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If you are interested in conjoint analysis and/or social desirability bias, I would suggest you read my new paper with Teppei Yamamoto and zach markovich, just published in Political Analysis. Please retweet! doi.org/10.1017/pan.20…

Trending in #PoliticalScience: ooir.org/trending.php?d… 1) Long-Term Effects of Oppression: Prussia, Catholicism & AfD (American Political Science Review) 2) Tea Party Affiliation & Subnational Roots (APR Journal) 3) Does Conjoint Analysis Mitigate Social Desirability Bias? (Political Analysis)

Our department is offering a pre-application review service (PARS) initiative to provide support and mentorship to PhD applicants from from historically marginalized groups. See details here: bit.ly/3AN5jJy

Just in case you need another reason to turn out to vote, remember that sharks are more likely to bite nonvoters than voters, according to the 2020 ANES.

I have a website now -- everyone needs to click on it so google will figure out it should come first for me zmarkovich.github.io

Very important research by former colleagues at MITPoliticalScience examining mental health among grad students in top PhD programs. Departments should take these findings seriously and act accordingly.

Not your typical mental health professional advice:

🚨BLOGPOST ALERT🚨 Increasing the minimum wage spurs political participation of affected workers. zach markovich and Ariel White compare voting rates of New York City employees before and after minimum wage increases. Read what they find on our blog⬇️ jop.blogs.uni-hamburg.de/minimum-wage-i…

The JOP blog has a piece about our forthcoming paper (with zach markovich). The title pretty much gives you the punch line, but click through for more details!

Using GPT-3 to gain new insight into historical figures

I've been asked what specific local & state elections matter a lot in the wake of Dobbs, & what concretely they'd affect. With the caveats that the next steps need to involve mobilization, solidarity, & protests that aren't electorally focused, here are some thoughts. ↓

My paper with Sam Pimentel on variance-based sensitivity analysis for weighting estimators is now on ArXiv! (1/6) arxiv.org/abs/2208.01691

I herewith offer free code review for social scientists (R, Python and SQL) - I am serious! Why? 1/6

In social science, I feel like we treat coding errors as a personal failing, but they're inevitable for anyone doing that much programing. We should institutionalize practices (like code reviews/ unit testing) that help people find the mistakes before they're published.

fwiw, the idea in this img was super useful for my learning causal inference requires both identification *and* estimation of an estimand (AKA functional, parameter) you can (and should!) think of them separately, but you'll want to make good decisions on both sides to succeed

#FirstView from Political Analysis - Estimating the Local Average Treatment Effect Without the Exclusion Restriction - cup.org/4fjAykx - Zachary Markovich

Matt McMuscles reposting my friend's shin godzilla airplane experience because it never gets bad