Comparative Political Economy at Columbia

The CPE@CU blog is in dormancy, and I am now blogging over at cyrussamii.com Please visit me over there. Cyrus

After a bit of a hiatus from blogging, we're back, pointing you to some great research on tainted regression discontinuity designs (RDDs...

A few months ago I posted on an entry on using estimates of "turning points" in financial time series to study the economic costs...

At the comparative politics workshop yesterday, Thad Dunning presented some work in progress on "Endogenous Oil Rents." The puzzl...

At the Columbia political economy seminar this week, Tomas Sjostrom presented a paper he co-authored with Sandeep Baliga on "Strategic ...

Michael Ross has a provocative article in the current issue of the APSR. He argues that women's rights in the Middle East have been sty...

Some recent discussions in the hallways about modeling interaction terms leads me to put this post up. Interaction terms in regression mode...

News reports say that the number of deaths from the violence in Kenya in the month following the elections reached about 800. Data from the...

Having recently used the phrase "enduring rivalry" in a recent blog comment on the current crisis in Kenya, I was interested to s...

Christa Brunnschweiler and Erwin Bulte have a new working paper on the effects of natural resource dependence on the risk of civil war onset...

In a new World Bank working paper, Cambridge historian CA Bayly offers a revision of the "colonial origins of comparative development...

Simon Gachter and Benedikt Herrmann present results in a new working paper on their public goods games experiments in urban and rural Russia...

An article from the IRIN news service ( linked here ) suggests that the following factors were central in motivating people to participate i...

Discussion of events in Kenya on Ryan Sheeley's blog continue. Ryan discussed the idea that the restoration of order may need to flow...

On their blogs, Chris Blattman and Ryan Sheeley have been offering updates and links to other blogs on the Kenyan electoral crisis. I pos...

Another clever way of embedding a behavioral experiment into a survey: Rene Bekkers. 2007. "Measuring Altruistic Behavior in Surveys: T...

An important issue in the study of violent conflict is the nature of the economic costs that are imposed. On the one hand, instability driv...

Here's the abstract from an interesting paper by Stephen Meier and Alois Stutzer in the current issue of Economica (gated link here ) St...

Virginia and I were looking at how to implement error correction models (ECMs) to study the stability of vote shares for parties and incumbe...

At yesterday's political economy workshop, our own Massimo Morelli presented a working paper that he co-authored with Matthew Jackson en...