Rocío Titiunik Assistant Professor Department of Political Science University of Michigan titiunik@umich.edu Visting MIT Political Science, academic year 2011-2012. Curriculum Vitae

Publications

When Natural Experiments Are Neither Natural Nor Experiments, with Jasjeet Sekhon. American Political Science Review, forthcoming. Supplemental materials can be found here. A previous draft of this paper was circulated under the title Exploiting Tom DeLay: A New Method for Estimating Incumbency Advantage and the Effect of Candidate Ethnicity on Turnout.

Two Tailed Test. Entry in Encyclopedia of Research Design, ed. by N.J. Salkind, SAGE Publicacions, Inc., 2010.

Housing, Health and Happiness, with Matías Cattaneo, Sebastián Galiani, Paul Gertler and Sebastián Martinez. American Economic Journal: Economic Policy 1(1): 75-105, February 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 Majority-Minority Districts, with John Henderson and Jasjeet Sekhon.

Geographic Boundaries as Regression Discontinuities, with Luke Keele.

Using Regression Discontinuity to Uncover the Personal Incumbency Advantage, with Robert Erikson. In progress.

Randomization Inference in the Regression Discontinuity Design, with Matias Cattaneo and Brigham Frandsen. In progress.

Robust Nonparametric Bias-Corrected Inference in the Regression Discontinuity Design, with Sebastian Calonico and Matias Cattaneo. In progress.

Robust Inference for Distributional Treatment Effects Using Matching, with Matias Cattaneo and Max Farrell. In progress.

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

Fall 2010: Causal Inference in the Social Sciences (PS688). Graduate course.

Winter 2011: Statistical Methods II (PS699). Graduate course.

Winter 2011: Quantitative Methods for Political Analysis (PS499). Undergraduate course.

Computing

A succint description of available resources for those who want to get started with the statistical program R

Explanation of how to use multiple chips on the same computer to perform parallel computations with RGENOUD and Genetic Matching

R code for a function that creates a figure with both summary statistics and plots of p-values. Click here to see an example of how the figure can look.