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Kosuke Imai
Curriculum Vitae
January 2020
Contact Information
1737 Cambridge StreetInstitute for Quantitative Social Science Phone 617-384-6778Harvard University Email ImaiHarvardEduCambridge MA 02138 URL httpsimaifasharvardedu
Education
PhD in Political Science Harvard University (1999ndash2003)
AM in Statistics Harvard University (2000ndash2002)
BA in Liberal Arts The University of Tokyo (1994ndash1998)
Positions
Professor Department of Government and Department of Statistics Harvard Uni-versity (2018 ndash present)
Professor Department of Politics and Center for Statistics and Machine LearningPrinceton University (2013 ndash 2018)
Founding Director Program in Statistics and Machine Learning (2013ndash 2017)
Professor of Visiting Status Graduate Schools of Law and Politics The Universityof Tokyo (2016 ndash present)
Associate Professor Department of Politics Princeton University (2012 ndash 2013)
Assistant Professor Department of Politics Princeton University (2004 ndash 2012)
Visiting Researcher Faculty of Economics The University of Tokyo (August 2006)
Instructor Department of Politics Princeton University (2003 ndash 2004)
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Kosuke Imai
Honors and Awards
1 Highly Cited Researcher (cross-field category) for ldquoproduction of multiple highly citedpapers that rank in the top 1 by citations for field and year in Web of Sciencerdquo awardedby Clarivate Analytics (2018 2019)
2 The Nils Petter Gleditsch Article of the Year Award (2017) awarded by Journal of PeaceResearch
3 President The Society for Political Methodology (2017ndash2019) Vice President and President-elect (2015ndash2017)
4 Elected Fellow The Society for Political Methodology (2017)
5 Statistical Software Award for developing statistical software that makes a significant re-search contribution for ldquomediation R Package for Causal Mediation Analysisrdquo awardedby the Society for Political Methodology (2015)
6 Outstanding Reviewer Award for Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics givenby the American Educational Research Association (2014)
7 The Stanley Kelley Jr Teaching Award given by the Department of Politics PrincetonUniversity (2013)
8 Pi Sigma Alpha Award for the best paper presented at the 2012 Midwest Political ScienceAssociation annual meeting for ldquoExplaining Support for Combatants during WartimeA Survey Experiment in Afghanistanrdquo awarded by the Midwest Political Science Asso-ciation (2013)
9 Invited to read ldquoExperimental Designs for Identifying Causal Mechanismsrdquo before theRoyal Statistical Society Research Section London (2012)
10 Inaugural recipient of the Emerging Scholar Award for a young scholar making exceptionalcontributions to political methodology who is within ten years of their terminal degreeawarded by the Society for Political Methodology (2011)
11 Political Analysis Editorsrsquo Choice Award for an article providing an especially significantcontribution to political methodology for ldquoEstimation of Heterogeneous Treatment Ef-fects from Randomized Experiments with Application to the Optimal Planning of theGet-out-the-vote Campaignrdquo awarded by the Society for Political Methodology and Ox-ford University Press (2011)
12 Tom Ten Have Memorial Award for the best poster presented at the 2011 Atlantic CausalInference Conference for ldquoIdentifying Treatment Effect Heterogeneity through OptimalClassification and Variable Selectionrdquo awarded by the Departments of Biostatistics andStatistics University of Michigan (2011)
13 Nominated for the Graduate Mentoring Award The McGraw Center for Teaching andLearning Princeton University (2010 2011)
14 New Hot Paper for the most-cited paper in the field of Economics amp Business in thelast two months among papers published in the last year for ldquoMisunderstandings amongExperimentalists and Observationalists about Causal Inferencerdquo named by ThomsonReutersrsquo ScienceWatch (2009)
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15 Warren Miller Prize for the best article published in Political Analysis for ldquoMatchingas Nonparametric Preprocessing for Reducing Model Dependence in Parametric CausalInferencerdquo awarded by the Society for Political Methodology and Oxford University Press(2008)
16 Fast Breaking Paper for the article with the largest percentage increase in citations amongthose in the top 1 of total citations across the social sciences in the last two years forldquoMatching as Nonparametric Preprocessing for Reducing Model Dependence in Paramet-ric Causal Inferencerdquo named by Thomson Reutersrsquo ScienceWatch (2008)
17 Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety Outstanding Reviewer Recognition (2008)
18 Miyake Award for the best political science article published in 2005 for ldquoDo Get-Out-The-Vote Calls Reduce Turnout The Importance of Statistical Methods for Field Ex-perimentsrdquo awarded by the Japanese Political Science Association (2006)
19 Toppan Prize for the best dissertation in political science for Essays on Political Method-ology awarded by Harvard University (2004) Also nominated for American PoliticalScience Association EE Schattschneider Award for the best doctoral dissertation in thefield of American government and politics
Selected Manuscripts
1 Fifield Benjamin Kosuke Imai Jun Kawahara and Christopher T Kenny ldquoThe Essen-tial Role of Empirical Validation in Legislative Redistricting Simulationrdquo
2 de la Cuesta Brandon Egami Naoki and Kosuke ImaildquoExperimental Design and Sta-tistical Inference for Conjoint Analysis The Essential Role of Population Distributionrdquo
3 Imai Kosuke and Michael Lingzhi Li ldquoExperimental Evaluation of Individualized Treat-ment Rulesrdquo
4 Hwang June Kosuke Imai and Alex Tarr ldquoAutomated Coding of Political CampaignAdvertisement Videos An Empirical Validation Studyrdquo
5 Imai Kosuke and In Song Kim ldquoOn the Use of Two-way Fixed Effects RegressionModels for Causal Inference with Panel Datardquo
6 Olivella Santiago Tyler Pratt and Kosuke Imai ldquoDynamic Stochastic BlockmodelRegression for Social Networks Application to International Conflictsrdquo
7 Imai Kosuke In Song Kim and Erik Wang ldquoMatching Methods for Causal Inferencewith Time-Series Cross-Sectional Datardquo
8 Imai Kosuke Zhichao Jiang and Anup Malani ldquoCausal Inference with Interference andNoncompliance in the Two-Stage Randomized Experimentsrdquo
9 Chan KCG K Imai SCP Yam Z Zhang ldquoEfficient Nonparametric Estimation ofCausal Mediation Effectsrdquo
10 Fan Jianqing Kosuke Imai Han Liu Yang Ning and Xiaolin Yang ldquoImproving Covari-ate Balancing Propensity Score A Doubly Robust and Efficient Approachrdquo
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11 Fifield Benjamin Michael Higgins Kosuke Imai and Alexander Tarr ldquoAutomatedRedistricting Simulation Using Markov Chain Monte Carlordquo
12 Barber Michael and Kosuke Imai ldquoEstimating Neighborhood Effects on Turnout fromGeocoded Voter Registration Recordsrdquo
13 Hirano Shigeo Kosuke Imai Yuki Shiraito and Masaki Taniguchi ldquoPolicy Positions inMixed Member Electoral Systems Evidence from Japanrdquo
Publications in English
Book
Imai Kosuke (2018) Quantitative Social Science An Introduction Princeton Univer-sity Press Translated into Japanese (2018)
Refereed Journal Articles
1 Ning Yang Sida Peng and Kosuke Imai ldquoRobust Estimation of Causal Effects viaHigh-Dimensional Covariate Balancing Propensity Scorerdquo Biometrika Forthcoming
2 Zhao Shandong David A van Dyk and Kosuke Imai ldquoPropensity-Score Based Methodsfor Causal Inference in Observational Studies with Non-Binary Treatmentsrdquo StatisticalMethods in Medical Research Forthcoming
3 Imai Kosuke and Zhichao Jiang ldquoIdentification and Sensitivity Analysis of ContagionEffects with Randomized Placebo-Controlled Trialsrdquo Journal of the Royal StatisticalSociety Series A (Statistics in Society) Forthcoming
4 Enamorado Ted and Kosuke Imai ldquoValidating Self-reported Turnout by Linking PublicOpinion Surveys with Administrative Recordsrdquo Public Opinion Quarterly Forthcoming
5 Imai Kosuke Gary King and Carlos Velasco Rivera ldquoDo Nonpartisan ProgrammaticPolicies Have Partisan Electoral Effects Evidence from Two Large Scale RandomizedExperimentsrdquo Journal of Politics Forthcoming
6 Chou Winston Kosuke Imai and Bryn Rosenfeld ldquoSensitive Survey Questions withAuxiliary Informationrdquo Sociological Methods amp Research Forthcoming
7 Lyall Jason Yang-Yang Zhou and Kosuke Imai (2020) ldquoCan Economic AssistanceShape Combatant Support in Wartime Experimental Evidence from AfghanistanrdquoAmerican Political Science Review Vol 114 No 1 (February) pp 126ndash143
8 Kim In Song Steven Liao and Kosuke Imai (2020) ldquoMeasuring Trade Profile withGranular Product-level Trade Datardquo American Journal of Political Science Vol 64No 1 (January) pp 102-117
9 Blair Graeme Winston Chou and Kosuke Imai (2019) ldquoList Experiments with Mea-surement Errorrdquo Political Analysis Vol 27 No 4 (October) pp 455ndash480
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Kosuke Imai
10 Egami Naoki and Kosuke Imai ldquoCausal Interaction in Factorial Experiments Appli-cation to Conjoint Analysisrdquo Journal of the American Statistical Association Vol 114No 526 (June) pp 529-540
11 Enamorado Ted Benjamin Fifield and Kosuke Imai (2019) ldquoUsing a ProbabilisticModel to Assist Merging of Large-scale Administrative Recordsrdquo American PoliticalScience Review Vol 113 No 2 (May) pp 353ndash371
12 Imai Kosuke and In Song Kim (2019) ldquoWhen Should We Use Linear Fixed EffectsRegression Models for Causal Inference with Longitudinal Datardquo American Journal ofPolitical Science Vol 63 No 2 (April) pp 467ndash490
13 Imai Kosuke and Zhichao Jiang (2018) ldquoA Sensitivity Analysis for Missing OutcomesDue to Truncation-by-Death under the Matched-Pairs Designrdquo Statistics in MedicineVol 37 No 20 (September) pp 2907ndash2922
14 Fong Christian Chad Hazlett and Kosuke Imai (2018) ldquoCovariate Balancing Propen-sity Score for a Continuous Treatment Application to the Efficacy of Political Advertise-mentsrdquo Annals of Applied Statistics Vol 12 No 1 pp 156ndash177
15 Hirose Kentaro Kosuke Imai and Jason Lyall (2017) ldquoCan Civilian Attitudes PredictInsurgent Violence Ideology and Insurgent Tactical Choice in Civil Warrdquo Journal ofPeace Research Vol 51 No 1 (January) pp 47ndash63
16 Imai Kosuke James Lo and Jonathan Olmsted (2016) ldquoFast Estimation of Ideal Pointswith Massive Datardquo American Political Science Review Vol 110 No 4 (December)pp 631ndash656
17 Rosenfeld Bryn Kosuke Imai and Jacob Shapiro (2016) ldquoAn Empirical ValidationStudy of Popular Survey Methodologies for Sensitive Questionsrdquo American Journal ofPolitical Science Vol 60 No 3 (July) pp 783ndash802
18 Imai Kosuke and Kabir Khanna (2016) ldquoImproving Ecological Inference by PredictingIndividual Ethnicity from Voter Registration Recordrdquo Political Analysis Vol 24 No 2(Spring) pp 263ndash272
19 Blair Graeme Kosuke Imai and Yang-Yang Zhou (2015) ldquoDesign and Analysis of theRandomized Response Techniquerdquo Journal of the American Statistical Association Vol110 No 511 (September) pp 1304ndash1319
20 Imai Kosuke and Marc Ratkovic (2015) ldquoRobust Estimation of Inverse ProbabilityWeights for Marginal Structural Modelsrdquo Journal of the American Statistical Associa-tion Vol 110 No 511 (September) pp 1013ndash1023 (lead article)
21 Lyall Jason Yuki Shiraito and Kosuke Imai (2015) ldquoCoethnic Bias and WartimeInformingrdquo Journal of Politics Vol 77 No 3 (July) pp 833ndash848
22 Imai Kosuke Bethany Park and Kenneth Greene (2015) ldquoUsing the Predicted Re-sponses from List Experiments as Explanatory Variables in Regression Modelsrdquo PoliticalAnalysis Vol 23 No 2 (Spring) pp 180ndash196 Translated in Portuguese and Reprintedin Revista Debates Vol 9 No 1
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23 Blair Graeme Kosuke Imai and Jason Lyall (2014) ldquoComparing and CombiningList and Endorsement Experiments Evidence from Afghanistanrdquo American Journal ofPolitical Science Vol 58 No 4 (October) pp 1043ndash1063
24 Tingley Dustin Teppei Yamamoto Kentaro Hirose Luke Keele and Kosuke Imai(2014) ldquomediation R Package for Causal Mediation Analysisrdquo Journal of StatisticalSoftware Vol 59 No 5 (August) pp 1ndash38
25 Imai Kosuke and Marc Ratkovic (2014) ldquoCovariate Balancing Propensity ScorerdquoJournal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B (Statistical Methodology) Vol 76 No1 (January) pp 243ndash263
26 Lyall Jason Graeme Blair and Kosuke Imai (2013) ldquoExplaining Support for Combat-ants during Wartime A Survey Experiment in Afghanistanrdquo American Political ScienceReview Vol 107 No 4 (November) pp 679-705 Winner of the Pi Sigma Alpha Award
27 Imai Kosuke and Teppei Yamamoto (2013) ldquoIdentification and Sensitivity Analysis forMultiple Causal Mechanisms Revisiting Evidence from Framing Experimentsrdquo PoliticalAnalysis Vol 21 No 2 (Spring) pp 141ndash171 (lead article)
28 Imai Kosuke and Marc Ratkovic (2013) ldquoEstimating Treatment Effect Heterogeneity inRandomized Program Evaluationrdquo Annals of Applied Statistics Vol 7 No 1 (March)pp 443ndash470 Winner of the Tom Ten Have Memorial Award Reprinted in Advances inPolitical Methodology R Franzese Jr ed Edward Elger 2017
29 Imai Kosuke Dustin Tingley and Teppei Yamamoto (2013) ldquoExperimental Designsfor Identifying Causal Mechanismsrdquo(with discussions) Journal of the Royal StatisticalSociety Series A (Statistics in Society) Vol 176 No 1 (January) pp 5ndash51 (leadarticle) Read before the Royal Statistical Society March 2012
30 Imai Kosuke and Dustin Tingley (2012) ldquoA Statistical Method for Empirical Testing ofCompeting Theoriesrdquo American Journal of Political Science Vol 56 No 1 (January)pp 218ndash236
31 Blair Graeme and Kosuke Imai (2012) ldquoStatistical Analysis of List ExperimentsrdquoPolitical Analysis Vol 20 No 1 (Winter) pp 47ndash77
32 Imai Kosuke Luke Keele Dustin Tingley and Teppei Yamamoto (2011) ldquoUnpackingthe Black Box of Causality Learning about Causal Mechanisms from Experimental andObservational Studiesrdquo American Political Science Review Vol 105 No 4 (November)pp 765ndash789 Reprinted in Advances in Political Methodology R Franzese Jr edEdward Elger 2017
33 Bullock Will Kosuke Imai and Jacob N Shapiro (2011) ldquoStatistical Analysis of En-dorsement Experiments Measuring Support for Militant Groups in Pakistanrdquo PoliticalAnalysis Vol 19 No 4 (Autumn) pp 363ndash384 (lead article)
34 Imai Kosuke (2011) ldquoMultivariate Regression Analysis for the Item Count TechniquerdquoJournal of the American Statistical Association Vol 106 No 494 (June) pp 407ndash416(featured article)
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35 Ho Daniel E Kosuke Imai Gary King and Elizabeth Stuart (2011) ldquoMatchIt Non-parametric Preprocessing for Parametric Causal Inferencerdquo Journal of Statistical Soft-ware Vol 42 (Special Volume on Political Methodology) No 8 (June) pp 1ndash28
36 Imai Kosuke Ying Lu and Aaron Strauss (2011) ldquoeco R Package for EcologicalInference in 2 times 2 Tablesrdquo Journal of Statistical Software Vol 42 (Special Volume onPolitical Methodology) No 5 (June) pp 1ndash23
37 Imai Kosuke and Aaron Strauss (2011) ldquoEstimation of Heterogeneous TreatmentEffects from Randomized Experiments with Application to the Optimal Planning of theGet-out-the-vote Campaignrdquo Political Analysis Vol 19 No 1 (Winter) pp 1ndash19(lead article) Winner of the Political Analysis Editorsrsquo Choice Award
38 Imai Kosuke Luke Keele and Dustin Tingley (2010) ldquoA General Approach to CausalMediation Analysisrdquo Psychological Methods Vol 15 No 4 (December) pp 309ndash334(lead article)
39 Imai Kosuke and Teppei Yamamoto (2010) ldquoCausal Inference with Differential Mea-surement Error Nonparametric Identification and Sensitivity Analysisrdquo American Jour-nal of Political Science Vol 54 No 2 (April) pp 543ndash560
40 Imai Kosuke Luke Keele and Teppei Yamamoto (2010) ldquoIdentification Inference andSensitivity Analysis for Causal Mediation Effectsrdquo Statistical Science Vol 25 No 1(February) pp 51ndash71
41 King Gary Emmanuela Gakidou Kosuke Imai Jason Lakin Ryan T Moore ClaytonNall Nirmala Ravishankar Manett Vargas Martha Marıa Tellez-Rojo Juan EugenioHernandez Avila Mauricio Hernandez Avila and Hector Hernandez Llamas (2009)ldquoPublic Policy for the Poor A Randomized Ten-Month Evaluation of the MexicanUniversal Health Insurance Programrdquo (with a comment) The Lancet Vol 373 No9673 (April) pp 1447ndash1454
42 Imai Kosuke Gary King and Clayton Nall (2009) ldquoThe Essential Role of Pair Matchingin Cluster-Randomized Experiments with Application to the Mexican Universal HealthInsurance Evaluationrdquo (with discussions) Statistical Science Vol 24 No 1 (February)pp 29ndash53
43 Imai Kosuke (2009) ldquoStatistical Analysis of Randomized Experiments with Nonignor-able Missing Binary Outcomes An Application to a Voting Experimentrdquo Journal of theRoyal Statistical Society Series C (Applied Statistics) Vol 58 No 1 (February) pp83ndash104
44 Imai Kosuke Gary King and Olivia Lau (2008) ldquoToward A Common Framework ofStatistical Analysis and Developmentrdquo Journal of Computational and Graphical Statis-tics Vol 17 No 4 (December) pp 892ndash913
45 Imai Kosuke (2008) ldquoVariance Identification and Efficiency Analysis in Experimentsunder the Matched-Pair Designrdquo Statistics in Medicine Vol 27 No 4 (October) pp4857ndash4873
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46 Ho Daniel E and Kosuke Imai (2008) ldquoEstimating Causal Effects of Ballot Order froma Randomized Natural Experiment California Alphabet Lottery 1978ndash2002rdquo PublicOpinion Quarterly Vol 72 No 2 (Summer) pp 216ndash240
47 Imai Kosuke Gary King and Elizabeth A Stuart (2008) ldquoMisunderstandings amongExperimentalists and Observationalists Balance Test Fallacies in Causal InferencerdquoJournal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A (Statistics in Society) Vol 171 No2 (April) pp 481ndash502 Reprinted in Field Experiments and their Critics D Teele edNew Haven Yale University Press 2013
48 Imai Kosuke Ying Lu and Aaron Strauss (2008) ldquoBayesian and Likelihood EcologicalInference for 2 times 2 Tables An Incomplete Data Approachrdquo Political Analysis Vol 16No 1 (Winter) pp 41ndash69
49 Imai Kosuke (2008) ldquoSharp Bounds on the Causal Effects in Randomized Experimentswith ldquoTruncation-by-Deathrdquordquo Statistics amp Probability Letters Vol 78 No 2 (February)pp 144ndash149
50 Imai Kosuke and Samir Soneji (2007) ldquoOn the Estimation of Disability-Free LifeExpectancy Sullivanrsquos Method and Its Extensionrdquo Journal of the American StatisticalAssociation Vol 102 No 480 (December) pp 1199ndash1211
51 Horiuchi Yusaku Kosuke Imai and Naoko Taniguchi (2007) ldquoDesigning and Analyz-ing Randomized Experiments Application to a Japanese Election Survey ExperimentrdquoAmerican Journal of Political Science Vol 51 No 3 (July) pp 669ndash687
52 Ho Daniel E Kosuke Imai Gary King and Elizabeth A Stuart (2007) ldquoMatchingas Nonparametric Preprocessing for Reducing Model Dependence in Parametric CausalInferencerdquo Political Analysis Vol 15 No 3 (Summer) pp 199ndash236 (lead article)Winner of the Warren Miller Prize
