[gov3009-l] Debra Javeline talk Tuesday, Nov. 18 at 10 AM

Professor Debra Javeline, currently a Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Scholar at CBRSS, invites all Statistical Methods Workshop participants to attend her practice job talk at 10 a.m., Tuesday, Nov. 18, at CBRSS. Her talk is titled, "Judicial Pioneers: Litigants in the Moscow Theater Hostage Case." The research question is what makes citizens decide to challenge governments in courts for the first time (i.e. in postauthoritarian regimes where there is no precedent for government accountability through judicial processes). Her evidence is from a new survey she conducted of former hostages and next-of-kin of deceased hostages. Feel free to email Professor Javeline (javeline(a)latte.harvard.edu) with any questions. The usual lunchtime Statistical Methods Workshop (this week featuring Elizabeth Stuart, on matching methods and causal inference) will take place, as usual, this Wed at noon. An email reminder about Liz's talk will go out later today.