9/29

Ruth Turley, Department of Sociology, Harvard University: "Relative Poverty 
and Child Cognitive and Behavioral Development" (keywords: sibling model) 
Discussant: Prof. Gary King, Department of Government, Harvard University.
            
Prof. Phil Paolino, Department of Political Science, University of Texas at 
Austin, visiting scholar at CBRSS: "Candidate Exit During the Presidential 
Nomination Process" (keywords: time series, unit root)
Discussant: Shigeo Hirano, Political Economy and Government, Harvard 
University.

10/6

Prof. Gary King, Department of Government, Harvard University, 
Prof. Langche Zeng, Department of Political Science, George Washington 
University: "Logistic Regression  in Rare Events Data", and "Estimating 
Absolute, Relative, and Attributable Risks in Case-Control Studies" (Keywords:
 rare events, logit, logistic regression, binary dependent variables, bias correction, 
case-control, choice-based, endogenous selection, selection bias, epidemiology)
Discussant: Jennifer Hill, Department of Statistics, Harvard University

10/13

Steve Yonish, Department of Political Science, University of Wisconsin at 
Madison, Visiting scholar, Department of Government, Harvard University: "How 
Important Is Response Rate? An Evaluation of a Mail Panel Survey Archive" 
(Kewords: nonresponse, selection bias, non-random samples)
Discussant: Prof. John Barnard, Department of Statistics, Harvard University
            
Maurits van der Veen, Department of Government, Harvard University: "Selecting
the Recipients of Aid: A Two-Stage, Sample-Selection Model" (Keywords: 
incidental truncation) 
Discussant: Steve Morgan, Department of Sociology, Harvard University

10/20

Prof. Christopher Winship, Department of Sociology, Harvard University: "A
Reassessment of Multicollinearity: A Bayesian Approach" (Keywords: 
multicollinearity, model misspecification, Bayesian approach)
Discussant: Brady Baybeck, Harvard-MIT Date Center, Harvard University

10/27

Todd Bodner, Department of Psychology, Harvard University: "On the Analysis 
of Coarsened Normal Data with Unknown Cut-Points: A Comparison of the 
Proportional-Odds Model with the Normal Theory t-test" (Keyeords: ordinal data, 
t-test, proportional-odd model, randomized experiments, coarsened normal 
distributions)
Discussant: Prof. Jasjeet Sekhon, Department of Government, Harvard 
University

11/3

Prof. Yongil Jeon, CBRSS, Harvard University: "Estimating the Willingness to Pay 
Distribution: Overcoming Inherent Informational Deficiencies with Theoretical 
Restrictions, Reasonable Assumptions, and Prior Information" (Keywords: survey 
data, interval censoring, bayesian analysis)
Discussant: Kevin Quinn, Ph.D, CBRSS, Harvard University

11/10

Prof. John Barnard, Department of Statistics, Harvard University, Jennifer Hill, 
Department of Statistics, Harvard University: "School Choice in NY City: A Bayesian
Analysis of an Imperfect Randomized Experiment" (Keywords: missing data, 
noncompliance, Rubin Causal Model, propensity scores)
Discussant: James Honaker, Department of Government, Harvard University

11/17

Garrett Glasgow, PhD, CBRSS, Harvard University: "Mixed Logit Models for Multiparty 
Elections" (Keywords: mixed logit, random-coefficients models, simulated maximum 
likelihood)
Discussant: Prof. Christopher Winship, Department of Sociology, Harvard University

11/24

TBA
Discussant: TBA

12/1

Prof. Jasjeet Sekhon, Department of Government, Harvard University: "Coordination, 
Moderation and Institutional Balancing in American House Elections at Midterm"  
(Keywords: stochastic choice model, formal probabilistic voting model,coordination 
and moderation, theory testing)
Discussant: Todd Bodner, Department of Psychology, Harvard University

12/8

Jennifer Hill, Department of Statistics, Harvard University: "An Extension and Test 
of Converse's 'Black-and-White' Model of Response Stability" (Keywords: opinion-
changing behavior, mixture models, Gibbs sampling, posterior predictive checks, 
Bayes factors)
Discussant: Scott Desposato, PhD, Harvard-MIT Data Center

12/15

Kevin Quinn, PhD, CBRSS: "An Empirically Accurate Model of Multiparty Electoral
Competition"  (Keywords: confirmatory factor analysis, ordinal data, missing data, 
Bayesian inference, MCMC) 
Discussant:  Coen A. Bernaards, Department of Statistics, Harvard University