In 1993 the World Bank, in collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO) and the
Harvard School of Public Health, sponsored a study to assess the global burden of disease …

Background The absence of complete vital registration and atypical nature of the locations
where epidemiological studies of cause of death in children are conducted make it difficult to …

Poverty relief programs are shaped by politics. The particular design which social programs
take is to a large extent determined by the existing institutional constraints and politicians' …

The regression discontinuity (RD) design is a valuable tool for identifying electoral effects,
but this design is only effective when relevant actors do not have precise control over …

Social scientists rarely take full advantage of the information available in their statistical
results. As a consequence, they miss opportunities to present quantities that are of greatest …

We propose a remedy for the discrepancy between the way political scientists analyze data
with missing values and the recommendations of the statistics community. Methodologists …

Bayesian methods are increasingly being used in the social sciences, as the problems
encountered lend themselves so naturally to the subjective qualities of Bayesian …

Subnational units of analysis play an increasingly important role in comparative politics.
Although many recent studies of topics such as ethnic conflict, economic policy reform, and …

Party system issue agendas are formed by the topics that individual parties decide to
address, and these salience decisions are likely to be strategic. Two key strategies are …

After six sets of European Parliament elections, do voters primarily use these elections to
punish their national governments or to express their views on European issues? We …