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    • Flooding The Vote: Hurricane Katrina and Voter Participation in New Orleans 

      Sinclair, Betsy; Hall, Thad E.; Alvarez, R. Michael (Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2008-11-10)
      The flooding of New Orleans from Hurricane Katrina resulted in a massive and rapid exodus of individuals from New Orleans to locations around the United States. In the midst of the hurricane recovery, the City of New Orleans ...

    • Voter Confidence in Context and the Effect of Winning 

      Llewellyn, Morgan H.; Hall, Thad E.; Alvarez, R. Michael (Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2008-08)
      A number of recent studies examine how confident voters are that their ballots are counted as intended in U.S. federal elections from 2000 to 2004. One consistent finding of these studies is that, relative to Democrats, ...

    • An Empirical Bayes Approach to Estimating Ordinal Treatment Effects 

      Alvarez, R. Michael; Bailey, Delia; Katz, Jonathan N. (Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2008-07)
      Ordinal variables — categorical variables with a defined order to the categories, but without equal spacing between them — are frequently used in social science applications. Although a good deal of research exists on the ...