Publications
WCFIA Publications
- Causal Mediation Analysis
- by Tingley, Dustin; Hicks, Raymond
- Estimating the mechanisms that connect explanatory variables with the explained variable, also known as “mediation analysis,” is central to a variety of social-science fields, especially...
- Publication Type: Published Paper
- Published Date: October 2011 More
- Political Science, in His Marrow
- by Ziblatt, Daniel
- Publisher: Harvard Gazette
- Publication Type: Magazine Article
- Daniel Ziblatt may have been born with political science in his DNA. Even if he wasn’t, his fate was sealed to enter the field during a year abroad and a memorable night with a glass of bubbly.
...
- Published Date: April 2012 More
- Fifty Years of Pursuing a Healthy Society in Japan
- by Reich, Michael R.; Takemi, Keizo; Ikegami, Naoki
- In this Series in The Lancet, we review the past 50 years of Japan’s universal health coverage, identify the major challenges of today, and propose paths for the future, within the context of...
- Publication Type: Published Paper
- Published Date: September 2011 More
- Granting People Their Dignity
- by DelRosario, John S.; Hicks, Donna
- Publisher: Saipan Tribune
- Publication Type: Op-ed
- My work has brought me up close to leaders of all sorts. There's one thing they share: highly developed technical and intellectual capacities, most of whom are educated in colleges and universities...
- Published Date: April 2012 More
The Economics of Metonymy
- by Roilos, Panagiotis
- Konstantinos P. Kavafis—known to the English-reading world as C. P. Cavafy—has been internationally recognized as an important poet and attracted the admiration of eminent literary figures such...
- Publication Type: Book
- Published Date: December 2009 More
- Why Nations Fail
- by Friedman, Thomas L.; Robinson, James A.; Acemoglu, Daron
- Publisher: New York Times
- Publication Type: Op-ed
- I’m reading a fascinating new book called Why Nations Fail. The more you read it, the more you appreciate what a fool’s errand we’re on in Afghanistan and how much we need to totally revamp...
- Published Date: March 2012 More
Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
- by Sandel, Michael
- “For Michael Sandel, justice is not a spectator sport,” The Nation’s reviewer of Justice remarked. In his acclaimed book—based on his legendary Harvard course—Sandel offers a rare education...
- Publication Type: Book
- Published Date: September 2009 More