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Working Papers

2016

1. Do Nonpartisan Programmatic Policies Have Partisan Electoral Effects? Evidence from Two Large Scale Randomized Experiments
   Working Paper, Harvard University OpenScholar View citations (13)

2014

2. Google Flu Trends Still Appears Sick: An Evaluation of the 2013?2014 Flu Season
   Working Paper, Harvard University OpenScholar View citations (7)

2010

3. CEM: Coarsened Exact Matching in Stata
   BOS10 Stata Conference, Stata Users Group View citations (36)
   See also Journal Article cem: Coarsened exact matching in Stata, Stata Journal, StataCorp LLC (2009) View citations (457) (2009)

2009

4. Multivariate Matching Methods That are Monotonic Imbalance Bounding
   UNIMI - Research Papers in Economics, Business, and Statistics, Universitá degli Studi di Milano View citations (10)
   Also in Departmental Working Papers, Department of Economics, Management and Quantitative Methods at Università degli Studi di Milano (2009) View citations (5)
   See also Journal Article Multivariate Matching Methods That Are Monotonic Imbalance Bounding, Journal of the American Statistical Association, American Statistical Association (2011) View citations (323) (2011)

2008

5. Matching for Causal Inference Without Balance Checking
   UNIMI - Research Papers in Economics, Business, and Statistics, Universitá degli Studi di Milano View citations (65)

2002

6. Empirically Evaluating the Electoral College
   Working Papers, California Institute of Technology, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences

2001

7. An Improved Statistical Model for Multiparty Electoral Data
   Working Papers, California Institute of Technology, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences

Undated

8. A Unified Approach to Measurement Error and Missing Data: Details and Extensions
   Working Paper, Harvard University OpenScholar View citations (4)
   See also Journal Article A Unified Approach to Measurement Error and Missing Data: Details and Extensions, Sociological Methods & Research (2017) View citations (15) (2017)
9. A Unified Approach to Measurement Error and Missing Data: Overview and Applications
   Working Paper, Harvard University OpenScholar View citations (29)
   See also Journal Article A Unified Approach to Measurement Error and Missing Data: Overview and Applications, Sociological Methods & Research (2017) View citations (22) (2017)
10. How Robust Standard Errors Expose Methodological Problems They Do Not Fix, and What to Do About It
    Working Paper, Harvard University OpenScholar View citations (32)
    See also Journal Article How Robust Standard Errors Expose Methodological Problems They Do Not Fix, and What to Do About It, Political Analysis, Cambridge University Press (2015) View citations (37) (2015)

Journal Articles

2023

1. An Improved Method of Automated Nonparametric Content Analysis for Social Science
   Political Analysis, 2023, 31, (1), 42-58
2. Rejoinder: Concluding Remarks on Scholarly Communications
   Political Analysis, 2023, 31, (3), 335-336
3. Statistically Valid Inferences from Differentially Private Data Releases, with Application to the Facebook URLs Dataset
   Political Analysis, 2023, 31, (1), 1-21
4. The Essential Role of Statistical Inference in Evaluating Electoral Systems: A Response to DeFord et al
   Political Analysis, 2023, 31, (3), 325-331

2021

5. Survey data and human computation for improved flu tracking
   Nature Communications, 2021, 12, (1), 1-8

2020

6. Ecological Regression with Partial Identification
   Political Analysis, 2020, 28, (1), 65-86 View citations (1)
7. Theoretical Foundations and Empirical Evaluations of Partisan Fairness in District-Based Democracies
   American Political Science Review, 2020, 114, (1), 164-178 View citations (12)

2019

8. A Theory of Statistical Inference for Matching Methods in Causal Research
   Political Analysis, 2019, 27, (1), 46-68 View citations (25)
9. Why Propensity Scores Should Not Be Used for Matching
   Political Analysis, 2019, 27, (4), 435-454 View citations (315)

2017

10. A Unified Approach to Measurement Error and Missing Data: Details and Extensions
    Sociological Methods & Research, 2017, 46, (3), 342-369 View citations (15)
    See also Working Paper A Unified Approach to Measurement Error and Missing Data: Details and Extensions, Working Paper View citations (4)
11. A Unified Approach to Measurement Error and Missing Data: Overview and Applications
    Sociological Methods & Research, 2017, 46, (3), 303-341 View citations (22)
    See also Working Paper A Unified Approach to Measurement Error and Missing Data: Overview and Applications, Working Paper View citations (29)
12. Computer‐Assisted Keyword and Document Set Discovery from Unstructured Text
    American Journal of Political Science, 2017, 61, (4), 971-988 View citations (22)
13. How the Chinese Government Fabricates Social Media Posts for Strategic Distraction, Not Engaged Argument
    American Political Science Review, 2017, 111, (3), 484-501 View citations (50)
14. The Balance‐Sample Size Frontier in Matching Methods for Causal Inference
    American Journal of Political Science, 2017, 61, (2), 473-489 View citations (18)

