Here is my research statement.
Dissertation
My dissertation, entitled "Natural Experiments in Democracy: Essays on Money, Politics, and Institutions in Britain and France," pays careful attention to causal inference in using novel data to address fundamental questions about electoral rules, party structures, and money and politics. The component papers are identified with asterisks below.
Working Papers
Money and Politics
- Political Investing: The Common Stock Investments of Members of Congress 2004-2007 (joint with Jens Hainmueller, May 31, 2009).
Political Institutions
- *Proportional Representation and the Number of Parties: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in French Municipalities (September 6, 2009).
- *"Political Competition and Policy: Evidence from French Local Governments"
- "Proportional Representation and Turnout: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in French Municipalities"
Publications
- *MPs For Sale: Returns to Office in Post-War British Politics (with Jens Hainmueller), American Political Science Review, November 2009. (Article in The Guardian about working paper version)
- "Well-being and Unemployment in Russia in the 1990s: Can Society's Suffering be Individuals' Solace?" (with C. Gaddy and C. Graham), Journal of Socio-Economics, 2006.
- "The Role of Output Composition in the Stabilization of US Output Growth" (with Y. Ioannides), Journal of Macroeconomics, 2006.
- "Does Happiness Pay? An Exploration Based on Panel Data from Russia" (with C. Graham, S. Sukhtankar), Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2004.
Software
- GoogleMap.r, an R interface for the mapping feature of Google Charts. (Blog post on Harvard Social Science Statistics Blog introducing the code.)