53 Ho Daniel E and Kosuke Imai (2006) ldquoRandomization Inference with Natural Exper-iments An Analysis of Ballot Effects in the 2003 California Recall Electionrdquo Journal ofthe American Statistical Association Vol 101 No 475 (September) pp 888ndash900
54 Imai Kosuke and David A van Dyk (2005) ldquoMNP R Package for Fitting the Multi-nomial Probit Modelrdquo Journal of Statistical Software Vol 14 No 3 (May) pp 1ndash32abstract reprinted in Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics (2005) Vol 14No 3 (September) p 747
55 Imai Kosuke (2005) ldquoDo Get-Out-The-Vote Calls Reduce Turnout The Importanceof Statistical Methods for Field Experimentsrdquo American Political Science Review Vol99 No 2 (May) pp 283ndash300
56 Imai Kosuke and David A van Dyk (2005) ldquoA Bayesian Analysis of the MultinomialProbit Model Using Marginal Data Augmentationrdquo Journal of Econometrics Vol 124No 2 (February) pp 311ndash334
57 Imai Kosuke and David A van Dyk (2004) ldquoCausal Inference With General Treat-ment Regimes Generalizing the Propensity Scorerdquo Journal of the American StatisticalAssociation Vol 99 No 467 (September) pp 854ndash866
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58 Imai Kosuke and Gary King (2004) ldquoDid Illegal Overseas Absentee Ballots Decide the2000 US Presidential Electionrdquo Perspectives on Politics Vol 2 No 3 (September)pp 537ndash549 Our analysis is a part of The New York Times article ldquoHow Bush TookFlorida Mining the Overseas Absentee Voterdquo By David Barstow and Don van Natta JrJuly 15 2001 Page 1 Column 1
Invited Contributions
1 Imai Kosuke and Zhichao Jiang (2019) ldquoComment The Challenges of MultipleCausesrdquo Journal of the American Statistical Association Vol 114 No 528 pp 1605mdash1610
2 Benjamin Daniel J et al (2018) ldquoRedefine Statistical Significancerdquo Nature HumanBehaviour Vol 2 No 1 pp 6ndash10
3 de la Cuesta Brandon and Kosuke Imai (2016) ldquoMisunderstandings about the Regres-sion Discontinuity Design in the Study of Close Electionsrdquo Annual Review of PoliticalScience Vol 19 pp 375ndash396
4 Imai Kosuke (2016) ldquoBook Review of Causal Inference for Statistics Social andBiomedical Sciences An Introduction by Guido W Imbens and Donald B RubinrdquoJournal of the American Statistical Association Vol 111 No 515 pp 1365ndash1366
5 Imai Kosuke Bethany Park and Kenneth F Greene (2015) ldquoUsando as respostasprevisıveis da abordagem list-experiments como variaveis explicativas em modelos deregressaordquo Revista Debates Vol 9 No 1 pp 121ndash151 First printed in PoliticalAnalysis Vol 23 No 2 (Spring)
6 Imai Kosuke Luke Keele Dustin Tingley and Teppei Yamamoto (2014) ldquoCommenton Pearl Practical Implications of Theoretical Results for Causal Mediation AnalysisrdquoPsychological Methods Vol 19 No 4 (December) pp 482ndash487
7 Imai Kosuke Gary King and Elizabeth A Stuart (2014) ldquoMisunderstandings amongExperimentalists and Observationalists Balance Test Fallacies in Causal Inferencerdquo inField Experiments and their Critics Essays on the Uses and Abuses of Experimentationin the Social Sciences D L Teele ed New Haven Yale University Press pp 196ndash227First printed in Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A (Statistics in Society)Vol 171 No 2 (April)
8 Imai Kosuke Dustin Tingley and Teppei Yamamoto (2013) ldquoReply to Discussionsof ldquoExperimental Designs for Identifying Causal Mechanismsrdquordquo Journal of the RoyalStatistical Society Series A (Statistics in Society) Vol 173 No 1 (January) pp 46ndash49
9 Imai Kosuke (2012) ldquoComments Improving Weighting Methods for Causal MediationAnalysisrdquo Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness Vol 5 No 3 pp 293ndash295
10 Imai Kosuke (2011) ldquoIntroduction to the Virtual Issue Past and Future ResearchAgenda on Causal Inferencerdquo Political Analysis Virtual Issue Causal Inference andPolitical Methodology
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11 Imai Kosuke Booil Jo and Elizabeth A Stuart (2011) ldquoCommentary Using PotentialOutcomes to Understand Causal Mediation Analysisrdquo Multivariate Behavioral ResearchVol 46 No 5 pp 842ndash854
12 Imai Kosuke Luke Keele Dustin Tingley and Teppei Yamamoto (2010) ldquoCausalMediation Analysis Using Rrdquo in Advances in Social Science Research Using R H DVinod (ed) New York Springer (Lecture Notes in Statistics) pp 129ndash154
13 Imai Kosuke Gary King and Clayton Nall (2009) ldquoRejoinder Matched Pairs andthe Future of Cluster-Randomized Experimentsrdquo Statistical Science Vol 24 No 1(February) pp 65ndash72
14 Imai Kosuke (2003) ldquoReview of Jeff Gillrsquos Bayesian Methods A Social and BehavioralSciences Approachrdquo The Political Methodologist Vol 11 No 1 9ndash10
Refereed Conference Proceedings
1 Svyatkovskiy Alexey Kosuke Imai Mary Kroeger and Yuki Shiraito (2016) ldquoLarge-scale text processing pipeline with Apache Sparkrdquo IEEE International Conference onBig Data Washington DC pp 3928-3935
Other Publications and Manuscripts
1 Goldstein Daniel Kosuke Imai Anja S Goritz and Peter M Gollwitzer (2008) ldquoNudg-ing Turnout Mere Measurement and Implementation Planning of Intentions to Voterdquo
2 Ho Daniel E and Kosuke Imai (2004) ldquo The Impact of Partisan Electoral RegulationBallot Effects from the California Alphabet Lottery 1978ndash2002rdquo Princeton Law amp PublicAffairs Paper No 04-001 Harvard Public Law Working Paper No 89
3 Imai Kosuke (2003) ldquoEssays on Political Methodologyrdquo PhD Thesis Department ofGovernment Harvard University
4 Imai Kosuke and Jeremy M Weinstein (2000) ldquoMeasuring the Economic Impact ofCivil Warrdquo Working Paper Series No 51 Center for International Development HarvardUniversity
Publications in Japanese
1 Imai Kosuke (2007) ldquoKeiryo Seijigaku niokeru Ingateki Suiron (Causal Inference inQuantitative Political Science)rdquo Leviathan Vol 40 Spring pp 224ndash233
2 Horiuchi Yusaku Kosuke Imai and Naoko Taniguchi (2005) ldquoSeisaku Jyoho to TohyoSanka Field Jikken ni yoru Kensyo (Policy Information and Voter Participation AField Experiment)rdquo Nenpo Seijigaku (The Annals of the Japanese Political ScienceAssociation) 2005ndashI pp 161ndash180
3 Taniguchi Naoko Yusaku Horiuchi and Kosuke Imai (2004) ldquoSeito Saito no Etsuranha Tohyo Kodo ni Eikyo Suruka (Does Visiting Political Party Websites Influence VotingBehavior)rdquo Nikkei Research Report Vol IV pp 16ndash19
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Statistical Software
1 Kim In Song Erik Wang Adam Rauh and Kosuke Imai ldquoPanelMatch MatchingMethods for Causal Inference with Time-Series Cross-Section Datardquo available throughGitHub 2018
2 Olivella Santiago Adeline Lo Tyler Pratt and Kosuke Imai ldquoNetMix Mixed-membershipRegression Stochastic Blockmodel for Networksrdquo available through CRAN and Github2019
3 Egami Naoki Brandon de la Cuesta and Kosuke Imai ldquofactorEx Design and Analysisfor Factorial Experimentsrdquo available through The Comprehensive R Archive Networkand GitHub 2019
4 Enamorado Ted Benjamin Fifield and Kosuke Imai ldquofastLink Fast ProbabilisticRecord Linkagerdquo available through The Comprehensive R Archive Network and GitHub2017
5 Khanna Kabir and Kosuke Imai ldquowru Who Are You Bayesian Predictions of RacialCategory Using Surname and Geolocationrdquo available through The Comprehensive RArchive Network and GitHub 2015
6 Fifield Benjamin Alexander Tarr Michael Higgins and Kosuke Imai ldquoredist MarkovChain Monte Carlo Methods for Redistricting Simulationrdquo available through The Com-prehensive R Archive Network and GitHub 2015
7 Imai Kosuke James Lo and Jonathan Olmsted ldquoemIRT EM Algorithms for Estimat-ing Item Response Theory Modelsrdquo available through The Comprehensive R ArchiveNetwork 2015
8 Blair Graeme Yang-Yang Zhou and Kosuke Imai ldquorr Statistical Methods for theRandomized Response Techniquerdquo available through The Comprehensive R ArchiveNetwork and GitHub 2015
9 Fong Christian Marc Ratkovic and Kosuke Imai ldquoCBPS R Package for CovariateBalancing Propensity Scorerdquo available through The Comprehensive R Archive Networkand GitHub 2012
10 Egami Naoki Marc Ratkovic and Kosuke Imai ldquoFindIt R Package for Finding Hetero-geneous Treatment Effectsrdquo available through The Comprehensive R Archive Networkand GitHub 2012
11 Kim In Song and Kosuke Imai ldquowfe Weighted Linear Fixed Effects Regression Modelsfor Causal Inferencerdquo available through The Comprehensive R Archive Network 2011
12 Shiraito Yuki and Kosuke Imai ldquoendorse R Package for Analyzing Endorsement Ex-perimentsrdquo available through The Comprehensive R Archive Network and GitHub 2012
13 Blair Graeme and Kosuke Imai ldquolist Statistical Methods for the Item Count Techniqueand List Experimentsrdquo available through The Comprehensive R Archive Network andGitHub 2011
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Kosuke Imai
14 Tingley Dustin Teppei Yamamoto Kentaro Hirose Luke Keele and Kosuke Imai ldquome-diation R Package for Causal Mediation Analysisrdquo available through The Comprehen-sive R Archive Network and GitHub 2009 Winner of the Statistical Software AwardReviewed in Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics
15 Imai Kosuke ldquoexperiment R Package for Designing and Analyzing Randomized Exper-imentsrdquo available through The Comprehensive R Archive Network 2007
16 Ho Daniel E Kosuke Imai Gary King and Elizabeth Stuart ldquoMatchIt NonparametricPreprocessing for Parametric Causal Inferencerdquo available through The ComprehensiveR Archive Network and GitHub 2005
17 Imai Kosuke Ying Lu and Aaron Strauss ldquoeco Ecological Inference in 2 times 2 Tablesrdquoavailable through The Comprehensive R Archive Network and GitHub 2004
18 Imai Kosuke and David A van Dyk ldquoMNP R Package for Fitting the MultinomialProbit Modelrdquo available through The Comprehensive R Archive Network and GitHub2004
19 Imai Kosuke Gary King and Olivia Lau ldquoZelig Everyonersquos Statistical Softwarerdquoavailable through The Comprehensive R Archive Network 2004
External Research Grants
Principal Investigator
1 Facebook Research Grant (2018) $20000
2 National Science Foundation (2016ndash2019) ldquoCollaborative Conference Proposal Sup-port for Conferences and Mentoring of Women and Underrepresented Groups in PoliticalMethodologyrdquo (Methodology Measurement and Statistics and Political Science Pro-grams SESndash1628102) Principal Investigator (with Jeffrey Lewis) $312322 Supplement(SESndash1831370) $60000
3 The United States Agency for International Development (2015ndash2017) ldquoUnemploymentand Insurgent Violence in Afghanistan Evidence from the Community DevelopmentProgramrdquo (AIDndashOAAndashAndash12ndash00096) Principal Investigator (with Jason Lyall) $188037
4 The United States Institute of Peace (2015ndash2016) ldquoAssessing the Links between Eco-nomic Interventions and Stability An impact evaluation of vocational and skills trainingin Kandahar Afghanistanrdquo Principal Investigator (with David Haines Jon Kurtz andJason Lyall) $144494
5 Amazon Web Services in Education Research Grant (2014) Principal Investigator (withGraeme Blair and Carlos Velasco Rivera) $3000
6 Development Bank of Latin America (CAF) (2013) ldquoThe Origins of Citizen Support forNarcos An Empirical Investigationrdquo Principal Investigator (with Graeme Blair FabianaMachado and Carlos Velasco Rivera) $15000
12 January 2020
Kosuke Imai
7 The International Growth Centre (2011ndash2013) ldquoPoverty Militancy and Citizen Demandsin Natural Resource-Rich Regions Randomized Evaluation of the Oil Profits DividendPlan for the Niger Deltardquo (RA-2010-12-013) Principal Investigator (with Graeme Blair)$117116
8 National Science Foundation (2009ndash2012) ldquoStatistical Analysis of Causal MechanismsIdentification Inference and Sensitivity Analysisrdquo (Methodology Measurement andStatistics Program and Political Science Program SESndash0918968) Principal Investigator$97574
9 National Science Foundation (2009ndash2011) ldquoCollaborative Research The Measurementand Identification of Media Priming Effects in Political Sciencerdquo (Methodology Measure-ment and Statistics Program and Political Science Program SESndash0849715) PrincipalInvestigator (with Nicholas Valentino) $317126
10 National Science Foundation (2008ndash2009) ldquoNew Statistical Methods for RandomizedExperiments in Political Science and Public Policyrdquo (Political Science Program SESndash0752050) Principal Investigator $52565
11 National Science Foundation (2006ndash2009) ldquoCollaborative Research Generalized Propen-sity Score Methodsrdquo (Methodology Measurement and Statistics Program SESndash0550873)Principal Investigator (with Donald B Rubin and David A van Dyk) $460000
12 The Telecommunications Advancement Foundation (2004) ldquoAnalyzing the Effects ofParty Webpages on Political Opinions and Voting Behaviorrdquo Principal Investigator (withNaoko Taniguchi and Yusaku Horiuchi) $12000
Adviser and Statistical Consultant
1 National Science Foundation (2016ndash2017) ldquoDoctoral Dissertation Research CrossingAfricarsquos Arbitrary Borders How Refugees Shape National Boundaries by ChallengingThemrdquo (Political Science Program SESndash1560636) Principal Investigator and Adviserfor Co-PI Yang-Yang Zhoursquos Dissertation Research $18900
2 Institute of Education Sciences (2012ndash2014) ldquoAcademic and Behavioral Consequencesof Visible Security Measures in Schoolsrdquo (R305A120181) Statistical Consultant (EmilyTanner-Smith Principal Investigator) $351228
3 National Science Foundation (2013ndash2014) ldquoDoctoral Dissertation Research Open Tradefor Sale Lobbying by Productive Exporting Firmrdquo (Political Science Program SESndash1264090) Principal Investigator and Adviser for Co-PI In Song Kimrsquos Dissertation Re-search $22540
4 National Science Foundation (2012ndash2013) ldquoDoctoral Dissertation Research The Poli-tics of Location in Resource Rent Distribution and the Projection of Power in Africardquo(Political Science Program SESndash1260754) Principal Investigator and Adviser for Co-PIGraeme Blairrsquos Dissertation Research $17640
13 January 2020
Kosuke Imai
Invited Short Courses and Outreach Lectures
1 Short Course on Causal Inference and Statistics ndash Department of Political Science RiceUniversity 2009 Institute of Political Science Academia Sinica 2014
2 Short Course on Causal Inference and Identification The Empirical Implications of The-oretical Models (EITM) Summer Institute ndash Harris School of Public Policy University ofChicago 2011 Department of Politics Princeton University 2012
3 Short Course on Causal Mediation Analysis ndash Summer Graduate Seminar Institute ofStatistical Mathematics Tokyo Japan 2010 Society for Research on Educational Effec-tiveness Conference Washington DC Fall 2011 Spring 2012 Spring 2015 Inter-AmericanDevelopment Bank 2012 Center for Education Research University of Wisconsin Madi-son 2012 Bobst Center for Peace and Justice Princeton University 2014 GraduateSchool of Education University of Pennsylvania 2014 EITM Summer Institute DukeUniversity 2014 Center for Lifespan Psychology Max Planck Institute for Human De-velopment 2015 School of Communication Research University of Amsterdam 2015Uppsala University 2016
4 Short Course on Covariate Balancing Propensity Score ndash Society for Research on Ed-ucational Effectiveness Conference Washington DC Spring 2013 Uppsala University2016
5 Short Course on Matching Methods for Causal Inference ndash Institute of Behavioral ScienceUniversity of Colorado Boulder 2009 Department of Political Science Duke University2013
6 Lecture on Statistics and Social Sciences ndash New Jersey Japanese School 2011 2016Kaisei Academy 2012 2014 Princeton University Wilson College 2012 University ofTokyo 2014
Selected Presentations
1 Keynote speaker Special Workshop on Evidence-based Policy Making World EconomicForum Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution Japan 2020
2 Distinguished speaker seminar Institute for Data Systems and Society MassachusettsInstitute of Technology 2019
3 Keynote speaker The Harvard Experimental Political Science Graduate Student Confer-ence Harvard University 2019
4 Invited speaker Beyond Curve Fitting Causation Counterfactuals and Imagination-based AI Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Spring SymposiumStanford University 2019
5 Inaugural speaker Causal Inference Seminar Departments of Biostatistics and StatisticsBoston University 2019
6 Keynote speaker The Second Latin American Political Methodology Meeting Universi-dad de los Andes (Department of Political Science) 2018
14 January 2020
Kosuke Imai
7 Keynote speaker The First Latin American Political Methodology Meeting PontificalCatholic University of Chile (Department of Political Science) 2017
8 Keynote speaker Workshop on Uncovering Causal Mechanisms University of Munich(Department of Economics) 2016
9 Keynote speaker The National Quality Registry Research Conference Stockholm 2016
10 Keynote speaker The UK-Causal Inference Meeting University of Bristol (School ofMathematics) 2015
11 Keynote speaker The UP-STAT Conference the Upstate Chapters of the American Sta-tistical Association 2015
12 Keynote speaker The Winter Conference in Statistics Swedish Statistical Society andUmea University (Department of Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics) 2015
13 Inaugural invited speaker The International Methods Colloquium Rice University 2015
14 Invited speaker The International Meeting on Experimental and Behavioral Social Sci-ences University of Oxford (Nuffield College) 2014
15 Keynote speaker The Annual Conference of Australian Society for Quantitative PoliticalScience University of Sydney 2013
16 Keynote speaker The Graduate Student Conference on Experiments in Interactive Deci-sion Making Princeton University 2008
Conferences Organized
1 The Asian Political Methodology Meetings (January 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 co-organizer)
2 The Experimental Research Workshop (September 2012 co-organizer)
3 The 12th World Meeting of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis (June 2012a member of the organizing committee)
4 Conference on Causal Inference and the Study of Conflict and State Building (May 2012organizer)
5 The 28th Annual Society for Political Methodology Summer Meeting (July 2011 host)
6 Conference on New Methodologies and their Applications in Comparative Politics andInternational Relations (February 2011 co-organizer)
15 January 2020
Kosuke Imai
Teaching
Courses Taught at Harvard
1 STAT 186GOV 2002 Causal Inference introduction to causal inference
2 GOV 2003 Topics in Quantitative Methodology causal inference applied Bayesian statis-tics machine learning
Courses Taught at Princeton
1 POL 245 Visualizing Data exploratory data analysis graphical statistics data visual-ization
2 POL 345 Quantitative Analysis and Politics a first course in quantitative social science
3 POL 451 Statistical Methods in Political Science basic probability and statistical theorytheir applications in the social sciences
4 POL 502 Mathematics for Political Science real analysis linear algebra calculus
5 POL 571 Quantitative Analysis I probability theory statistical theory linear models
6 POL 572 Quantitative Analysis II intermediate applied statistics
