Gary King Datasets
Studies: 31
Abstract:

The massive increase in text available in digital formats presents enormous opportunities for social scientists. Yet systematically hand coding a significant share of the available blogs, speeches, emails, web ...

hdl:1902.1/12898
176 downloads + analyses
Updated: Jun 23, 2009
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The enormous Nazi voting literature rarely builds on modern statistical or economic research. By adding these approaches, we find that the most widely accepted existing theories of this era cannot distinguish ...

hdl:1902.1/11193
95 downloads + analyses
Updated: Jun 10, 2009
Replication data for: The Supreme Court During Crisis: How War Affects Only Nonwar Cases by Lee Epstein; Daniel E. Ho; Gary King; and Jeffrey A. Segal
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Does the U.S. Supreme Court curtail rights and liberties when the nation's security is under threat? In hundreds of articles and books, and with renewed fervor since September 11, 2001, members of the ...

hdl:1902.1/RESUDVYWPE
361 downloads + analyses
Updated: Apr 16, 2009
Replication data for: Public Policy for the Poor? A Randomized Ten-Month Evaluation of the Mexican Universal Health Insurance Program by Gary King; Emmanuela Gakidou; Kosuke Imai; Jason Lakin ; Ryan T. Moore ; Clayton Nall; Nirmala Ravishankar; Manett Vargas; Martha María Téllez-Rojo; Juan Eugenio Hernández-Ávila ; Mauricio Hernández-Ávila; Hector Hernández Llamas
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We evaluate aspects of Mexico’s Seguro Popular program, one of the world’s largest health policy reforms of the last two decades. The reform is designed to provide health insurance for the half of the ...

hdl:1902.1/11044
114 downloads + analyses
Updated: Mar 23, 2009
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A basic feature of many field experiments is that investigators are only able to randomize clusters of individuals — such as households, communities, firms, medical practices, schools, or classrooms ...

hdl:1902.1/11047
67 downloads + analyses
Updated: Mar 16, 2009
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A response to Sambanis and Michaelides, "A Comment on Diagnostic Tools for Counterfactual Inference", which was a comment on: Gary King and Langche Zeng. 2006. "The ...

hdl:1902.1/11903
17 downloads
Updated: Mar 15, 2009
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"Politimetrics" (Gurr 1972), "polimetrics" (Alker 1975), "politometrics" (Hilton 1976), "political arithmetic" (Petty [1672] 1971), "quantitative Political Science (QPS)," "governmetrics," "posopolitics" (Papayanopoulos ...

hdl:1902.1/KHTLSQXAEJ
1313 downloads
Updated: Oct 5, 2008
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When the Palestinians launch a mortar attack into Israel, the Israeli army does not wait until the end of the calendar year to react. Yet, most modern data collections are aggregated to the month ...

hdl:1902.1/FYXLAWZRIA
7763 downloads + analyses
Updated: Aug 6, 2008
Replication data for: A Unified Model of Cabinet Dissolution in Parliamentary Democracies by Gary King; James E. Alt ; Nancy Burns; and Michael Laver
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The literature on cabinet duration is split between two apparently irreconcilable positions. The attributes theorists seek to explain cabinet duration as a fixed function of measured explanatory variables, while ...

hdl:1902.1/RMPXNUSBBS
521 downloads + analyses
Updated: Jan 11, 2008
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Researchers sometimes argue that statisticians have little to contribute when few realizations of the process being estimated are observed. We show that this argument is incorrect even in the extreme ...

hdl:1902.1/NOLXXTUHNZ
94 downloads + analyses
Updated: Dec 9, 2007