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Assistant Professor

• Affiliation(s)

  • Faculty Associate, Center for Political Studies

• Fields of Study

  • Methods
  • American Government and Politics
  • Comparative Government and Politics
  • Race, Ethnicity, and Politics

• About

  Rocio Titiunik works on political methodology and American politics. Her methodological interests center on the validity and limitations of employing experimental and non-experimental research designs to the study of politics. She is particularly interested in causal inference in the study of political institutions. Her current projects focus on incumbency advantage, minority representation and turnout, legislative behavior, and party identification.

  Rocio was born and raised in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where she completed her undergraduate education at the Universidad de Buenos Aires. She received her Ph.D. from UC-Berkeley in 2008. She joined the Michigan faculty in September 2010, after spending one year as a postdoctoral fellow.

  Updated information on research projects and the latest version of Rocio's CV can be found on her personal website.

• Education

  • UC Berkeley, Ph.D. (Agricultural and Resource Economics)
  • Universidad de Buenos Aires (Licentiate in Economics)

• Awards

  • Eldersveld Prize for outstanding research contributions, Department of Political Science, University of Michigan (2012)
  • Thomas R. Ten Have Citation for exceptionally creative or skillful research on causal inference for "Geographic Boundaries as Regression Discontinuities" (2011)
  • Robert H. Durr Award for best paper applying quantitative methods to a substantive problem (2009)

• Grants

  • Mike Syner Research Fellowship, Institute of Governmental Studies, UC-Berkeley (2008)
  • Dissertation Research Award, Institute of Business and Economic Research, UC-Berkeley (2007)

• Recent Courses

  • Causal Inference in the Social Sciences (Graduate)
  • Statistical Methods II (Graduate)
  • Quantitative Methods for Political Analysis (Undergraduate)

• Selected Publications:

• Articles

  • (2012) When Natural Experiments Are Neither Natural Nor Experiments, American Political Science Review
  • (2009) Housing, Health and Happiness, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy