Annual Meeting, The Society for Political Methodology      
July 22-25, 2015                  
                     
Wednesday, July 22:  Arrival and hotel/dorm check-in
6-8pm VIM/Women's Dinner (hosted by Gretchen Helmke)
Thursday, July 23
7:30am Breakfast and registration (Wilson Commons: May Room)
9:00 Opening remarks (Gleason 318/418)
9:30 Session I
Paper In Song Kim/John Londregan/Marc Ratkovic, "Sparse Factor Analysis"     Gleason 318/418
Discuss Alex Tahk
Paper Robert Carroll/Brenton Kenkel, "Predictive Power and the Construction of Proxy Variables"   Schlegel 207
Discuss Karen Long Jusko
Paper Allan Dafoe/Baobao Zhang, "Confounding in Survey Experiments"       Schlegel 407
Discuss Maya Sen
10:50 Break (Schlegel Rotunda, Gleason 3rd/4th floors)
11:10 Session II
Paper Jens Heinmueller/Teppei Yamamoto/Dan Hopkins, "A Doubly Randomized Design for Conjoint Surveys" Gleason 318/418
Discuss Matthew Blackwell
Paper Jonathan Kropko, "The Principle of Least Harm for Missing Data: Imputation Using Null Interactions" Schlegel 207
Discuss Seth Hill
Paper Walter Mebane, "Election Forensics:  Latent Dimensions of Election Frauds and Strategic Voting" Schlegel 407
Discuss Arturas Rozenas
12:30pm Lunch (Wilson Commons: May Room)
2:00 Session III
Paper Kosuke Imai/Naoki Egami, "Causal Interaction in High Dimension"       Gleason 318/418
Discuss Alex Theodoridis
Paper Marc Ratkovic/Dustin Tingley, "Sparse Estimation with Uncertainty: Subgroup Analysis in Large" Schlegel 207
Discuss Michael Peress
Paper David Broockman, "Why Political Surveys Aren't Like Educational Tests: A Critical Perspective on Scaling" Schlegel 407
Discuss Jonathan Nagler
3:20 Break (Schlegel Rotunda, Gleason 3rd/4th floors)
3:40 Session IV
Paper Molly Roberts/Brandon Stewart/Richard Nielsen, "Matching Methods for High-Dimensional Data with" Gleason 318/418
Discuss Dustin Tingley
Paper Wendy Tam Cho, "Toward a Talismanic Redistricting Tool: A Computational Model for Assessing Partisan" Schlegel 207
Discuss James Honaker
Paper Nathaniel Beck, "Estimating grouped data models with a binary dependent variable and fixed effects: What" Schlegel 407
Discuss Chris Zorn
5:00 Business meeting (Gleason 318/418)
6:00 Graduate student poster session and Reception (Wilson Commons: Hirst Lounge)
7:30-9pm Move to tent for BBQ dinner (Wilson Quad)
9pm Adjourn.  See website or registration packet for nightlife suggestions. 
9-11pm Shuttles to College Town, Riverview dorms, and hotels:  see bus schedule.
Friday, July 24
8:00am Breakfast (Wilson Commons: May Room)
9:30 Session V
Paper Jong Hee Park/Yunkyu Sohn, "Detecting Changes in Network Time Series using Bayesian Inference" Gleason 318/418
Discuss Jacob Montgomery
Paper Vito D'Orazio/James Honaker/Gary King, "Differential Privacy for Social Science Inference"   Schlegel 207
Discuss Teppei Yamamoto
Paper Luke Keele, "Optimal Multilevel Matching in Clustered Observational Studies"     Schlegel 407
Discuss Dan Hopkins
10:50 Break (Schlegel Rotunda, Gleason 3rd/4th floors)
11:10 Session VI
Paper Kevin Quinn/Maya Sen/Cait Unkovic, "Does Encouragement Matter in Improving Gender Imbalances in" Gleason 318/418
Discuss Iris Hui
Paper Matt Blackwell, Identification and Estimation of Joint Treatment Effects with Instrumental Variables Schlegel 207
Discuss Erin Hartman
Paper Karen Long Jusko, "Who Speaks for the Poor? Historical Electoral Geography of Income and the Political" Schlegel 407
Discuss Fred Boehmke
12:30pm Lunch (Wilson Commons: May Room)
2:00 Faculty & AEROPUP Poster Session (Wilson Commons: Hirst Lounge)
3:00 Session VII
Paper Gary King/Richard Nielsen, "Why Propensity Scores Should Not Be Used For Matching"   Gleason 318/418
Discuss Marc Ratkovic
Paper Nicholas Beauchamp, "Creating More Persuasive Text through Response Surface Optimization" Schlegel 207
Discuss Arthur Spirling
Paper Julian Wucherpfennig/Aya Kachi/Nils-Christian Bormann, "Estimating Interdependence Across Space, Time" Schlegel 407
Discuss Olga Chyzh
4:20 Break (Schlegel Rotunda, Gleason 3rd/4th floors)
4:40 Session VIII
Paper Jas Sekhon, "Lasso Adjustments of Treatment Effect Estimates in Randomized Experiments"   Gleason 318/418
Discuss Brandon Stewart
Paper Scott Cook/Rob Franzese/Jude Hays, "Model Specification and Spatial Interdependence"   Schlegel 207
Discuss Carlisle Rainey
Paper John Henderson, "Using Experiments to Improve Automated Text Analysis with an Application to Scaling" Schlegel 407
Discuss Burt Monroe
6:00 Shuttle to Memorial Art Gallery (MAG) for dinner.
6:30-7:30 Cocktail reception at MAG
7:30 Dinner for registered attendees at MAG
9:00 Adjourn.  See website or registration packet for nightlife suggestions in Park/East area.
