Applications in Justice, Economics, and Education

Sun, Aug 4, 2:00 PM - 3:50 PM

Jeremy SeemanChair

Social Statistics Section

6 Presentations

An assessment of racial disparities in pretrial decision-making using misclassification models

2:05 PM - 2:20 PM

Kimberly Hochstedler Webb

Co-authors: Sarah Riley (Stanford University), Martin Wells (Cornell University)

How do China's Urban Investment Bonds Affect its Economic Resilience? Evidence from Machine Learning

2:20 PM - 2:35 PM

Yan Fang

Co-authors: YingLin Liu (Shanghai Lixin University of Accounting and Finance, Shanghai, 201620, China), Yi Yang (East China University of Political Science and Law, Shanghai, 201620, China)

Neutrality and Objectivity: the limits - and promise - of causal inference with social science data

2:35 PM - 2:50 PM

Brian Zaharatos

Co-authors: Ian Van Buskirk (University of Colorado Boulder)

Period Life Table Measures of Mortality Shocks Typically Mislead

2:50 PM - 3:05 PM

Juha Alho (University of Helsinki)

WITHDRAWN Using the Cohort Change Ratio Method to Assess the Demographic Impact of the Mexican Revolution

3:05 PM - 3:20 PM

David Swanson (University of California-Riverside)

Co-authors: Richard Verdugo (National Education Association)

Variable selection in latent regression IRT models and its application on education data

3:20 PM - 3:35 PM

Jingxuan Yang

Co-authors: Yinghan Chen (University of Nevada, Reno), Mihye Ahn (University of Nevada-Reno)