Below is the schedule for the semester. You can find the materials for each course meeting under the “Content” links for that week. You should complete the required readings before each meeting.
Here’s a guide to the schedule:
- Materials (): This page contains the readings and slides for the meeting
- Workshop (): A link to the workshop for that week
- Assignment (): This page contains the instructions for each assignment
The readings refer to following texts:
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Date
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Title
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Reading
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Materials
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Workshop
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Assignment
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Week 1
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January 18
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Introduction to the course
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Week 2
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January 23
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Correlation and Causation
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TCD Ch 2-3
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January 25
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Causal Inference 1
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DSS Ch 2; Duflo (2017)
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Week 3
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January 30
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Survey Research
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DSS Ch 3
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February 1
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Democracy and Autocratization 1 (Survey Experiments)
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Grady; Albertus and Grossman (2021); Hollerbauer et al. (2024)
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Week 4
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February 6
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Linear Regression
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DSS Ch 4
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February 8
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Causal Inference 2
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DSS Ch 5
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Week 5
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February 13
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Migration 1
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3ie; Sviatschi (2022); Gazeaud (2020)
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February 15
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Migration 2 (guest: Wibbels)
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TBD
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Week 6
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February 20
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Crime 1 (guest: Schmidt-Padilla)
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Dell (2015); Sviatschi (2022)
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February 22
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Crime 2 (guest: Schmidt-Padilla)
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Angelova et al. (2023)
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Week 7
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February 27
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Conflict & Cohesion 1
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Paluck et al. (2021); Grady et al. (2023); Mousa (2020)
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February 29
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Conflict & Cohesion 2
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Week 8
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March 5
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Spring Break
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March 7
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Spring Break
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Week 9
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March 12
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Final Project Essentials
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No readings
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March 14
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Democracy and Autocratization 2
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VDem (2024); Garcia-Ponce and Wantchekon (2023)
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Week 10
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March 19
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Democracy and Autocratization 3
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Hassan et al. (2022); Lebas and Young (2023)
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March 21
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Accountability and Information 1
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Jablonski and Seim (2023)
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Week 11
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March 26
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Accountability 2
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Sierra (2020)
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March 28
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Accountability 3
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Dunning et al. (2019)
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Week 12
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April 2
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Foreign Aid and NGOs 1
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Briggs (2016); Briggs (2021)
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April 4
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Foreign Aid and NGOs 2
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Cruz (2017); Bold et al. (2018)
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Week 13
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April 9
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Climate and Development (guest: O’Brien-Udry)
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O’Brien-Udry (2023)
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April 11
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Climate and Development 2
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Namrata (2023); Alberto et al. (2022)
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Week 14
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April 16
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Git and Github
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No readings
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April 18
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No Class
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No readings
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Week 15
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April 23
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Github Pages
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No readings
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April 25
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State Capacity (guest: Nagawa)
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Fukuyama (2013); Ekeh (1975); Di Maro et al. (2021)
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Week 16
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April 30
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Final Project Preparation
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Assorted short pieces
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Week 17
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May 10
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Final Project Due
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