Den eksperimentelle metode anses som værende guldstandarden inden for samfundsvidenskaberne. Dette fordi metoden giver mulighed for at belyse kausale sammenhænge. Eksperimentet går i al sin enkelthed ud på, at vi ved hjælp af randomisering – altså tilfældig inddeling – kan sandsynliggøre, om en stimulis har en effekt eller ej. Dette eksempelvis om en politik virker […]
Month: February 2018
Potpourri: Statistics #44
357. Fundamentals of Data Visualization 358. Analyze Survey Data for Free: Step by Step Instructions to Explore Public Microdata from an Easy to Type Website 359. Webcast: Machine Learning and Econometrics 360. Step-by-step introduction to quantitative text analysis using quanteda 361. Thinking Clearly About Correlations and Causation: Graphical Causal Models for Observational Data (article based […]
New article in European Sociological Review: Welfare Retrenchments and Government Support
My article, ‘Welfare Retrenchments and Government Support: Evidence from a Natural Experiment’, is now published in the European Sociological Review (vol. 34, no. 1). The abstract sums up the content of the article: A large body of literature has provided mixed results on the impact of welfare retrenchments on government support. This article examines whether […]