Readings

Required and recommended readings, organized by week.

Readings will be posted here as the course progresses.

Week 1 — Aug 25: Introductions

Readings:

• Mutz, Diana and Soha Rao. 2018. “The Real Reason Liberals Drink Lattes.” PS: Political Science & Politics 51(4).
• Achen, Christopher. “Advice for Students Taking a First Political Science Graduate Course in Statistical Methods.” The Political Methodologist.

Recommended:

• Wheelan, Charles. 2012. “Why I Hate Calculus, but Love Statistics.” In Naked Statistics.

Week 2 — Sep 1: Causality and Inference

Readings:

• Bailey Ch. 1

Recommended:

• Angrist, Joshua and Jörn-Steffen Pischke. 2009. “Questions about Questions.” In Mostly Harmless Econometrics.