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Preregistration as Cheap Talk: The Logic and Limits of Self-Enforcing Plans in Scientific Research

Working Paper · 2026

Models preregistration as a form of cheap talk — a costless, non-binding announcement that nonetheless shapes reviewer expectations and creates informal discipline through rational …

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How Conditioning on Post-Treatment Variables Can Ruin Your Experiment and What to Do About It

AJPS · 2018

Randomized experiments are political science's gold standard for causal inference — but a surprisingly common set of analytic choices can quietly destroy the advantage …

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