Gustavo Diaz

🏆APSA's Experimental Research Section Best Paper Award🏆
Did you present an experiment at APSA2026? Submit your conference paper for the Experimental Research Section's best paper award by April 15, 2026. @sumitra.bsky.social @talbotmandrews.bsky.social and I are excited to read your work!

Currently in FirstView: In “Balancing Precision and Retention in Experimental Design,” @gustavodiaz.org and Erin Rossiter study how experimental design choices can increase precision when estimating treatment effects. Specifically, they examine block-randomized and pre-post designs.

Just over one week to go before the September 16 deadline.

Excited to review the applications and engage with folks’ work!

Check out this fascinating paper by my colleagues Erin Rossiter and Jeff Harden. Such a cool design and interesting findings. Plus, Taylor!

“Balancing Precision and Retention in Experimental Design.” Political Analysis, 2025, 1–10. https://doi.org/10.1017/pan.2025.10008 Gustavo Diaz and Erin Rossiter In experimental social science, precise treatment effect estimation is of utmost importance, and researchers can make design choices to increase precision. Specifically, block-randomized and pre-post designs are promoted as effective means to increase precision. However, implementing these designs requires pre-treatment covariates, and collecting this information may decrease sample sizes, which in and of itself harms precision. Therefore, despite the literature’s recommendation to use block-randomized and pre-post designs, it remains unclear when to expect these designs to increase precision in applied settings. We use real-world data to demonstrate a counterintuitive result: precision gains from block-randomized or pre-post designs can withstand significant sample loss that may arise during implementation. Our findings underscore the importance of incorporating researchers’ practical concerns into existing experimental design advice.

"We use real-world data to demonstrate a counterintuitive result: precision gains from block-randomized or pre-post designs can withstand significant sample loss that may arise during implementation."

@gustavodiaz.org & Erin Rossiter via @polanalysis.bsky.social doi.org/10.1017/pan....

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Balancing Precision and Retention in Experimental Design - cup.org/44E5isE

- @gustavodiaz.org & Erin Rossiter

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BJPolS abstract discussing the potential influence of a politician's gender on voter expectations and perceptions in Argentina, focusing on responses from an online survey experiment about a hypothetical city mayor.

From April 2025 -

Ignoring Women’s Performance: A Survey Experiment on Policy Implementation in Argentina - cup.org/4clGHLw

- @gustavodiaz.org, @viroliveros.bsky.social, Rebecca Weitz-Shapiro & Matthew S. Winters

#OpenAccess

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I'm super excited to be giving a tutorial at the useR conference (Duke) this summer!

Let me know if you're thinking about signing up, or if you'll be in Durham and want to chat over coffee.

I'd love to connect with other #Rstats enthusiasts!

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Virtual and IRL in Ann Arbor seats still available for my @icpsrsummer.bsky.social workshop on Multilevel Modelling in the Social Sciences from July 7-11. It's 40 hours or a semester of content in just 5 days. Bring your project data! myumi.ch/JwM8e #SumProg25 #ICPSR

Thrilled to share my article “The Right Kind of (Gay) Man?” was accepted @thejop.bsky.social I started it as a 1st-year grad student, it became my MA, then a dissertation & job market paper. It’s the piece I’m most proud of (and relieved to finally share) 🏳️‍🌈 www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Come work with me! McMaster is the best Canadian research university w/a medical school that you've never heard of™!

Though there are areas listed, the field is actually wide open! These Research Chairs come with research funding.

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Hey, I'm on the Casual Inference podcast this week!

I've been a massive fan of @lucystats.bsky.social and @epiellie.bsky.social since Episode 1 of Casual Inference. Talking to great experts (and conversationalists!) like them was a ton of fun.

Thanks so much for the invitation!

"It was derivatives all along"

Diaz, Gustavo, Virginia Oliveros, Rebecca Weitz-Shapiro, and Matthew S. Winters. “Ignoring Women’s Performance: A Survey Experiment on Policy Implementation in Argentina.” British Journal of Political Science 55 (2025): e54. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007123424000668. Abstract How does a politician’s gender shape citizen responses to performance in office? Much of the existing literature suggests that voters hold higher expectations of women politicians and are more likely to punish them for malfeasance. An alternative perspective suggests that voters view men politicians as more agentic and are, therefore, more responsive to their performance, whether good or bad. Using an online survey experiment in Argentina, we randomly assign respondents to information that the distribution of a government food programme in a hypothetical city is biased or unbiased, and we also randomly assign the gender of the mayor. We find that respondents are more responsive to performance information – both positive and negative – about men mayors. We find little evidence that respondents hold different expectations of malfeasance by men versus women politicians. These results contribute to our understanding of how citizens process performance information in a context with few women politicians.

MUST READ new article from @gustavodiaz.org, @viroliveros.bsky.social, Rebecca Weitz-Shapiro & Matthew S. Winters via @bjpols.bsky.social

Ignoring Women’s Performance: A Survey Experiment on Policy Implementation in Argentina

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BJPolS abstract discussing the potential influence of a politician's gender on voter expectations and perceptions in Argentina, focusing on responses from an online survey experiment about a hypothetical city mayor.

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Ignoring Women’s Performance: A Survey Experiment on Policy Implementation in Argentina - cup.org/4clGHLw

- @gustavodiaz.org, @viroliveros.bsky.social, Rebecca Weitz-Shapiro & Matthew S. Winters

#OpenAccess

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Put me in, coach!

Thanks and sorry for the delay! It's a mix of topics ranging from causal inference to concept formation to fieldwork. There is already one discussant so you would split papers. If you email me at the address on my website I can tell you more.

Polisky! Still need one more!

Polisky! I'm looking for volunters for chair/discussant for a panel on fieldwork and qualitative methods for the next MPSA conference. Ping or email me if interested👀

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Hey polisky. My paper on double list experiments is finally out online at JEPS! I started working on this year 2 of grad school and it's finally out! This will come in print as part of a great special issue 👀

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About Conference - Midwest Political Science Association

Hello Polisky. I'll be the Methodology section chair for MPSA 2024. I would love to chat if you have cool panel ideas!

Proposal deadline October 9: www.mpsanet.org/conference/

Hey Polisky, Illinois (UIUC) is hiring in IPE.
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