Longitudal Data Analysis Supplementary materials

For those not familiar with R

  • Wickham, Hadley, Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel, and Garrett Grolemund. R for Data Science. 2nd edition. https://r4ds.hadley.nz
  • Dauber, Daniel. R for Non-Programmers: A Guide for Social Scientists. https://r4np.com

For those looking for introductory textbooks on quantitative social science

  • Imai, Kosuke. 2017. Quantitative Social Science: An Introduction. Princeton University Press.

For those looking to get ahead on the content of the course:

Latent growth curve models under the multilevel modelling framework

  • Steele, Fiona. 2008. "Multilevel models for longitudinal data." Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A: Statistics in Society 171 (1): 5-19.
  • Curran, Patrick J. 2003. "Have multilevel models been structural equation models all along?." Multivariate Behavioral Research 38 (4): 529-569.

Latent growth curve models under the Structural Equation Modelling framework

  • Bollen, Kenneth and Patrick Curran. 2008. Latent curve models: A structural equation perspective. Wiley.
  • Bianconcini, Silvia, and Kenneth A. Bollen. 2018. "The latent variable-autoregressive latent trajectory model: A general framework for longitudinal data analysis." Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal 25(5): 791-808.

Cross-lagged panel models

  • Allison, Paul D., Richard Williams, and Enrique Moral-Benito. 2017. "Maximum likelihood for cross-lagged panel models with fixed effects." Socius 3.
  • Hamaker, Ellen L., Rebecca M. Kuiper, and Raoul PPP Grasman. 2015 "A critique of the cross-lagged panel model." Psychological methods 20 (1).

Difference-in-differences

  • Imai, Kosuke, and In Song Kim. 2019. "When should we use unit fixed effects regression models for causal inference with longitudinal data?" American Journal of Political Science 63(2): 467-490.
  • Imai, Kosuke, In Song Kim, and Erik H. Wang. 2023. "Matching methods for causal inference with time‐series cross‐sectional data." American Journal of Political Science 67(2): 587-605.
  • Callaway, Brantly, and Pedro HC Sant’Anna. 2021. "Difference-in-differences with multiple time periods." Journal of Econometrics 225(2): 200-230.

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