John Duggan (Alesina Seminar) An enduring challenge in the political economy of elections is to construct a tractable model of two-candidate elections that accommodates multidimensional policy spaces, heterogeneous electorates, and mixed candidate motivations and simultaneously guarantees the existence of competitive pure-strategy Nash equilibria...

Thursday at 4:30pm: University of Rochester professor John Duggan unpacks two-candidate elections with "Multidimensional Elections" in this week's Alesina Seminar.
www.iq.harvard.edu/event/john-d...

#PoliticalEconomy #Elections #PoliticalScience #DataAnalysis

Call for Papers: 2026 CGA Conference

#CallForPapers for the 2026 CGA Conference, celebrating the CGA's 20th anniversary with the theme "Celebrating Geographic Analysis: Past, Present, and Future.” See the details:

gis.harvard.edu/call-papers-...
#CGA20 #Harvard #GIS #SpatialAnalysis @cga-harvard.bsky.social

Reliable Inference for Matching Estimators with Control Reuse: A Single-Matching Variance Approach Matching estimators are fundamental in causal inference for drawing population-level conclusions from observational data, yet reliable inference remains challenging. While recent methodological advances have developed asymptotically valid bootstrap procedures and robust standard errors for regression after matching, practical applications reveal severe undercoverage—sometimes missing nominal rates by 20 percentage points even with thousands of observations...

Starting at 12:00 pm ET on Wednesday:Xiang Meng addresses a causal inference challenge with "Reliable Inference for Matching Estimators with Control Reuse: A Single-Matching Variance Approach" at the #AppliedStats workshop.

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RSpace Changelog Keep up to date with new releases of RSpace!

RSpace 2.21 is out!

- New integration with Data Stewardship Wizard (DSW) / FAIR Wizard! 🧙

- Link stoichiometry table elements with subsamples in Inventory 🧪

- An eLabFTW Importer that uses RO-Crate! ↪️

- IGSN IDs are included in Dataverse export metadata 🪪

Full changelog:
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Andrew Hall (Alesina Seminar) "In this paper, we define and measure a previously unstudied channel by which companies react to, and attempt to shape, politics: internal policy teams. We use the text of more than 100,000 job listings to classify the roles of roughly 100 million workers, identifying more than 250,000 individuals working in policy roles in the US..."

Today at 4:30 pm: Stanford professor Andrew Hall examines the influence of internal policy teams, presenting "Investing in Political Expertise: The Remarkable Scale of Corporate Policy Teams" at Alesina Seminar this week.
www.iq.harvard.edu/event/andrew...
#PoliticalEconomy #Lobbying #TextAnalysis

Forgotten Graves: A New Lens on Colonial Slavery In the heart of Cambridge, Jason Ur, Stephen Phillips Professor of Archaeology and Ethnology and IQSS affiliate, is unearthing histories long obscured.

When the #pandemic kept him from continuing his research abroad, IQSS affiliate Jason Ur shifted his work to uncover something long-hidden in Harvard's own backyard.

#Archaeology #BlackHistory #Research #RemoteSensing #GIS #Harvard #History #ColonialHistory
www.iq.harvard.edu/news/2026/04...

Matt Dardet (APRW) "How do voters’ calculations about and orientations towards risk affect American elections? In this paper, I develop and validate a new measure of political risk aversion, show that it is empirically and conceptually distinct from traditional measures of risk aversion across the social sciences, and demonstrate its substantial effects on American voting behavior..."

Special time: Join us THURSDAY at 12:00 ET for the American Politics Research Workshop. Matthew Dardet looks at voter behavior with "Political Risk Aversion and Partisan Sorting in the American Electorate."
www.iq.harvard.edu/event/matt-d...
#PoliticalScience #Elections #GradResearch #TextAnalysis

Starting at 12:00 ET: @pedrosantanna.bsky.social uses doubly robust estimators to get more accurate estimates in studies on #healthcare, #workforcegrowth, and more at this week's #AppliedStats workshop.

