Here at Broadstreet, we hope that all our readers are having a restful, safe, and/or productive holiday break! To celebrate the Thanksgiving holiday, we’ve decided to highlight historical dishes from the archives — ones that might inspire your cooking adventures this week. More specifically, one particular flavorful source of archival data has been collected by … Continue reading Broadstreet Does Thanksgiving, 2021
There’s a new paper by Gethin, Martínez-Toledano, and Piketty in the QJE that’s worth discussing, entitled “Brahmin Left versus Merchant right: Changing Political Cleavages in 21 Western Democracies, 1948-2020.” The paper uses a comprehensive electoral dataset to study class voting in 21 democracies, between 1948 and 2020 (and it’s worth noting that this paper is a … Continue reading Memory Lane
As promised, we're doing another post to highlight candidates who do HPE and who are on the job market! Our prior post can be seen here, and if you are on the job market and would like to be featured in future posts, email info@broadstreet.blog. These papers are all also great examples of up-and-coming work in … Continue reading HPE Job Market Candidates 2021, Round 2
Today I’m going to talk about an annual review that Tom Pepinsky and I are doing, on historical persistence! We have a draft up on SSRN (comments welcome!), but I’ll discuss some of the highlights here — Broadstreet readers might be particularly interested in the recent publication statistics for historical persistence papers. Tom and I … Continue reading The Persistence of Historical Persistence
Not to kick a dead horse down the stairs, but I thought I would do an HPE version of the recent XKCD comic “12 papers” spinoffs (with help from co-editors Scott Gehlbach, Jared Rubin, and Pavi Suryanarayan). To be clear, I’m poking fun, and there will be no paper shaming in this post. But these … Continue reading Types of HPE Paper
A Good Instrument Is Hard to Find No matter what academic discipline you’re in, estimating causal effects is hard. And one key characteristic of HPE research is that the data is observational, and so we as researchers can’t control the treatment assignment. We weren’t there! That time has passed! So today, I’m going to talk … Continue reading A Good Instrument Is Hard To Find
Update: Thanks to our enthusiastic readers, I've update the post to include a new paper on Economic Maps, and a great data viz using WWII maps from the LOC (that was made after seeing this post!) When we think of collecting data from archives, we are typically thinking of collecting data from books that are … Continue reading Finding Historical Data IV: A Post with Cool Maps
One of the top journals in political science, the Journal of Politics, announced this week that all experimental research (laboratory, field, and survey experiments) will be required to be preregistered. For those unfamiliar, a “pre-analysis plan” or PAP consists of a document of how a researcher will collect and analyze data, which is submitted to … Continue reading Elementary, My Dear PAP?
Interdisciplinary work can be great. In particular, HPE scholars should take note of advances in the digital humanities, which are combining tools like machine learning to analyze large corpuses of text-as-data and images-as-data. The ability to draw on new types of historical sources, across fields, is exciting. But often the best work in interdisciplinary studies … Continue reading Do you trust this post?
Yesterday, many of us sat doomscrolling and watching one of the most contentious elections in US history (and the outcome is undetermined, as of the publishing of this post). It was contentious for many reasons, but this election — as well as the entire Trump administration — will go down in history because they featured … Continue reading Nothing Older Than Fake News