Before The American Voter

Spahn, Bradley

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“…In the Supplementary Materials, we also show analysis aimed to further test the potential for parents' partisanship to confound the results, wherein more racially liberal white parents are more likely to move next to black neighbors and more likely to produce children who will become Democrats. While we cannot measure parents' partisanship directly with our data, we obtained summary data used in (58) detailing the proportion of Democrats in 105 different occupations in California in 1940. We merge these data with the Census-recorded occupations of the head of the household for each individual in our dataset and use this within-occupation proportion Democrat as a control.…”

Section: The Relationship Among Nonmovers Non-southerners and Urban D...mentioning

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Childhood cross-ethnic exposure predicts political behavior seven decades later: Evidence from linked administrative data

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Does contact across social groups influence sociopolitical behavior? This question is among the most studied in the social sciences with deep implications for the harmony of diverse societies. Yet, despite a voluminous body of scholarship, evidence around this question is limited to cross-sectional surveys that only measure short-term consequences of contact or to panel surveys with small samples covering short time periods. Using advances in machine learning that enable large-scale linkages across datasets, we examine the long-term determinants of sociopolitical behavior through an unprecedented individual-level analysis linking contemporary political records to the 1940 U.S. Census. These linked data allow us to measure the exact residential context of nearly every person in the United States in 1940 and, for men, connect this with the political behavior of those still alive over 70 years later. We find that, among white Americans, early-life exposure to black neighbors predicts Democratic partisanship over 70 years later.

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Section: The Relationship Among Nonmovers Non-southerners and Urban D...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Childhood cross-ethnic exposure predicts political behavior seven decades later: Evidence from linked administrative data

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“…6 California Great Registers. Starting in 1900, each country in California (CA) printed and bound voter lists in each election year, which contained the following feature information of each voter: name, address, party registration, and occupation (Spahn, 2017;McVeigh et al, 2019). This became known as the California Great Registers data set, and was used as the county's form of book keeping on election day.…”

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(Almost) All of Entity Resolution

Binette¹,

Steorts²

2020

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Whether the goal is to estimate the number of people that live in a congressional district, to estimate the number of individuals that have died in an armed conflict, or to disambiguate individual authors using bibliographic data, all these applications have a common theme -integrating information from multiple sources. Before such questions can be answered, databases must be cleaned and integrated in a systematic and accurate way, commonly known as record linkage, de-duplication, or entity resolution. In this article, we review motivational applications and seminal papers that have led to the growth of this area. Specifically, we review the foundational work that began in the 1940's and 50's that have led to modern probabilistic record linkage. We review clustering approaches to entity resolution, semi-and fully supervised methods, and canonicalization, which are being used throughout industry and academia in applications such as human rights, official statistics, medicine, citation networks, among others. Finally, we discuss current research topics of practical importance.

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“…Modern social science research often relies on bringing together information from different sources to advance our understanding about questions of interest. From studies that seek to explain the differences between self-reported and actual behavior (Ansolabehere and Hersh 2012, Barbera 2015, Meredith and Morse 2015, Berent, Krosnick, and Lupia 2016 Huber 2017, Jackman andSpahn 2018, Bonica 2018); the effects of the national news media on mass public and elite behavior (DellaVigna and Kaplan 2007, Hopkins and Ladd 2014, Arceneaux et al 2016, Martin and Yurukoglu 2017; historical accounts about the electorate (Acharya, Blackwell, and Sen 2016, Spahn 2017, Hall, Huff, and Kuriwaki 2018; the impacts of lobbying activities on trade (Bombardini and Trebbi 2012, Bertrand, Bombardini, and Trebbi 2014, Kim 2017; to studies on clientelism and redistributive politics (De La O 2013, Zucco 2013, 2015, Rueda 2016, etc; scholars have spent considerable amounts of time and effort assembling detailed datasets from multiple sources to conduct sound empirical analyses.…”

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Active Learning for Probabilistic Record Linkage

Enamorado

2018

SSRN Journal

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Before The American Voter

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Childhood cross-ethnic exposure predicts political behavior seven decades later: Evidence from linked administrative data

Childhood cross-ethnic exposure predicts political behavior seven decades later: Evidence from linked administrative data

(Almost) All of Entity Resolution

Active Learning for Probabilistic Record Linkage

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