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The direct cost to voters of polling site closures and consolidation Open
Restrictive voting laws are an increasingly salient feature of American politics. Yet estimating their direct impact on turnout is challenging, given the strategic actions political actors take to impose and mitigate the costs of these law…
A cause to fight Open
Why do individuals participate in civil conflict? Materialist explanations have dominated quantitative scholarship on the causes and conduct of civil wars. Yet, a substantial body of qualitative, historical, and ethnographic evidence sugge…
Replication Data for: The Economic Effects of Leaders' Economic Interests: Evidence from Election by Lot in the Florentine Republic Open
This is the replication data for The Economic Effects of Leaders' Economic Interests: Evidence from Election by Lot in the Florentine Republic.
Aggregation, Interpretation, and Estimation of Preferences in Conjoint Experiments Open
Conjoint experiments enable the measurement of preferences in complex, multidimensional choice settings. But the problem of how to aggregate over multiple dimensions to make substantively meaningful statements of the form "respondents typi…
Designing Political Order Open
Social scientists and political philosophers widely believe that the foundations of political order rest upon the existence of a sovereign agent endowed with a monopoly of coercive force. In this paper, we develop a formal model of anarchi…
What Do We Learn about Voter Preferences from Conjoint Experiments? Open
Political scientists frequently interpret the results of conjoint experiments as reflective of majority preferences. In this article, we show that the target estimand of conjoint experiments, the average marginal component effect (AMCE), i…
View article: Historical Border Changes, State Building, and Contemporary Trust in Europe
Historical Border Changes, State Building, and Contemporary Trust in Europe Open
Political borders profoundly influence outcomes central to international politics. Accordingly, a growing literature shows that historical boundaries affect important macro-outcomes such as patterns of interstate disputes and trade. To exp…
View article: Replication Data for: Historical Border Changes, State Building and Contemporary Trust in Europe
Replication Data for: Historical Border Changes, State Building and Contemporary Trust in Europe Open
Political borders profoundly influence outcomes central to international politics. Accordingly, a growing literature shows that historical boundaries affect important macro-outcomes such as patterns of interstate disputes and trade. To exp…
Replication Data for: Endogenous Parliaments: The Domestic and International Roots of Long-Term Economic Growth and Executive Constraints in Europe Open
Institutional constraints on executive behavior are commonly understood to be crucial constitutional features that limit state expropriation, protect property rights, and promote economic development. Combining new data describing the pres…
Replication Data for: What Do We Learn About Voter Preferences from Conjoint Experiments? Open
Political scientists frequently interpret the results of conjoint experiments as reflective of majority preferences. In this paper we show that the target estimand of conjoint experiments, the AMCE, is not well-defined in these terms. Even…
The European coal curse Open
In this paper we examine the impact of natural resource wealth by focusing on historical coal-mining across European regions. As an exogenous source of variation in coal extraction activities, we rely on the presence of coal-deposits locat…
View article: Replication Data for: The Evolution of National Constitutions
Replication Data for: The Evolution of National Constitutions Open
This replication file contains the data and code necessary to replicate all results in “The Evolution of National Constitutions” by Scott Abramson and Michael Barber
Endogenous Parliaments: The Domestic and International Roots of Long-Term Economic Growth and Executive Constraints in Europe Open
This is the replication file for “Endogenous Parliaments: The Domestic and International Roots of Long-Term Economic Growth and Executive Constraints in Europe.” The results were last completely replicated using Stata 12, and R 3.43 on Feb…
Replication Data for: Economic Origins of the Territorial State Open
This is the replication file for “The Economic Origins of the Territorial State” by Scott Abramson There are two folders. The first, “Replication_Main_Text” contains data and replication code for the results from the main text. The second …
Replication Package for "Learning about Growth and Democracy" Open
Replication package for "Learning about Growth and Democracy."
View article: Replication Data for: Systemic Instability and the Emergence of Border Disputes
Replication Data for: Systemic Instability and the Emergence of Border Disputes Open
Although much evidence shows that territorial disputes fundamentally shape relations among states, we know surprisingly little about when territorial claims are made. We argue that revisionist states have incentives to make territorial cla…
K4_replication.mat Open
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posterior_mode_robustLT_NOlearning.m Open
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ccpcnc_v2_small.tab Open
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View article: scaling_ideal_points_all_methods.R
scaling_ideal_points_all_methods.R Open
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indian_flag.png Open
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MAPdR250.mat Open
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robustDM_replication.mat Open
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robustLT_replication.mat Open
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bootstrap.mat Open
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Figure_A12_right.R Open
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dR50_replication.mat Open
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thetas_replication.mat Open
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priorWSigma.mat Open
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