🚨 FirstView day for my newest paper Political Analysis! Would you like to reduce costs and improve performance when hand-labeling documents for machine learning projects? Read on...🧵1/4

NYU Abu Dhabi (NYUAD Social Science) is thrilled to host the 11th Asian Political Methodology Conference (Political Methodology) and the *first ever* MENA PolMeth Conference on January 11-12, 2024. Submit your abstracts here by *August 1*: nyuad.nyu.edu/en/events/2024…

How does victimization status affect politicians' responsiveness? Using experimental evidence from postwar Colombia, Joan Barceló & Mauricio Vela Baron causally link elected official behavior to conflict victimization. #APSR #APSRFirstView ow.ly/gM1150OZMa3

Excited to share that my work with Nicholas Haas has been conditionally accepted at the American Political Science Review. After years of hard work, we’re so pleased about this outcome! “My History or Our History? Historical Revisionism and Entitlement to Lead” bit.ly/3OeqBaU 🧵👇:

Today in #APSA2023 undergrad research session 10 am one of our top grads, Sekou Jabateh, is presenting his research. He’s 22 and already runs his own NGO in Liberia through which he’s implemented RCTs on peacebuilding. He wants to do his PhD in CP/PE. Calling all DGSes…

#IBEIresearchSeminar | Building Cooperation Across Ethnic Groups with Interpersonal Monetary Transfers Joan Barceló (NYU Abu Dhabi) will present a field experiment in post-war Liberia, pointing us towards promising post-conflict reconciliation efforts 🔗t.ly/cVBL5

Full room at the 1st #IBEIresearchSeminar of the academic year! Joan Barceló (NYU Abu Dhabi) presented a field experiment in post-war Liberia, pointing us towards promising post-conflict reconciliation efforts. ⏰ Check the next events here: t.ly/H5fSZ

El líder del #PSOE repite mandato y con el resultado puede respirar tranquilo, pero previsiblemente solo por un tiempo. Junto a Joan Barceló analizamos lo que viene en la política española tras la investidura de #PedroSánchez ⤵️ go.france24.com/8QP

How does victimization status affect politicians' responsiveness? Using experimental evidence from postwar Colombia, Joan Barceló & Mauricio Vela Barón causally link elected official behavior to conflict victimization. #APSRNewIssue ow.ly/YEQa50QxpAu

🚨 Do pandemic policy research! We are hiring up to 3 *remote* research fellows (comes /w stipend) to work 5 mos on the CoronaNet Research Project project doing policy analysis/cleaning/coding on our massive database of pandemic-related govt. policies. Info here: drive.google.com/file/d/1TRixLA…

Hiring a remote RA (starting ASAP) with Laura Saavedra-Lux for a project on rebel governance and post-conflict recovery in Iraq. 🚨 Must be skilled in collecting and cleaning remote sensing data. Looking for an RA #rstats #geospatial #Iraq Please share! Information and 🔗 below:

🚨 New Paper How do you track a novel epidemic when data & transmission dynamics are uncertain? We design a Bayesian method (similar to election poll trackers!) that uses the info available in the early stages of COVID-19 to form robust priors. (1/) academic.oup.com/jrsssa/article…

🦠A new virus can be very hard to track when testing data is limited Building on the COVID-19 experience Robert Kubinec Joan Barceló Cindy Cheng propose a way to incorporate diverse data to better inform disease estimates via principled Bayesian modeling doi.org/10.1093/jrsssa…

FirstView day for my newest paper American Political Science Review! 🥳 We show that when partisan redistricters draw the lines, they don't just take preferred voters: they also capture corporate headquarters. Take a look here: doi.org/10.1017/S00030…

From my upcoming WP on idealstan: Non-ignorable missing data when estimating survey respondent latent traits can be very problematic. Plots below show idealstan fits with and without missing data vs. emIRT (no missing data) for the Asahi Todai survey included in emIRT.

#OpenAccess from PS: Political Science & Politics - A Global Ranking of Research Productivity of Political Science Departments - cup.org/4hNHFBc - Joan Barceló, Christopher Paik, @vanderwindt & Haoyü Zhai (all NYU Abu Dhabi) #FirstView

New paper alert. Are legacies of conflict always expressed along the conflict’s primary dimension? No. Leveraging a natural experiment of history in Catalonia, we find that post-conflict politics reshapes the legacies of violence. With Joan Barceló journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00…