2015

15. Automating Open Science for Big Data
    The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 2015, 659, (1), 260-273
16. Explaining Systematic Bias and Nontransparency in U.S. Social Security Administration Forecasts
    Political Analysis, 2015, 23, (3), 336-362 View citations (8)
17. How Robust Standard Errors Expose Methodological Problems They Do Not Fix, and What to Do About It
    Political Analysis, 2015, 23, (2), 159-179 View citations (37)
    See also Working Paper How Robust Standard Errors Expose Methodological Problems They Do Not Fix, and What to Do About It, Working Paper View citations (32)
18. Systematic Bias and Nontransparency in US Social Security Administration Forecasts
    Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2015, 29, (2), 239-58 View citations (9)

2013

19. Estimating Partisan Bias of the Electoral College Under Proposed Changes in Elector Apportionment
    Statistics, Politics and Policy, 2013, 4, (1), 1-13 View citations (1)
20. How Censorship in China Allows Government Criticism but Silences Collective Expression
    American Political Science Review, 2013, 107, (2), 326-343 View citations (172)

2012

21. Causal Inference without Balance Checking: Coarsened Exact Matching
    Political Analysis, 2012, 20, (1), 1-24 View citations (812)
22. Statistical Security for Social Security
    Demography, 2012, 49, (3), 1037-1060 View citations (8)

2011

23. Estimating Incidence Curves of Several Infections Using Symptom Surveillance Data
    PLOS ONE, 2011, 6, (8), 1-8 View citations (1)
24. Multivariate Matching Methods That Are Monotonic Imbalance Bounding
    Journal of the American Statistical Association, 2011, 106, (493), 345-361 View citations (323)
    See also Working Paper Multivariate Matching Methods That are Monotonic Imbalance Bounding, UNIMI - Research Papers in Economics, Business, and Statistics (2009) View citations (10) (2009)
25. The future of death in America
    Demographic Research, 2011, 25, (1), 1-38 View citations (15)

2010

26. A Method of Automated Nonparametric Content Analysis for Social Science
    American Journal of Political Science, 2010, 54, (1), 229-247 View citations (55)
27. What to Do about Missing Values in Time‐Series Cross‐Section Data
    American Journal of Political Science, 2010, 54, (2), 561-581 View citations (67)

2009

28. Empirical versus Theoretical Claims about Extreme Counterfactuals: A Response
    Political Analysis, 2009, 17, (1), 107-112
29. cem: Coarsened exact matching in Stata
    Stata Journal, 2009, 9, (4), 524-546 View citations (457)
    See also Working Paper CEM: Coarsened Exact Matching in Stata, BOS10 Stata Conference (2010) View citations (36) (2010)

2008

30. Misunderstandings between experimentalists and observationalists about causal inference
    Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A, 2008, 171, (2), 481-502 View citations (142)
31. Ordinary Economic Voting Behavior in the Extraordinary Election of Adolf Hitler
    The Journal of Economic History, 2008, 68, (4), 951-996 View citations (93)
32. The Effects of International Monetary Fund Loans on Health Outcomes
    PLOS Medicine, 2008, 5, (7), 1-3 View citations (1)

2007

33. A “politically robust” experimental design for public policy evaluation, with application to the Mexican Universal Health Insurance program
    Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2007, 26, (3), 479-506 View citations (25)
34. An Introduction to the Dataverse Network as an Infrastructure for Data Sharing
    Sociological Methods & Research, 2007, 36, (2), 173-199 View citations (8)
35. Comparing Incomparable Survey Responses: Evaluating and Selecting Anchoring Vignettes
    Political Analysis, 2007, 15, (1), 46-66 View citations (49)
36. Matching as Nonparametric Preprocessing for Reducing Model Dependence in Parametric Causal Inference
    Political Analysis, 2007, 15, (3), 199-236 View citations (783)

2006

37. Death by survey: Estimating adult mortality without selection bias from sibling survival data
    Demography, 2006, 43, (3), 569-585 View citations (29)
38. The Dangers of Extreme Counterfactuals
    Political Analysis, 2006, 14, (2), 131-159 View citations (87)

