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Chengxin Michael Xu

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Assistant Professor at Institute of Public Service, Seattle University; Fan of Herbert Simon, Max Weber, and Friedrich Nietzsche; Powerlifter

Seattle, WA
Joined April 2018
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Chengxin Michael Xu
1 year
Our field experiment on discrimination against Asian Americans and noncitizen immigrants are now published online at Public Administration Review (PAR)! Full article here: https://t.co/XuX5Vf3wwB We find:
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@LSEUSAblog
LSE USAPP blog
3 months
Evidence-based policy, supported by institutional resources, helps US state civil servants make decisions writes @Chengxin_M_Xu of @seattleu and co-authors
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US state-level policymakers are more likely to support and fund programs that have proven outcomes.
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@PSJ_Editor
PSJ (@psjeditor.bsky.social)
10 months
NEW BLOG POST ALERT! Can bipartisan cooperation thrive in local governance? This study explores how local governments can overcome political divides for sustainable development. By @Yixin__Liu #PSJ #PolicyStudiesJournal Read here: https://t.co/YJlkjXJ2aL
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by Yixin Liu Collaboration among local governments is crucial for tackling shared challenges like environmental management and economic development. Partisanship significantly shapes these collabor…
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@PAReview
PAR
1 year
Recent Research Article on PAR: No country for model minorities: Evidence of discrimination against Asian noncitizen immigrants in the U.S. nursing home market by Chengxin Xu and Danbee Lee: https://t.co/hlTY2FVScI
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PAR
1 year
Recent Research Article on PAR: Testing the effects of merit appointments and bureaucratic autonomy on governmental performance: Evidence from African bureaucracies by Sergio Fernandez, Faisal Cheema: https://t.co/PhehQPHzis
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@TheEconomist
The Economist
1 year
“Her Story” has resonated with young Chinese women, who are pleased by the film’s focus on female experiences and problems related to their sex. Here’s why the Communist Party let it play in cinemas https://t.co/irRzfkfrNo 👇
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economist.com
A hilarious and heart-rending new film explores feminist themes
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Chengxin Michael Xu
1 year
Through this field experiment, my coauthor Danbee Lee and I want to tell a story about our own identities. We are extremely thankful for the support from various sources, and I hope my Asian colleagues can keep telling Asian stories. This is how we advocate for social justice.
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Chengxin Michael Xu
1 year
(1) Asians experience about the same level of discrimination as other racial minority groups do, (2) it is even harder for noncitizen immigrants to gain access to quality long term care services, (3) for-profit nursing homes are LESS discriminative. There is no model minority.
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@angeladuckw
Angela Duckworth
1 year
For many behavioral scientists, nothing stings like study results with an unexpectedly small effect. My coauthors—@LinneaGandhi @BenSManning—and I explore the scientific practices and psychological tendencies that drive this phenomenon in our new paper in current directions
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Zhihang Ruan
1 year
A Chinese podcast explores disturbing allegations against "Luo," a recent Stanford PhD graduate in political science. https://t.co/pdpbCdkkwh 1/5
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Chengxin Michael Xu
1 year
@chengyuan87 @wangshuping0102 @WestonMerrick @Results4America @PAReview For more details, you can check our the paper here: https://t.co/Nt1gM1X9vq; an open access preprint version is also available at:
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Chengxin Michael Xu
1 year
@chengyuan87 @wangshuping0102 @WestonMerrick @Results4America @PAReview The major takeaway of this research is that, evidence-based practice can never achieve its goal if government decision-makers are leaved with no support. Without any support, causal evidence will be ignored. However, a simple label of "evidence-based" can make changes.
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Chengxin Michael Xu
1 year
Excited to share the 2nd piece of our EBP team with @chengyuan87 @wangshuping0102 @WestonMerrick and Patrick Carter @Results4America on @PAReview! In this study, we investigated how state government officials incorporate scientific evidence to budgeting and funding decisions.
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Chengxin Michael Xu
1 year
With such level of accuracy, we believe GPT models can save scholars substantial amount of time and resources. Free your RAs and let them do more meaningful works that really matters to their careers.
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Chengxin Michael Xu
1 year
We updated our previous working paper on GPT models for text annotation with new findings. Cross five annotation tasks on emails from an audit experiment, we find GPT-4 can achieve ~86% accuracy rate, using human annotation results as a benchmark: https://t.co/xKLpnWvj7p
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Chengxin Michael Xu
1 year
A friendly reminder that our recent Practically Speaking article is online. You may also find a related working paper here:
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PAR
1 year
Practically Speaking in PAR: Evidence-based practices and US state government civil servants: Current use, challenges, and pathways forward by Yuan (Daniel) Cheng, Leslie Thompson, Shuping Wang, Jules Marzec, Chengxin Xu, Weston Merrick, Patrick Carter: https://t.co/SUkwEn2aGb
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@PAReview
PAR
1 year
PAR has a podcast, "On PAR"! Please find, listen, and subscribe us from Spotify, Apple Podcast, and YouTube.
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Chengxin Michael Xu
1 year
Many thanks to @chengyuan87 for putting together such a great interdisciplinary team. This was an amazing journey, and we have much more to come.
@chengyuan87
Yuan (Daniel) Cheng 程远
1 year
Check out our new paper @PAReview on the use of EBPs in governments: https://t.co/Tis0nBMS9p with @Chengxin_M_Xu @seattleu @wangshuping0102 @MaxwellSU @WestonMerrick @MMBCommunicates, Leslie Thompson @MinnesotaDHS, Patrick Carter @Results4America, and Jules Marzec @HHHSchool.
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Huafang Li
1 year
I created a @YouTube video to summarize a series of studies on educating future philanthropic leaders (w/@LindseyMcDougle @Chengxin_M_Xu and others)
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@favero_nate
Nathan Favero
1 year
🧵Do you teach introductory statistics? And are your students tired of paying for a textbook? I'm proud to announce the latest version of a free textbook I've compiled. Available as pdf and a website (mobile friendly, with dark mode). https://t.co/v3qkf6WHFU
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