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Innocence
No full textMedium: stipple engraving, etchingsigned and dated."Innocence" [1959.4130.000.000], Smith, Benjamin, Rigaud, John FrancisArtist and Role: Smith, Benjamin,Extent: image (sheet trimmed to image
The Lord of The Vineyard
No full textMedium: engraving"The Lord of The Vineyard" [1994.2557.000.000], Smith, Benjamin, Rembrandt van RijnArtist and Role: Smith, Benjamin, EngraverArtist and Role: Rembrandt van Rijn, ArtistExtent: sheet 30.2 x 25.
Replication data for Benjamin Smith, "Resource Wealth as Rent Leverage"
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Replication data for Benjamin Smith, "Resource Wealth as Rent Leverage"
No full textThis zipped folder contains all necessary replication materials for "Resource Wealth as Rent Leverage.
Survivorship Bias in Comparative Politics: Endogenous Sovereignty and the Resource Curse
No full textCross-national statistical research based on “all country” data sets involves no deliberate selection and hence ignores the potential for endogenous selection bias. We show that these designs are prone to selection bias if existing units are subject to differential survival rates induced, in part, by treatment. Using rudimentary graph theory, we present survivorship bias as a form of collider bias, which is related to but distinct from selection on the dependent variable. Because collider bias is always relative to a specific causal model, we present a causal model of post-colonial sovereignty on the Arabian Peninsula, show that it implies survivorship bias in the form of false positives with respect to the political resource curse, and provide historical evidence confirming that the model correctly depicts the creation of sovereign countries on the Arabian Peninsula but not elsewhere. When we correct for endogenous selection bias, the effect of oil on autocratic survival is shown to be negligible. The study motivates the need to think more broadly about the nature of the data-generating problem when making causal inferences with observational data and to construct statistical models that are sensitive to treatment heterogeneity and rooted in context-specific knowledge and qualitative inferences
Replication Data for "Pax Petrolica? Rethinking the Oil-Interstate War Linkage"
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Smith, Benjamin B. - An inaugural dissertation on dysentery
No full textHandwritten inaugural dissertation on dysentery by Benjamin Byrd Smith, of Mississippi.Inaugural dissertation; no. 101
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