7 POL 573 Quantitative Analysis III advanced applied statistics
8 POL 574 Quantitative Analysis IV advanced applied statistics with various topics in-cluding Bayesian statistics and causal inference
9 Reading Courses basic mathematical probability and statistics applied bayesian statis-tics spatial statistics
Advising
Current Students
1 Soubhik Barari
2 Naoki Egami (Primary adviser) To be Assistant Professor Department of PoliticalScience Columbia University
3 Shusei Eshima (Primary adviser)
4 Max Goplerud To be Assistant Professor Department of Political Science University ofPittsburgh
5 June Hwang (Primary adviser)
6 Connor Jerzak
7 Shiro Kuriwaki
16 January 2020
Kosuke Imai
8 Asya Magazinnik To be Assistant Professor Department of Political Science Mas-sachusetts Institute of Technology
9 Sun Young Park
10 Nicole Pashley
11 Casey Petroff
12 Averell Schmidt
13 Diana Stanescu
14 Sooahn Shin
15 Tyler Simko
16 Alex Tarr (Primary adviser)
17 Soichiro Yamauchi (Primary adviser)
18 Erik Wang To be Assistant Professor Department of Political and Social Change Aus-tralian National University
Former Students
1 Brandon de la Cuesta (PhD in 2019 Department of Politics Princeton University)Postdoctoral Fellow Center on Global Poverty and Development Stanford University
2 Yang-Yang Zhou (PhD in 2019 Department of Politics Princeton University) Assis-tant Professor Department of Political Science University of British Columbia
3 Winston Chou (PhD in 2019 Department of Politics Princeton University) ResearchScientist at Facebook
4 Ted Enamorado (PhD in 2019 Department of Politics Princeton University Disserta-tion Committee Chair) Assistant Professor Department of Political Science Universityof North Carolina at Chapel Hill
5 Benjamin Fifield (PhD in 2018 Department of Politics Princeton University Disserta-tion Committee Chair) Research Scientist Facebook
6 Tyler Pratt (PhD in 2018 Department of Politics Princeton University) AssistantProfessor Department of Political Science Yale University
7 Romain Ferrali (PhD in 2018 Department of Politics Princeton University) Postdoc-toral Fellow New York University Abu Dhabi
8 Julia Morse (PhD in 2017 Woodrow Wilson School Princeton University) AssistantProfessor Department of Political Science University of California Santa Barbara
9 Yuki Shiraito (PhD in 2017 Department of Politics Princeton University DissertationCommittee Chair) Assistant Professor Department of Political Science University ofMichigan
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Kosuke Imai
10 Carlos Velasco Rivera (PhD in 2016 Department of Politics Princeton University)Research Scientist Facebook
11 Gabriel Lopez Moctezuma (PhD in 2016 Department of Politics Princeton University)Assistant Professor Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences California Instituteof Technology
12 Graeme Blair (PhD in 2016 Department of Politics Princeton University) AssistantProfessor University of California Los Angeles
13 Jaquilyn R Waddell Boie (PhD in 2015 Department of Politics Princeton University)Private consultant
14 Scott Abramson (PhD in 2014 Department of Politics Princeton University) AssistantProfessor Department of Political Science University of Rochester
15 Michael Barber (PhD in 2014 Department of Politics Princeton University) AssistantProfessor Department of Political Science Brigham Young University
16 In Song Kim (PhD in 2014 Department of Politics Princeton University) AssociateProfessor Department of Political Science Massachusetts Institute of Technology
17 Alex Ruder (PhD in 2014 Department of Politics Princeton University) Senior Com-munity Economic Development Advisor Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
18 Meredith Wilf (PhD in 2014 Department of Politics Princeton University) AssistantProfessor Graduate School of Public and International Affairs University of Pittsburgh
19 Will Bullock (PhD candidate Department of Politics Princeton University) SeniorResearcher Facebook
20 Teppei Yamamoto (PhD in 2011 Department of Politics Princeton University Dis-sertation Committee Chair) Associate Professor Department of Political Science Mas-sachusetts Institute of Technology
21 Dustin Tingley (PhD in 2010 Department of Politics Princeton University) ProfessorDepartment of Government Harvard University
22 Aaron Strauss (PhD in 2009 Department of Politics Princeton University) ExecutiveDirector Analyst Institute
23 Samir Soneji (PhD in 2008 Office of Population Research Princeton University Dis-sertation Committee Chair) Associate Professor Dartmouth Institute for Health Policyamp Clinical Practice Geisel School of Medicine Dartmouth College
24 Ying Lu (PhD in 2005 Woodrow Wilson School Princeton University DissertationCommittee Chair) Associate Professor Steinhardt School of Culture Education andHuman Development New York University
18 January 2020
Kosuke Imai
Former Predocs and Postdocs
1 Zhichao Jiang (Postdoctoral Fellow 2016ndash2019) Assistant Professor Department ofBiostatistics and Epidemiology School of Public Health and Health Sciences Universityof Massachusetts Amherst
2 Adeline Lo (Postdoctoral Fellow 2016ndash2019) Assistant Professor Department of Politi-cal Science University of Wisconsin Madison
3 Yunkyu Sohn (Postdoctoral Fellow 2016ndash2018) Assistant Professor School of PoliticalScience and Economics Waseda University
4 Xiaolin Yang (Postdoctoral Fellow 2015ndash2017) Research Scientist Amazon
5 Santiago Olivella (Postdoctoral Fellow 2015ndash2016) Assistant Professor Department ofPolitical Science University of North Carolina
6 Drew Dimmery (Predoctoral Fellow 2015ndash2016) Research Scientist Facebook
7 James Lo (Postdoctoral Fellow 2014ndash2016) Assistant Professor Department of PoliticalScience University of Southern California
8 Steven Liao (Predoctoral Fellow 2014ndash2015) Assistant Professor Department of Politi-cal Science University of California Riverside
9 Michael Higgins (Postdoctoral Fellow 2013ndash2015) Assistant Professor Department ofStatistics Kansas State University
10 Kentaro Hirose (Postdoctoral Fellow 2012ndash2015) Assistant Professor Waseda Institutefor Advanced Studies
11 Chad Hazlett (Predoctoral Fellow 2013ndash2014) Assistant Professor Departments of Po-litical Science and Statistics University of California Los Angeles
12 Florian Hollenbach (Predoctoral Fellow 2013ndash2014) Assistant Professor Department ofPolitical Science Texas AampM University
13 Marc Ratkovic (Predoctoral and Postdoctoral Fellow 2010ndash2012) Assistant ProfessorDepartment of Politics Princeton University
Editorial and Referee Service
Co-editor for Journal of Causal Inference (2014 ndash present)
Associate editor for American Journal of Political Science (2014 ndash 2019) Journal ofBusiness amp Economic Statistics (2015 ndash 2021) Journal of Causal Inference (2011 ndash 2014)Journal of Experimental Political Science (2013 ndash 2017) Observational Studies (2014 ndashpresent) Political Analysis (2014 ndash 2017)
Editorial board member for Asian Journal of Comparative Politics (2014 ndash present) Jour-nal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics (2011 ndash present) Journal of Politics (2007ndash 2008 2019ndash2020) Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness (2014 ndash present)Political Analysis (2010 ndash 2013) Political Science Research and Methods (2019 ndash present)
19 January 2020
Kosuke Imai
Guest editor for Political Analysis virtual issue on causal inference (2011)
Referee for ACM Computing Surveys American Economic Journal Applied EconomicsAmerican Economic Review Insights American Journal of Epidemiology AmericanJournal of Evaluation American Journal of Political Science American Political ScienceReview American Politics Research Annals of Applied Statistics Annals of StatisticsAnnals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics Biometrics Biometrika BiostatisticsBMC Medical Research Methodology British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psy-chology British Journal of Political Science Canadian Journal of Statistics Chapmanamp HallCRC Press Child Development Communications for Statistical Applications andMethods Computational Statistics and Data Analysis Electoral Studies EconometricaEconometrics Empirical Economics Environmental Management Epidemiology Euro-pean Union Politics IEEE Transactions on Information Theory International Journalof Biostatistics International Journal of Epidemiology International Journal of PublicOpinion Research International Migration Review John Wiley amp Sons Journal of Ap-plied Econometrics Journal of Applied Statistics Journal of Biopharmaceutical Statis-tics Journal of Business and Economic Statistics Journal of Causal Inference Journalof Computational and Graphical Statistics Journal of Conflict Resolution Journal ofConsulting and Clinical Psychology Journal of Econometrics Journal of Educationaland Behavioral Statistics Journal of Empirical Legal Studies Journal of MultivariateAnalysis Journal of Official Statistics Journal of Peace Research Journal of PoliticsJournal of Research on Educational EffectivenessJournal of Statistical Planning and In-ference Journal of Statistical Software Journal of the American Statistical Association(Case Studies and Applications Theory and Methods) Journal of the Japanese and In-ternational Economies Journal of the Japan Statistical Society Journal of the RoyalStatistical Society (Series A Series B Series C) Law amp Social Inquiry Legislative Stud-ies Quarterly Management Science Multivariate Behavioral Research National ScienceFoundation (Economics Methodology Measurement and Statistics Political Science)Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada NeuroImage Osteoporo-sis International Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics Pharmaceutical StatisticsPharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety PLOS One Policy and Internet Political Anal-ysis Political Behavior Political Communication Political Research Quarterly PoliticalScience Research and Methods Population Health Metrics Population Studies PreventionScience Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Princeton University PressPsychological Methods Psychometrika Public Opinion Quarterly Quarterly Journal ofEconomics Quarterly Journal of Political Science Review of Economics and StatisticsRoutledge Sage Publications Scandinavian Journal of Statistics Science Sloan Foun-dation Springer Sociological Methodology Sociological Methods amp Research StatisticalMethodology Statistical Methods and Applications Statistical Methods in Medical Re-search Statistical Science Statistica Sinica Statistics amp Probability Letters Statistics inMedicine Systems Biology US-Israel Binational Science Foundation Value in HealthWorld Politics
University and Departmental Committees
Harvard University
Department of Government
20 January 2020
Kosuke Imai
Member Second-year Progress Committee (2019ndash2020)
Member Placement Committee (2019ndash2020)
Member Graduate Admissions Committee (2018ndash2019)
Member Graduate Poster Session Committee (2018ndash2019)
Department of Statistics
Member Junior Faculty Search Committee (2018ndash2019)
Member Second-year Progress Committee (2018ndash2019)
Princeton University
University
Executive Committee Member Program in Statistics and Machine Learning (2013ndash2018)
Executive Committee Member Committee for Statistical Studies (2011-2018)
Member Organizing Committee Retreat on Data and Information Science at Prince-ton (2016)
Member Council of the Princeton University Community (2015)
Member Search Committee for the Dean of College (2015)
Member Committee on the Library and Computing (2013ndash2016)
Member Committee on the Fund for Experimental Social Science (2013ndash2018)
Member Personally Identifiable Research Data Group (2012ndash2018)
Member Research Computing Advisory Group (2013ndash2018)
Member Task Force on Statistics and Machine Learning (2014ndash2015)
Department of Politics
Chair Department Committee on Research and Computing (2012ndash2018)
Chair Formal and Quantitative Methods Junior Search Committee (2012ndash20132014ndash2015 2016ndash2017)
Chair Reappointment Committee (2015ndash2016)
Member Diversity Initiative Committee (2014ndash2015)
Member American Politics Junior Search Committee (2012ndash2014)
Member Department Chairrsquos Advisory Committee (2010ndash2013 2015ndash2016)
Member Department Priority Committee (2012ndash2013 2014ndash2015 2016ndash2017)
Member Formal and Quantitative Methods Curriculum Committee (2005ndash2006)
Member Formal and Quantitative Methods Junior Search Committee (2009ndash20102015ndash2016)
Member Formal and Quantitative Methods Postdoc Search Committee (2009ndash2018)
Member Graduate Admissions Committee (2012ndash2013)
Member Reappointment Committee (2014ndash2016)
21 January 2020
Kosuke Imai
Member Space Committee (2014ndash2016)
Member Undergraduate Curriculum Committee (2014ndash2015)
Member Undergraduate Exam Committee (2007ndash2008)
Member Undergraduate Thesis Prize Committee (2005ndash2006 2008ndash2011)
Center for Statistics and Machine Learning
Executive Committee Member (2016ndash2018)
Member Search Committee (2015ndash2017)
Services to the Profession
National Academies of Sciences Engineering and Medicine
Committee on National Statistics Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences andEducation Panel on the Review and Evaluation of the 2014 Survey of Income andProgram Participation Content and Design (2014ndash2017)
The Society for Political Methodology
President (2017ndash2019)
Vice President and President Elect (2015ndash2017)
Annual Meeting Committee Chair (2011)
Career Award Committee (2015ndash2017)
Program Committee for Annual Meeting (2012) Chair (2011)
Graduate Student Selection Committee for the Annual Meeting (2005) Chair (2011)
Miller Prize Selection Committee (2010ndash2011)
Statistical Software Award Committee (2009ndash2010)
Emerging Scholar Award Committee (2013)
American Statistical Association
Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics Management Committee (2016 ndashpresent)
Others
External Expert Department of Methodology London School of Economics andPolitical Science (2017 ndash present)
Memberships
American Political Science Association American Statistical Association Midwest Polit-ical Science Association The Society for Political Methodology
22 January 2020
- Contact Information
- Education
- Positions
- Honors and Awards
- Selected Manuscripts
- Publications in English
-
- Book
- Refereed Journal Articles
- Invited Contributions
- Refereed Conference Proceedings
- Other Publications and Manuscripts
-
- Publications in Japanese
- Statistical Software
- External Research Grants
-
- Principal Investigator
- Adviser and Statistical Consultant
-
- Invited Short Courses
- Selected Presentations
- Conferences Organized
- Teaching
-
- Courses Taught at Harvard
- Courses Taught at Princeton
-
- Advising
-
- Current Students
- Former Students
- Former Predocs and Postdocs
-
- Editorial and Referee Service
- University and Departmental Committees
- Services to the Profession
- Memberships
-
Kosuke Imai
Honors and Awards
1 Highly Cited Researcher (cross-field category) for ldquoproduction of multiple highly citedpapers that rank in the top 1 by citations for field and year in Web of Sciencerdquo awardedby Clarivate Analytics (2018 2019)
2 The Nils Petter Gleditsch Article of the Year Award (2017) awarded by Journal of PeaceResearch
3 President The Society for Political Methodology (2017ndash2019) Vice President and President-elect (2015ndash2017)
4 Elected Fellow The Society for Political Methodology (2017)
5 Statistical Software Award for developing statistical software that makes a significant re-search contribution for ldquomediation R Package for Causal Mediation Analysisrdquo awardedby the Society for Political Methodology (2015)
6 Outstanding Reviewer Award for Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics givenby the American Educational Research Association (2014)
7 The Stanley Kelley Jr Teaching Award given by the Department of Politics PrincetonUniversity (2013)
8 Pi Sigma Alpha Award for the best paper presented at the 2012 Midwest Political ScienceAssociation annual meeting for ldquoExplaining Support for Combatants during WartimeA Survey Experiment in Afghanistanrdquo awarded by the Midwest Political Science Asso-ciation (2013)
9 Invited to read ldquoExperimental Designs for Identifying Causal Mechanismsrdquo before theRoyal Statistical Society Research Section London (2012)
10 Inaugural recipient of the Emerging Scholar Award for a young scholar making exceptionalcontributions to political methodology who is within ten years of their terminal degreeawarded by the Society for Political Methodology (2011)
11 Political Analysis Editorsrsquo Choice Award for an article providing an especially significantcontribution to political methodology for ldquoEstimation of Heterogeneous Treatment Ef-fects from Randomized Experiments with Application to the Optimal Planning of theGet-out-the-vote Campaignrdquo awarded by the Society for Political Methodology and Ox-ford University Press (2011)
12 Tom Ten Have Memorial Award for the best poster presented at the 2011 Atlantic CausalInference Conference for ldquoIdentifying Treatment Effect Heterogeneity through OptimalClassification and Variable Selectionrdquo awarded by the Departments of Biostatistics andStatistics University of Michigan (2011)
13 Nominated for the Graduate Mentoring Award The McGraw Center for Teaching andLearning Princeton University (2010 2011)
14 New Hot Paper for the most-cited paper in the field of Economics amp Business in thelast two months among papers published in the last year for ldquoMisunderstandings amongExperimentalists and Observationalists about Causal Inferencerdquo named by ThomsonReutersrsquo ScienceWatch (2009)
2 January 2020
Kosuke Imai
15 Warren Miller Prize for the best article published in Political Analysis for ldquoMatchingas Nonparametric Preprocessing for Reducing Model Dependence in Parametric CausalInferencerdquo awarded by the Society for Political Methodology and Oxford University Press(2008)
16 Fast Breaking Paper for the article with the largest percentage increase in citations amongthose in the top 1 of total citations across the social sciences in the last two years forldquoMatching as Nonparametric Preprocessing for Reducing Model Dependence in Paramet-ric Causal Inferencerdquo named by Thomson Reutersrsquo ScienceWatch (2008)
17 Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety Outstanding Reviewer Recognition (2008)
18 Miyake Award for the best political science article published in 2005 for ldquoDo Get-Out-The-Vote Calls Reduce Turnout The Importance of Statistical Methods for Field Ex-perimentsrdquo awarded by the Japanese Political Science Association (2006)
19 Toppan Prize for the best dissertation in political science for Essays on Political Method-ology awarded by Harvard University (2004) Also nominated for American PoliticalScience Association EE Schattschneider Award for the best doctoral dissertation in thefield of American government and politics
Selected Manuscripts
1 Fifield Benjamin Kosuke Imai Jun Kawahara and Christopher T Kenny ldquoThe Essen-tial Role of Empirical Validation in Legislative Redistricting Simulationrdquo
