Ross Buchanan, PhD
Department of Government
University of Texas at Austin
Department of Government
University of Texas at Austin
I received my PhD in political science from the University of Texas at Austin during the summer of 2021 and am currently working as a graduate research assistant. My work has focused on using measurable real-world outcomes both as an information source the public uses to form its opinions, and as a means of assessing the effectiveness of governmental policy efforts. My dissertation examined local-level air pollution remediation efforts across the United States and China. My work as a graduate research assistant (GRA) focuses on state-level decarbonization, energy, and transportation policy.
Methodological Skills:
I’m intimately familiar with econometric modeling. Most of my research has used observational (non-experimental) data for hundreds or thousands of units over years or decades—I’m experienced with both cross-sectional and time series analysis. My dissertation also involved working with a lot of spatial data (global raster grids of air pollutant concentrations & shapefiles of administrative units) and doing spatial modeling (e.g., lagged spatial autoregressive models to account for air pollution spillover across localities). My GRA work over the past two years has concentrated on focus group and survey question design.
Methodological Skills:
I’m intimately familiar with econometric modeling. Most of my research has used observational (non-experimental) data for hundreds or thousands of units over years or decades—I’m experienced with both cross-sectional and time series analysis. My dissertation also involved working with a lot of spatial data (global raster grids of air pollutant concentrations & shapefiles of administrative units) and doing spatial modeling (e.g., lagged spatial autoregressive models to account for air pollution spillover across localities). My GRA work over the past two years has concentrated on focus group and survey question design.
