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Special Edition Articles with Replication Data

Generalizing from Survey Experiments Conducted on Mechanical Turk: A Replication Approach*Alexander Coppock (2019) PSRM, more info.

Separating the Shirkers from the Workers? Making Sure Respondents Pay Attention on Self-Administered SurveysAdam Berinsky, +2 more authors (2014) AJPS, more info.

Racing the Clock: Using Response Time As a Proxy for Attentiveness on Self-Administered SurveysBlair Read, +2 more authors (2022) POLAN, more info.

Paying Attention to Inattentive Survey RespondentsR. Michael Alvarez, +3 more authors (2019) POLAN, more info.

The Face of Internet Recruitment: Evaluating the Labor Markets of Online Crowdsourcing Platforms in ChinaXiaojun Li, +2 more authors (2018) RAP, more info.

No Harm in Checking: Using Factual Manipulation Checks to Assess Attentiveness in ExperimentsJohn V. Kane, +1 more author (2019) AJPS, more info.

Using Screeners to Measure Respondent Attention on Self-Administered Surveys: Which Items and How Many?*Christopher Warshaw, +3 more authors (2021) PSRM, more info.

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Residuals and Residual Plots
Daniel McCarron discusses and demonstrates regression diagnostics with residuals (13:50).

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Investigating the Economic Value of a Law School Education: A Regression Analysis Approach
Researching the real economic value of a law school education offers valuable insights into whether...

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Blogs, Podcasts & Journals

Presidential Studies Quarterly: .Peer-reviewed political science journal devoted to study of presidents and presidency.

Constitutional Political Economy: .A forum for research in the broad area of constitutional analysis, which lies at the intersection of several approaches in modern economics.

Illinois Political Science Review: .From the Illinois Political Science Association

Party Politics: .(Sage Journals) Forum for the analysis of political parties.

National Civic Review: .Learn about the latest developments in collaborative problems-solving, civic engagement, local government innovation and democratic governance.

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Data Sites

European Social Survey: .The European Social Survey (ESS) is an academically driven cross-national survey that has been conducted across Europe since 2001. Every two years, face-to-face interviews are conducted with newly selected, cross-sectional samples.

Economic Freedom of the World: .From the Fraser Institute.

Political Institutions and Public Choice Program Data: .Focused on the House of Representatives

IPUMS: .Census and survey data from around the world integrated across time and space.

World Values Survey: .The WVS consists of nationally representative surveys conducted in almost 100 countries which contain almost 90 percent of the world

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Authors with Datasets

Campbell, Jim .

Fortna, Page .Columbia University

Jankin, Slava .University of Essex

Reif, Megan .University of Gothenburg

Peterson, Erik .

Golder, Matthew .Penn State Univ., see research page.

Lyall, Jason .Dartmouth College, see publications and data page.

Kertzer, Joshua .

Barnes, Lucy .

Smith, Daniel .

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