2 de la Cuesta Brandon Egami Naoki and Kosuke ImaildquoExperimental Design and Sta-tistical Inference for Conjoint Analysis The Essential Role of Population Distributionrdquo
3 Imai Kosuke and Michael Lingzhi Li ldquoExperimental Evaluation of Individualized Treat-ment Rulesrdquo
4 Hwang June Kosuke Imai and Alex Tarr ldquoAutomated Coding of Political CampaignAdvertisement Videos An Empirical Validation Studyrdquo
5 Imai Kosuke and In Song Kim ldquoOn the Use of Two-way Fixed Effects RegressionModels for Causal Inference with Panel Datardquo
6 Olivella Santiago Tyler Pratt and Kosuke Imai ldquoDynamic Stochastic BlockmodelRegression for Social Networks Application to International Conflictsrdquo
7 Imai Kosuke In Song Kim and Erik Wang ldquoMatching Methods for Causal Inferencewith Time-Series Cross-Sectional Datardquo
8 Imai Kosuke Zhichao Jiang and Anup Malani ldquoCausal Inference with Interference andNoncompliance in the Two-Stage Randomized Experimentsrdquo
9 Chan KCG K Imai SCP Yam Z Zhang ldquoEfficient Nonparametric Estimation ofCausal Mediation Effectsrdquo
10 Fan Jianqing Kosuke Imai Han Liu Yang Ning and Xiaolin Yang ldquoImproving Covari-ate Balancing Propensity Score A Doubly Robust and Efficient Approachrdquo
3 January 2020
Kosuke Imai
11 Fifield Benjamin Michael Higgins Kosuke Imai and Alexander Tarr ldquoAutomatedRedistricting Simulation Using Markov Chain Monte Carlordquo
12 Barber Michael and Kosuke Imai ldquoEstimating Neighborhood Effects on Turnout fromGeocoded Voter Registration Recordsrdquo
13 Hirano Shigeo Kosuke Imai Yuki Shiraito and Masaki Taniguchi ldquoPolicy Positions inMixed Member Electoral Systems Evidence from Japanrdquo
Publications in English
Book
Imai Kosuke (2018) Quantitative Social Science An Introduction Princeton Univer-sity Press Translated into Japanese (2018)
Refereed Journal Articles
1 Ning Yang Sida Peng and Kosuke Imai ldquoRobust Estimation of Causal Effects viaHigh-Dimensional Covariate Balancing Propensity Scorerdquo Biometrika Forthcoming
2 Zhao Shandong David A van Dyk and Kosuke Imai ldquoPropensity-Score Based Methodsfor Causal Inference in Observational Studies with Non-Binary Treatmentsrdquo StatisticalMethods in Medical Research Forthcoming
3 Imai Kosuke and Zhichao Jiang ldquoIdentification and Sensitivity Analysis of ContagionEffects with Randomized Placebo-Controlled Trialsrdquo Journal of the Royal StatisticalSociety Series A (Statistics in Society) Forthcoming
4 Enamorado Ted and Kosuke Imai ldquoValidating Self-reported Turnout by Linking PublicOpinion Surveys with Administrative Recordsrdquo Public Opinion Quarterly Forthcoming
5 Imai Kosuke Gary King and Carlos Velasco Rivera ldquoDo Nonpartisan ProgrammaticPolicies Have Partisan Electoral Effects Evidence from Two Large Scale RandomizedExperimentsrdquo Journal of Politics Forthcoming
6 Chou Winston Kosuke Imai and Bryn Rosenfeld ldquoSensitive Survey Questions withAuxiliary Informationrdquo Sociological Methods amp Research Forthcoming
7 Lyall Jason Yang-Yang Zhou and Kosuke Imai (2020) ldquoCan Economic AssistanceShape Combatant Support in Wartime Experimental Evidence from AfghanistanrdquoAmerican Political Science Review Vol 114 No 1 (February) pp 126ndash143
8 Kim In Song Steven Liao and Kosuke Imai (2020) ldquoMeasuring Trade Profile withGranular Product-level Trade Datardquo American Journal of Political Science Vol 64No 1 (January) pp 102-117
9 Blair Graeme Winston Chou and Kosuke Imai (2019) ldquoList Experiments with Mea-surement Errorrdquo Political Analysis Vol 27 No 4 (October) pp 455ndash480
4 January 2020
Kosuke Imai
10 Egami Naoki and Kosuke Imai ldquoCausal Interaction in Factorial Experiments Appli-cation to Conjoint Analysisrdquo Journal of the American Statistical Association Vol 114No 526 (June) pp 529-540
11 Enamorado Ted Benjamin Fifield and Kosuke Imai (2019) ldquoUsing a ProbabilisticModel to Assist Merging of Large-scale Administrative Recordsrdquo American PoliticalScience Review Vol 113 No 2 (May) pp 353ndash371
12 Imai Kosuke and In Song Kim (2019) ldquoWhen Should We Use Linear Fixed EffectsRegression Models for Causal Inference with Longitudinal Datardquo American Journal ofPolitical Science Vol 63 No 2 (April) pp 467ndash490
13 Imai Kosuke and Zhichao Jiang (2018) ldquoA Sensitivity Analysis for Missing OutcomesDue to Truncation-by-Death under the Matched-Pairs Designrdquo Statistics in MedicineVol 37 No 20 (September) pp 2907ndash2922
14 Fong Christian Chad Hazlett and Kosuke Imai (2018) ldquoCovariate Balancing Propen-sity Score for a Continuous Treatment Application to the Efficacy of Political Advertise-mentsrdquo Annals of Applied Statistics Vol 12 No 1 pp 156ndash177
15 Hirose Kentaro Kosuke Imai and Jason Lyall (2017) ldquoCan Civilian Attitudes PredictInsurgent Violence Ideology and Insurgent Tactical Choice in Civil Warrdquo Journal ofPeace Research Vol 51 No 1 (January) pp 47ndash63
16 Imai Kosuke James Lo and Jonathan Olmsted (2016) ldquoFast Estimation of Ideal Pointswith Massive Datardquo American Political Science Review Vol 110 No 4 (December)pp 631ndash656
17 Rosenfeld Bryn Kosuke Imai and Jacob Shapiro (2016) ldquoAn Empirical ValidationStudy of Popular Survey Methodologies for Sensitive Questionsrdquo American Journal ofPolitical Science Vol 60 No 3 (July) pp 783ndash802
18 Imai Kosuke and Kabir Khanna (2016) ldquoImproving Ecological Inference by PredictingIndividual Ethnicity from Voter Registration Recordrdquo Political Analysis Vol 24 No 2(Spring) pp 263ndash272
19 Blair Graeme Kosuke Imai and Yang-Yang Zhou (2015) ldquoDesign and Analysis of theRandomized Response Techniquerdquo Journal of the American Statistical Association Vol110 No 511 (September) pp 1304ndash1319
20 Imai Kosuke and Marc Ratkovic (2015) ldquoRobust Estimation of Inverse ProbabilityWeights for Marginal Structural Modelsrdquo Journal of the American Statistical Associa-tion Vol 110 No 511 (September) pp 1013ndash1023 (lead article)
21 Lyall Jason Yuki Shiraito and Kosuke Imai (2015) ldquoCoethnic Bias and WartimeInformingrdquo Journal of Politics Vol 77 No 3 (July) pp 833ndash848
22 Imai Kosuke Bethany Park and Kenneth Greene (2015) ldquoUsing the Predicted Re-sponses from List Experiments as Explanatory Variables in Regression Modelsrdquo PoliticalAnalysis Vol 23 No 2 (Spring) pp 180ndash196 Translated in Portuguese and Reprintedin Revista Debates Vol 9 No 1
5 January 2020
Kosuke Imai
23 Blair Graeme Kosuke Imai and Jason Lyall (2014) ldquoComparing and CombiningList and Endorsement Experiments Evidence from Afghanistanrdquo American Journal ofPolitical Science Vol 58 No 4 (October) pp 1043ndash1063
24 Tingley Dustin Teppei Yamamoto Kentaro Hirose Luke Keele and Kosuke Imai(2014) ldquomediation R Package for Causal Mediation Analysisrdquo Journal of StatisticalSoftware Vol 59 No 5 (August) pp 1ndash38
25 Imai Kosuke and Marc Ratkovic (2014) ldquoCovariate Balancing Propensity ScorerdquoJournal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B (Statistical Methodology) Vol 76 No1 (January) pp 243ndash263
26 Lyall Jason Graeme Blair and Kosuke Imai (2013) ldquoExplaining Support for Combat-ants during Wartime A Survey Experiment in Afghanistanrdquo American Political ScienceReview Vol 107 No 4 (November) pp 679-705 Winner of the Pi Sigma Alpha Award
27 Imai Kosuke and Teppei Yamamoto (2013) ldquoIdentification and Sensitivity Analysis forMultiple Causal Mechanisms Revisiting Evidence from Framing Experimentsrdquo PoliticalAnalysis Vol 21 No 2 (Spring) pp 141ndash171 (lead article)
28 Imai Kosuke and Marc Ratkovic (2013) ldquoEstimating Treatment Effect Heterogeneity inRandomized Program Evaluationrdquo Annals of Applied Statistics Vol 7 No 1 (March)pp 443ndash470 Winner of the Tom Ten Have Memorial Award Reprinted in Advances inPolitical Methodology R Franzese Jr ed Edward Elger 2017
29 Imai Kosuke Dustin Tingley and Teppei Yamamoto (2013) ldquoExperimental Designsfor Identifying Causal Mechanismsrdquo(with discussions) Journal of the Royal StatisticalSociety Series A (Statistics in Society) Vol 176 No 1 (January) pp 5ndash51 (leadarticle) Read before the Royal Statistical Society March 2012
30 Imai Kosuke and Dustin Tingley (2012) ldquoA Statistical Method for Empirical Testing ofCompeting Theoriesrdquo American Journal of Political Science Vol 56 No 1 (January)pp 218ndash236
31 Blair Graeme and Kosuke Imai (2012) ldquoStatistical Analysis of List ExperimentsrdquoPolitical Analysis Vol 20 No 1 (Winter) pp 47ndash77
32 Imai Kosuke Luke Keele Dustin Tingley and Teppei Yamamoto (2011) ldquoUnpackingthe Black Box of Causality Learning about Causal Mechanisms from Experimental andObservational Studiesrdquo American Political Science Review Vol 105 No 4 (November)pp 765ndash789 Reprinted in Advances in Political Methodology R Franzese Jr edEdward Elger 2017
33 Bullock Will Kosuke Imai and Jacob N Shapiro (2011) ldquoStatistical Analysis of En-dorsement Experiments Measuring Support for Militant Groups in Pakistanrdquo PoliticalAnalysis Vol 19 No 4 (Autumn) pp 363ndash384 (lead article)
34 Imai Kosuke (2011) ldquoMultivariate Regression Analysis for the Item Count TechniquerdquoJournal of the American Statistical Association Vol 106 No 494 (June) pp 407ndash416(featured article)
6 January 2020
Kosuke Imai
35 Ho Daniel E Kosuke Imai Gary King and Elizabeth Stuart (2011) ldquoMatchIt Non-parametric Preprocessing for Parametric Causal Inferencerdquo Journal of Statistical Soft-ware Vol 42 (Special Volume on Political Methodology) No 8 (June) pp 1ndash28
36 Imai Kosuke Ying Lu and Aaron Strauss (2011) ldquoeco R Package for EcologicalInference in 2 times 2 Tablesrdquo Journal of Statistical Software Vol 42 (Special Volume onPolitical Methodology) No 5 (June) pp 1ndash23
37 Imai Kosuke and Aaron Strauss (2011) ldquoEstimation of Heterogeneous TreatmentEffects from Randomized Experiments with Application to the Optimal Planning of theGet-out-the-vote Campaignrdquo Political Analysis Vol 19 No 1 (Winter) pp 1ndash19(lead article) Winner of the Political Analysis Editorsrsquo Choice Award
38 Imai Kosuke Luke Keele and Dustin Tingley (2010) ldquoA General Approach to CausalMediation Analysisrdquo Psychological Methods Vol 15 No 4 (December) pp 309ndash334(lead article)
39 Imai Kosuke and Teppei Yamamoto (2010) ldquoCausal Inference with Differential Mea-surement Error Nonparametric Identification and Sensitivity Analysisrdquo American Jour-nal of Political Science Vol 54 No 2 (April) pp 543ndash560
40 Imai Kosuke Luke Keele and Teppei Yamamoto (2010) ldquoIdentification Inference andSensitivity Analysis for Causal Mediation Effectsrdquo Statistical Science Vol 25 No 1(February) pp 51ndash71
41 King Gary Emmanuela Gakidou Kosuke Imai Jason Lakin Ryan T Moore ClaytonNall Nirmala Ravishankar Manett Vargas Martha Marıa Tellez-Rojo Juan EugenioHernandez Avila Mauricio Hernandez Avila and Hector Hernandez Llamas (2009)ldquoPublic Policy for the Poor A Randomized Ten-Month Evaluation of the MexicanUniversal Health Insurance Programrdquo (with a comment) The Lancet Vol 373 No9673 (April) pp 1447ndash1454
42 Imai Kosuke Gary King and Clayton Nall (2009) ldquoThe Essential Role of Pair Matchingin Cluster-Randomized Experiments with Application to the Mexican Universal HealthInsurance Evaluationrdquo (with discussions) Statistical Science Vol 24 No 1 (February)pp 29ndash53
43 Imai Kosuke (2009) ldquoStatistical Analysis of Randomized Experiments with Nonignor-able Missing Binary Outcomes An Application to a Voting Experimentrdquo Journal of theRoyal Statistical Society Series C (Applied Statistics) Vol 58 No 1 (February) pp83ndash104
44 Imai Kosuke Gary King and Olivia Lau (2008) ldquoToward A Common Framework ofStatistical Analysis and Developmentrdquo Journal of Computational and Graphical Statis-tics Vol 17 No 4 (December) pp 892ndash913
45 Imai Kosuke (2008) ldquoVariance Identification and Efficiency Analysis in Experimentsunder the Matched-Pair Designrdquo Statistics in Medicine Vol 27 No 4 (October) pp4857ndash4873
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46 Ho Daniel E and Kosuke Imai (2008) ldquoEstimating Causal Effects of Ballot Order froma Randomized Natural Experiment California Alphabet Lottery 1978ndash2002rdquo PublicOpinion Quarterly Vol 72 No 2 (Summer) pp 216ndash240
47 Imai Kosuke Gary King and Elizabeth A Stuart (2008) ldquoMisunderstandings amongExperimentalists and Observationalists Balance Test Fallacies in Causal InferencerdquoJournal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A (Statistics in Society) Vol 171 No2 (April) pp 481ndash502 Reprinted in Field Experiments and their Critics D Teele edNew Haven Yale University Press 2013
48 Imai Kosuke Ying Lu and Aaron Strauss (2008) ldquoBayesian and Likelihood EcologicalInference for 2 times 2 Tables An Incomplete Data Approachrdquo Political Analysis Vol 16No 1 (Winter) pp 41ndash69
49 Imai Kosuke (2008) ldquoSharp Bounds on the Causal Effects in Randomized Experimentswith ldquoTruncation-by-Deathrdquordquo Statistics amp Probability Letters Vol 78 No 2 (February)pp 144ndash149
50 Imai Kosuke and Samir Soneji (2007) ldquoOn the Estimation of Disability-Free LifeExpectancy Sullivanrsquos Method and Its Extensionrdquo Journal of the American StatisticalAssociation Vol 102 No 480 (December) pp 1199ndash1211
51 Horiuchi Yusaku Kosuke Imai and Naoko Taniguchi (2007) ldquoDesigning and Analyz-ing Randomized Experiments Application to a Japanese Election Survey ExperimentrdquoAmerican Journal of Political Science Vol 51 No 3 (July) pp 669ndash687
52 Ho Daniel E Kosuke Imai Gary King and Elizabeth A Stuart (2007) ldquoMatchingas Nonparametric Preprocessing for Reducing Model Dependence in Parametric CausalInferencerdquo Political Analysis Vol 15 No 3 (Summer) pp 199ndash236 (lead article)Winner of the Warren Miller Prize
53 Ho Daniel E and Kosuke Imai (2006) ldquoRandomization Inference with Natural Exper-iments An Analysis of Ballot Effects in the 2003 California Recall Electionrdquo Journal ofthe American Statistical Association Vol 101 No 475 (September) pp 888ndash900
54 Imai Kosuke and David A van Dyk (2005) ldquoMNP R Package for Fitting the Multi-nomial Probit Modelrdquo Journal of Statistical Software Vol 14 No 3 (May) pp 1ndash32abstract reprinted in Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics (2005) Vol 14No 3 (September) p 747
55 Imai Kosuke (2005) ldquoDo Get-Out-The-Vote Calls Reduce Turnout The Importanceof Statistical Methods for Field Experimentsrdquo American Political Science Review Vol99 No 2 (May) pp 283ndash300
56 Imai Kosuke and David A van Dyk (2005) ldquoA Bayesian Analysis of the MultinomialProbit Model Using Marginal Data Augmentationrdquo Journal of Econometrics Vol 124No 2 (February) pp 311ndash334
57 Imai Kosuke and David A van Dyk (2004) ldquoCausal Inference With General Treat-ment Regimes Generalizing the Propensity Scorerdquo Journal of the American StatisticalAssociation Vol 99 No 467 (September) pp 854ndash866
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58 Imai Kosuke and Gary King (2004) ldquoDid Illegal Overseas Absentee Ballots Decide the2000 US Presidential Electionrdquo Perspectives on Politics Vol 2 No 3 (September)pp 537ndash549 Our analysis is a part of The New York Times article ldquoHow Bush TookFlorida Mining the Overseas Absentee Voterdquo By David Barstow and Don van Natta JrJuly 15 2001 Page 1 Column 1
Invited Contributions
1 Imai Kosuke and Zhichao Jiang (2019) ldquoComment The Challenges of MultipleCausesrdquo Journal of the American Statistical Association Vol 114 No 528 pp 1605mdash1610
2 Benjamin Daniel J et al (2018) ldquoRedefine Statistical Significancerdquo Nature HumanBehaviour Vol 2 No 1 pp 6ndash10
3 de la Cuesta Brandon and Kosuke Imai (2016) ldquoMisunderstandings about the Regres-sion Discontinuity Design in the Study of Close Electionsrdquo Annual Review of PoliticalScience Vol 19 pp 375ndash396
4 Imai Kosuke (2016) ldquoBook Review of Causal Inference for Statistics Social andBiomedical Sciences An Introduction by Guido W Imbens and Donald B RubinrdquoJournal of the American Statistical Association Vol 111 No 515 pp 1365ndash1366
5 Imai Kosuke Bethany Park and Kenneth F Greene (2015) ldquoUsando as respostasprevisıveis da abordagem list-experiments como variaveis explicativas em modelos deregressaordquo Revista Debates Vol 9 No 1 pp 121ndash151 First printed in PoliticalAnalysis Vol 23 No 2 (Spring)
6 Imai Kosuke Luke Keele Dustin Tingley and Teppei Yamamoto (2014) ldquoCommenton Pearl Practical Implications of Theoretical Results for Causal Mediation AnalysisrdquoPsychological Methods Vol 19 No 4 (December) pp 482ndash487
7 Imai Kosuke Gary King and Elizabeth A Stuart (2014) ldquoMisunderstandings amongExperimentalists and Observationalists Balance Test Fallacies in Causal Inferencerdquo inField Experiments and their Critics Essays on the Uses and Abuses of Experimentationin the Social Sciences D L Teele ed New Haven Yale University Press pp 196ndash227First printed in Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A (Statistics in Society)Vol 171 No 2 (April)
8 Imai Kosuke Dustin Tingley and Teppei Yamamoto (2013) ldquoReply to Discussionsof ldquoExperimental Designs for Identifying Causal Mechanismsrdquordquo Journal of the RoyalStatistical Society Series A (Statistics in Society) Vol 173 No 1 (January) pp 46ndash49
9 Imai Kosuke (2012) ldquoComments Improving Weighting Methods for Causal MediationAnalysisrdquo Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness Vol 5 No 3 pp 293ndash295
10 Imai Kosuke (2011) ldquoIntroduction to the Virtual Issue Past and Future ResearchAgenda on Causal Inferencerdquo Political Analysis Virtual Issue Causal Inference andPolitical Methodology
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11 Imai Kosuke Booil Jo and Elizabeth A Stuart (2011) ldquoCommentary Using PotentialOutcomes to Understand Causal Mediation Analysisrdquo Multivariate Behavioral ResearchVol 46 No 5 pp 842ndash854
12 Imai Kosuke Luke Keele Dustin Tingley and Teppei Yamamoto (2010) ldquoCausalMediation Analysis Using Rrdquo in Advances in Social Science Research Using R H DVinod (ed) New York Springer (Lecture Notes in Statistics) pp 129ndash154
13 Imai Kosuke Gary King and Clayton Nall (2009) ldquoRejoinder Matched Pairs andthe Future of Cluster-Randomized Experimentsrdquo Statistical Science Vol 24 No 1(February) pp 65ndash72
14 Imai Kosuke (2003) ldquoReview of Jeff Gillrsquos Bayesian Methods A Social and BehavioralSciences Approachrdquo The Political Methodologist Vol 11 No 1 9ndash10
Refereed Conference Proceedings
1 Svyatkovskiy Alexey Kosuke Imai Mary Kroeger and Yuki Shiraito (2016) ldquoLarge-scale text processing pipeline with Apache Sparkrdquo IEEE International Conference onBig Data Washington DC pp 3928-3935
Other Publications and Manuscripts
1 Goldstein Daniel Kosuke Imai Anja S Goritz and Peter M Gollwitzer (2008) ldquoNudg-ing Turnout Mere Measurement and Implementation Planning of Intentions to Voterdquo
2 Ho Daniel E and Kosuke Imai (2004) ldquo The Impact of Partisan Electoral RegulationBallot Effects from the California Alphabet Lottery 1978ndash2002rdquo Princeton Law amp PublicAffairs Paper No 04-001 Harvard Public Law Working Paper No 89
3 Imai Kosuke (2003) ldquoEssays on Political Methodologyrdquo PhD Thesis Department ofGovernment Harvard University
