We computationally reproduce the central findings in Mehmood (2022), which studied the effect of a 2010 reform in Pakistan replacing the presidential appointment of high-court judges with peer appointments. Mehmood leveraged judicial records interpreted and coded by lawyers in Pakistan at the...

In a systematic review and meta-analysis, Wang et al. (2023) estimate the association of social isolation or loneliness with mortality outcomes. In their preferred analytical specification, the authors find an increased risk of mortality from all causes for both exposures: a pooled effect size...

We study the Latent Dirichlet Allocation model, a popular Bayesian algorithm for text analysis. We show that the model's parameters are not identified, which suggests that the choice of prior matters. We characterize the range of values that the posterior mean of a given functional of the...