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A Consensus on Second-Stage Analyses in Ecological Inference Models

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 January 2017

Christopher Adolph
Affiliation:
Department of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138. e-mail: cadolph@fas.harvard.edu
Gary King
Affiliation:
Department of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138. e-mail: king@harvard.edu
Michael C. Herron
Affiliation:
Department of Political Science, Northwestern University, 601 University Place, Evanston, IL 60208-1006. e-mail: m-herron@northwestern.edu
Kenneth W. Shotts
Affiliation:
Department of Political Science, Northwestern University, 601 University Place, Evanston, IL 60208-1006. e-mail: k-shotts@northwestern.edu

Abstract

Since Herron and Shotts (2003a; hereinafter HS), Adolph and King (2003; hereinafter AK), and Herron and Shotts (2003b; hereinafter HS2), the four of us have iterated many more times, learned a great deal, and arrived at a consensus on this issue. This paper describes our joint recommendations for how to run second-stage ecological regressions, and provides detailed analyses to back up our claims.

Type
Using EI in Second-Stage Regressions
Copyright
Copyright © Political Methodology Section of the American Political Science Association 2003 

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