Sayonara again

I've moved again!  Since finishing grad school, I've decided to fold my personal web page and blog together at www.abegong.com.

See you there!

Moving to a new home...

I've been blogging at http://lowlywonk.blogspot.com for most of my time in grad school, and now it's time for a change.  I'm still interested in public policy, but my so much of work is computational now.  It just makes more sense to have "computational" in the name of the blog.

So please point your blog readers to http://compSocSci.blogspot.com so the adventure can continue.

(The contents of this blog will remain online, searchable, etc. for the forseeable future.)

Latex: tikz

In the runup to APSA, I discovered the absolutely fantastic tikz package for diagrams in LaTex.

See the gallery of example here.

Here are some links that were helpful for preparing my presentation:

• http://www.jmilne.org/not/CDGuide.html
• http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/~matloff/beamer.html
• http://www.latex-community.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=1152
• http://www.texample.net/tikz/examples/
• http://www.uncg.edu/cmp/reu/presentations/Charles%20Batts%20-%20Beamer%20Tutorial.pdf
• http://faq.ktug.or.kr/wiki/uploads/beamer_guide.pdf

Topics that came up at ASPA, part 1.

I'm looking over my notes from APSA, highlighting papers, ideas, etc. that looked worth passing along. As usual, some of these were new to me, and others are just worth knowing about.

From a section on game theory and experimentation:

• Quantal response equilibrium
• Experience-weighted attraction
• Beauty contests and level-k reasoning
• "Strategic Information Transmission," Crawford and Sobel
• z-tree software for economic experiments
• Maskin and Tirole on pandering in democracy
• A Behavioral Theory of Elections, by Bendor, Diermeier, and Siegel
• A Handbook of Experimental Economics, Roth
• Groves-Ledyard mechanism
• Cyert-March rule
• Predictably Irrational, Ariely
• Global Games
• Ecological rationality
  

More to come soon...

Slides from APSA: Why do people blog about politics

Back from APSA!

Here is the final version of my presentation slides. I'm not going to post the paper because it's in the process of splitting into three, but I'm happy to share by email if you're interested.

On with the job search!