4 Imai Kosuke and Jeremy M Weinstein (2000) ldquoMeasuring the Economic Impact ofCivil Warrdquo Working Paper Series No 51 Center for International Development HarvardUniversity
Publications in Japanese
1 Imai Kosuke (2007) ldquoKeiryo Seijigaku niokeru Ingateki Suiron (Causal Inference inQuantitative Political Science)rdquo Leviathan Vol 40 Spring pp 224ndash233
2 Horiuchi Yusaku Kosuke Imai and Naoko Taniguchi (2005) ldquoSeisaku Jyoho to TohyoSanka Field Jikken ni yoru Kensyo (Policy Information and Voter Participation AField Experiment)rdquo Nenpo Seijigaku (The Annals of the Japanese Political ScienceAssociation) 2005ndashI pp 161ndash180
3 Taniguchi Naoko Yusaku Horiuchi and Kosuke Imai (2004) ldquoSeito Saito no Etsuranha Tohyo Kodo ni Eikyo Suruka (Does Visiting Political Party Websites Influence VotingBehavior)rdquo Nikkei Research Report Vol IV pp 16ndash19
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Statistical Software
1 Kim In Song Erik Wang Adam Rauh and Kosuke Imai ldquoPanelMatch MatchingMethods for Causal Inference with Time-Series Cross-Section Datardquo available throughGitHub 2018
2 Olivella Santiago Adeline Lo Tyler Pratt and Kosuke Imai ldquoNetMix Mixed-membershipRegression Stochastic Blockmodel for Networksrdquo available through CRAN and Github2019
3 Egami Naoki Brandon de la Cuesta and Kosuke Imai ldquofactorEx Design and Analysisfor Factorial Experimentsrdquo available through The Comprehensive R Archive Networkand GitHub 2019
4 Enamorado Ted Benjamin Fifield and Kosuke Imai ldquofastLink Fast ProbabilisticRecord Linkagerdquo available through The Comprehensive R Archive Network and GitHub2017
5 Khanna Kabir and Kosuke Imai ldquowru Who Are You Bayesian Predictions of RacialCategory Using Surname and Geolocationrdquo available through The Comprehensive RArchive Network and GitHub 2015
6 Fifield Benjamin Alexander Tarr Michael Higgins and Kosuke Imai ldquoredist MarkovChain Monte Carlo Methods for Redistricting Simulationrdquo available through The Com-prehensive R Archive Network and GitHub 2015
7 Imai Kosuke James Lo and Jonathan Olmsted ldquoemIRT EM Algorithms for Estimat-ing Item Response Theory Modelsrdquo available through The Comprehensive R ArchiveNetwork 2015
8 Blair Graeme Yang-Yang Zhou and Kosuke Imai ldquorr Statistical Methods for theRandomized Response Techniquerdquo available through The Comprehensive R ArchiveNetwork and GitHub 2015
9 Fong Christian Marc Ratkovic and Kosuke Imai ldquoCBPS R Package for CovariateBalancing Propensity Scorerdquo available through The Comprehensive R Archive Networkand GitHub 2012
10 Egami Naoki Marc Ratkovic and Kosuke Imai ldquoFindIt R Package for Finding Hetero-geneous Treatment Effectsrdquo available through The Comprehensive R Archive Networkand GitHub 2012
11 Kim In Song and Kosuke Imai ldquowfe Weighted Linear Fixed Effects Regression Modelsfor Causal Inferencerdquo available through The Comprehensive R Archive Network 2011
12 Shiraito Yuki and Kosuke Imai ldquoendorse R Package for Analyzing Endorsement Ex-perimentsrdquo available through The Comprehensive R Archive Network and GitHub 2012
13 Blair Graeme and Kosuke Imai ldquolist Statistical Methods for the Item Count Techniqueand List Experimentsrdquo available through The Comprehensive R Archive Network andGitHub 2011
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14 Tingley Dustin Teppei Yamamoto Kentaro Hirose Luke Keele and Kosuke Imai ldquome-diation R Package for Causal Mediation Analysisrdquo available through The Comprehen-sive R Archive Network and GitHub 2009 Winner of the Statistical Software AwardReviewed in Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics
15 Imai Kosuke ldquoexperiment R Package for Designing and Analyzing Randomized Exper-imentsrdquo available through The Comprehensive R Archive Network 2007
16 Ho Daniel E Kosuke Imai Gary King and Elizabeth Stuart ldquoMatchIt NonparametricPreprocessing for Parametric Causal Inferencerdquo available through The ComprehensiveR Archive Network and GitHub 2005
17 Imai Kosuke Ying Lu and Aaron Strauss ldquoeco Ecological Inference in 2 times 2 Tablesrdquoavailable through The Comprehensive R Archive Network and GitHub 2004
18 Imai Kosuke and David A van Dyk ldquoMNP R Package for Fitting the MultinomialProbit Modelrdquo available through The Comprehensive R Archive Network and GitHub2004
19 Imai Kosuke Gary King and Olivia Lau ldquoZelig Everyonersquos Statistical Softwarerdquoavailable through The Comprehensive R Archive Network 2004
External Research Grants
Principal Investigator
1 Facebook Research Grant (2018) $20000
2 National Science Foundation (2016ndash2019) ldquoCollaborative Conference Proposal Sup-port for Conferences and Mentoring of Women and Underrepresented Groups in PoliticalMethodologyrdquo (Methodology Measurement and Statistics and Political Science Pro-grams SESndash1628102) Principal Investigator (with Jeffrey Lewis) $312322 Supplement(SESndash1831370) $60000
3 The United States Agency for International Development (2015ndash2017) ldquoUnemploymentand Insurgent Violence in Afghanistan Evidence from the Community DevelopmentProgramrdquo (AIDndashOAAndashAndash12ndash00096) Principal Investigator (with Jason Lyall) $188037
4 The United States Institute of Peace (2015ndash2016) ldquoAssessing the Links between Eco-nomic Interventions and Stability An impact evaluation of vocational and skills trainingin Kandahar Afghanistanrdquo Principal Investigator (with David Haines Jon Kurtz andJason Lyall) $144494
5 Amazon Web Services in Education Research Grant (2014) Principal Investigator (withGraeme Blair and Carlos Velasco Rivera) $3000
6 Development Bank of Latin America (CAF) (2013) ldquoThe Origins of Citizen Support forNarcos An Empirical Investigationrdquo Principal Investigator (with Graeme Blair FabianaMachado and Carlos Velasco Rivera) $15000
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Kosuke Imai
7 The International Growth Centre (2011ndash2013) ldquoPoverty Militancy and Citizen Demandsin Natural Resource-Rich Regions Randomized Evaluation of the Oil Profits DividendPlan for the Niger Deltardquo (RA-2010-12-013) Principal Investigator (with Graeme Blair)$117116
8 National Science Foundation (2009ndash2012) ldquoStatistical Analysis of Causal MechanismsIdentification Inference and Sensitivity Analysisrdquo (Methodology Measurement andStatistics Program and Political Science Program SESndash0918968) Principal Investigator$97574
9 National Science Foundation (2009ndash2011) ldquoCollaborative Research The Measurementand Identification of Media Priming Effects in Political Sciencerdquo (Methodology Measure-ment and Statistics Program and Political Science Program SESndash0849715) PrincipalInvestigator (with Nicholas Valentino) $317126
10 National Science Foundation (2008ndash2009) ldquoNew Statistical Methods for RandomizedExperiments in Political Science and Public Policyrdquo (Political Science Program SESndash0752050) Principal Investigator $52565
11 National Science Foundation (2006ndash2009) ldquoCollaborative Research Generalized Propen-sity Score Methodsrdquo (Methodology Measurement and Statistics Program SESndash0550873)Principal Investigator (with Donald B Rubin and David A van Dyk) $460000
12 The Telecommunications Advancement Foundation (2004) ldquoAnalyzing the Effects ofParty Webpages on Political Opinions and Voting Behaviorrdquo Principal Investigator (withNaoko Taniguchi and Yusaku Horiuchi) $12000
Adviser and Statistical Consultant
1 National Science Foundation (2016ndash2017) ldquoDoctoral Dissertation Research CrossingAfricarsquos Arbitrary Borders How Refugees Shape National Boundaries by ChallengingThemrdquo (Political Science Program SESndash1560636) Principal Investigator and Adviserfor Co-PI Yang-Yang Zhoursquos Dissertation Research $18900
2 Institute of Education Sciences (2012ndash2014) ldquoAcademic and Behavioral Consequencesof Visible Security Measures in Schoolsrdquo (R305A120181) Statistical Consultant (EmilyTanner-Smith Principal Investigator) $351228
3 National Science Foundation (2013ndash2014) ldquoDoctoral Dissertation Research Open Tradefor Sale Lobbying by Productive Exporting Firmrdquo (Political Science Program SESndash1264090) Principal Investigator and Adviser for Co-PI In Song Kimrsquos Dissertation Re-search $22540
4 National Science Foundation (2012ndash2013) ldquoDoctoral Dissertation Research The Poli-tics of Location in Resource Rent Distribution and the Projection of Power in Africardquo(Political Science Program SESndash1260754) Principal Investigator and Adviser for Co-PIGraeme Blairrsquos Dissertation Research $17640
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Kosuke Imai
Invited Short Courses and Outreach Lectures
1 Short Course on Causal Inference and Statistics ndash Department of Political Science RiceUniversity 2009 Institute of Political Science Academia Sinica 2014
2 Short Course on Causal Inference and Identification The Empirical Implications of The-oretical Models (EITM) Summer Institute ndash Harris School of Public Policy University ofChicago 2011 Department of Politics Princeton University 2012
3 Short Course on Causal Mediation Analysis ndash Summer Graduate Seminar Institute ofStatistical Mathematics Tokyo Japan 2010 Society for Research on Educational Effec-tiveness Conference Washington DC Fall 2011 Spring 2012 Spring 2015 Inter-AmericanDevelopment Bank 2012 Center for Education Research University of Wisconsin Madi-son 2012 Bobst Center for Peace and Justice Princeton University 2014 GraduateSchool of Education University of Pennsylvania 2014 EITM Summer Institute DukeUniversity 2014 Center for Lifespan Psychology Max Planck Institute for Human De-velopment 2015 School of Communication Research University of Amsterdam 2015Uppsala University 2016
4 Short Course on Covariate Balancing Propensity Score ndash Society for Research on Ed-ucational Effectiveness Conference Washington DC Spring 2013 Uppsala University2016
5 Short Course on Matching Methods for Causal Inference ndash Institute of Behavioral ScienceUniversity of Colorado Boulder 2009 Department of Political Science Duke University2013
6 Lecture on Statistics and Social Sciences ndash New Jersey Japanese School 2011 2016Kaisei Academy 2012 2014 Princeton University Wilson College 2012 University ofTokyo 2014
Selected Presentations
1 Keynote speaker Special Workshop on Evidence-based Policy Making World EconomicForum Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution Japan 2020
2 Distinguished speaker seminar Institute for Data Systems and Society MassachusettsInstitute of Technology 2019
3 Keynote speaker The Harvard Experimental Political Science Graduate Student Confer-ence Harvard University 2019
4 Invited speaker Beyond Curve Fitting Causation Counterfactuals and Imagination-based AI Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Spring SymposiumStanford University 2019
5 Inaugural speaker Causal Inference Seminar Departments of Biostatistics and StatisticsBoston University 2019
6 Keynote speaker The Second Latin American Political Methodology Meeting Universi-dad de los Andes (Department of Political Science) 2018
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Kosuke Imai
7 Keynote speaker The First Latin American Political Methodology Meeting PontificalCatholic University of Chile (Department of Political Science) 2017
8 Keynote speaker Workshop on Uncovering Causal Mechanisms University of Munich(Department of Economics) 2016
9 Keynote speaker The National Quality Registry Research Conference Stockholm 2016
10 Keynote speaker The UK-Causal Inference Meeting University of Bristol (School ofMathematics) 2015
11 Keynote speaker The UP-STAT Conference the Upstate Chapters of the American Sta-tistical Association 2015
12 Keynote speaker The Winter Conference in Statistics Swedish Statistical Society andUmea University (Department of Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics) 2015
13 Inaugural invited speaker The International Methods Colloquium Rice University 2015
14 Invited speaker The International Meeting on Experimental and Behavioral Social Sci-ences University of Oxford (Nuffield College) 2014
15 Keynote speaker The Annual Conference of Australian Society for Quantitative PoliticalScience University of Sydney 2013
16 Keynote speaker The Graduate Student Conference on Experiments in Interactive Deci-sion Making Princeton University 2008
Conferences Organized
1 The Asian Political Methodology Meetings (January 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 co-organizer)
2 The Experimental Research Workshop (September 2012 co-organizer)
3 The 12th World Meeting of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis (June 2012a member of the organizing committee)
4 Conference on Causal Inference and the Study of Conflict and State Building (May 2012organizer)
5 The 28th Annual Society for Political Methodology Summer Meeting (July 2011 host)
6 Conference on New Methodologies and their Applications in Comparative Politics andInternational Relations (February 2011 co-organizer)
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Kosuke Imai
Teaching
Courses Taught at Harvard
1 STAT 186GOV 2002 Causal Inference introduction to causal inference
2 GOV 2003 Topics in Quantitative Methodology causal inference applied Bayesian statis-tics machine learning
Courses Taught at Princeton
1 POL 245 Visualizing Data exploratory data analysis graphical statistics data visual-ization
2 POL 345 Quantitative Analysis and Politics a first course in quantitative social science
3 POL 451 Statistical Methods in Political Science basic probability and statistical theorytheir applications in the social sciences
4 POL 502 Mathematics for Political Science real analysis linear algebra calculus
5 POL 571 Quantitative Analysis I probability theory statistical theory linear models
6 POL 572 Quantitative Analysis II intermediate applied statistics
7 POL 573 Quantitative Analysis III advanced applied statistics
8 POL 574 Quantitative Analysis IV advanced applied statistics with various topics in-cluding Bayesian statistics and causal inference
9 Reading Courses basic mathematical probability and statistics applied bayesian statis-tics spatial statistics
Advising
Current Students
1 Soubhik Barari
2 Naoki Egami (Primary adviser) To be Assistant Professor Department of PoliticalScience Columbia University
3 Shusei Eshima (Primary adviser)
4 Max Goplerud To be Assistant Professor Department of Political Science University ofPittsburgh
5 June Hwang (Primary adviser)
6 Connor Jerzak
7 Shiro Kuriwaki
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Kosuke Imai
8 Asya Magazinnik To be Assistant Professor Department of Political Science Mas-sachusetts Institute of Technology
9 Sun Young Park
10 Nicole Pashley
11 Casey Petroff
12 Averell Schmidt
13 Diana Stanescu
14 Sooahn Shin
15 Tyler Simko
16 Alex Tarr (Primary adviser)
17 Soichiro Yamauchi (Primary adviser)
18 Erik Wang To be Assistant Professor Department of Political and Social Change Aus-tralian National University
Former Students
1 Brandon de la Cuesta (PhD in 2019 Department of Politics Princeton University)Postdoctoral Fellow Center on Global Poverty and Development Stanford University
2 Yang-Yang Zhou (PhD in 2019 Department of Politics Princeton University) Assis-tant Professor Department of Political Science University of British Columbia
3 Winston Chou (PhD in 2019 Department of Politics Princeton University) ResearchScientist at Facebook
4 Ted Enamorado (PhD in 2019 Department of Politics Princeton University Disserta-tion Committee Chair) Assistant Professor Department of Political Science Universityof North Carolina at Chapel Hill
5 Benjamin Fifield (PhD in 2018 Department of Politics Princeton University Disserta-tion Committee Chair) Research Scientist Facebook
6 Tyler Pratt (PhD in 2018 Department of Politics Princeton University) AssistantProfessor Department of Political Science Yale University
7 Romain Ferrali (PhD in 2018 Department of Politics Princeton University) Postdoc-toral Fellow New York University Abu Dhabi
8 Julia Morse (PhD in 2017 Woodrow Wilson School Princeton University) AssistantProfessor Department of Political Science University of California Santa Barbara
9 Yuki Shiraito (PhD in 2017 Department of Politics Princeton University DissertationCommittee Chair) Assistant Professor Department of Political Science University ofMichigan
17 January 2020
Kosuke Imai
10 Carlos Velasco Rivera (PhD in 2016 Department of Politics Princeton University)Research Scientist Facebook
11 Gabriel Lopez Moctezuma (PhD in 2016 Department of Politics Princeton University)Assistant Professor Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences California Instituteof Technology
12 Graeme Blair (PhD in 2016 Department of Politics Princeton University) AssistantProfessor University of California Los Angeles
13 Jaquilyn R Waddell Boie (PhD in 2015 Department of Politics Princeton University)Private consultant
14 Scott Abramson (PhD in 2014 Department of Politics Princeton University) AssistantProfessor Department of Political Science University of Rochester
15 Michael Barber (PhD in 2014 Department of Politics Princeton University) AssistantProfessor Department of Political Science Brigham Young University
16 In Song Kim (PhD in 2014 Department of Politics Princeton University) AssociateProfessor Department of Political Science Massachusetts Institute of Technology
17 Alex Ruder (PhD in 2014 Department of Politics Princeton University) Senior Com-munity Economic Development Advisor Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
18 Meredith Wilf (PhD in 2014 Department of Politics Princeton University) AssistantProfessor Graduate School of Public and International Affairs University of Pittsburgh
19 Will Bullock (PhD candidate Department of Politics Princeton University) SeniorResearcher Facebook
20 Teppei Yamamoto (PhD in 2011 Department of Politics Princeton University Dis-sertation Committee Chair) Associate Professor Department of Political Science Mas-sachusetts Institute of Technology
21 Dustin Tingley (PhD in 2010 Department of Politics Princeton University) ProfessorDepartment of Government Harvard University
22 Aaron Strauss (PhD in 2009 Department of Politics Princeton University) ExecutiveDirector Analyst Institute
23 Samir Soneji (PhD in 2008 Office of Population Research Princeton University Dis-sertation Committee Chair) Associate Professor Dartmouth Institute for Health Policyamp Clinical Practice Geisel School of Medicine Dartmouth College
24 Ying Lu (PhD in 2005 Woodrow Wilson School Princeton University DissertationCommittee Chair) Associate Professor Steinhardt School of Culture Education andHuman Development New York University
18 January 2020
Kosuke Imai
Former Predocs and Postdocs
1 Zhichao Jiang (Postdoctoral Fellow 2016ndash2019) Assistant Professor Department ofBiostatistics and Epidemiology School of Public Health and Health Sciences Universityof Massachusetts Amherst
2 Adeline Lo (Postdoctoral Fellow 2016ndash2019) Assistant Professor Department of Politi-cal Science University of Wisconsin Madison
3 Yunkyu Sohn (Postdoctoral Fellow 2016ndash2018) Assistant Professor School of PoliticalScience and Economics Waseda University
4 Xiaolin Yang (Postdoctoral Fellow 2015ndash2017) Research Scientist Amazon
5 Santiago Olivella (Postdoctoral Fellow 2015ndash2016) Assistant Professor Department ofPolitical Science University of North Carolina
