Research Group

Current Research Associates

• Micah Altman, (Ph.D., California Institute of Technology), Senior Research Scientist at IQSS and Archival Director of the Henry A. Murray Research Archive, specializes in informatics, data sharing, and statistical computing.
• Matthew Blackwell is a graduate student in the Department of Government at Harvard. He likes statistical methodology and game theory, but cannot seem to find the perfect place to apply them. He co-wrote the Amelia II package and frontend for R.
• Delia Bailey is a Ph.D. Candidate at the California Institute of Technology. Her research interests include quantitative methods and American elections, particularly the areas of political representation, voting behavior and election reform. She is assisting in integrating mixed effects models into the Zelig package for R.
• Sebastian Bauhoff, Ph.D. candidate in Health Policy (Economics track) at Harvard University. He is interested in applying empirical methods to health policy, particularly to topics at the intersection of health, labor and public economics.
• Jon Bischof is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Government. His research interests include the use of panel data in comparative politics and IR, casual inference and matching, and political economy. He is currently working on the YourCast package in R.
• Katie Colton is a senior at UC Berkeley, majoring in Molecular and Cell Biology (concentration in Immunology). She plans to pursue immunology in graduate or medical school.
• Skyler Cranmer (Ph.D., University of California, Davis) is a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Institute for Quantitative Social Science. His research interests include political methodology where he has concentrated on missing data problems and statistical computing, and international relations where he studies political violence (terrorism in particular) through both formal and empirical models.
• Alexis Diamond, PhD candidate in the Political Economy and Government Program. He is working on robust and semi-parametric methods of causal inference, prediction, and program evaluation, and he is interested in a broad range of issues associated with comparative politics and public health.
• Justin Grimmer, Ph.D. student in the Department of Government. His research areas include political methodology and political behavior. His work focuses on estimating the causal effects of social networks and political/social elites on mass political behavior. He has also implemented ARIMA time series models into Zelig and is currently developing and applying unsupervised learning routines for a variety of applications in political science.
• Dan Hopkins is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Government. His research interests include urban and local politics, political behavior, and political methodology. He has assisted in the development of the "Anchors" package for the analysis of survey data with anchoring vignettes and has worked on automated methods of content analysis. In addition, his work on contextual effects in political science has built on recent methodological innovations relating to selection bias, hierarchical modeling, and matching.
• David Kane, Ph.D. Political Economy and Government from Harvard, was a lecturer in the Department of Government in 2002-2003 and taught GOV 1000. He is interested in the use of R for teaching, matching methods and applications of statistics in accounting and finance.
• Grace Kim is an undergraduate studying economics and statistics at Harvard and plans to attend either graduate school or law school after graduating in 2010.
• Matthew Knowles is an undergraduate at Harvard concentrating in Government. He has also taken classes in economics, and plans to attend law school.
• Jason Lakin is a Ph.D. Candidate in Government and Social Policy at Harvard. Jason is a collaborator on the IQSS/HIGH evaluation of the Mexican health reform of 2001 (Seguro Popular). He received a Fulbright Grant to Chile in 2002 and is co-author, with Seymour Martin Lipset, of The Democratic Century. He has also served as a research assistant at the DC Fiscal Policy Institute at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. His research interests include social insurance, the origins of institutions, and the nature of state-building.
• Patrick Lam is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Government. His research interests are in the application of quantitative methods to areas of comparative politics and international relations including democratization and international political economy. He is currently working on integrating various models into Zelig in R.
• Olivia Lau, Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Goverment. Her substantive research interests includes state voting behavior in international organizations, and privatization of public utilities. Statistical research includes documentation for models suppored in R, methods for presenting data in R, and ways to improve R for political science applications. She is sometimes known as "R-help".
• Eleanor Powell is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Government. Her research interests include American politics and political methodology. Her work focuses on political parties in the U.S. Congress.
• Ryan Moore, Ph.D. candidate in Government and Social Policy at Harvard University. His research interests include political, statistical, and econometric methods and American politics. In particular, Ryan studies welfare politics, poverty, the American welfare state, and interstate variation. He has contributed to the forecasting mortality project at CBRSS and the Welfare Reform and Beyond project at the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC.
• Nirmala Ravishankar, Ph.D candidate in the Department of Government and Doctoral Fellow in the Multidisciplinary Program in Inequality and Social Policy. Her substantive research interests in the field of comparative politics include federalism, regional inequality, and the political economy of redistribution. She is currently involved in statistical research focusing on mortality forecasting and regional income accounting.
• Andrew Reeves, Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Government at Harvard University. He studies American politics as well as methodology. His interests include campaign behavior and how electoral institutions shape political outcomes.
• Andrew C. Thomas, Ph.D. candidate in Statistics at Harvard University. His research interests include computational statistical methods, including Markov Chain Monte Carlo and exact sampling routines, and modeling and prediction of electoral systems. He maintains the JudgeIt package for R.
• Kenesia Washington attends Harvard, expects to receive a Bachelor of Arts in Government in June 2007, and plans to attend law school. She received a t from the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard to serve as an intern for the public affairs department of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in Mexico City, Mexico.

