Jasjeet S. Sekhon Associate Professor Travers Department of Political Science Survey Research Center UC Berkeley sekhon@berkeley.edu Curriculum Vitae

Project Specific Webpages

Multivariate and Propensity Score Matching Software for Causal Inference

Analysis of Voting Irregularities

R Version of GENetic Optimization Using Derivatives (GENOUD)

Robust Estimation Software

Medical Research (Cholestatic Liver Diseases)

Linux versus Mac OS X Benchmarks

GENetic optimization and Bootstrapping of LInear Structures (GENBLIS)

Natural Rate of Unemployment Estimates

A Few Papers Available for Download

• "Exploiting Tom DeLay: A New Method for Estimating Incumbency Advantage and the Effect of Candidate Ethnicity on Turnout." With Rocio Titiunik.

• "Endogeneity in Probit Response Models." With David A. Freedman.

• "A New Non-Parametric Matching Method for Bias Adjustment with Applications to Economic Evaluations (Genetic Matching)." With Richard Grieve.

• "Evaluating Health Care Programs by Combining Cost with Quality of Life Measures: A Case Study Comparing Capitation and Fee for Service." Forthcoming, Health Services Research.

• "The Neyman-Rubin Model of Causal Inference and Estimation via Matching Methods." Forthcoming, The Oxford Handbook of Political Methodology.

• "Multivariate and Propensity Score Matching Software with Automated Balance Optimization: The Matching package for R". Journal of Statistical Software. Please also see my Multivariate and Propensity Score Matching Software Page.

• "Genetic Optimization Using Derivatives: The rgenoud package for R". Journal of Statistical Software. Please also see my GENOUD Software Page.

• "Alternative Balance Metrics for Bias Reduction in Matching Methods for Causal Inference."

• "Genetic Matching for Estimating Causal Effects: A General Multivariate Matching Method for Achieving Balance in Observational Studies." With Alexis Diamond. Winner of the 2005 Gosnell Prize for Excellence in Political Methodology.

• "The Varying Role of Voter Information Across Democratic Societies." Working Paper. A previous version of this paper was entitled "Updating Voters: How voters act as if they are informed". Winner of the Robert H. Durr Award for "the best paper applying quantitative methods to a substantive problem" presented at the 2004 MPSA conference.

• "Frequentist Properties of Fisherian and Bayesian Tests for 2x2 Tables: foreign threat and social revolutions revisited." Currently being revised.

• "The Art of Benchmarking: Evaluating the Performance of R on Linux and OS X". The Political Methodologist, 14(1), 2006.

• "Black Candidates and Black Voters: Assessing the Impact of Candidate Race on Uncounted Vote Rates." With Michael C. Herron. Journal of Politics, 67 (1). 2005. Supplementary material for this article is available HERE.

• "The 2004 Florida Optical Voting Machine Controversy: A Causal Analysis Using Matching." Also see my Voting Irregularities page.

• "Steroid-Responsive (Autoimmune?) Sclerosing Cholangitis." With Raymond T. Chung, M.D., Mark Epstein, M.D., and Marshall M. Kaplan, M.D. Digestive Diseases and Sciences, 50, 10: 1839-1843. October 2005. Because of copyright restriction, this is a pre-publication version. The publication version is available at Springer Link.

• "Quality Meets Quantity: Case Studies, Conditional Probability and Counterfactuals." Perspectives on Politics, June: 281-293. 2004.

• "Robust Estimation and Outlier Detection for Overdispersed Multinomial Models of Count Data." With Walter R. Mebane, Jr. American Journal of Political Science, 48 (April): 391-410. 2004. Software and replication archive is available HERE.

• "Overvoting and Representation: An examination of overvoted presidential ballots in Broward and Miami-Dade counties." With Michael C. Herron. Electoral Studies, 22: 21-47. 2003.

• "Coordination and Policy Moderation at Midterm." With Walter R. Mebane, Jr. American Political Science Review, 96 (1): 141-157. 2002

• "The Butterfly Did It: The Aberrant Vote for Buchanan in Palm Beach County, Florida." With Jonathan N. Wand, Kenneth W. Shotts, Walter R. Mebane, Jr., Michael C. Herron and Henry E. Brady. American Political Science Review, 95 (4): 793-810. 2001.

• "A Comparative Analysis of Multinomial Voting Irregularities: Canada 2000." With Jonathan N. Wand and Walter R. Mebane, Jr. Proceedings of the American Statistical Society. 2001.

• ``Genetic Optimization Using Derivatives: Theory and Application to Nonlinear Models.'' With Walter Mebane, Jr. Political Analysis. 189-213. 1998.

• "Detecting and Correcting Election Irregularities" With Walter R. Mebane, Jr. and Jonathan N. Wand.

Courses

• The Statistics of Causal Inference in the Social Sciences (Political Science 236, Berkeley).
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  • Lecture Notes I (presentation version)
  • Lecture Notes I (print version)
  • Lecture Notes II (presentation version)
  • Lecture Notes II (printer friendly version)
  • R Resources
  • CourseWeb
• Quantitative Methodology in the Social Sciences Seminar (Political Science 239, Berkeley)
• The UC Berkeley Integrated Graduate Education Research and Training Program in Politics, Economics, Psychology, and Public Policy
• Government 1000: Quantitative Methods for Political Science (Harvard, Graduate Course):
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  • Lecture Notes (Presentation Version)
  • Lecture Notes (Printer Friendly Version)
  • R Resources
• Government 2000: Introduction to Quantitative Methods II (Harvard, Graduate Course):
  • Syllabus
  • Lecture Notes (Presentation Version)
  • Lecture Notes (Printer Friendly Version)
  • R Resources



Contact Information:

Survey Research Center
2538 Channing Way
UC Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720-5100
510-642-9974 (O) 617-507-5524 (F)