6 Drew Dimmery (Predoctoral Fellow 2015ndash2016) Research Scientist Facebook
7 James Lo (Postdoctoral Fellow 2014ndash2016) Assistant Professor Department of PoliticalScience University of Southern California
8 Steven Liao (Predoctoral Fellow 2014ndash2015) Assistant Professor Department of Politi-cal Science University of California Riverside
9 Michael Higgins (Postdoctoral Fellow 2013ndash2015) Assistant Professor Department ofStatistics Kansas State University
10 Kentaro Hirose (Postdoctoral Fellow 2012ndash2015) Assistant Professor Waseda Institutefor Advanced Studies
11 Chad Hazlett (Predoctoral Fellow 2013ndash2014) Assistant Professor Departments of Po-litical Science and Statistics University of California Los Angeles
12 Florian Hollenbach (Predoctoral Fellow 2013ndash2014) Assistant Professor Department ofPolitical Science Texas AampM University
13 Marc Ratkovic (Predoctoral and Postdoctoral Fellow 2010ndash2012) Assistant ProfessorDepartment of Politics Princeton University
Editorial and Referee Service
Co-editor for Journal of Causal Inference (2014 ndash present)
Associate editor for American Journal of Political Science (2014 ndash 2019) Journal ofBusiness amp Economic Statistics (2015 ndash 2021) Journal of Causal Inference (2011 ndash 2014)Journal of Experimental Political Science (2013 ndash 2017) Observational Studies (2014 ndashpresent) Political Analysis (2014 ndash 2017)
Editorial board member for Asian Journal of Comparative Politics (2014 ndash present) Jour-nal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics (2011 ndash present) Journal of Politics (2007ndash 2008 2019ndash2020) Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness (2014 ndash present)Political Analysis (2010 ndash 2013) Political Science Research and Methods (2019 ndash present)
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Kosuke Imai
Guest editor for Political Analysis virtual issue on causal inference (2011)
Referee for ACM Computing Surveys American Economic Journal Applied EconomicsAmerican Economic Review Insights American Journal of Epidemiology AmericanJournal of Evaluation American Journal of Political Science American Political ScienceReview American Politics Research Annals of Applied Statistics Annals of StatisticsAnnals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics Biometrics Biometrika BiostatisticsBMC Medical Research Methodology British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psy-chology British Journal of Political Science Canadian Journal of Statistics Chapmanamp HallCRC Press Child Development Communications for Statistical Applications andMethods Computational Statistics and Data Analysis Electoral Studies EconometricaEconometrics Empirical Economics Environmental Management Epidemiology Euro-pean Union Politics IEEE Transactions on Information Theory International Journalof Biostatistics International Journal of Epidemiology International Journal of PublicOpinion Research International Migration Review John Wiley amp Sons Journal of Ap-plied Econometrics Journal of Applied Statistics Journal of Biopharmaceutical Statis-tics Journal of Business and Economic Statistics Journal of Causal Inference Journalof Computational and Graphical Statistics Journal of Conflict Resolution Journal ofConsulting and Clinical Psychology Journal of Econometrics Journal of Educationaland Behavioral Statistics Journal of Empirical Legal Studies Journal of MultivariateAnalysis Journal of Official Statistics Journal of Peace Research Journal of PoliticsJournal of Research on Educational EffectivenessJournal of Statistical Planning and In-ference Journal of Statistical Software Journal of the American Statistical Association(Case Studies and Applications Theory and Methods) Journal of the Japanese and In-ternational Economies Journal of the Japan Statistical Society Journal of the RoyalStatistical Society (Series A Series B Series C) Law amp Social Inquiry Legislative Stud-ies Quarterly Management Science Multivariate Behavioral Research National ScienceFoundation (Economics Methodology Measurement and Statistics Political Science)Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada NeuroImage Osteoporo-sis International Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics Pharmaceutical StatisticsPharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety PLOS One Policy and Internet Political Anal-ysis Political Behavior Political Communication Political Research Quarterly PoliticalScience Research and Methods Population Health Metrics Population Studies PreventionScience Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Princeton University PressPsychological Methods Psychometrika Public Opinion Quarterly Quarterly Journal ofEconomics Quarterly Journal of Political Science Review of Economics and StatisticsRoutledge Sage Publications Scandinavian Journal of Statistics Science Sloan Foun-dation Springer Sociological Methodology Sociological Methods amp Research StatisticalMethodology Statistical Methods and Applications Statistical Methods in Medical Re-search Statistical Science Statistica Sinica Statistics amp Probability Letters Statistics inMedicine Systems Biology US-Israel Binational Science Foundation Value in HealthWorld Politics
University and Departmental Committees
Harvard University
Department of Government
20 January 2020
Kosuke Imai
Member Second-year Progress Committee (2019ndash2020)
Member Placement Committee (2019ndash2020)
Member Graduate Admissions Committee (2018ndash2019)
Member Graduate Poster Session Committee (2018ndash2019)
Department of Statistics
Member Junior Faculty Search Committee (2018ndash2019)
Member Second-year Progress Committee (2018ndash2019)
Princeton University
University
Executive Committee Member Program in Statistics and Machine Learning (2013ndash2018)
Executive Committee Member Committee for Statistical Studies (2011-2018)
Member Organizing Committee Retreat on Data and Information Science at Prince-ton (2016)
Member Council of the Princeton University Community (2015)
Member Search Committee for the Dean of College (2015)
Member Committee on the Library and Computing (2013ndash2016)
Member Committee on the Fund for Experimental Social Science (2013ndash2018)
Member Personally Identifiable Research Data Group (2012ndash2018)
Member Research Computing Advisory Group (2013ndash2018)
Member Task Force on Statistics and Machine Learning (2014ndash2015)
Department of Politics
Chair Department Committee on Research and Computing (2012ndash2018)
Chair Formal and Quantitative Methods Junior Search Committee (2012ndash20132014ndash2015 2016ndash2017)
Chair Reappointment Committee (2015ndash2016)
Member Diversity Initiative Committee (2014ndash2015)
Member American Politics Junior Search Committee (2012ndash2014)
Member Department Chairrsquos Advisory Committee (2010ndash2013 2015ndash2016)
Member Department Priority Committee (2012ndash2013 2014ndash2015 2016ndash2017)
Member Formal and Quantitative Methods Curriculum Committee (2005ndash2006)
Member Formal and Quantitative Methods Junior Search Committee (2009ndash20102015ndash2016)
Member Formal and Quantitative Methods Postdoc Search Committee (2009ndash2018)
Member Graduate Admissions Committee (2012ndash2013)
Member Reappointment Committee (2014ndash2016)
21 January 2020
Kosuke Imai
Member Space Committee (2014ndash2016)
Member Undergraduate Curriculum Committee (2014ndash2015)
Member Undergraduate Exam Committee (2007ndash2008)
Member Undergraduate Thesis Prize Committee (2005ndash2006 2008ndash2011)
Center for Statistics and Machine Learning
Executive Committee Member (2016ndash2018)
Member Search Committee (2015ndash2017)
Services to the Profession
National Academies of Sciences Engineering and Medicine
Committee on National Statistics Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences andEducation Panel on the Review and Evaluation of the 2014 Survey of Income andProgram Participation Content and Design (2014ndash2017)
The Society for Political Methodology
President (2017ndash2019)
Vice President and President Elect (2015ndash2017)
Annual Meeting Committee Chair (2011)
Career Award Committee (2015ndash2017)
Program Committee for Annual Meeting (2012) Chair (2011)
Graduate Student Selection Committee for the Annual Meeting (2005) Chair (2011)
Miller Prize Selection Committee (2010ndash2011)
Statistical Software Award Committee (2009ndash2010)
Emerging Scholar Award Committee (2013)
American Statistical Association
Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics Management Committee (2016 ndashpresent)
Others
External Expert Department of Methodology London School of Economics andPolitical Science (2017 ndash present)
Memberships
American Political Science Association American Statistical Association Midwest Polit-ical Science Association The Society for Political Methodology
22 January 2020
- Contact Information
- Education
- Positions
- Honors and Awards
- Selected Manuscripts
- Publications in English
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- Book
- Refereed Journal Articles
- Invited Contributions
- Refereed Conference Proceedings
- Other Publications and Manuscripts
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- Publications in Japanese
- Statistical Software
- External Research Grants
-
- Principal Investigator
- Adviser and Statistical Consultant
-
- Invited Short Courses
- Selected Presentations
- Conferences Organized
- Teaching
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- Courses Taught at Harvard
- Courses Taught at Princeton
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- Advising
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- Current Students
- Former Students
- Former Predocs and Postdocs
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- Editorial and Referee Service
- University and Departmental Committees
- Services to the Profession
- Memberships
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Kosuke Imai
15 Warren Miller Prize for the best article published in Political Analysis for ldquoMatchingas Nonparametric Preprocessing for Reducing Model Dependence in Parametric CausalInferencerdquo awarded by the Society for Political Methodology and Oxford University Press(2008)
16 Fast Breaking Paper for the article with the largest percentage increase in citations amongthose in the top 1 of total citations across the social sciences in the last two years forldquoMatching as Nonparametric Preprocessing for Reducing Model Dependence in Paramet-ric Causal Inferencerdquo named by Thomson Reutersrsquo ScienceWatch (2008)
17 Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety Outstanding Reviewer Recognition (2008)
18 Miyake Award for the best political science article published in 2005 for ldquoDo Get-Out-The-Vote Calls Reduce Turnout The Importance of Statistical Methods for Field Ex-perimentsrdquo awarded by the Japanese Political Science Association (2006)
19 Toppan Prize for the best dissertation in political science for Essays on Political Method-ology awarded by Harvard University (2004) Also nominated for American PoliticalScience Association EE Schattschneider Award for the best doctoral dissertation in thefield of American government and politics
Selected Manuscripts
1 Fifield Benjamin Kosuke Imai Jun Kawahara and Christopher T Kenny ldquoThe Essen-tial Role of Empirical Validation in Legislative Redistricting Simulationrdquo
2 de la Cuesta Brandon Egami Naoki and Kosuke ImaildquoExperimental Design and Sta-tistical Inference for Conjoint Analysis The Essential Role of Population Distributionrdquo
3 Imai Kosuke and Michael Lingzhi Li ldquoExperimental Evaluation of Individualized Treat-ment Rulesrdquo
4 Hwang June Kosuke Imai and Alex Tarr ldquoAutomated Coding of Political CampaignAdvertisement Videos An Empirical Validation Studyrdquo
5 Imai Kosuke and In Song Kim ldquoOn the Use of Two-way Fixed Effects RegressionModels for Causal Inference with Panel Datardquo
6 Olivella Santiago Tyler Pratt and Kosuke Imai ldquoDynamic Stochastic BlockmodelRegression for Social Networks Application to International Conflictsrdquo
7 Imai Kosuke In Song Kim and Erik Wang ldquoMatching Methods for Causal Inferencewith Time-Series Cross-Sectional Datardquo
8 Imai Kosuke Zhichao Jiang and Anup Malani ldquoCausal Inference with Interference andNoncompliance in the Two-Stage Randomized Experimentsrdquo
9 Chan KCG K Imai SCP Yam Z Zhang ldquoEfficient Nonparametric Estimation ofCausal Mediation Effectsrdquo
10 Fan Jianqing Kosuke Imai Han Liu Yang Ning and Xiaolin Yang ldquoImproving Covari-ate Balancing Propensity Score A Doubly Robust and Efficient Approachrdquo
3 January 2020
Kosuke Imai
11 Fifield Benjamin Michael Higgins Kosuke Imai and Alexander Tarr ldquoAutomatedRedistricting Simulation Using Markov Chain Monte Carlordquo
12 Barber Michael and Kosuke Imai ldquoEstimating Neighborhood Effects on Turnout fromGeocoded Voter Registration Recordsrdquo
13 Hirano Shigeo Kosuke Imai Yuki Shiraito and Masaki Taniguchi ldquoPolicy Positions inMixed Member Electoral Systems Evidence from Japanrdquo
Publications in English
Book
Imai Kosuke (2018) Quantitative Social Science An Introduction Princeton Univer-sity Press Translated into Japanese (2018)
Refereed Journal Articles
1 Ning Yang Sida Peng and Kosuke Imai ldquoRobust Estimation of Causal Effects viaHigh-Dimensional Covariate Balancing Propensity Scorerdquo Biometrika Forthcoming
2 Zhao Shandong David A van Dyk and Kosuke Imai ldquoPropensity-Score Based Methodsfor Causal Inference in Observational Studies with Non-Binary Treatmentsrdquo StatisticalMethods in Medical Research Forthcoming
3 Imai Kosuke and Zhichao Jiang ldquoIdentification and Sensitivity Analysis of ContagionEffects with Randomized Placebo-Controlled Trialsrdquo Journal of the Royal StatisticalSociety Series A (Statistics in Society) Forthcoming
4 Enamorado Ted and Kosuke Imai ldquoValidating Self-reported Turnout by Linking PublicOpinion Surveys with Administrative Recordsrdquo Public Opinion Quarterly Forthcoming
5 Imai Kosuke Gary King and Carlos Velasco Rivera ldquoDo Nonpartisan ProgrammaticPolicies Have Partisan Electoral Effects Evidence from Two Large Scale RandomizedExperimentsrdquo Journal of Politics Forthcoming
6 Chou Winston Kosuke Imai and Bryn Rosenfeld ldquoSensitive Survey Questions withAuxiliary Informationrdquo Sociological Methods amp Research Forthcoming
7 Lyall Jason Yang-Yang Zhou and Kosuke Imai (2020) ldquoCan Economic AssistanceShape Combatant Support in Wartime Experimental Evidence from AfghanistanrdquoAmerican Political Science Review Vol 114 No 1 (February) pp 126ndash143
8 Kim In Song Steven Liao and Kosuke Imai (2020) ldquoMeasuring Trade Profile withGranular Product-level Trade Datardquo American Journal of Political Science Vol 64No 1 (January) pp 102-117
9 Blair Graeme Winston Chou and Kosuke Imai (2019) ldquoList Experiments with Mea-surement Errorrdquo Political Analysis Vol 27 No 4 (October) pp 455ndash480
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Kosuke Imai
10 Egami Naoki and Kosuke Imai ldquoCausal Interaction in Factorial Experiments Appli-cation to Conjoint Analysisrdquo Journal of the American Statistical Association Vol 114No 526 (June) pp 529-540
11 Enamorado Ted Benjamin Fifield and Kosuke Imai (2019) ldquoUsing a ProbabilisticModel to Assist Merging of Large-scale Administrative Recordsrdquo American PoliticalScience Review Vol 113 No 2 (May) pp 353ndash371
12 Imai Kosuke and In Song Kim (2019) ldquoWhen Should We Use Linear Fixed EffectsRegression Models for Causal Inference with Longitudinal Datardquo American Journal ofPolitical Science Vol 63 No 2 (April) pp 467ndash490
13 Imai Kosuke and Zhichao Jiang (2018) ldquoA Sensitivity Analysis for Missing OutcomesDue to Truncation-by-Death under the Matched-Pairs Designrdquo Statistics in MedicineVol 37 No 20 (September) pp 2907ndash2922
14 Fong Christian Chad Hazlett and Kosuke Imai (2018) ldquoCovariate Balancing Propen-sity Score for a Continuous Treatment Application to the Efficacy of Political Advertise-mentsrdquo Annals of Applied Statistics Vol 12 No 1 pp 156ndash177
15 Hirose Kentaro Kosuke Imai and Jason Lyall (2017) ldquoCan Civilian Attitudes PredictInsurgent Violence Ideology and Insurgent Tactical Choice in Civil Warrdquo Journal ofPeace Research Vol 51 No 1 (January) pp 47ndash63
16 Imai Kosuke James Lo and Jonathan Olmsted (2016) ldquoFast Estimation of Ideal Pointswith Massive Datardquo American Political Science Review Vol 110 No 4 (December)pp 631ndash656
17 Rosenfeld Bryn Kosuke Imai and Jacob Shapiro (2016) ldquoAn Empirical ValidationStudy of Popular Survey Methodologies for Sensitive Questionsrdquo American Journal ofPolitical Science Vol 60 No 3 (July) pp 783ndash802
18 Imai Kosuke and Kabir Khanna (2016) ldquoImproving Ecological Inference by PredictingIndividual Ethnicity from Voter Registration Recordrdquo Political Analysis Vol 24 No 2(Spring) pp 263ndash272
19 Blair Graeme Kosuke Imai and Yang-Yang Zhou (2015) ldquoDesign and Analysis of theRandomized Response Techniquerdquo Journal of the American Statistical Association Vol110 No 511 (September) pp 1304ndash1319
20 Imai Kosuke and Marc Ratkovic (2015) ldquoRobust Estimation of Inverse ProbabilityWeights for Marginal Structural Modelsrdquo Journal of the American Statistical Associa-tion Vol 110 No 511 (September) pp 1013ndash1023 (lead article)
21 Lyall Jason Yuki Shiraito and Kosuke Imai (2015) ldquoCoethnic Bias and WartimeInformingrdquo Journal of Politics Vol 77 No 3 (July) pp 833ndash848
22 Imai Kosuke Bethany Park and Kenneth Greene (2015) ldquoUsing the Predicted Re-sponses from List Experiments as Explanatory Variables in Regression Modelsrdquo PoliticalAnalysis Vol 23 No 2 (Spring) pp 180ndash196 Translated in Portuguese and Reprintedin Revista Debates Vol 9 No 1
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Kosuke Imai
23 Blair Graeme Kosuke Imai and Jason Lyall (2014) ldquoComparing and CombiningList and Endorsement Experiments Evidence from Afghanistanrdquo American Journal ofPolitical Science Vol 58 No 4 (October) pp 1043ndash1063
24 Tingley Dustin Teppei Yamamoto Kentaro Hirose Luke Keele and Kosuke Imai(2014) ldquomediation R Package for Causal Mediation Analysisrdquo Journal of StatisticalSoftware Vol 59 No 5 (August) pp 1ndash38
25 Imai Kosuke and Marc Ratkovic (2014) ldquoCovariate Balancing Propensity ScorerdquoJournal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B (Statistical Methodology) Vol 76 No1 (January) pp 243ndash263
26 Lyall Jason Graeme Blair and Kosuke Imai (2013) ldquoExplaining Support for Combat-ants during Wartime A Survey Experiment in Afghanistanrdquo American Political ScienceReview Vol 107 No 4 (November) pp 679-705 Winner of the Pi Sigma Alpha Award
27 Imai Kosuke and Teppei Yamamoto (2013) ldquoIdentification and Sensitivity Analysis forMultiple Causal Mechanisms Revisiting Evidence from Framing Experimentsrdquo PoliticalAnalysis Vol 21 No 2 (Spring) pp 141ndash171 (lead article)
28 Imai Kosuke and Marc Ratkovic (2013) ldquoEstimating Treatment Effect Heterogeneity inRandomized Program Evaluationrdquo Annals of Applied Statistics Vol 7 No 1 (March)pp 443ndash470 Winner of the Tom Ten Have Memorial Award Reprinted in Advances inPolitical Methodology R Franzese Jr ed Edward Elger 2017