Alumni: Students

• Christopher Adolph, University of Washington
• Josephine T. Andrews, UC Davis
• Kenneth Benoit, Trinity College, University of Dublin
• Nancy Billica, University of Colorado
• Nancy Burns, University of Michigan
  
• Anders Corr
• Alexis Diamond, World Bank
• Elizabeth Desombre, Wellesley College
• Karen Ferree, UC San Diego
• James Fowler, UC Davis
• Claudine Gay, Harvard University
• Emmanuela Gakidou, Harvard University
• Michael Gilligan, NYU University
• Federico Girosi, The Rand Corporation
• Frederick M. Hess, Georgetown University
• Jennifer Hill, Columbia University
• Dan Ho, Yale Law School
• Daniel Hopkins, Georgetown University
• James Honaker, UCLA
• Ben W. Hunt, Iridian Asset Management
• Kosuke Imai, Princeton University
• Debra Javeline, Notre Dame
• Ann Joseph, University of California, Berkeley
• Ethan Katz, Cleveland Clinic Foundation
• Orit Kedar, University of Michigan
• Gi-Heon Kwon, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Korea
  
• Olivia Lau, Food and Drug Administration
• David Leal, University of Texas at Austin
• Jeff Lewis , UCLA
• David Lublin, American University
• Lisa Martin, Harvard University
• Ryan Moore, Washington University, St. Louis
• Claudia Pedroza, University of Texas
• Timothy Prinz
• Andrew Reeves, Boston University
• Kenneth Scheve, University of Michigan
• Jasjeet Sekhon, University of California, Berkely
• Alexander Schuessler, SmartEquip
• Curtis Signorino, University of Rochester
• Elizabeth Stuart, Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.
• Michael Tomz, Stanford University
• Joshua Tucker, NYU
• Steven D. Voss, University of Kentucky
• Jason Wittenburg, University of California, Berkeley
• Patrick Wolf, Georgetown University
• Dan Ward, Pfizer, Inc.

Alumni: Post-Docs

• Greg Adams
• Micah Altman, Harvard University
• Aslaug Asgeirsdottir, Bates College
• Brady Baybeck, University of Missouri - St. Louis
• Ben Bishin, University of Miami
• Dawn Brancati, Harvard University
• Patrick Brandt, University of Texas at Dallas
• John M. Bruce, University of Mississippi
• Sean Carey, The University of Sheffield
• Suzanna De Boef, Penn State University
• Scott Desposato, The University of Arizona
• Hung-Der Fu, Tunghai University, Taiwan
• Jeff Gill, UC Davis
• Kristian Gleditsch, Nuffield College, Oxford University
• Prateek Goorha, National Economic Consulting Group
• Michael Herron, Dartmouth College
• Jonathan N. Katz, Caltech
• Matthew Lebo, Stony Brook University
• Will Lowe, Harvard University
• Russ Mayer, Merrimack College
• James McCann, Purdue University
• Michael McDonald, George Mason University
• Michael New, University of Alabama
• Philip Paolino, University of North Texas
• Mohan (Penubarti) Rao, LECG
• Kevin Quinn, Harvard University
• Eric Reinhardt, Emory University
• Joshua Salomon, Harvard University
• Heather Stoll, University of California, Santa Barbara
• Bernard Tamas, Illinois State University
• Amher Tarar, Texas A&M University
• Michael Ting, Columbia University
• Margaret Trevor
• Richard Tucker, Vanderbilt University
• Robert Walker, Washington University, St. Louis
• Gregory Wawro, Columbia University
• Langche Zeng, George Washington University
• Jonathan Wand, Stanford University