9-10pm Shuttles to College Town, Staybridge, and Riverview dorms.
Saturday, July 25
8:00am Breakfast (Wilson Commons: May Room)
Note:  Luggage hold will be available in May Room
9:30 Session IX
Paper Kentaro Fukumoto, "Blocking Reduces, if not Removes, Attrition Bias"     Gleason 318/418
Discuss Ryan Moore
Paper Adam Bonica/Maya Sen, "The Politics Of Selecting The Bench From The Bar: The Legal Profession And" Schlegel 207
Discuss Andrew Hall
Paper Rocio Titiunik, "Identification in Regression Discontinuity Designs with Multiple Cutoffs"   Schlegel 407
Discuss Tom Carsey
10:50 Break (Schlegel Rotunda, Gleason 3rd/4th floors)
11:10 Session X
Paper Justin Esarey, "Practical and Effective Approaches to Dealing with Clustered Data"   Gleason 318/418
Discuss Neal Beck
Paper Fred Boehmke/Emily Schilling/Jude Hays, "Missing Data in Spatial Analysis"     Schlegel 407
Discuss Jamie Monogan
12:30pm Lunch (Wilson Commons: May Room)
2pm Attendees depart.  Shuttles from campus to airport every 30min from 1:30-3:30pm, with last shuttle at 3:30pm.
AEROPUP Poster Presentations (Friday, 2pm)
Julia Christensen, Georgetown
Aditi Ghai, Harvard
Amy Jiang, Harvard
Faculty Poster Presentations (Friday, 2pm)
Alex Acs, Ohio State
Lefteris Anastasopoulos, Harvard Kennedy School of Government
Frederick Boehmke, University of Iowa
Olga Chyzh, University of Alabama
Vito D'Orazio, University of Texas at Dallas
Gary Hollibaugh, University of Notre Dame
Steven Liao, Princeton University
Jeffrey Marshall, New York University Abu Dhabi
Liam McGrath, Hertie School of Governance
Jamie Monogan, University of Georgia
Burt Monroe, Pennsylvania State University
Jacob Montgomery, Washington University in St. Louis
Jonathan Nagler, NYU
Mark Nieman, University of Alabama
Maximilian Pany, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Anna Pechenkina, Carnegie Mellon University
Carlisle Rainey, University at Buffalo
Carlisle Rainey, University at Buffalo
Adam Ramey, New York University - Abu Dhabi
Marc Ratkovic, Princeton University
Arturas Rozenas, New York University
Graduate Student Poster Presentations (Thursday, 6pm)
Douglas Ahler, University of California, Berkeley
Maxim Ananyev, UCLA
Pamela Ban, Harvard University
Alexa Bankert, Stony Brook University
Pablo Barbera, New York University
James Bisbee, New York University
Karen Bodnaruk Jazayeri, University of Georgia
Kayla Canelo, University of California, Merced
Chelsea Coe, University of California, Merced
Alexander Coppock, Columbia Univeristy
Casey Crisman-Cox, University of Rochester
Drew Dimmery, New York University
Michael Dougal, University of California, Berkeley
Soenke Ehret, New York University
Ted Enamorado, Princeton University
Annie Franco, Stanford University
Michael Gibilisco, University of Rochester
Stephen Goggin, University of California, Berkeley
Eric Guntermann, University de Montreal
Allison Harris, University of Chicago
Maiko Heller, University of Michigan
Bai Linh Hoang, University of Michigan Ann Arbor
Ryan Hubert, University of California, Berkeley
Chanita Intawan, University of California, Merced
Shuai Jin, University of Iowa
Shuai Jin, University of Iowa
Joshua Kalla, University of California, Berkeley
Azusa Katagiri, Stanford
Aaron Kaufman, Harvard University
Sara Kerosky, University of California, San Diego
Chris Krogslund, University of California, Berkeley
Robert Kubinec, University of Virginia
John Kuk, University of California, San Diego
Gabriel Lapez-Moctezuma, Princeton University
Elena Labzina, Washington University in St Louis
Nazita Lajevardi, University of California, San Diego
Adeline Lo, University of California, San Diego
Moritz Marbach, University of Mannheim
Kelly McCaskey, University at Buffalo, SUNY
Eric Min, Stanford University
Austin Mitchell
Mona Morgan-Collins, London School of Economics
Michael Morse, Harvard University
Kevin Munger, NYU
Sinh Nguyen, Purdue University
Lucas Nunez, California Institute of Technology
Lucas Nunez, California Institute of Technology
Alexander Ororbi,a Pennsylvania State University
Jack Paine, University of California, Berkeley
Anna Pechenina, University of North Texas
Andrew Peterson, New York University
Ethan Porter, University of Chicago
Carly Potz-Nielsen, University of Minnesota
Janna Rezaee, UC Berkeley
Abigail Rury, University of Iowa
Jack Santucci, Georgetown University
Jack Santucci, Georgetown University
Fredrik Savje, Uppsala University
Robert Shaffer, University of Texas, Austin
Adrian Shin, University of Michigan
Yuki Shiraito, Princeton University
Yunkyu Sohn, UCSD
Benjamin Soltoff, Penn State University
Bradley Spahn, Stanford University, Department of Political Science
Anton Strezhnev, Harvard University
Jane Sumner, Emory University
Patrick Tucker, Washington University in St. Louis
Kimberly Twist, University of California, Berkeley
Matthew Tyler, Duke University
Mona Vakilifathi, UC San Diego
Carlos Velasco, Princeton University
Zach Warner, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Yiqing Xu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Zining Yang, Claremont Graduate University
Paul Zachary, UCSD
Baobao Zhang, Yale University
Andrei Zhirnov, Binghamton University