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Estimating controlled direct effects with panel data: an application to reducing support for discriminatory policies Open

Matthew Blackwell, Adam Glynn, Hanno Hilbig, Christophe Phillips · 2025

Computer science Economics

Recent experimental studies in the social sciences have demonstrated that perspective-taking conversations are effective at reducing prejudicial attitudes and support for discriminatory policies. We ask if such interventions can directly a…

Post-Instrument Bias Open

Julian Schuessler, Adam Glynn, miguel Rueda · 2024

Computer science Psychology Mathematics

When using instrumental variables, researchers often assume that causal effects are only identified conditional on covariates. We show that the role of these covariates in applied research is often unclear and that there exists confusion r…

Police Shooting Statistics and Public Support for Police Reforms Open

Kaylyn Jackson Schiff, Tom Clark, Adam Glynn, Michael Leo Owens, Anna Gunderson , et al. · 2023

Political science Psychology Sociology

Does providing information about police shootings influence policing reform preferences? We conducted an online survey experiment in 2021 among approximately 2,600 residents of 10 large US cities. It incorporated original data we collected…

Partisan schadenfreude and candidate cruelty Open

Steven W. Webster, Adam Glynn, Matt Motta · 2023

Political science Psychology Economics

We establish the prevalence of partisan schadenfreude —that is, taking “joy in the suffering” of partisan others. Analyzing attitudes on health care, taxation, climate change, and the coronavirus pandemic, we find that a sizable portion of…

Post-Instrument Bias in Linear Models Open

Adam Glynn, Miguel Rueda, Julian Schuessler · 2023

Mathematics

Post-instrument covariates are often included as controls in instrumental variable (IV) analyses to address a violation of the exclusion restriction. However, we show that such analyses are subject to biases unless strong assumptions hold.…

Post-Instrument Bias in Linear Models Open

Adam Glynn, miguel Rueda, Julian Schuessler · 2023

Mathematics Computer science

Post-instrument covariates are often included as controls in IV analyses to address a violation of the exclusion restriction. However, we show that such analyses are subject to biases unless strong assumptions hold. Using linear constant-e…

Replication Data for: Are Police Racially Biased in the Decision to Shoot? Open

Tom Clark, Elisha Cohen, Adam Glynn, Michael Leo Owens, Anna Gunderson , et al. · 2022

Psychology Computer science Biology

We present a theoretical model predicting that racially biased policing produces 1) more use of potentially lethal force by firearms against Black civilians than against White civilians and 2) lower fatality rates for Black civilians than …

Constitutional Reform and the Gender Diversification of Peak Courts Open

Nancy B. Arrington, Leeann Bass, Adam Glynn, Jeffrey K. Staton, Brian Delgado , et al. · 2021

Political science Sociology Business

Do the processes states use to select judges for peak courts influence gender diversity? Scholars have debated whether concentrating appointment power in a single individual or diffusing appointment power across many individuals best promo…

Replication Data for: Constitutional Reform and the Gender Diversification of Peak Courts Open

Nancy B. Arrington, Leeann Bass, Adam Glynn, Jeffrey K. Staton, Brian Delgado , et al. · 2021

Political science Business Biology

Data and code for all figures and tables in "Constitutional Reform and the Gender Diversification of Peak Courts," forthcoming at the APSR. Do the processes states use to select judges for peak courts influence gender diversity? Scholars h…

Final zipped replication files Open