Readings
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Mastering ‘Metrics: The Path from Cause to Effect
Princeton University Press, 2014.
Joshua D. Angrist and Jörn-Steffen Pischke
(Chapter 3) -
Misdemeanor Disenfranchisement? The Demobilizing Effects of Brief Jail Spells on Potential Voters
American Political Science Review, 2018.
Ariel White- Podcast with the author walking through the research and design (optional). On any podcast app: “Probable Causation”, Episode 13.
- Judge leniency IV designs: Now not just for Crime Studies (optional)
- Short blog post on the “judge leniency” instrumental variables setup (as in the White article above), and its application in other contexts
Optional
Instrumental Variables Estimation in Political Political Science: A Readers’ Guide
American Journal of Political Science, 2011.
Allison J. Sovey and Donald P. Green
Instrumental variables estimates are local average treatment effects, specific to “compliers” (i.e. those who are affected by the instrument). The following article (and its accompanying statistical software) allows you to understand who the “compliers” are.
Profiling Compliers and Noncompliers for Instrumental-Variables Analysis
Political Analysis, 2020.
Moritz Marbach and Dominik Hangartner
In-class exercise
Exercise R script: IV_exercise_for_students.R
Exercise data: defendants_voter1_deidentified.Rdata