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Erik H. Wang

Assistant Professor, Wilf Family Department of Politics, New York University
Verified email at nyu.edu
Cited by 765

Measuring the predictability of life outcomes with a scientific mass collaboration

…, X Wang, Z Wang, J Wang, F Wang… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
How predictable are life trajectories? We investigated this question with a scientific mass
collaboration using the common task method; 160 teams built predictive models for six life …

Matching methods for causal inference with time‐series cross‐sectional data

K Imai, IS Kim, EH Wang - American Journal of Political …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Matching methods improve the validity of causal inference by reducing model dependence
and offering intuitive diagnostics. Although they have become a part of the standard tool kit …

Frightened mandarins: the adverse effects of fighting corruption on local bureaucracy

EH Wang - Comparative Political Studies, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Canonical theories of bureaucracy demonstrate the need for enhanced monitoring in government
hierarchies. I argue that intensive top-down monitoring may reduce the productivity of …

Pollution lowers support for china's regime: quasi-experimental evidence from Beijing

M Alkon, EH Wang - The Journal of Politics, 2018 - journals.uchicago.edu
Using an eight-week-long original survey conducted day by day in Beijing in 2015, we leverage
daily variation in air quality to estimate the causal effects of pollution on support for the …

Radiomic Features of Primary Rectal Cancers on Baseline T2‐Weighted MRI Are Associated With Pathologic Complete Response to Neoadjuvant Chemoradiation: A …

…, A Ofshteyn, K Bera, EY Wang… - Journal of Magnetic …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Background Twenty‐five percent of rectal adenocarcinoma patients achieve pathologic complete
response (pCR) to neoadjuvant chemoradiation and could avoid proctectomy. However…

Nanoarchitectured materials composed of fullerene-like spheroids and disordered graphene layers with tunable mechanical properties

Z Zhao, EF Wang, H Yan, Y Kono, B Wen, L Bai… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Type-II glass-like carbon is a widely used material with a unique combination of properties
including low density, high strength, extreme impermeability to gas and liquid and resistance …

Awakening Leviathan: The effect of democracy on state capacity

EH Wang, Y Xu - Research & Politics, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
Recent debates over the relative importance of democracy and state capacity for human
development have led to the prevailing view that a strong state must be built before the …

A cost benefit analysis of increasing surgical technology in lumbar spine fusion

…, V Puvanesarajah, D Vasquez-Montes, E Wang… - The Spine Journal, 2021 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND CONTEXT Numerous advances have been made in the field of spine fusion,
such as minimally invasive (MIS) or robotic-assisted spine surgery. However, it is unknown …

Expandable cages increase the risk of intraoperative subsidence but do not improve perioperative outcomes in single level transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion

C Stickley, T Philipp, E Wang, J Zhong, E Balouch… - The Spine Journal, 2021 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND CONTEXT Expandable cages (EXP) are being more frequently utilized in
transforaminal lumbar interbody fusions (TLIF). EXP were designed to reduce complications …

Metal layer single EUV expose at pitch 28 nm: how bright field and NTD resist advantages align

…, D Rio, J Bekaert, E Wang… - Extreme Ultraviolet …, 2021 - spiedigitallibrary.org
We evaluated the printability of patterns relevant for Logic Metal at P28nm (L/S and T2T) on
wafer using EUV single expose. We compare illumination sources with and without fading …