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Why Biden-era clean energy investment policies had limited political returns | PNAS The Biden Administration enacted the largest federal policy framework to incentivize clean energy and decarbonization in U.S. history. We examine w...

A recent paper co-authored by IQSS faculty affiliate Dustin Tingley looks at the effect of the Biden Administration's green investments on public opinion: doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
#SocialScienceResearch #ClimatePolicy #CleanEnergy #PublicOpinion

Differential Privacy for Health and Genomics June 2–3, 2026 in Boston...

Save the date: June 2–3, OpenDP at IQSS will host the workshop for Differential Privacy for Health and Genomics, bringing together biomedical and tech professionals to discuss applying #differentialprivacy to health and genomics. Express your interest: opendp.org/events/diffe...

Configure Your Dataverse Repository to Register DataCite DOIs - DataCite Are you interested in learning how to register DOIs with Dataverse? Join staff from the Dataverse Project and DataCite for an information session about Dataverse’s DOI registration functionality. The ...

Join the Dataverse Project team and DataCite for a collaborative webinar:

Configure Your Dataverse Repository to Register DataCite DOIs

April 15 @ 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm UTC

Registration required -

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#Dataverse #software #repositories #openaccess

Dataverse 6.10 is here!

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#Dataverse #software #openscience #repositories

Preliminary Programme - DCM 2026 Dataverse Community Meeting 2026. 12-15 May, Barcelona, World Trade Center.

The preliminary program is now available for the Dataverse Community Meeting in May. You still have time to register! dataverseorg.bsky.social

#DCM26 #Dataverse #DataScience
dcm2026.com/preliminary-...

Issa Dahabreh (Harvard) | Applied Statistics Workshop Gov 3009 Breadcrumbs

Starting at 12:00 ET: Issa Dahabreh ( @hsph.harvard.edu) uses external data to improve #clinicaltrials without affecting unbiased randomization, presenting "Augmenting Randomized Trials" at this week's #AppliedStats workshop.

appliedstatsworkshopgov3009.hsites.harvard.edu/event/issa-d...

Gautam Nair (Alesina Seminar) | The Institute for Quantitative Social Science Breadcrumbs

Thurs at 4:30pm: @harvardkennedy.bsky.social assistant professor Gautam Nair presents "Group-targeted wealth transfers reduce #inequality and intergroup conflict but trigger policy backlash" in this week's Alesina Seminar #politicaleconomy #india
www.iq.harvard.edu/event/gautam...

Getting Started with Spatial Analysis in R | The Institute for Quantitative Social Science Breadcrumbs

Looking to build up your #Rprogramming skills? Learn how to use R for #spatialanalysis in this week's workshop from the @cga-harvard.bsky.social. #GIS #geostatistics #programming #Harvard

gis.harvard.edu/event/gettin...

Melody Huang (Yale) | Applied Statistics Workshop Gov 3009 Breadcrumbs

Weds at 12:00 ET: #Yale assistant professor @melodyyhuang.bsky.social presents "Relative Bias Under Imperfect Identification in Observational #CausalInference" at this week's #AppliedStatistics workshop. #politicalscience #statistics
appliedstatsworkshopgov3009.hsites.harvard.edu/event/melody...

Preliminary Programme - DCM 2026 Dataverse Community Meeting 2026. 12-15 May, Barcelona, World Trade Center.

The preliminary program is available! #2026DCM

👉 View the Program: dcm2026.com/preliminary-...

2). Extended Early Bird discount!
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#Dataverse #software #openaccess

Preliminary Programme - DCM 2026 Dataverse Community Meeting 2026. 12-15 May, Barcelona, World Trade Center.

The preliminary program is available! #2026DCM

👉 View the Program: dcm2026.com/preliminary-...

2). Extended Early Bird discount!
You now have until March 9th (23:59 CET) to secure the discounted rate.

👉 Register here: dcm2026.com/registration/

#Dataverse #software #openaccess

Registration - DCM 2026 Dataverse Community Meeting 2026. 12-15 May, Barcelona, World Trade Center.

