Below is a list of the final projects for the Spring 2019 semester, including a link to the original paper, the students’ final report, and all code and data necessary to reproduce the final report.
| Group |
Original paper |
Replication report |
Code |
| 1 |
Wage disparity and team productivity: evidence from Major League Baseball, Craig A. Depken II, Economics Letters (2000) |
Rmarkdown pdf |
Github repository |
| 2 |
Ethnicity, Insurgency, and Civil War, Fearon & Laitin, American Political Science Review (2003) |
Rmarkdown pdf |
Github repository |
| 3 |
Greed and Grievance in Civil War, Collier & Hoeffler, Oxford Economic Papers (2004) |
Rmarkdown pdf |
Github repository |
| 4 |
Predicting Positive and Negative Links in Online Social Networks, Leskovec et al., World Wide Web Conference (2010) |
Rmarkdown pdf |
Github repository |
| 5 |
Predicting the Present with Google Trends, Choi & Varian, Economic Record (2012) |
Rmarkdown pdf |
Github repository |
| 6 |
Comparing random forest with logistic regression for predicting class-imbalanced civil war onset data, Muchlinski et al., Political Analysis (2016) |
Rmarkdown pdf |
Github repository |
| 7 |
Housing, Health, and Happiness, Cattaneo et al., American Economic Journal: Economic Policy (2009) |
Rmarkdown pdf |
Github repository |
| 8 |
Automated Hate Speech Detection and the Problem of Offensive Language, Davidson et al., International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (2017) |
Jupyter pdf |
Github repository |
| 9 |
Systematic Inequality and Hierarchy in Faculty Hiring Networks, Clauset et al., Science Advances (2015) |
Rmarkdown pdf |
Github repository |
| 10 |
Chilling Effects: Online Surveillance and Wikipedia Use, Penney, Berkeley Technology Law Journal (2016) |
Rmarkdown pdf |
Github repository |