamoto (Princeton) | A Counterfactual Analysis of Necessary and Sufficient Causation: Nonparametric Identification and Inference with an Instrumental Variable |
| Dec 19 |
Stephanie Wang (Caltech) Dustin Tingley (Princeton) |
Private Information, Beliefs and Strategic Behavior: An Experimental Test of the Crisis Bargaining Game Model |