Ben Fifield

After Repression After Repression: How Polarization Derails Democratic Transition ​ Princeton Studies in Political Behavior Winner, Robert A. Dahl Award (2022) Given by the American Political Science Association...

two votes: www.elizabethnugent.com/afterrepress... and a.co/d/7XqX4vr

Leda Liang

wildly under-viewed interviews that rob tibshirani conducted over the past year for a reading course. really interesting discussions with Don Rubin, Jamie Robins, Jerry Friedman, Vladimir Vovk, and others www.youtube.com/@LedaLiang/v...

Folks smarter than me will point you today to how to *listen* to Steve Albini's impact on the music Gen X grew up with. I want to encourage you to read him in his own words, with "The Problem with Music," a essay he wrote for The Baffler in 1993 warning rising bands about "music industry scum." RIP.

Prolonged contact does not reshape locals' attitudes toward migrants in wartime settings Despite record numbers of internally displaced persons (IDPs) globally, we know little about the causal effects of intergroup contact between migrants and locals in active conflict settings. We condu...

Does sustained contact with migrants change locals' attitudes toward them in wartime? In a new AJPS article, Yang-Yang Zhou & me conduct a field experiment in Kandahar, Afghanistan, and find no evidence that locals' attitudes changed in any way

Open Access: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Election Data Is Vital to Voting Rights. So Why Is It So Hard to Track Down? Analysts spend countless hours and resources compiling the precinct-level results they need for litigation and research. They want legislation to force states to make it all accessible.

Analysts spend countless hours and resources compiling the precinct-level election results they need for litigation and research. They want legislation to force states to make it all accessible.

NEW in Bolts:

"i treat my whole life like a text buffer"

gonna start using emacs+ess again www.youtube.com/watch?v=urcL...

roses are red
i’m facing an impediment
covariance matrix of latent variables is not positive definite

primus + zappa + bigfoot

algorithmic IG feed finally paid off

open.spotify.com/track/1AGOkz...

(Smaller set of parameters to manage and format into something nice looking, though)

Sensemakr does a good job of this with its sensitivity_stats() function. Would be nice to have something similar for HMC samplers.

buying steel wool to keep mice out of the basement, aka mouse nimby

a proud day for princeton pol grads named fife

SOI Tax Stats - Migration Data | Internal Revenue Service U.S. Population Migration Data Migration data for the United States are based on year-to-year address changes reported on individual income tax returns filed with the IRS. They present migration patte...

IRS is an excellent source for county-level migration data, based on tax filings. Includes both inflows and outflows.

www.irs.gov/statistics/s...

A few more:

Coppock 2019, PSRM (alexandercoppock.com/coppock_2019... )
Coppock, Leeper, Mullinix 2018, PNAS (alexandercoppock.com/coppock_leep... )

yes my son, but if you believe hard enough none of their paths shall cross

Peng Ding's causal inference course book draft, this looks like a killer book to complement hernan and robins, imbens and rubin, etc

Thanks to Lawrence Lessig for the vivid lesson of how power and privilege work.

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