Alex Stephenson

PhD Student

University of California, Berkeley

Biography

I am a PhD Student in the Travers Department of Political Science at UC Berkeley. My primary research interests are military organizations, policing, the determinants of political violence, and causal inference. I am also interested in creating tools to make software easier to use for non-technical political scientists.

Recent Posts

An Example of IV Estimation in R

There have likely been more words written about the use and misuse of instrumental variables than atoms in the universe. When I was …

Last updated on Feb 6, 2021 4 min read R

Bulk downloads of pdfs from a website: An Example script

I am working at UC Berkeley’s D-Lab as a Data Science Fellow. One of my responsibilities is to provide consulting to the UC …

Last updated on Feb 3, 2021 2 min read R

Running Multiple Intent to Treat Analyses with purrr

Intro When running a randomized control trial (RCT), there is often concern about non-compliance. Subjects may drop out of the …

Last updated on Oct 14, 2020 4 min read R

Simulating Lead Changes with R

What constitutes an exciting game? One possibility is by looking at the amount teams trade off leads. For example, in 2014 the Portland …

Last updated on Aug 30, 2020 4 min read R

Regression Tables for Lazy People

In the spirit of writing as note-taking, I wanted to share a neat little trick in R for running regressions. By far the most common …

Last updated on Aug 15, 2020 5 min read R

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