There's still time to register at the early bird rate for #Dataverse2026! This year's #Dataverse Community Meeting, co-organized with the Barcelona Supercomputing Center, takes place May 12–15 in Barcelona. @dataverseorg.bsky.social

dcm2026.com/registration/

Elias Papaioannou (Alesina Seminar) | The Institute for Quantitative Social Science Breadcrumbs

Thursday at 4:30pm ET: London Business School professor Elias Papaioannou presents "The Industrial Revolution and Forced Labor in Colonial Africa" in this week's Alesina Seminar.

www.iq.harvard.edu/event/elias-...

Wenqi Shi (Harvard) | Applied Statistics Workshop Gov 3009 Breadcrumbs

Wednesday at 12pm ET: Wenqi Shi proposes a privacy-preserving approach to meta-analysis for new target populations, presenting "Meta-analysis through Low-Rank Basis Hunting" at this week's #AppliedStats workshop.
appliedstatsworkshopgov3009.hsites.harvard.edu/event/wenqi-...

From classrooms to regions: the scale of inequality and educational aspirations | Center for Geographic Analysis Breadcrumbs

Coming up on Feb 24: @crhistianjoel.bsky.social presents "From classrooms to regions: the scale of inequality and educational aspirations" in the next brown bag presentation from @cga-harvard.bsky.social. #gis
gis.harvard.edu/event/classr...

Pope appoints Catholic Harvard professor to Vatican social sciences academy Tyler J. VanderWeele, a Catholic, is an epidemiologist and director of the Human Flourishing Program at Harvard University.

Tyler VanderWeele, Loeb Professor of Epidemiology and director of the Human Flourishing Program at IQSS, has been appointed by Pope Leo to the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences. #socialscience #flourishing #Harvard

www.ewtnnews.com/vatican/pope...

Victoria Mooers (Alesina Seminar) | The Institute for Quantitative Social Science Breadcrumbs

Today at 4:30 pm: UChicago scholar Victoria Mooers examines socially shared political information within voter districts, presenting "Social Networks and Voter Information" at this week's Alesina Seminar. #elections #socialmedia #voting

www.iq.harvard.edu/event/victor...

Andew Ho (Applied Stats Workshop) | The Institute for Quantitative Social Science Breadcrumbs

12pm Wednesday: @gse.harvard.edu professor @andrewdeanho.bsky.social presents a measurement error model to reconcile data from different tests with "Two Watches: Measurement Error Models for Estimating Educational Progress from Discrepant Test Score Trends."
www.iq.harvard.edu/event/andew-...

The art of the online interface | The Institute for Quantitative Social Science IQSS is developing LOOP, a new desktop application that will provide a direct, streamlined connection between the Harvard Dataverse and Sid, simplifying how researchers move, manage, and analyze…

IQSS is developing LOOP, a new desktop #application that will provide a direct, streamlined connection between the @harvarddataverse.bsky.social and Sid, simplifying how researchers move, manage, and analyze their data. #researchcomputing
www.iq.harvard.edu/news/2026/02...

Elisabeth Kempf (Alesina Seminar) | The Institute for Quantitative Social Science Breadcrumbs

Thursday at 4:30pm: HBS associate professor of finance Elisabeth Kempf examines growing #political segregation in corporate leadership with "The Political Polarization of Corporate America" in this week's Alesina Seminar.
www.iq.harvard.edu/event/elisab...

Thursday at 3:30 pm: @harvardcmes.bsky.social fellow Evangeline McGlynn discusses the use of open source intelligence in wars and other violent conflicts, presenting "Open Data/Opaque Analysis: Examining #OSINT Use in Conflict," hosted by @cga-harvard.bsky.social.
gis.harvard.edu/event/open-d...

Joris Frese (European University Institute) | Applied Statistics Workshop Gov 3009 Breadcrumbs

Starting at 12pm ET: @fresejoris.bsky.social presents "Type I Error Inflation in Unexpected Event During Survey Designs" at this week's #AppliedStats Workshop.

appliedstatsworkshopgov3009.hsites.harvard.edu/event/joris-...