Associate Professor of Public Policy, Politics, and Education @UVA.
I share social science.
John Holbein
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Great new paper in The Review of Economic Studies using randomized incentives to detect non-response bias, using administrative data to provide ground truth for comparison. While incentives increased participation, they didn't reliably reduce NR bias
academic.oup.com/restud/advan...
While LLMs will try to follow good research practices by default, you can pretty easily convince them to p-hack for you. In one case (out of the 4 tested), the LLM moved the result from p > 0.05 to p < 0.001. github.com/janetmalzahn...
New w/@scottclifford.bsky.social.
Lots of work uses agree-disagree scales, and a lit review shows these are 1) frequently just measured in one direction (agree = higher trait) and 2) correlated with each other.
This has potentially big issues for conclusions.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Redistricting Reforms Reduce Gerrymandering by Constraining Partisan Actors is now forthcoming in the APSR!
We use a game theoretic treatment and continuous DiD(iD) to show when redistricting reforms work
with @corymccartan.com, @simko.bsky.social, Emma Ebowe, Michael Zhao, and Kosuke Imai
Kevin Collins
Ryan Briggs
Nothing quite like the uniquely demoralizing experience of a reviewer recommending rejection for a paper they clearly didn’t read very closely.
if you are still on Twitter/X and get any suscpicious DMs from the person who hacked me, can you let me know?
There's one trait where economists clearly outperform the other social sciences:
Hubris.
Whoa.
The Republican advantage among Mormons has dropped nearly 20 points over the past two decades.
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Drew Engelhardt
Chris Kenny, PhD
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"Do virtual museums highlighting the experiences of minorities persuade visitors? Evidence from a study on bias toward Asian Americans"
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Political Behavior - Scholars frequently measure dispositions like populism, conspiracism, racism, and sexism by asking survey respondents whether they agree or disagree with statements...
