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Scholarly Interest Report
         
Justin Esarey
Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor of Political Science
 
e-mail:Justin.E.Esarey@rice.edu
 
  • PhD Political Science (2008) Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
  • BA Political Science (2002) Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH
  • BS Economics (2002) Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH
  • MS Political Science (2004) Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
 
Primary Department
   Department of Political Science
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Websites
 Political Methodology (blog)
 Professional Homepage
 
Research Areas
 political methodology; game theory; statistics; laboratory experimentation
 
Selected Publications
 Other
 

Esarey, Justin. Political Methodology (a blog of my ongoing methodological research). As of 2/7/2013, this blog has 1,470 unique views.

 
 Refereed Articles
 Berry, William, Jacqueline H. Rubin, and Justin Esarey "Testing for Interaction Using Binary Logit in the Presence of Specification Ambiguity." American Journal of Political ScienceIn Revision
 
 Justin Esarey and Andrew Pierce "Assessing Fit Quality and Testing for Misspecification in Binary Dependent Variable Models." Political Analysis, 20: 480-500.
 
 Justin Esarey and Gina Chirillo "'Fairer Sex' or Purity Myth? Corruption, Gender, and Institutional Context." Politics and GenderIn Revision
 
 Justin Esarey and Jacqueline H. R. Demeritt "Defining and Modeling State-dependent Dynamic Systems." Submitted
 
 Justin Esarey and Jane Lawrence "Overconfidence in Testing of Interaction Hypotheses: Determining and Controlling the False Positive Rate." Submitted
 
 Justin Esarey and Nathan Danneman "Assessing the Robustness of Substantive Significance Using Bayesian Statistical Decision Theory." Submitted
 
 Justin Esarey, Timothy C. Salmon, and Charles Barrilleaux "Social Insurance and Income Redistribution in a Laboratory Experiment." Political Research Quarterly, 65: 685-698.
 
 Justin Esarey, Timothy C. Salmon, and Charles Barrilleaux "What Motivates Political Preferences? Self-Interest, Ideology, and Fairness in a Laboratory Democracy." Economic Inquiry, 50: 604-624.
 
 William Berry, Jacqueline H. Demeritt, and Justin Esarey "Testing for Interaction in Binary Logit and Probit Models: Is a Product Term Essential?." American Journal of Political Science, 54: 248-266.
 
 TK Ahn, Justin Esarey, and John Scholz "Reputation and Cooperation in Voluntary Exchanges: Comparing Local and Central Institutions." Journal of Politics, 71: 398-413.
 
 Justin Esarey, Bumba Mukherjee, and Will H. Moore "A Fixed-Effects Bayesian Quantal Response Estimator for Incomplete Information Games." , 16: 250-273.
 
 TK Ahn and Justin Esarey "A Dynamic Model of Generalized Social Trust." Journal of Theoretical Politics, 20: 151-180.
 
Presentations
 Lectures
 

Esarey, Justin, and Jane Lawrence. “Overconfidence in Testing of Interaction Hypotheses: Determining and Controlling the False Positive Rate.” Paper presented at the 2012 Annual Meeting of the Society for Political Methodology

 
 Other
 

Esarey, Justin. On-line Statistics and Research Methodology Lecture Series. Available on-line at http://www.youtube.com/user/jeesarey. These videos are designed for my PhD-level statistics classes, but are freely available on-line to students all over the world. As of 2/7/2013, my instructional videos have been viewed 11,176 times.  131 people are subscribed to my channel.

 
Supervised Theses & Dissertations
 Nathan Danneman, PhD Dissertation Committee. (2013) (Committee Member)

 Jun Koga, PhD Dissertation Committee. (2014) (Committee Member)