Collaborators

• Lada Adamic, University of Michigan
• Christopher Adolph, University of Washington
• James Alt, Harvard University
• Micah Altman, Harvard University
• Leonid Andreev, Harvard University
• Stephen Ansolabehere, MIT
• Sinan Aral, New York University and MIT
• Albert-László Barabási, University of Notre Dame
• Nathaniel Beck, NYU
• Kenneth Bennoit, Trinity College, University of Dublin
• John Boscardin, UCLA
• Devon Brewer, University of Washington and Interdisciplinary Scientific Research
• Robert X Browning, Purdue University
• Paul Brace, Rice University
• John Bruce, University of Mississippi
• Nancy Burns, University of Michigan
• Nicholas Christakis, Harvard University
• Noshir Contractor, Harvard University
• Mark Diggory, Harvard University
• Lee Epstein, Washington University in St. Louis
• James Fowler, University of California, San Diego
• Emmanuela Gakidou, Harvard University
• Andrew Gelman, Columbia University
• Jeff Gill, UC Davis
• Michael Gilligan, NYU University
• Federico Girosi, The Rand Corporation
• Bernard Grofman, University of California, Irvine
• Myron Gutmann, University of Michigan
• Christine Harrington, NYU
• Juan Eugenio Hernández Ávila, Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública (National Institute of Public Health, Mexico)
• Mauricio Hernández Ávila, Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública (National Institute of Public Health, Mexico)
• Héctor Hernández Llama, Secretaría de Salud (Ministry of Health, Mexico)
• Michael Herron, Dartmouth College
• Dan Ho, Stanford Law School
• James Honaker, UCLA
• Stefano Iacus, University of Milan
• Kosuke Imai, Princeton University
• Tony Jebara, Columbia University
• Wenxin Jiang, Northwestern University
• Ann Joseph, UC Berkeley School of Law
• Johnathan Katz, Caltech
• Robert O. Keohane, Princeton University
• Daniel L. Kiskis, University of Michigan
• Elizabeth Kolster, University of New Zealand
• Michael Krot, JSTOR
• Etienne Krug, World Health Organization
• Jason Lakin, Harvard University
• Olivia Lau, Harvard University
• Michael Laver, NYU
• David Lazer, Harvard University
• Jeff Lewis, UCLA
• Chuanhai Liu, Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies
• Will Lowe, Harvard University
• Alan Lopez, University of Queensland
• Ying Lu, University of Colorado
• Michael Macy, Cornell University
• Richard Merelman, University of Wisconsin, Madison
• Ryan Moore, Harvard University
• Christopher Murray, University of Washington
• Clayton Nall, Harvard University
• Norman Nie, Stanford University
• Bradley Palmquist, YouGov/Polimetrix
• Alex Pentland, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Giuseppe Porro, University of Trieste
• Lyn Ragsdale, Rice University
• Nirmala Ravishankar, Harvard University
• Ori Rosen, University of Pittsburgh
• Deb Roy, MIT
• Joshua Salomon, Harvard University
• Kenneth Scheve, University of Michigan
• Kay Schlozman, Boston College
• Kenneth Shotts, Stanford University
• Jeffrey Segal, SUNY at Stony Brook
• Curtis Signorino, University of Rochester
• Naunihal Singh, University of Notre Dame
• Kenji Shibuya, University of Tokyo
• Samir Soneji, Princeton University
• Heather Stoll, University of California, Santa Barbara
• Elizabeth Stuart, Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.
• Ajay Tandon, Asian Development Bank
• Martin Tanner, Northwestern University
• Martha María Téllez-Rojo, Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública (National Institute of Public Health, Mexico)
• Niels Tomijima, World Health Organization
• Michael Tomz, Stanford University
• Marshall Van Alstyne, MIT
• Manett Vargas, Harvard University
  
• Sidney Verba, Harvard University
• Steven D. Voss, University of Kentucky
• Alexander Wagner, University of Zurich
• Daniel J. Walsh, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Jonathan Wand, Stanford University
• Rainer Winkelmann, University of Zurich
• Jason Wittenburg, University of California, Berkeley
• Langche Zeng, George Washington University