Includes bibliographical references (p. 327-338) and index.
Contents:
Preface. Migration and solidarity. Models and methods / Jeronimo Cortina. Introduction and overview -- What's in a number? Definitions of fairness and political representation -- Allure and limitations of mathematical modeling : game theory and trench warfare -- History / Herbert S. Kelin, Charles Stockley. Historical background of quantitative social science -- Sources of historical data -- Historical perspectives on international exchange rates -- Historical data and demography in Europe and the Americas -- Economics / Richard Clarida, Marta Noguer. Learning from economic data -- Econometric forecasting and the flow of information -- Two studies of interest rates and monetary policy -- Sociology / Seymour Spilerman, Emanuele Gerratana. Models and theories in sociology -- Explanations of the racial disturbances of the 1960s -- Time series of lynchings in the American South -- Attainment processes in a large organization -- Political science / Charles Cameron. What is political science? -- Politics of Supreme Court nominations : the critical role of the media environment -- Modeling strategy in congressional hearings -- Psychology / E. Troy Higgins, Elke Weber, Heidi Grant. Formulating and testing theories in psychology -- Some theories in cognitive and social psychology -- Signal detection theory and models for trade offs in decision making -- To treat or not to treat : causal inference in the social sciences / Jeronimo Cortina. Potential outcomes model of causation -- Some statistical tools for causal inference with observational data -- Migration and solidarity.
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