29 Imai Kosuke Dustin Tingley and Teppei Yamamoto (2013) ldquoExperimental Designsfor Identifying Causal Mechanismsrdquo(with discussions) Journal of the Royal StatisticalSociety Series A (Statistics in Society) Vol 176 No 1 (January) pp 5ndash51 (leadarticle) Read before the Royal Statistical Society March 2012
30 Imai Kosuke and Dustin Tingley (2012) ldquoA Statistical Method for Empirical Testing ofCompeting Theoriesrdquo American Journal of Political Science Vol 56 No 1 (January)pp 218ndash236
31 Blair Graeme and Kosuke Imai (2012) ldquoStatistical Analysis of List ExperimentsrdquoPolitical Analysis Vol 20 No 1 (Winter) pp 47ndash77
32 Imai Kosuke Luke Keele Dustin Tingley and Teppei Yamamoto (2011) ldquoUnpackingthe Black Box of Causality Learning about Causal Mechanisms from Experimental andObservational Studiesrdquo American Political Science Review Vol 105 No 4 (November)pp 765ndash789 Reprinted in Advances in Political Methodology R Franzese Jr edEdward Elger 2017
33 Bullock Will Kosuke Imai and Jacob N Shapiro (2011) ldquoStatistical Analysis of En-dorsement Experiments Measuring Support for Militant Groups in Pakistanrdquo PoliticalAnalysis Vol 19 No 4 (Autumn) pp 363ndash384 (lead article)
34 Imai Kosuke (2011) ldquoMultivariate Regression Analysis for the Item Count TechniquerdquoJournal of the American Statistical Association Vol 106 No 494 (June) pp 407ndash416(featured article)
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Kosuke Imai
35 Ho Daniel E Kosuke Imai Gary King and Elizabeth Stuart (2011) ldquoMatchIt Non-parametric Preprocessing for Parametric Causal Inferencerdquo Journal of Statistical Soft-ware Vol 42 (Special Volume on Political Methodology) No 8 (June) pp 1ndash28
36 Imai Kosuke Ying Lu and Aaron Strauss (2011) ldquoeco R Package for EcologicalInference in 2 times 2 Tablesrdquo Journal of Statistical Software Vol 42 (Special Volume onPolitical Methodology) No 5 (June) pp 1ndash23
37 Imai Kosuke and Aaron Strauss (2011) ldquoEstimation of Heterogeneous TreatmentEffects from Randomized Experiments with Application to the Optimal Planning of theGet-out-the-vote Campaignrdquo Political Analysis Vol 19 No 1 (Winter) pp 1ndash19(lead article) Winner of the Political Analysis Editorsrsquo Choice Award
38 Imai Kosuke Luke Keele and Dustin Tingley (2010) ldquoA General Approach to CausalMediation Analysisrdquo Psychological Methods Vol 15 No 4 (December) pp 309ndash334(lead article)
39 Imai Kosuke and Teppei Yamamoto (2010) ldquoCausal Inference with Differential Mea-surement Error Nonparametric Identification and Sensitivity Analysisrdquo American Jour-nal of Political Science Vol 54 No 2 (April) pp 543ndash560
40 Imai Kosuke Luke Keele and Teppei Yamamoto (2010) ldquoIdentification Inference andSensitivity Analysis for Causal Mediation Effectsrdquo Statistical Science Vol 25 No 1(February) pp 51ndash71
41 King Gary Emmanuela Gakidou Kosuke Imai Jason Lakin Ryan T Moore ClaytonNall Nirmala Ravishankar Manett Vargas Martha Marıa Tellez-Rojo Juan EugenioHernandez Avila Mauricio Hernandez Avila and Hector Hernandez Llamas (2009)ldquoPublic Policy for the Poor A Randomized Ten-Month Evaluation of the MexicanUniversal Health Insurance Programrdquo (with a comment) The Lancet Vol 373 No9673 (April) pp 1447ndash1454
42 Imai Kosuke Gary King and Clayton Nall (2009) ldquoThe Essential Role of Pair Matchingin Cluster-Randomized Experiments with Application to the Mexican Universal HealthInsurance Evaluationrdquo (with discussions) Statistical Science Vol 24 No 1 (February)pp 29ndash53
43 Imai Kosuke (2009) ldquoStatistical Analysis of Randomized Experiments with Nonignor-able Missing Binary Outcomes An Application to a Voting Experimentrdquo Journal of theRoyal Statistical Society Series C (Applied Statistics) Vol 58 No 1 (February) pp83ndash104
44 Imai Kosuke Gary King and Olivia Lau (2008) ldquoToward A Common Framework ofStatistical Analysis and Developmentrdquo Journal of Computational and Graphical Statis-tics Vol 17 No 4 (December) pp 892ndash913
45 Imai Kosuke (2008) ldquoVariance Identification and Efficiency Analysis in Experimentsunder the Matched-Pair Designrdquo Statistics in Medicine Vol 27 No 4 (October) pp4857ndash4873
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Kosuke Imai
46 Ho Daniel E and Kosuke Imai (2008) ldquoEstimating Causal Effects of Ballot Order froma Randomized Natural Experiment California Alphabet Lottery 1978ndash2002rdquo PublicOpinion Quarterly Vol 72 No 2 (Summer) pp 216ndash240
47 Imai Kosuke Gary King and Elizabeth A Stuart (2008) ldquoMisunderstandings amongExperimentalists and Observationalists Balance Test Fallacies in Causal InferencerdquoJournal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A (Statistics in Society) Vol 171 No2 (April) pp 481ndash502 Reprinted in Field Experiments and their Critics D Teele edNew Haven Yale University Press 2013
48 Imai Kosuke Ying Lu and Aaron Strauss (2008) ldquoBayesian and Likelihood EcologicalInference for 2 times 2 Tables An Incomplete Data Approachrdquo Political Analysis Vol 16No 1 (Winter) pp 41ndash69
49 Imai Kosuke (2008) ldquoSharp Bounds on the Causal Effects in Randomized Experimentswith ldquoTruncation-by-Deathrdquordquo Statistics amp Probability Letters Vol 78 No 2 (February)pp 144ndash149
50 Imai Kosuke and Samir Soneji (2007) ldquoOn the Estimation of Disability-Free LifeExpectancy Sullivanrsquos Method and Its Extensionrdquo Journal of the American StatisticalAssociation Vol 102 No 480 (December) pp 1199ndash1211
51 Horiuchi Yusaku Kosuke Imai and Naoko Taniguchi (2007) ldquoDesigning and Analyz-ing Randomized Experiments Application to a Japanese Election Survey ExperimentrdquoAmerican Journal of Political Science Vol 51 No 3 (July) pp 669ndash687
52 Ho Daniel E Kosuke Imai Gary King and Elizabeth A Stuart (2007) ldquoMatchingas Nonparametric Preprocessing for Reducing Model Dependence in Parametric CausalInferencerdquo Political Analysis Vol 15 No 3 (Summer) pp 199ndash236 (lead article)Winner of the Warren Miller Prize
53 Ho Daniel E and Kosuke Imai (2006) ldquoRandomization Inference with Natural Exper-iments An Analysis of Ballot Effects in the 2003 California Recall Electionrdquo Journal ofthe American Statistical Association Vol 101 No 475 (September) pp 888ndash900
54 Imai Kosuke and David A van Dyk (2005) ldquoMNP R Package for Fitting the Multi-nomial Probit Modelrdquo Journal of Statistical Software Vol 14 No 3 (May) pp 1ndash32abstract reprinted in Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics (2005) Vol 14No 3 (September) p 747
55 Imai Kosuke (2005) ldquoDo Get-Out-The-Vote Calls Reduce Turnout The Importanceof Statistical Methods for Field Experimentsrdquo American Political Science Review Vol99 No 2 (May) pp 283ndash300
56 Imai Kosuke and David A van Dyk (2005) ldquoA Bayesian Analysis of the MultinomialProbit Model Using Marginal Data Augmentationrdquo Journal of Econometrics Vol 124No 2 (February) pp 311ndash334
57 Imai Kosuke and David A van Dyk (2004) ldquoCausal Inference With General Treat-ment Regimes Generalizing the Propensity Scorerdquo Journal of the American StatisticalAssociation Vol 99 No 467 (September) pp 854ndash866
8 January 2020
Kosuke Imai
58 Imai Kosuke and Gary King (2004) ldquoDid Illegal Overseas Absentee Ballots Decide the2000 US Presidential Electionrdquo Perspectives on Politics Vol 2 No 3 (September)pp 537ndash549 Our analysis is a part of The New York Times article ldquoHow Bush TookFlorida Mining the Overseas Absentee Voterdquo By David Barstow and Don van Natta JrJuly 15 2001 Page 1 Column 1
Invited Contributions
1 Imai Kosuke and Zhichao Jiang (2019) ldquoComment The Challenges of MultipleCausesrdquo Journal of the American Statistical Association Vol 114 No 528 pp 1605mdash1610
2 Benjamin Daniel J et al (2018) ldquoRedefine Statistical Significancerdquo Nature HumanBehaviour Vol 2 No 1 pp 6ndash10
3 de la Cuesta Brandon and Kosuke Imai (2016) ldquoMisunderstandings about the Regres-sion Discontinuity Design in the Study of Close Electionsrdquo Annual Review of PoliticalScience Vol 19 pp 375ndash396
4 Imai Kosuke (2016) ldquoBook Review of Causal Inference for Statistics Social andBiomedical Sciences An Introduction by Guido W Imbens and Donald B RubinrdquoJournal of the American Statistical Association Vol 111 No 515 pp 1365ndash1366
5 Imai Kosuke Bethany Park and Kenneth F Greene (2015) ldquoUsando as respostasprevisıveis da abordagem list-experiments como variaveis explicativas em modelos deregressaordquo Revista Debates Vol 9 No 1 pp 121ndash151 First printed in PoliticalAnalysis Vol 23 No 2 (Spring)
6 Imai Kosuke Luke Keele Dustin Tingley and Teppei Yamamoto (2014) ldquoCommenton Pearl Practical Implications of Theoretical Results for Causal Mediation AnalysisrdquoPsychological Methods Vol 19 No 4 (December) pp 482ndash487
7 Imai Kosuke Gary King and Elizabeth A Stuart (2014) ldquoMisunderstandings amongExperimentalists and Observationalists Balance Test Fallacies in Causal Inferencerdquo inField Experiments and their Critics Essays on the Uses and Abuses of Experimentationin the Social Sciences D L Teele ed New Haven Yale University Press pp 196ndash227First printed in Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A (Statistics in Society)Vol 171 No 2 (April)
8 Imai Kosuke Dustin Tingley and Teppei Yamamoto (2013) ldquoReply to Discussionsof ldquoExperimental Designs for Identifying Causal Mechanismsrdquordquo Journal of the RoyalStatistical Society Series A (Statistics in Society) Vol 173 No 1 (January) pp 46ndash49
9 Imai Kosuke (2012) ldquoComments Improving Weighting Methods for Causal MediationAnalysisrdquo Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness Vol 5 No 3 pp 293ndash295
10 Imai Kosuke (2011) ldquoIntroduction to the Virtual Issue Past and Future ResearchAgenda on Causal Inferencerdquo Political Analysis Virtual Issue Causal Inference andPolitical Methodology
9 January 2020
Kosuke Imai
11 Imai Kosuke Booil Jo and Elizabeth A Stuart (2011) ldquoCommentary Using PotentialOutcomes to Understand Causal Mediation Analysisrdquo Multivariate Behavioral ResearchVol 46 No 5 pp 842ndash854
12 Imai Kosuke Luke Keele Dustin Tingley and Teppei Yamamoto (2010) ldquoCausalMediation Analysis Using Rrdquo in Advances in Social Science Research Using R H DVinod (ed) New York Springer (Lecture Notes in Statistics) pp 129ndash154
13 Imai Kosuke Gary King and Clayton Nall (2009) ldquoRejoinder Matched Pairs andthe Future of Cluster-Randomized Experimentsrdquo Statistical Science Vol 24 No 1(February) pp 65ndash72
14 Imai Kosuke (2003) ldquoReview of Jeff Gillrsquos Bayesian Methods A Social and BehavioralSciences Approachrdquo The Political Methodologist Vol 11 No 1 9ndash10
Refereed Conference Proceedings
1 Svyatkovskiy Alexey Kosuke Imai Mary Kroeger and Yuki Shiraito (2016) ldquoLarge-scale text processing pipeline with Apache Sparkrdquo IEEE International Conference onBig Data Washington DC pp 3928-3935
Other Publications and Manuscripts
1 Goldstein Daniel Kosuke Imai Anja S Goritz and Peter M Gollwitzer (2008) ldquoNudg-ing Turnout Mere Measurement and Implementation Planning of Intentions to Voterdquo
2 Ho Daniel E and Kosuke Imai (2004) ldquo The Impact of Partisan Electoral RegulationBallot Effects from the California Alphabet Lottery 1978ndash2002rdquo Princeton Law amp PublicAffairs Paper No 04-001 Harvard Public Law Working Paper No 89
3 Imai Kosuke (2003) ldquoEssays on Political Methodologyrdquo PhD Thesis Department ofGovernment Harvard University
4 Imai Kosuke and Jeremy M Weinstein (2000) ldquoMeasuring the Economic Impact ofCivil Warrdquo Working Paper Series No 51 Center for International Development HarvardUniversity
Publications in Japanese
1 Imai Kosuke (2007) ldquoKeiryo Seijigaku niokeru Ingateki Suiron (Causal Inference inQuantitative Political Science)rdquo Leviathan Vol 40 Spring pp 224ndash233
2 Horiuchi Yusaku Kosuke Imai and Naoko Taniguchi (2005) ldquoSeisaku Jyoho to TohyoSanka Field Jikken ni yoru Kensyo (Policy Information and Voter Participation AField Experiment)rdquo Nenpo Seijigaku (The Annals of the Japanese Political ScienceAssociation) 2005ndashI pp 161ndash180
3 Taniguchi Naoko Yusaku Horiuchi and Kosuke Imai (2004) ldquoSeito Saito no Etsuranha Tohyo Kodo ni Eikyo Suruka (Does Visiting Political Party Websites Influence VotingBehavior)rdquo Nikkei Research Report Vol IV pp 16ndash19
10 January 2020
Kosuke Imai
Statistical Software
1 Kim In Song Erik Wang Adam Rauh and Kosuke Imai ldquoPanelMatch MatchingMethods for Causal Inference with Time-Series Cross-Section Datardquo available throughGitHub 2018
2 Olivella Santiago Adeline Lo Tyler Pratt and Kosuke Imai ldquoNetMix Mixed-membershipRegression Stochastic Blockmodel for Networksrdquo available through CRAN and Github2019
3 Egami Naoki Brandon de la Cuesta and Kosuke Imai ldquofactorEx Design and Analysisfor Factorial Experimentsrdquo available through The Comprehensive R Archive Networkand GitHub 2019
4 Enamorado Ted Benjamin Fifield and Kosuke Imai ldquofastLink Fast ProbabilisticRecord Linkagerdquo available through The Comprehensive R Archive Network and GitHub2017
5 Khanna Kabir and Kosuke Imai ldquowru Who Are You Bayesian Predictions of RacialCategory Using Surname and Geolocationrdquo available through The Comprehensive RArchive Network and GitHub 2015
6 Fifield Benjamin Alexander Tarr Michael Higgins and Kosuke Imai ldquoredist MarkovChain Monte Carlo Methods for Redistricting Simulationrdquo available through The Com-prehensive R Archive Network and GitHub 2015
7 Imai Kosuke James Lo and Jonathan Olmsted ldquoemIRT EM Algorithms for Estimat-ing Item Response Theory Modelsrdquo available through The Comprehensive R ArchiveNetwork 2015
8 Blair Graeme Yang-Yang Zhou and Kosuke Imai ldquorr Statistical Methods for theRandomized Response Techniquerdquo available through The Comprehensive R ArchiveNetwork and GitHub 2015
9 Fong Christian Marc Ratkovic and Kosuke Imai ldquoCBPS R Package for CovariateBalancing Propensity Scorerdquo available through The Comprehensive R Archive Networkand GitHub 2012
10 Egami Naoki Marc Ratkovic and Kosuke Imai ldquoFindIt R Package for Finding Hetero-geneous Treatment Effectsrdquo available through The Comprehensive R Archive Networkand GitHub 2012
11 Kim In Song and Kosuke Imai ldquowfe Weighted Linear Fixed Effects Regression Modelsfor Causal Inferencerdquo available through The Comprehensive R Archive Network 2011
12 Shiraito Yuki and Kosuke Imai ldquoendorse R Package for Analyzing Endorsement Ex-perimentsrdquo available through The Comprehensive R Archive Network and GitHub 2012
13 Blair Graeme and Kosuke Imai ldquolist Statistical Methods for the Item Count Techniqueand List Experimentsrdquo available through The Comprehensive R Archive Network andGitHub 2011
11 January 2020
Kosuke Imai
14 Tingley Dustin Teppei Yamamoto Kentaro Hirose Luke Keele and Kosuke Imai ldquome-diation R Package for Causal Mediation Analysisrdquo available through The Comprehen-sive R Archive Network and GitHub 2009 Winner of the Statistical Software AwardReviewed in Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics
15 Imai Kosuke ldquoexperiment R Package for Designing and Analyzing Randomized Exper-imentsrdquo available through The Comprehensive R Archive Network 2007
16 Ho Daniel E Kosuke Imai Gary King and Elizabeth Stuart ldquoMatchIt NonparametricPreprocessing for Parametric Causal Inferencerdquo available through The ComprehensiveR Archive Network and GitHub 2005
17 Imai Kosuke Ying Lu and Aaron Strauss ldquoeco Ecological Inference in 2 times 2 Tablesrdquoavailable through The Comprehensive R Archive Network and GitHub 2004
18 Imai Kosuke and David A van Dyk ldquoMNP R Package for Fitting the MultinomialProbit Modelrdquo available through The Comprehensive R Archive Network and GitHub2004
19 Imai Kosuke Gary King and Olivia Lau ldquoZelig Everyonersquos Statistical Softwarerdquoavailable through The Comprehensive R Archive Network 2004
External Research Grants
Principal Investigator
1 Facebook Research Grant (2018) $20000
2 National Science Foundation (2016ndash2019) ldquoCollaborative Conference Proposal Sup-port for Conferences and Mentoring of Women and Underrepresented Groups in PoliticalMethodologyrdquo (Methodology Measurement and Statistics and Political Science Pro-grams SESndash1628102) Principal Investigator (with Jeffrey Lewis) $312322 Supplement(SESndash1831370) $60000
3 The United States Agency for International Development (2015ndash2017) ldquoUnemploymentand Insurgent Violence in Afghanistan Evidence from the Community DevelopmentProgramrdquo (AIDndashOAAndashAndash12ndash00096) Principal Investigator (with Jason Lyall) $188037
4 The United States Institute of Peace (2015ndash2016) ldquoAssessing the Links between Eco-nomic Interventions and Stability An impact evaluation of vocational and skills trainingin Kandahar Afghanistanrdquo Principal Investigator (with David Haines Jon Kurtz andJason Lyall) $144494
5 Amazon Web Services in Education Research Grant (2014) Principal Investigator (withGraeme Blair and Carlos Velasco Rivera) $3000
6 Development Bank of Latin America (CAF) (2013) ldquoThe Origins of Citizen Support forNarcos An Empirical Investigationrdquo Principal Investigator (with Graeme Blair FabianaMachado and Carlos Velasco Rivera) $15000
12 January 2020
Kosuke Imai
7 The International Growth Centre (2011ndash2013) ldquoPoverty Militancy and Citizen Demandsin Natural Resource-Rich Regions Randomized Evaluation of the Oil Profits DividendPlan for the Niger Deltardquo (RA-2010-12-013) Principal Investigator (with Graeme Blair)$117116
8 National Science Foundation (2009ndash2012) ldquoStatistical Analysis of Causal MechanismsIdentification Inference and Sensitivity Analysisrdquo (Methodology Measurement andStatistics Program and Political Science Program SESndash0918968) Principal Investigator$97574
9 National Science Foundation (2009ndash2011) ldquoCollaborative Research The Measurementand Identification of Media Priming Effects in Political Sciencerdquo (Methodology Measure-ment and Statistics Program and Political Science Program SESndash0849715) PrincipalInvestigator (with Nicholas Valentino) $317126
10 National Science Foundation (2008ndash2009) ldquoNew Statistical Methods for RandomizedExperiments in Political Science and Public Policyrdquo (Political Science Program SESndash0752050) Principal Investigator $52565
11 National Science Foundation (2006ndash2009) ldquoCollaborative Research Generalized Propen-sity Score Methodsrdquo (Methodology Measurement and Statistics Program SESndash0550873)Principal Investigator (with Donald B Rubin and David A van Dyk) $460000
12 The Telecommunications Advancement Foundation (2004) ldquoAnalyzing the Effects ofParty Webpages on Political Opinions and Voting Behaviorrdquo Principal Investigator (withNaoko Taniguchi and Yusaku Horiuchi) $12000
Adviser and Statistical Consultant
1 National Science Foundation (2016ndash2017) ldquoDoctoral Dissertation Research CrossingAfricarsquos Arbitrary Borders How Refugees Shape National Boundaries by ChallengingThemrdquo (Political Science Program SESndash1560636) Principal Investigator and Adviserfor Co-PI Yang-Yang Zhoursquos Dissertation Research $18900
2 Institute of Education Sciences (2012ndash2014) ldquoAcademic and Behavioral Consequencesof Visible Security Measures in Schoolsrdquo (R305A120181) Statistical Consultant (EmilyTanner-Smith Principal Investigator) $351228
