POLS 208 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Anuja Iyer, Signal 1, Quasi
12 Mar 2018
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Exogeneity without (researcher) control is what these studies have in common. The effe(cid:272)t of assassi(cid:374)atio(cid:374)s o(cid:374) i(cid:374)stitutio(cid:374)s a(cid:374)d war. (cid:863) american economic. Independent variable: treatment: was the attempt successful, dependent variable: polity score, how democratic is the country, sources of randomization, the things that predict variation in the successfulness of assassination attempts, the individual matters. Bursztyn & cantoni (2016: they are study private consumption choices and what people choose to buy. In the 1980s and 1990s, some parts of east germany had differential access to television broadcasts: dark regions: weak signals, light regions: strong signal. Interventions that resemble experiments but lack randomization: comparison group verses control group, difference between natural experiments, quasi: treatment is a planned intervention. Campbell & ross (1968: 1955 deaths by motor vehicles reached a record high in ct, 2 days before christmas: governor initiates crackdown on speeding.
