Former Dartmouth QSS Postdoc David Cottrell (now an Assistant Professor at the University of Georgia) and QSS faculty member Michael Herron recently published a working paper titled, " Vote-by-mail ballot rejection and experience with mail-in voting." In the paper, Professors Cottrell, Herron and Smith ask whether those who are new to mail-in voting may be at risk of having their ballots rejected. The abstract and a link to paper are below:
Abstract: Although most ballots in...
[more]Government professors and QSS research student are among national study's co-authors.
September 30, 2020 by Bill Platt
If a candidate wins the presidency in the electoral college but loses the popular vote in 2020—a repeat of what happened in 2000 and in 2016—the damage to Americans' faith in the election process would be substantial, according to research by government professors ...
[more]According to a study released Tuesday by Joseph Dexter, a Dartmouth faculty and QSS affiliate, The Centers for Disease Control, the White House, and state health departments failed to properly communicate vital information about COVID-19 to the public. To read the full story, see here.
Former QSS Postdoc David Cottrell (now an Assistant Professor in Political Science at the University of Georgia) and QSS faculty Michael Herron recently published a new article in the journal State Politics and Policy Quarterly titled "Voting Lines, Equal Treatment, and Early Voting Check-In Times in Florida. In the article, they find evidence that excessive wait times at the polls in 2012 were associated with lower turnout at the polls four years later, which may have implications for...
[more]Robert Shumsky, a QSS steering commitee member, has recently published an article in the Harvard Business Review on "What Safe Shopping Looks Like During the Pandemic". In this article he and his co-author Laurens Debo describe "three principles" for helping retailers implement social distancing that they have come up with based on their own research, funementals of operation management, and information on how the disease is transmitted. They also explore how the implementation of principles...
[more]Independent research is a key component of the undergraduate curriculum in the Program in Quantitative Social Science (QSS) at Dartmouth College. All students majoring in QSS complete independent research projects, which are presented in front of a faculty audience. Some QSS majors work on...
[more]Cleveland Browns chief strategy officer Paul DePodesta visited Dartmouth to speak to the QSS 30.01 Sports Analytics class, taught by College...
[more]Antonio Sirianni, a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Program in Quantitative Social Science, received an award at the 2019 Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association.
The award for Best Graduate Student Paper from the Rationality and Society Section recognizes Tony’s paper, "The Specialization of Informal Social Control: Fighting in the...
[more]Genna Liu, who graduated in June 2019 with a major in Quantitative Social Science from Dartmouth College, recently presented her undergraduate thesis at the 2019 Conference of the Society for Political Methodology held at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Genna's thesis, titled "Polarization or Consensus? Examining Immigration...
[more]The Program in Quantitative Social Science is graduating its largest class ever, thirty-two majors and four minors. This is a remarkably large group of talented students, all of whom completed independent research projects during their fourth years on campus. QSS is a hands-on program, and student participation in research is a key aspect of the program's educational mission. Ten QSS majors in the Class of 2019 (approximately...
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