Graduate student in Middle Eastern Studies. Her current research mainly focuses on the relationship between the diverse forms of authoritarianism and authoritarian persistence in the Middle East. She is interested in quantitative methodology in political science, and she is currently working as a research assistant for Professor Gary King and Molly Roberts. In her future research, she plans to combine the rigorous theory of comparative authoritarianism in the Middle East with sound empirical testing with programming skills such as R and STATA.
He is a William Yandell Elliott Fellow in the Department of Government at Harvard University. His methodological interests are causal inference, field experiments, natural experiments, statistical programming, and natural language processing. His substantive interests are representation, California politics, state and local politics, voting behavior, and ... Read more about Aaron Kaufman
Graduate student in the Department of Government. His research focuses on political economy and computational social science. In political economy, he works on migration, trade, and foreign aid with a focus on developing economies in Asia. In computational social science, he is interested in automated content analysis, machine learning, and opinion dynamics.
Graduate student in the Department of Government at Harvard University. She received her B.A. summa cum laude from Texas A&M University in Political Science and Economics. Her research interests center around economic and political development, focusing on poverty alleviation programs and welfare state development in developing countries.
Ph.D student in Government focusing on international relations and political methodology. His research interests include the political economy of international organizations and the effect of domestic politics on foreign policymaking. Methodologically, he is interested in text analysis, survey experiments and causal inference in time-series and network data. Previously, he received a B.S. in International Politics from Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service.
Assistant Professor in the Government Department at Georgetown University. 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.
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.
Undergraduate student at Harvard University, concentrating in Government. She is currently working on partisan taunting project under Gary King. Her research interests include public opinion and development of political beliefs.
Ph.D. student in the Department of Government. His research interests include the use of panel data in comparative politics and IR, causal inference and matching, and political economy. He is currently working on the YourCast package in R.
Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 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.
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.
