Do Treaties Constrain or Screen? Selection Bias and Treaty Compliance

By J. Stein. American Political Science Review, 2005

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National Institutions and Global Public Goods: Are Democracies More Cooperative in Climate Change Policy? (2009, background): “…See, for example, von Stein 2008b+ 74+ Ibid, quotation from abstract+ 75+ See, for example, Helm and Sprinz 2000; Siegfried and Bernauer 2007+ 76+ See von Stein 2005+ 77+ See, for example, von Stein 2008a+ 78+ The lack of large-N data for public demand for climate change mitigation…”
Treaty Compliance and Violation (2010, background): “Methods exist to address endogeneity and selection, but they involve trade-offs and are highly imperfect (Simmons & Hopkins 2005; von Stein 2005).”
Let's Get a Second Opinion: International Institutions and American Public Support for War (2011, background): “Recent work has sought to take into account the endogeneity problem while still identifying direct causal effects of IOs on state behavior in the particular area of international finance (Simmons 2000; Simmons and Hopkins 2005; Von Stein 2005; Grieco, Gelpi, and Warren 2009).”
The International Monetary Fund: A review of the recent evidence (2008, background): “Her findings were challenged by von Stein (2005), who argued that most of the effect that Simmons attributed to adopting an Article VIII commitment is really attributable to unobservable factors that make states willing to adopt such a commitment.”