Just published on APSR First View: "Misinformation and Support for Vigilantism: An Experiment in India and Pakistan" by Sumitra Badrinathan, Simon Chauchard, and Niloufer Siddiqui. cambridge.org/core/journals/…

So, immigrants come to this country (with fentanyl & guns to sell) but steal your job demanding to work for less than minimum wage. Then, with all those sub-minimum wages, outbid you on a house. (And may be eat your pets). Got it.

Gonna start a podcast about podcasts

Things not going so hot rn

Twitter doesn't know I'm qual methods

Siri, sum up higher education in 2024 in one headline

On open access PSRM Journal: Ballot symbols influence vote choice in India, and candidates respond by trying to choose popular symbols in a lottery If you're an independent candidate reading this, you want the diamond ring and you want to avoid the ghobi tinyurl.com/ypxa9b44

My favorite month

Somewhere along the way “correlation is not causation” morphed into “until the causal link is proven beyond a reasonable doubt, ideally with a large scale RCT with global external validity, than the correlation likely reflects the impact of some unobserved factor I can’t name.”

I am excited to share that CASI is looking for its next Director. I have loved serving in this role, and am excited to have another scholar of India continue to build its vibrant community and take it to new heights. Come be my colleague Penn! apply.interfolio.com/156880

My paper is out in the Journal of Historical Political Economy! Let me know if you need a PDF and I'll be happy to send it your way. nowpublishers.com/article/Detail…

.Ajay Verghese evaluates causal claims in the study of history & concludes that "it is unclear that 'randomized controlled history' can make more credible causal inferences than a selection on observables approach." A good read For a prepublication version papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

I like these type of conversations that assess the validity of statistical procedures from a domain perspective. We should always ask if a method faithfully reflects the data generating process of our own. No statistician can answer this Q.

Now out: JHPE 4(3). Articles by Sebastian Saiegh, Ajay Verghese, Brenda Van Coppenolle, Elias Dinas & Elli Palaiologou, and a review essay by Phil Hoffman. nowpublishers.com/HPE

saw the northern lights

I have made the same decision in 2024

To my fellow quant scholars- qualitative research that does not generalize to a population or that focuses on a specific group is not a poorly designed study.

Apropos of absolutely nothing, here is my new paper about how instrumental variables used to study colonial impact are often historically inaccurate. nowpublishers.com/article/Detail…

Today's the day!!! Huge thanks to OUPReligion for a great cover & for keeping the price low. My hope is this book helps correct our popular Western misunderstandings about how religion works & encourages the academy to once again take religion seriously. amazon.com/Religion-Reali…