Shiyao Liu

Education

• Ph.D. in Political Science MIT 2021
• B.A. in Philosophy, Politics and Economics
• B.S. in Statistics Peking University 2014

Research Interest: Political Methodology (Causal Inference, Statistical Learning and Measurement Errors), Chinese Politics

1. Informing Average Treatment Effects with Post-treatment Variables

   • Best Poster Award, Society for Political Methodology 2019
   • Link to APSA version
   • Link to latest version
   • Slides

2. What Makes Anticorruption Punishment Popular? Individual-level Evidence from China (with Lily L. Tsai and Minh Trinh)

   • conditionally accepted at the Journal of Politics
   • Link to earlier SSRN version

3. How Much Should You Trust Your Power Calculation Results? Power Analysis as an Estimation Problem (with Teppei Yamamoto)

   • Link to PolMeth version

4. Beyond Topics: Learning for Texts as a Measurement

Statistical Packages

• R package “cjoint”, published at CRAN (with Soubhik Barari, Elissa Berwick, Jens Hainmuller, Daniel Hopkins, Anton Strezhnev and Teppei Yamamoto) Link
• R package “polnet”, under development (with In Song Kim, Dmitriy Kunisky and Sooahn Shin) Link