{"id":39059,"date":"2014-12-23T18:44:11","date_gmt":"2014-12-23T18:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=39059"},"modified":"2016-06-08T14:57:57","modified_gmt":"2016-06-08T14:57:57","slug":"race-as-a-bundle-of-sticks-designs-that-estimate-effects-of-seemingly-immutable-characteristics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=39059","title":{"rendered":"Race as a &#8216;Bundle of Sticks&#8217;: Designs that Estimate Effects of Seemingly Immutable Characteristics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scholar.harvard.edu\/files\/msen\/files\/race_causality.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Race as a &#8216;Bundle of Sticks&#8217;: Designs that Estimate Effects of Seemingly Immutable Characteristics<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.annualreviews.org\/loi\/polisci\" target=\"_blank\">Annual Review of Political Science <\/a><br \/>\nNumber 19 (2016)<br \/>\n2014-10-05<br \/>\n49 pages<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scholar.harvard.edu\/msen\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Maya Sen<\/strong><\/a>, Assistant Professor<br \/>\nHarvard Kennedy School<br \/>\n<em>Harvard University<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.omarwasow.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Omar Wasow<\/strong><\/a>, Assistant Professor<br \/>\nDepartment of Politics<br \/>\n<em>Princeton University<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Although understanding the role of race, ethnicity, and identity is central to political science, methodological debates persist about whether it is possible to estimate the effect of something &#8220;immutable.&#8221; At the heart of the debate is an older theoretical question: is race best understood under an essentialist or constructivist framework? In contrast to the &#8220;immutable characteristics&#8221; or essentialist approach, we argue that race should be operationalized as a &#8220;bundle of sticks&#8221; that can be disaggregated into elements. With elements of race, causal claims may be possible using two designs: (1) studies that measure the effect of exposure to a racial cue and (2) studies that exploit within-group variation to measure the effect of some manipulable element. These designs can reconcile scholarship on race and causation and offer a clear framework for future research.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scholar.harvard.edu\/files\/msen\/files\/race_causality.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn1.vox-cdn.com\/thumbor\/JcjlCxH-uF1jS50tIeZMazJrm_o=\/800x0\/filters:no_upscale()\/cdn0.vox-cdn.com\/uploads\/chorus_asset\/file\/2544906\/Screen_Shot_2014-12-03_at_1.09.16_PM.0.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read an advanced copy of the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/scholar.harvard.edu\/files\/msen\/files\/race_causality.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Race as a &#8216;Bundle of Sticks&#8217;: Designs that Estimate Effects of Seemingly Immutable Characteristics Annual Review of Political Science Number 19 (2016) 2014-10-05 49 pages Maya Sen, Assistant Professor Harvard Kennedy School Harvard University Omar Wasow, Assistant Professor Department of Politics Princeton University Although understanding the role of race, ethnicity, and identity is central to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,14647,8,26,394],"tags":[18862,18863,18864],"class_list":["post-39059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-economics","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-socialscience","tag-annual-review-of-political-science","tag-maya-sen","tag-omar-wasow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39059"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46179,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39059\/revisions\/46179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}