Rocío Titiunik Assistant Professor, starting Fall 2010 Postdoctoral Fellow, 2009-2010 Department of Political Science University of Michigan titiunik@umich.edu +1 (734) 936-2939 Curriculum Vitae

Working Papers and Publications

Drawing Your Senator From a Jar: Term Length and Legislative Behavior. Working paper, 2008.

Incumbency Advantage in Brazil: Evidence from Municipal Mayor Elections. Working paper, 2008.

Party Identification in Germany: A Dynamic Analysis of Panel Data, 1984-2007, with Eric Schickler. Working paper 2009. Preliminary draft.

Exploiting Tom Delay: A New Method for Estimating Incumbency Advantage and the Effect of Candidate Ethnicity on Turnout, with Jasjeet Sekhon. Working paper, 2007.

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

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

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

Teaching

Spring 2008: Selected Topics in Methodology (PS-239, Graduate class), with Prof. Jasjeet Sekhon, Department of Political Science

Fall 2007: The Statistics of Causal Inference in the Social Sciences (PS-236, Graduate class), with Prof. Jasjeet Sekhon, Department of Political Science

Fall 2006: The Statistics of Causal Inference in the Social Sciences (PS-239, Graduate class), with Prof. Jasjeet Sekhon, Department of Political Science

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.