Rocío Titiunik Ph.D. Candidate Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics Survey Research Center University of California at Berkeley titiunik@berkeley.edu +1 (510) 207-7869 Curriculum Vitae

Papers

Drawing Your Senator From a Jar: Term Length and Legislator Behavior. (in progress)

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

Incumbency Advantage in Brazil: Evidence from Municipal Mayor Elections. (in progress)

Housing, Health and Happiness, joint with Matías Cattaneo, Sebastián Galiani, Paul Gertler and Sebastián Martinez. Forthcoming in American Economic Journal: Economic Policy.

Two Tailed Test. Invited entry in the Encyclopedia of Research Design, SAGE Publications, Inc.

Changes in the Panamanian Wage Structure: A Quantile Regression Analysis, joint with Sebastián Galiani. Published in 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.