Survey Experiments

Presenters: Sarah Khan, Dane Thorley, Lauren Young

Install:

• R package: endorse (implements the statistical model proposed by Bullock, Imai & Shapiro 2011 to analyze endorsement experiments)

Key Readings:

• Jason Barabas and Jennifer Jerit. Are survey experiments externally valid? American Political Science Review, 104(2), May 2010. [paper]
• Jens Hainmueller, Daniel J. Hopkins, Teppei Yamamoto. 2013. “Causal Inference in Conjoint Analysis: Understanding Multidimensional Choices Via Stated Preference Experiments.” MIT Political Science Department Research Paper No. 2013-4. [paper]
• Brian J. Gaines, James H. Kuklinski, and Paul J. Quirk. The logic of the survey experiment reexamined. Political Analysis, 15:1-20, 2007. [paper]
• Diana C. Mutz. Population-Based Survey Experiments. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2011.

Key Applied Papers:

• Will Bullock, Kosuke Imai, and Jake Shapiro. Statistical analysis of endorsement experiments: Measuring support for militant groups in pakistan. Political Analysis, 19(4):363{384, 2011. [paper] [replication data]
• Jason Lyall, Graeme Blair, and Kosuke Imai. Explaining support for combatants during wartime: A survey experiment in Afghanistan. American Political Science Review, forthcoming. [paper] [replication data]

Additional Recommended Papers:

• Graeme Blair, C. Christine Fair, Neil Malhotra, and Jake Shapiro. Poverty and support for militant politics: Evidence from pakistan. American Journal of Political Science, 57(1):30-48, 2013. [paper] [replication data]
• James M. Glaser and Timothy J. Ryan. Changing Minds, If Not Hearts. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013. Herbert H. Hyman and Paul B. Sheatsley. The current status of american public opinion. In The teaching of contemporary affairs. 1950.
• Ilyana Kuziemko, Michael I. Norton, Emmanuel Saez, and Stefanie Stantcheva. How elastic are preferences for redistribution? evidence from randomized survey experiments. NBER Working Paper, (18865), March 2013.
• Evan Lieberman, Daniel Posner, and Lily Tsai. Does information lead to more active citizenship? Evidence from an education intervention in rural Kenya. 2013.
• Michael Tomz and Jessica Weeks. An experimental investigation of the democratic peace.