2004

39. EI: A Program for Ecological Inference
    Journal of Statistical Software, 2004, 011, (i07) View citations (6)
40. What to Do When Your Hessian is Not Invertible
    Sociological Methods & Research, 2004, 33, (1), 54-87 View citations (6)

2003

41. A Consensus on Second-Stage Analyses in Ecological Inference Models
    Political Analysis, 2003, 11, (1), 86-94 View citations (4)
42. An Automated Information Extraction Tool for International Conflict Data with Performance as Good as Human Coders: A Rare Events Evaluation Design
    International Organization, 2003, 57, (3), 617-642 View citations (56)
43. Analyzing Second-Stage Ecological Regressions: Comment on Herron and Shotts
    Political Analysis, 2003, 11, (1), 65-76 View citations (1)
44. Enhancing the Validity and Cross-Cultural Comparability of Measurement in Survey Research
    American Political Science Review, 2003, 97, (4), 567-583 View citations (8)

2002

45. A Fast, Easy, and Efficient Estimator for Multiparty Electoral Data
    Political Analysis, 2002, 10, (1), 84-100 View citations (28)
46. Isolating Spatial Autocorrelation, Aggregation Bias, and Distributional Violations in Ecological Inference: Comment on Anselin and Cho
    Political Analysis, 2002, 10, (3), 298-300

2001

47. Aggregation Among Binary, Count, and Duration Models: Estimating the Same Quantities from Different Levels of Data
    Political Analysis, 2001, 9, (1), 21-44 View citations (10)
48. Analyzing Incomplete Political Science Data: An Alternative Algorithm for Multiple Imputation
    American Political Science Review, 2001, 95, (1), 49-69 View citations (226)
49. Bayesian and Frequentist Inference for Ecological Inference: The R×C Case
    Statistica Neerlandica, 2001, 55, (2), 134-156 View citations (19)
50. Explaining Rare Events in International Relations
    International Organization, 2001, 55, (3), 693-715 View citations (137)
51. Logistic Regression in Rare Events Data
    Political Analysis, 2001, 9, (2), 137-163 View citations (689)
52. Proper Nouns and Methodological Propriety: Pooling Dyads in International Relations Data
    International Organization, 2001, 55, (2), 497-507 View citations (23)

2000

53. Improving Quantitative Studies of International Conflict: A Conjecture
    American Political Science Review, 2000, 94, (1), 21-35 View citations (43)

1999

54. A Statistical Model for Multiparty Electoral Data
    American Political Science Review, 1999, 93, (1), 15-32 View citations (69)
55. Binomial-Beta Hierarchical Models for Ecological Inference
    Sociological Methods & Research, 1999, 28, (1), 61-90 View citations (12)
56. No Evidence on Directional vs. Proximity Voting
    Political Analysis, 1999, 8, (1), 21-33 View citations (11)

1998

57. The Record of American Democracy, 1984-1990
    Sociological Methods & Research, 1998, 26, (3), 424-427

1995

58. The Importance of Research Design in Political Science
    American Political Science Review, 1995, 89, (2), 475-481 View citations (7)

1994

59. Enhancing Democracy Through Legislative Redistricting
    American Political Science Review, 1994, 88, (3), 541-559 View citations (15)

1993

60. Party Platforms, Mandates, and Government Spending
    American Political Science Review, 1993, 87, (3), 744-750 View citations (6)

1989

61. A Seemingly Unrelated Poisson Regression Model
    Sociological Methods & Research, 1989, 17, (3), 235-255 View citations (23)

1987

62. Democratic Representation and Partisan Bias in Congressional Elections
    American Political Science Review, 1987, 81, (4), 1251-1273 View citations (16)

1985

63. Forecasting Presidential Elections. By Steven J. Rosenstone. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1983. Pp. xii + 211. $20.00.)
    American Political Science Review, 1985, 79, (3), 855-855

Software Items

2021

1. CLARIFY: Stata module for Interpreting and Presenting Statistical Results
   Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
2. RELOGIT: Stata module to perform Rare Event Logistic Regression
   Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics

2020

3. CEM: Stata module to perform Coarsened Exact Matching
   Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics

2001

4. CLARIFY: Stata modules for Monte Carlo simulation
   Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics

Undated

5. COUNT: A Program for Estimating Event Count and Duration Regressions
   DOS and Windows codes
6. Maximum Likelihood Programs and Examples for Gauss
   Gauss codes