**3M: The Minnesota Methodology Meetings Initiative**
Members: Ibrahim Chiu, Jong Hyun(Jake) Lee, Yinguang Zhao
Started: Sep.25, 2024
Location: 1260, the "Polab", in social science buidling, west bank, U of M.

Reading:

Ibrahim:
[Blackwell, M., & Glynn, A. N. (2018). How to make causal inferences with time-series cross-sectional data under selection on observables. American Political Science Review, 112(4), 1067-1082.](https://www.mattblackwell.org/files/papers/causal-tscs.pdf#page=5.18)

[Lundberg, I., Johnson, R., & Stewart, B. M. (2021). What is your estimand? Defining the target quantity connects statistical evidence to theory. American Sociological Review, 86(3), 532-565.](https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/00031224211004187)

[Kilavuz, M. T., & Sumaktoyo, N. G. (2020). Hopes and disappointments: regime change and support for democracy after the Arab Uprisings. Democratization, 27(5), 854-873.](https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13510347.2020.1746766)

Yinguang: I found two methodologically straightforward but insightful works that are published recently.
[Censoring the Intellectual Public Space in China: What Topics Are Not Allowed and Who Gets Blacklisted?
](https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-politics/article/censoring-the-intellectual-public-space-in-china-what-topics-are-not-allowed-and-who-gets-blacklisted/B5774AC7925D68814C989326EC3AE36B?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_source=bookmark)

[Does Political Diversity Inhibit Blood Donations?](https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-politics/article/does-political-diversity-inhibit-blood-donations/4FAABA6E92128B4866F5B33DDE59F05D?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_source=bookmark)

Jong Hyun: I found a foundational but kind of recent article for causal inference, which might be good for our starting place maybe.
[CAUSALITY IN ECONOMETRICS: CHOICE VS CHANCE](https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.3982/ECTA21204).