Friday, August 07, 2009

Be Careful with Your Control Variables!

I'm doing a session in the Geary Journal Club on being ''Careful with Your Control Variables'', at 3pm on Friday 9th October. The main paper is "The Phantom Menace", but there are two more that can be read for the session, as indicated below.

1. Kevin Clarke (Rochester): "The Phantom Menace: Omitted Variable Bias in Econometric Research", Conflict Management and Peace Science, 22:341–352, 2005

2. Chris Achen (Princeton): "Let’s Put Garbage-Can Regressions and Garbage-Can Probits Where They Belong", Conflict Management and Peace Science, 22:327–339, 2005

3. Oneal and Russett (Yale): "Rule of Three, Let It Be? When More Really Is Better", Conflict Management and Peace Science, 22:293–310, 2005

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