🚨3 new projects 🚨
1/3: an Algorithmic Redistricting Atlas
Explore congressional redistricting across enacted, simulated, and optimized maps. It has data for the last 5 presidential elections, and you can swing the nationwide baseline.
I remember seeing an economics JMP that introduced a variation of shift share that combined Black migration from the South along with Hispanic migration to create an instrument for diversification. I cannot seem to recall the author or where the paper is hosted!
I’m happy to say that I have defended my dissertation, “Racial Representation in American Local Politics.” I could not have done this without the love and support of my family, friends, colleagues and advisors. (1/3)
I want to thank my committee James (Jim) M. Snyder, Jr., Stephen Ansolabehere, @Taeku_Lee , and @StephanieTern . It is truly rare to have a group of advisors as attentive and generous with their time as these four scholars.
apply to present at the apsa local political economy pre-conference! 4/30 deadline.
see last year’s program to get an idea of whether your work would be a good fit. there is a poster session this year to allow even more presenters.
https://t.co/zjo62Ul71a
Redistricting Reforms Reduce Gerrymandering by Constraining Partisan Actors is now forthcoming in the APSR!
We use a game theoretic treatment and continuous DiD(iD) to show when redistricting reforms work
w/ @CoryMcCartan, @tylersimko, Emma Ebowe, Michael Zhao, & Kosuke Imai
We’re continuing to build this into a comprehensive, long-run collection of U.S. election results.
Next steps:
• Extend forward in future cycles
• Continue refining past years
• Push further back in time
Watch this space.
Electing foreign-born legislators show more support for permissive immigration policies in the US, but not in the UK or Canada finds @jeremiahbcha of @harvard https://t.co/lA1v0GbzdR
Yoshinobu Yamamoto won Games 2, 6 and 7 of the World Series. He threw a complete game in Game 2, six innings and 96 pitches on Friday and came back Saturday to throw 2.2 scoreless innings on 34 pitches and induce the World Series-winning double play. A legendary performance.
Free to read for a limited period from the latest issue of @JournalREP -
Dilemmas in Representation: Immigration, Identity, and Political Parties - https://t.co/xEwTQK4Tr3
- @jeremiahbcha, @_JustinGest & @TomWongPhD#JREP10
my article "Equivalency Framing of Problems and Policy Solutions" with Laura Stoker and Amy Lerman was published earlier this year @PolBehavior. we investigate the effects of equivalency, or gain-loss, framing on political problems and proposed solutions
https://t.co/r60m3ViVuh
The cumulative Cooperative Election Study dataset has been updated to include the 2024 validated turnout / registration variables: https://t.co/zTjZZpupyG
The changelog: