Events

Upcoming events

• TBA

Past events

• Workshop: "Advanced Statistical Inference" (Luke Keele, Georgetown University, sponsored by Elias Dinas), April 2018.
• Reading Session: "Field Experiments". We discuss this short paper by Ryan D. Enos.
• Workshop: "Matching, Weighting and Regression - When Will Estimates Differ?" (Moritz Marbach, ETH Zurich), co-organised with the EUI Data Clinic.
• Workshop: "Matching Mathods" (Luke Keele, Georgetown University, sponsored by Fabrizio Bernardi and Diego Gambetta), June 2017.
• Workshop: "Bayesian Statistics" (Johan A. Elkink, UCD, sponsored by the Max Weber Programme), May 2017.
• Roundtable: "Methodological Challenges in the Study of European Integration", May 2017.
• Workshop: "LaTeX for Social Scientists" (Julia Schulte-Cloos, EUI) , March 2017.
• Discussion/Reading session: "Missing Values and Multiple Imputation", February 2017.
• Workshop: "Survey Experiments" (Thomas Leeper, LSE, sponsored by the Max Weber Programme), January 2017.
• Workshop: "Introduction to text analysis" (Pablo Barberà, NYU), May 2016.
• Discussion/Reading session with the SPS data clinic: "Interaction effects" (paper), May 2016.
• Workshop: "Visualizing data and statistical models" (Richard Traunmüller, University of Frankfurt), March 2016.
• Workshop: "R programming and data analysis" (Paul C. Bauer, co-organized together with Samuel Schmid and sponsored by Fabrizio Bernardi), March 2016.
• Discussion/Reading session: "Qualitative evidence within causal inference", February 2016.
  • Glynn AN, Ichino N. Using Qualitative Information to Improve Causal Inference. American Journal of Political Science. Forthcoming.
  • Humphreys Macartan, Jacobs Alan, 2014. Mixing Methods: A Bayesian Integration of Qualitative and Quantitative Inferences. (published version here)
• Workshop: "oTree - Running behavioral experiments online" (Chris Wickens, Daniel Chen, this workshop was co-financed by the SPS/ECO departments and organized by Diego Gambetta & Paul Bauer), February 2016.
• Presentation session (Inés Berniell & Paul Bauer), February 2016.
• Discussion/Reading session: "Survey representativeness", December 2015.
  • The Mythical Swing Voter (corresponding blog post)
  • Household Surveys in Crisis
  • Evaluating Online Labor Markets for Experimental Research: Amazon.com’s Mechanical Turk
  • Modern polling needs innovation, not traditionalism
  • What's a "valid" sample? Problems with Mechanical Turk study samples, part 1
  • Fooled twice, shame on who? Problems with Mechanical Turk study samples, part 2
• Workshop: "Running online surveys with nonprobability samples" (Thomas Leeper, LSE, Course material here), December 2015.
• Presentation session (Stefanie Reher & Tobias Lenz), November 2015.
• Kickoff meeting, November 2015.