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A Partially Pooled NSUM Model: Detailed estimation of CSEM trafficking prevalence in Philippine municipalities (2025)
Journal Article
Nyarko-Agyei, A., Moser, S., Seymour, R. G., Brewster, B., Li, S., Weir, E., Landman, T., Wyman, E., Torres, C. B., Fell, I., & Boyd, D. (in press). A Partially Pooled NSUM Model: Detailed estimation of CSEM trafficking prevalence in Philippine municipalities. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series C,

Effective policy and intervention strategies to combat human trafficking for child sexual exploitation material (CSEM) production require accurate prevalence estimates. Traditional Network Scale Up Method (NSUM) models often necessitate stan-dalone s... Read More about A Partially Pooled NSUM Model: Detailed estimation of CSEM trafficking prevalence in Philippine municipalities.

Scale of Harm: Estimating the Prevalence of Trafficking to Produce Child Sexual Exploitation Material in the Philippines (2023)
Report
Seymour, R., Boyd, D., Nyarko-Agyei, A., Weir, E., Brewster, B., Landman, T., Goulding, J., Li, S., Moser, S., Fell, I., Tanagho, J., Garcia, L., Camagay, P., & Jadloc-Carredo, J. (2023). Scale of Harm: Estimating the Prevalence of Trafficking to Produce Child Sexual Exploitation Material in the Philippines. International Justice Mission

Multiple Ideal Points: Revealed Preferences in Different Domains (2021)
Journal Article
Moser, S., Rodríguez, A., & Lofland, C. L. (2021). Multiple Ideal Points: Revealed Preferences in Different Domains. Political Analysis, 29(2), 139-166. https://doi.org/10.1017/pan.2020.21

We extend classical ideal point estimation to allow voters to have different preferences when voting in different domains—for example, when voting on agricultural policy than when voting on defense policy. Our scaling procedure results in estimated i... Read More about Multiple Ideal Points: Revealed Preferences in Different Domains.

Assessing differences in legislators’ revealed preferences: a case study on the 107th U.S. Senate (2017)
Journal Article
Lofland, C. L., Rodríguez, A., & Moser, S. (2017). Assessing differences in legislators’ revealed preferences: a case study on the 107th U.S. Senate. Annals of Applied Statistics, 11(1), https://doi.org/10.1214/16-AOAS951

Roll call data are widely used to assess legislators’ preferences and ideology, as well as test theories of legislative behavior. In particular, roll call data is often used to determine whether the revealed preferences of legislators are affected by... Read More about Assessing differences in legislators’ revealed preferences: a case study on the 107th U.S. Senate.

Measuring and accounting for strategic abstentions in the US Senate, 1989-2012 (2015)
Journal Article
Moser, S., & Rodríguez, A. (2015). Measuring and accounting for strategic abstentions in the US Senate, 1989-2012. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series C, 64(5), 779-797. https://doi.org/10.1111/rssc.12099

Strategic abstentions—in which legislators abstain from votes for ideological reasons—are a poorly understood feature of legislative voting records. The paper discusses a spatial model for legislators’ revealed preferences that accounts for abstentio... Read More about Measuring and accounting for strategic abstentions in the US Senate, 1989-2012.

The domestic politics of strategic retrenchment, power shifts, and preventive war (2015)
Journal Article
Chapman, T. L., MOSER, S., & McDonald, P. J. (2015). The domestic politics of strategic retrenchment, power shifts, and preventive war. International Studies Quarterly, 59(1), https://doi.org/10.1111/isqu.12154

Taking the leap: voting, rhetoric, and the determinants of electoral reform (2014)
Journal Article
Moser, S., & Reeves, A. (2014). Taking the leap: voting, rhetoric, and the determinants of electoral reform. Legislative Studies Quarterly, 39(4), https://doi.org/10.1111/lsq.12055