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All Weatherhead Center affiliates are invited to submit papers to the Weatherhead Center Working Paper Series. Manuscripts are selected for online distribution based on their relevance to contemporary issues in international affairs, originality of research, rigor of analysis, and significance of conclusions. To inquire about submitting a manuscript, please e-mail publications@wcfia.harvard.edu.

 

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Verbal Autopsy Methods with Multiple Causes of Death
by King, Gary; Lu, Ying
Verbal autopsy procedures are widely used for estimating cause-specific mortality in areas without medical death certification. Data on symptoms reported by caregivers along with the cause of death...
Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper
Published Date: September 22, 2007 More
What to Do about Missing Values in Time Series Cross-Section Data
by King, Gary; Honaker, James
Applications of modern methods for analyzing data with missing values, based primarily on multiple imputation, have in the last half-decade become common in American politics and political behavior....
Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper
Published Date: September 21, 2007 More
International Migration in Context: Migrant Types, Strategies and Outcomes
by Garip, Filiz
This paper explores types of migrants from Mexico to the United States in the period 1970-2000. Prior work analyzes the distinctions between migrants and non-migrants and suggests a number of...
Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper
Published Date: September 20, 2007 More
Extracting Systematic Social Science Meaning from Text
by King, Gary; Hopkins, Daniel
We develop two methods of automated content analysis that give approximately unbiased estimates of quantities of theoretical interest to social scientists. With a small sample of documents hand coded...
Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper
Published Date: September 16, 2007 More
Antiquities: Long-Term Leases as an Alternative to Export Bans
by Kremer, Michael; Wilkening, Tom
Most countries prohibit the export of certain antiquities. This practice often leads to illegal excavation and looting for the black market, which damages the items and destroys important aspects of...
Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper
Published Date: September 11, 2007 More
Understanding Immigrant Political Incorporation
by Hochschild, Jennifer L.; Mollenkopf, John
Systematic comparative study of immigrant political incorporation is just beginning, in part because political incorporation of the new wave of immigrants into western Europe and the United States is...
Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper
Published Date: September 8, 2007 More
The Problem of Conjecture: American Strategy after the Bush Doctrine
by Ferguson, Niall
It is now nearly five years since President Bush promulgated what has become known as "the Bush Doctrine". The seminal document, published above the President’s signature twelve months...
Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper
Published Date: September 8, 2007 More
Currency Choice and Exchange Rate Pass-through
by Gopinath, Gita; Itskhoki, Oleg; Rigobon, Roberto
A central assumption of open economy macro models with nominal rigidities relates to the currency in which goods are priced, whether there is so-called producer currency pricing or local currency...
Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper
Published Date: September 2007 More
An Integrated Analysis of Migration and Remittances: Modeling Migration as a Mechanism for Selection
by Garip, Filiz
Prior work models individuals’ migration and remittance behavior separately, and finds mixed empirical support for altruistic or contractual theories of remittances. This inconsistency may result...
Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper
Published Date: September 2007 More
Students Today, Teachers Tomorrow? Identifying Constraints on the Provision of Education
by Khwaja, Asim; Das, Jishnu; Andrabi, Tahir
With an estimated one hundred and fifteen million children not attending primary school in the developing world, increasing access to education is critical. Resource constraints limit the extent...
Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper
Published Date: September 2007 More
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