This week at the Applied Statistics Workshop we will be welcoming Eitan Hersh, Associate Professor at Tufts University. He will be presenting work entitled Behavioral Applications of Voter Files.  Please find the abstract below and on the Applied Stats website here.

As usual, we will meet at noon in CGIS Knafel Room 354 and lunch will be provided.  See you all there!

-- Dana Higgins

Title: Behavioral Applications of Voter Files

Abstract: Over the last decade, state-level voter registration records have become a regular source of data in research in political behavior. The research value in voter files typically depends on the ability to link the voter files to external sources of data. In this presentation, I will describe several approaches to using voter files in behavioral research. I will focus on the practice of record linkage and demonstrate a range of substantive questions that can be answered with these voter files. Substantive topics include the study of geography, family networks, the effects of terrorist activities, partisan bias in medical treatment,  religious civic engagement, and voter suppression/access laws.