This paper uses the Supreme Court’s ruling in Buckley v. Valeo (1976) to identify the causal impact of money in elections. Estimates consistently suggest that the Buckley-induced removal of state limits on campaign spending led to increased Republican voteshares, increased Republican candidate entry, and decreased Democratic candidate entry in state legislative and gubernatorial elections in st...

Purpose This study assessed whether gabapentin given preoperatively and for two days postoperatively (in addition to patient-controlled analgesia [PCA] morphine, acetaminophen, and ketorolac) is effective in reducing morphine requirements and moderating pain scores when compared with placebo for primary total knee arthroplasty. Methods This single-centre double-blind randomized controlled trial...

Proposals for coed housing at Notre Dame and for a lower drinking age in Indiana have a good chance of passing this year, Student Body President Ed Byrne said Thursday. “ I ’m op tim is tic ," said Byrne. “ The whole point of the COUL (C om m ittee on U ndergraduate L ife) report was that we should begin discussion this year so that we’l l have a coed dorm for the incoming freshmen in 1976.” Bu...

In survival analysis, the accelerated failure time model is a useful alternative to the popular Cox proportional hazards model due to its easy interpretation. Current estimation methods for the accelerated failure time model mostly assume independent and identically distributed random errors, but in many applications the conditional variance of log survival times depend on covariates exhibiting...

Buckley Biggs, N., J. Hafner, F. E. Mashiri, L. Huntsinger, and Lambin. 2021. Payments for ecosystem services within the hybrid governance model: evaluating policy alignment complementarity on California rangelands. Ecology Society 26(1):19. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-12254-260119