Many opioid policies are being implemented at the state level; as one example, 37 states have passed laws limiting the dose and/or duration of opioid prescriptions. However, studying state policy effects can be challenging, especially when states that do and don’t implement the policies differ from one another, and when states implement laws…

A defining feature of the information environment in contemporary China is scripted government propaganda---the government directing newspapers to use specific language when reporting on particular events. Yet due to the mix of syndication and scripting, it is difficult to tell if any given article is explicitly government-directed news. Using…

A hands-on training on Overleaf, LaTeX and BibTeX for students and fellows associated with Center for International Security Studies (CISS). The workshop will include tasks such as using TeX packages for mathematical notation, easily converting hand-written notation to LaTeX code, creating bibliography via integrating Google Scholar, Zotero,…

Estimation of heterogeneous treatment effects is an active area of research in causal inference. Most of the existing methods, however, focus on estimating the conditional average treatment effects of a single, binary treatment given a set of pre-treatment covariates. In this paper, we propose a method to estimate the heterogeneous causal…