Christoffer Cappelen
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Christoffer Cappelen
@ccappelen.bsky.social
Postdoc @ NTNU, Department of Sociology & Political Science • Historical political economy, Comparative politics, State formation, Historical persistence

https://ccappelen.github.io
Reposted by Christoffer Cappelen
🆕 The uneven reach of the state: Using machine learning to map local state presence

Today on VoxDev, Gustav Agneman (NTNU), Christoffer Cappelen (NTNU), Kasper Brandt (Kraka Economics), and David Sjoberg (Epista Life Science) outline research on sub-Saharan Africa: voxdev.org/topic/method...
The uneven reach of the state: Using machine learning to map local state presence
How can we estimate state presence in areas where direct measurements are lacking? New research offers a solution to measuring state presence using machine learning techniques.
voxdev.org
April 10, 2025 at 8:55 AM
After years of work, our paper "The Uneven Reach of the State" with @agneman.bsky.social, Kasper Brandt, and David Sjöberg is finally out in JDE.

doi.org/10.1016/j.jd...

We use machine learning to predict subnational variation in state presence across SSA. Check it out!
February 11, 2025 at 6:14 PM