Learning from each other: causal inference and American political development

Public Choice - Within political science, a movement focused on increasing the credibility of causal inferences (CIs) has gained considerable traction in recent years. While CI has been...     

The Insider＇s Guide to Beijing 2005-2006

SO, you're new to Beijing. Will you be living here for a while, or are you just passing through? Perhaps you haven't decided yet. In any case, you must determine which visa best suits your purpose, whether it be to travel, work, visit with a view to working, or study; also how to apply, extend and change your visa. If you have a job here, either at a Chinese work unit or foreign company, you should know about the available medical services, how to go about opening a bank account and the rami…     

Methods for Understanding and Analyzing NIBRS Data

The National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) is an incident-basedcrime reporting program for local, state, and federal law enforcementagencies. Within each criminal incident, NIBRS captures information onoffenses, victims, offenders, property, and persons arrested, as well asinformation about the incident itself. The ability to link and analyze thisdetailed information is a significant improvement to the existing UniformCrime Reporting (UCR) summary reporting system. As one might expect,however, this increase in crime data significantly complicates the life ofthe data analyst, particularly when cross tabulating the NIBRS data. To dealwith the complexity of NIBRS data, one must understand its structure. Thisarticle provides an overview of the NIBRS structure and methods formaneuvering within it to present and interpret correctly cross tabulationsof the NIBRS data.