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Replication data for: The Informative Power of Treaty Commitment: Using the Spatial Model to Address Selection Effects

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Title Replication data for: The Informative Power of Treaty Commitment: Using the Spatial Model to Address Selection Effects
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/CV40VF
 
Creator Yonatan Lupu
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description The effects of international institutions on state behavior make up a key research agenda in international relations scholarship. Because states self-select into treaties, we cannot infer that these commitments have causal effects unless we address this selection effect. I explain the significant limitations of the methods used thus far to overcome this problem and argue that a more effective approach must take into account states' treaty preferences. I describe a novel combination of ideal point estimation and propensity score matching that can estimate the probabilities of treaty commitment and use them to test hypotheses. I use this procedure to the test the effects of three key international human rights treaties. My results provide significant new findings regarding the effects of these important agreements.
 
Subject Social Sciences
International institutions
Selection effect
Human rights
Treaties
 
Contributor Yonatan Lupu