Curriculum for PECOS4022: Applied Statistics for Peace and Conflict Studies
?Textbooks (approx 480 pages)
Kennedy, Peter. 2008. A guide to econometrics. 6th edition. Wiley-Blackwell
Chapters 1-3, 8, 12, 15-16, 18, 22 (with several specific sections omitted). Approx 130 pages.
Stock, James H. and Mark W. Watson. 2007. Introduction to Econometrics. Pearson International Edition. Pearson.
Chapters 2-11 (with several specific sections omitted). Approx 350 pages
Articles (approx 250 pages)
Acemoglu, Daron, Simon Johnson, James A. Robinson and Pierre Yared. 2008. “Income and Democracy.” American Economic Review 98(3): 808–842.
Beck, Nathaniel and Jonathan N. Katz. 1995. “What to Do (and Not to Do) with Time-Series Cross-Section Data.” American Political Science Review 89(3): 634–647.
Beck, Nathaniel and Jonathan N. Katz. 2001. “Throwing out the Baby with the Bath Water: A Comment on Green, Kim, and Yoon.” International Organization 2(2):487–495.
-Buhaug, Halvard. 2006. “Relative Capability and Rebel Objective in Civil War”. Journal of Peace Research 43 (6): 691–708.
Braumoeller, B. F. 2004. “Hypothesis Testing and Multiplicative Interaction Terms”. International Organization 58 (3): 807–820.
Green, Donald P., Soo Yeon Kim and David H. Yoon 2001 “Dirty Pool”. International Organization 55 (2): 441-468.
Friedrich, Robert J. 1982. “In Defense of Multiplicative Terms in Multiple Regression Equations”. American Journal of Political Science 26 (4): 797–833.
Kalyvas, Stathis. 2008. “Ethnic Defection in Civil War”. Comparative Political Studies 41 (8): 1043–1068.
Krain, Matthew. 2005. “International Intervention and the Severity of Genocides and Politicides”. International Studies Quarterly 49: 363–387.
Lacina, Bethany. 2006. “Explaining the Severity of Civil Wars”. Journal of Conflict Resolution 50 (2): 276–289.
Salehyan, Idean, and Kristian Skrede Gleditsch. 2006. “Refugees and the Spread of Civil War”. International Organization 60: 335–366.
Notes
Hegre, H?vard. 2011. Logistisk regresjon: binomisk, multinomisk og rangert.
Sections 3 and 4. 21 pages.
Selected lecture notes may also be considered part of the curriculum. Further information will be provided at the upstart of the course.