Rocío Titiunik Assistant Professor Department of Political Science University of Michigan titiunik@umich.edu Curriculum Vitae Sign up for office hours

Journal Articles

When Natural Experiments Are Neither Natural Nor Experiments, with Jasjeet Sekhon. American Political Science Review, 106(1): 35-57, 2012. Supplemental materials.

Housing, Health and Happiness, with Matías Cattaneo, Sebastián Galiani, Paul Gertler and Sebastián Martinez. American Economic Journal: Economic Policy 1(1): 75-105, 2009.

Changes in the Panamanian Wage Structure: A Quantile Regression Analysis, with Sebastián Galiani. Económica, 51(1): 3-28, 2005.

Working papers

Cause or Effect? Turnout in Hispanic Majority-Minority Districts, with John Henderson and Jasjeet Sekhon. Supplemental appendix. Under review.

Geography as a Causal Variable, with Luke Keele. Under review.

Robust Nonparametric Bias-Corrected Inference in the Regression Discontinuity Design, with Sebastián Calónico and Matías Cattaneo. Under review.

Enhancing Geographic Discontinuities Through Matching, with Luke Keele and Jose Zubizarreta. Under review.

Randomization Inference in the Regression Discontinuity Design: An Application to the Study of Party Advantages in the U.S. Senate , with Matías Cattaneo and Brigham Frandsen. Under review.

Robust Data-Driven Inference in the Regression-Discontinuity Design, with Sebastián Calónico and Matías Cattaneo. Under review at The Stata Journal.
Stata package for RD estimation, with implementation of Calónico, Cattaneo and Titiunik (2012). To install type: net install rdrobust, from(http://www-personal.umich.edu/~cattaneo/rdrobust) replace

Using Regression Discontinuity to Uncover the Personal Incumbency Advantage, with Robert Erikson. Working paper.

Drawing Your Senator From a Jar: Term Length and Legislative Behavior. Currently being revised.

Incumbency Advantage in Brazil: Evidence from Municipal Mayor Elections. Currently being revised.

Party Identification in Germany: A Dynamic Analysis of Panel Data, 1984-2007, with Eric Schickler. Preliminary working paper.

Teaching

Causal Inference in Political Science Research (POLSCI 489). Undergraduate course. Winter 2013.

Quantitative Methods for Political Analysis (POLSCI 499). Undergraduate course. Winter 2011.

Causal Inference in the Social Sciences (POLSCI 688). Graduate course. Fall 2010, Fall 2012.

Statistical Methods II (POLSCI 699). Graduate course. Winter 2011, Winter 2013.

Multivariate Analysis (POLSCI 787). Graduate course. Fall 2012.