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1. “Show or Tell? Improving Agent Decision Making in a Tanzanian Mobile Money Field Experiment” and ... (1:50:43)

Date:: April 5, 2019
Main contributors:: Parker, Chris
Summary:: Show or Tell? Improving Agent Decision Making in a Tanzanian Mobile Money Field Experiment: When workers make operational decisions, the firm's global knowledge and the worker's domain-specific k...

2. A General Panel Model with Random and Fixed Effects: A Structural Equation Approach (1:15:41)

Date:: April 2, 2010
Main contributors:: Ken Bollen
Summary:: Fixed and random effects models for longitudinal data are common in the social sciences. Their primary advantage is that they control for time-invariant omitted variables. However, analysts face se...

3. A Kuhnian Perspective on Publication Biases and Low Inter-Rater Reliability (1:35:31)

Date:: February 25, 2011
Main contributors:: Carole J. Lee
Summary:: The incentives, review processes, and norms of peer review provide the foundation for sustaining the piecemeal contribution and critique of knowledge in scientific communities. However, a growing i...

4. A Practical Guide to Generating and Analyzing Political Event Data (2:05:14)

Date:: October 26, 2012
Main contributors:: Philip Schrodt
Summary:: Political event data – categorical data on who did what to whom – is now being coded in near real time using open source software. This talk will look at some of the data sets that have recently be...

5. A Realist's Guide to Gerrymandering (1:35:00)

Date:: November 8, 2019
Main contributors:: Duchin, Moon
Summary:: Moon Duchin is an Associate Professor of Mathematics at Tufts University.

6. A Workshop in Spatial Analysis: Measuring Exposure to Location-Based Risk Factors During Daily Ac... (1:38:03)

Date:: March 4, 2011
Main contributors:: Douglas J. Wiebe
Summary:: We are conducting a population-based case-control study in the City of Philadelphia to investigate how the nature and whereabouts of adolescents’ daily activities relate to the likelihood of being ...

7. Abortion Attitudes: The difficulties of simple questions about complex issues (1:42:00)

Date:: August 26, 2022
Main contributors:: Jozkowski, Kristen; Crawford, Brandon
Summary:: The recent Supreme Court decision in the Dobbs v. Jackson resulted in the overturning of Roe v. Wade, ending the constitutional right of a pregnant person to choose to have an abortion until fetal ...

8. Accessing Complex Systems: An Introduction to Agent-Based Models (1:53:00)

Date:: March 6, 2020
Main contributors:: Uribe-McGuire, Alicia
Summary:: The world we live in is complex. Individuals change, evolve, and grow as they experience the world and others around them. Agent-based and computational models can help us account for the complexit...

9. Age-Period-Cohort Analysis: New Models, Methods, and Empirical Analyses (2:01:21)

Date:: April 15, 2011
Main contributors:: Kenneth C. Land
Summary:: The age-period-cohort model identification and estimation problem has been defined and studied in demography, epidemiology, statistics, and the social sciences for about four decades. This presenta...

10. An Introduction to Instrumental Variables Analysis (2:39:09)

Date:: January 18, 2013
Main contributors:: Christian B. Hansen
Summary:: Instrumental variables (IV) methods provide an approach to estimating causal or structural relationships from observational data and have historically been widely used in economics. This lecture wi...