3 National Science Foundation (2013ndash2014) ldquoDoctoral Dissertation Research Open Tradefor Sale Lobbying by Productive Exporting Firmrdquo (Political Science Program SESndash1264090) Principal Investigator and Adviser for Co-PI In Song Kimrsquos Dissertation Re-search $22540
4 National Science Foundation (2012ndash2013) ldquoDoctoral Dissertation Research The Poli-tics of Location in Resource Rent Distribution and the Projection of Power in Africardquo(Political Science Program SESndash1260754) Principal Investigator and Adviser for Co-PIGraeme Blairrsquos Dissertation Research $17640
13 January 2020
Kosuke Imai
Invited Short Courses and Outreach Lectures
1 Short Course on Causal Inference and Statistics ndash Department of Political Science RiceUniversity 2009 Institute of Political Science Academia Sinica 2014
2 Short Course on Causal Inference and Identification The Empirical Implications of The-oretical Models (EITM) Summer Institute ndash Harris School of Public Policy University ofChicago 2011 Department of Politics Princeton University 2012
3 Short Course on Causal Mediation Analysis ndash Summer Graduate Seminar Institute ofStatistical Mathematics Tokyo Japan 2010 Society for Research on Educational Effec-tiveness Conference Washington DC Fall 2011 Spring 2012 Spring 2015 Inter-AmericanDevelopment Bank 2012 Center for Education Research University of Wisconsin Madi-son 2012 Bobst Center for Peace and Justice Princeton University 2014 GraduateSchool of Education University of Pennsylvania 2014 EITM Summer Institute DukeUniversity 2014 Center for Lifespan Psychology Max Planck Institute for Human De-velopment 2015 School of Communication Research University of Amsterdam 2015Uppsala University 2016
4 Short Course on Covariate Balancing Propensity Score ndash Society for Research on Ed-ucational Effectiveness Conference Washington DC Spring 2013 Uppsala University2016
5 Short Course on Matching Methods for Causal Inference ndash Institute of Behavioral ScienceUniversity of Colorado Boulder 2009 Department of Political Science Duke University2013
6 Lecture on Statistics and Social Sciences ndash New Jersey Japanese School 2011 2016Kaisei Academy 2012 2014 Princeton University Wilson College 2012 University ofTokyo 2014
Selected Presentations
1 Keynote speaker Special Workshop on Evidence-based Policy Making World EconomicForum Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution Japan 2020
2 Distinguished speaker seminar Institute for Data Systems and Society MassachusettsInstitute of Technology 2019
3 Keynote speaker The Harvard Experimental Political Science Graduate Student Confer-ence Harvard University 2019
4 Invited speaker Beyond Curve Fitting Causation Counterfactuals and Imagination-based AI Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Spring SymposiumStanford University 2019
5 Inaugural speaker Causal Inference Seminar Departments of Biostatistics and StatisticsBoston University 2019
6 Keynote speaker The Second Latin American Political Methodology Meeting Universi-dad de los Andes (Department of Political Science) 2018
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Kosuke Imai
7 Keynote speaker The First Latin American Political Methodology Meeting PontificalCatholic University of Chile (Department of Political Science) 2017
8 Keynote speaker Workshop on Uncovering Causal Mechanisms University of Munich(Department of Economics) 2016
9 Keynote speaker The National Quality Registry Research Conference Stockholm 2016
10 Keynote speaker The UK-Causal Inference Meeting University of Bristol (School ofMathematics) 2015
11 Keynote speaker The UP-STAT Conference the Upstate Chapters of the American Sta-tistical Association 2015
12 Keynote speaker The Winter Conference in Statistics Swedish Statistical Society andUmea University (Department of Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics) 2015
13 Inaugural invited speaker The International Methods Colloquium Rice University 2015
14 Invited speaker The International Meeting on Experimental and Behavioral Social Sci-ences University of Oxford (Nuffield College) 2014
15 Keynote speaker The Annual Conference of Australian Society for Quantitative PoliticalScience University of Sydney 2013
16 Keynote speaker The Graduate Student Conference on Experiments in Interactive Deci-sion Making Princeton University 2008
Conferences Organized
1 The Asian Political Methodology Meetings (January 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 co-organizer)
2 The Experimental Research Workshop (September 2012 co-organizer)
3 The 12th World Meeting of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis (June 2012a member of the organizing committee)
4 Conference on Causal Inference and the Study of Conflict and State Building (May 2012organizer)
5 The 28th Annual Society for Political Methodology Summer Meeting (July 2011 host)
6 Conference on New Methodologies and their Applications in Comparative Politics andInternational Relations (February 2011 co-organizer)
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Kosuke Imai
Teaching
Courses Taught at Harvard
1 STAT 186GOV 2002 Causal Inference introduction to causal inference
2 GOV 2003 Topics in Quantitative Methodology causal inference applied Bayesian statis-tics machine learning
Courses Taught at Princeton
1 POL 245 Visualizing Data exploratory data analysis graphical statistics data visual-ization
2 POL 345 Quantitative Analysis and Politics a first course in quantitative social science
3 POL 451 Statistical Methods in Political Science basic probability and statistical theorytheir applications in the social sciences
4 POL 502 Mathematics for Political Science real analysis linear algebra calculus
5 POL 571 Quantitative Analysis I probability theory statistical theory linear models
6 POL 572 Quantitative Analysis II intermediate applied statistics
7 POL 573 Quantitative Analysis III advanced applied statistics
8 POL 574 Quantitative Analysis IV advanced applied statistics with various topics in-cluding Bayesian statistics and causal inference
9 Reading Courses basic mathematical probability and statistics applied bayesian statis-tics spatial statistics
Advising
Current Students
1 Soubhik Barari
2 Naoki Egami (Primary adviser) To be Assistant Professor Department of PoliticalScience Columbia University
3 Shusei Eshima (Primary adviser)
4 Max Goplerud To be Assistant Professor Department of Political Science University ofPittsburgh
5 June Hwang (Primary adviser)
6 Connor Jerzak
7 Shiro Kuriwaki
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Kosuke Imai
8 Asya Magazinnik To be Assistant Professor Department of Political Science Mas-sachusetts Institute of Technology
9 Sun Young Park
10 Nicole Pashley
11 Casey Petroff
12 Averell Schmidt
13 Diana Stanescu
14 Sooahn Shin
15 Tyler Simko
16 Alex Tarr (Primary adviser)
17 Soichiro Yamauchi (Primary adviser)
18 Erik Wang To be Assistant Professor Department of Political and Social Change Aus-tralian National University
Former Students
1 Brandon de la Cuesta (PhD in 2019 Department of Politics Princeton University)Postdoctoral Fellow Center on Global Poverty and Development Stanford University
2 Yang-Yang Zhou (PhD in 2019 Department of Politics Princeton University) Assis-tant Professor Department of Political Science University of British Columbia
3 Winston Chou (PhD in 2019 Department of Politics Princeton University) ResearchScientist at Facebook
4 Ted Enamorado (PhD in 2019 Department of Politics Princeton University Disserta-tion Committee Chair) Assistant Professor Department of Political Science Universityof North Carolina at Chapel Hill
5 Benjamin Fifield (PhD in 2018 Department of Politics Princeton University Disserta-tion Committee Chair) Research Scientist Facebook
6 Tyler Pratt (PhD in 2018 Department of Politics Princeton University) AssistantProfessor Department of Political Science Yale University
7 Romain Ferrali (PhD in 2018 Department of Politics Princeton University) Postdoc-toral Fellow New York University Abu Dhabi
8 Julia Morse (PhD in 2017 Woodrow Wilson School Princeton University) AssistantProfessor Department of Political Science University of California Santa Barbara
9 Yuki Shiraito (PhD in 2017 Department of Politics Princeton University DissertationCommittee Chair) Assistant Professor Department of Political Science University ofMichigan
17 January 2020
Kosuke Imai
10 Carlos Velasco Rivera (PhD in 2016 Department of Politics Princeton University)Research Scientist Facebook
11 Gabriel Lopez Moctezuma (PhD in 2016 Department of Politics Princeton University)Assistant Professor Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences California Instituteof Technology
12 Graeme Blair (PhD in 2016 Department of Politics Princeton University) AssistantProfessor University of California Los Angeles
13 Jaquilyn R Waddell Boie (PhD in 2015 Department of Politics Princeton University)Private consultant
14 Scott Abramson (PhD in 2014 Department of Politics Princeton University) AssistantProfessor Department of Political Science University of Rochester
15 Michael Barber (PhD in 2014 Department of Politics Princeton University) AssistantProfessor Department of Political Science Brigham Young University
16 In Song Kim (PhD in 2014 Department of Politics Princeton University) AssociateProfessor Department of Political Science Massachusetts Institute of Technology
17 Alex Ruder (PhD in 2014 Department of Politics Princeton University) Senior Com-munity Economic Development Advisor Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
18 Meredith Wilf (PhD in 2014 Department of Politics Princeton University) AssistantProfessor Graduate School of Public and International Affairs University of Pittsburgh
19 Will Bullock (PhD candidate Department of Politics Princeton University) SeniorResearcher Facebook
20 Teppei Yamamoto (PhD in 2011 Department of Politics Princeton University Dis-sertation Committee Chair) Associate Professor Department of Political Science Mas-sachusetts Institute of Technology
21 Dustin Tingley (PhD in 2010 Department of Politics Princeton University) ProfessorDepartment of Government Harvard University
22 Aaron Strauss (PhD in 2009 Department of Politics Princeton University) ExecutiveDirector Analyst Institute
23 Samir Soneji (PhD in 2008 Office of Population Research Princeton University Dis-sertation Committee Chair) Associate Professor Dartmouth Institute for Health Policyamp Clinical Practice Geisel School of Medicine Dartmouth College
24 Ying Lu (PhD in 2005 Woodrow Wilson School Princeton University DissertationCommittee Chair) Associate Professor Steinhardt School of Culture Education andHuman Development New York University
18 January 2020
Kosuke Imai
Former Predocs and Postdocs
1 Zhichao Jiang (Postdoctoral Fellow 2016ndash2019) Assistant Professor Department ofBiostatistics and Epidemiology School of Public Health and Health Sciences Universityof Massachusetts Amherst
2 Adeline Lo (Postdoctoral Fellow 2016ndash2019) Assistant Professor Department of Politi-cal Science University of Wisconsin Madison
3 Yunkyu Sohn (Postdoctoral Fellow 2016ndash2018) Assistant Professor School of PoliticalScience and Economics Waseda University
4 Xiaolin Yang (Postdoctoral Fellow 2015ndash2017) Research Scientist Amazon
5 Santiago Olivella (Postdoctoral Fellow 2015ndash2016) Assistant Professor Department ofPolitical Science University of North Carolina
6 Drew Dimmery (Predoctoral Fellow 2015ndash2016) Research Scientist Facebook
7 James Lo (Postdoctoral Fellow 2014ndash2016) Assistant Professor Department of PoliticalScience University of Southern California
8 Steven Liao (Predoctoral Fellow 2014ndash2015) Assistant Professor Department of Politi-cal Science University of California Riverside
9 Michael Higgins (Postdoctoral Fellow 2013ndash2015) Assistant Professor Department ofStatistics Kansas State University
10 Kentaro Hirose (Postdoctoral Fellow 2012ndash2015) Assistant Professor Waseda Institutefor Advanced Studies
11 Chad Hazlett (Predoctoral Fellow 2013ndash2014) Assistant Professor Departments of Po-litical Science and Statistics University of California Los Angeles
12 Florian Hollenbach (Predoctoral Fellow 2013ndash2014) Assistant Professor Department ofPolitical Science Texas AampM University
13 Marc Ratkovic (Predoctoral and Postdoctoral Fellow 2010ndash2012) Assistant ProfessorDepartment of Politics Princeton University
Editorial and Referee Service
Co-editor for Journal of Causal Inference (2014 ndash present)
Associate editor for American Journal of Political Science (2014 ndash 2019) Journal ofBusiness amp Economic Statistics (2015 ndash 2021) Journal of Causal Inference (2011 ndash 2014)Journal of Experimental Political Science (2013 ndash 2017) Observational Studies (2014 ndashpresent) Political Analysis (2014 ndash 2017)
Editorial board member for Asian Journal of Comparative Politics (2014 ndash present) Jour-nal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics (2011 ndash present) Journal of Politics (2007ndash 2008 2019ndash2020) Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness (2014 ndash present)Political Analysis (2010 ndash 2013) Political Science Research and Methods (2019 ndash present)
19 January 2020
Kosuke Imai
Guest editor for Political Analysis virtual issue on causal inference (2011)
Referee for ACM Computing Surveys American Economic Journal Applied EconomicsAmerican Economic Review Insights American Journal of Epidemiology AmericanJournal of Evaluation American Journal of Political Science American Political ScienceReview American Politics Research Annals of Applied Statistics Annals of StatisticsAnnals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics Biometrics Biometrika BiostatisticsBMC Medical Research Methodology British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psy-chology British Journal of Political Science Canadian Journal of Statistics Chapmanamp HallCRC Press Child Development Communications for Statistical Applications andMethods Computational Statistics and Data Analysis Electoral Studies EconometricaEconometrics Empirical Economics Environmental Management Epidemiology Euro-pean Union Politics IEEE Transactions on Information Theory International Journalof Biostatistics International Journal of Epidemiology International Journal of PublicOpinion Research International Migration Review John Wiley amp Sons Journal of Ap-plied Econometrics Journal of Applied Statistics Journal of Biopharmaceutical Statis-tics Journal of Business and Economic Statistics Journal of Causal Inference Journalof Computational and Graphical Statistics Journal of Conflict Resolution Journal ofConsulting and Clinical Psychology Journal of Econometrics Journal of Educationaland Behavioral Statistics Journal of Empirical Legal Studies Journal of MultivariateAnalysis Journal of Official Statistics Journal of Peace Research Journal of PoliticsJournal of Research on Educational EffectivenessJournal of Statistical Planning and In-ference Journal of Statistical Software Journal of the American Statistical Association(Case Studies and Applications Theory and Methods) Journal of the Japanese and In-ternational Economies Journal of the Japan Statistical Society Journal of the RoyalStatistical Society (Series A Series B Series C) Law amp Social Inquiry Legislative Stud-ies Quarterly Management Science Multivariate Behavioral Research National ScienceFoundation (Economics Methodology Measurement and Statistics Political Science)Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada NeuroImage Osteoporo-sis International Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics Pharmaceutical StatisticsPharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety PLOS One Policy and Internet Political Anal-ysis Political Behavior Political Communication Political Research Quarterly PoliticalScience Research and Methods Population Health Metrics Population Studies PreventionScience Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Princeton University PressPsychological Methods Psychometrika Public Opinion Quarterly Quarterly Journal ofEconomics Quarterly Journal of Political Science Review of Economics and StatisticsRoutledge Sage Publications Scandinavian Journal of Statistics Science Sloan Foun-dation Springer Sociological Methodology Sociological Methods amp Research StatisticalMethodology Statistical Methods and Applications Statistical Methods in Medical Re-search Statistical Science Statistica Sinica Statistics amp Probability Letters Statistics inMedicine Systems Biology US-Israel Binational Science Foundation Value in HealthWorld Politics
University and Departmental Committees
Harvard University
Department of Government
20 January 2020
Kosuke Imai
Member Second-year Progress Committee (2019ndash2020)
Member Placement Committee (2019ndash2020)
Member Graduate Admissions Committee (2018ndash2019)
Member Graduate Poster Session Committee (2018ndash2019)
Department of Statistics
Member Junior Faculty Search Committee (2018ndash2019)
Member Second-year Progress Committee (2018ndash2019)
Princeton University
University
Executive Committee Member Program in Statistics and Machine Learning (2013ndash2018)
Executive Committee Member Committee for Statistical Studies (2011-2018)
Member Organizing Committee Retreat on Data and Information Science at Prince-ton (2016)
Member Council of the Princeton University Community (2015)
Member Search Committee for the Dean of College (2015)
Member Committee on the Library and Computing (2013ndash2016)
Member Committee on the Fund for Experimental Social Science (2013ndash2018)
Member Personally Identifiable Research Data Group (2012ndash2018)
Member Research Computing Advisory Group (2013ndash2018)
Member Task Force on Statistics and Machine Learning (2014ndash2015)
Department of Politics
Chair Department Committee on Research and Computing (2012ndash2018)
Chair Formal and Quantitative Methods Junior Search Committee (2012ndash20132014ndash2015 2016ndash2017)
Chair Reappointment Committee (2015ndash2016)
Member Diversity Initiative Committee (2014ndash2015)
Member American Politics Junior Search Committee (2012ndash2014)
Member Department Chairrsquos Advisory Committee (2010ndash2013 2015ndash2016)
Member Department Priority Committee (2012ndash2013 2014ndash2015 2016ndash2017)
Member Formal and Quantitative Methods Curriculum Committee (2005ndash2006)
Member Formal and Quantitative Methods Junior Search Committee (2009ndash20102015ndash2016)
Member Formal and Quantitative Methods Postdoc Search Committee (2009ndash2018)
Member Graduate Admissions Committee (2012ndash2013)
Member Reappointment Committee (2014ndash2016)
21 January 2020
Kosuke Imai
Member Space Committee (2014ndash2016)
Member Undergraduate Curriculum Committee (2014ndash2015)
Member Undergraduate Exam Committee (2007ndash2008)
Member Undergraduate Thesis Prize Committee (2005ndash2006 2008ndash2011)
Center for Statistics and Machine Learning
Executive Committee Member (2016ndash2018)
Member Search Committee (2015ndash2017)
Services to the Profession
National Academies of Sciences Engineering and Medicine
Committee on National Statistics Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences andEducation Panel on the Review and Evaluation of the 2014 Survey of Income andProgram Participation Content and Design (2014ndash2017)
The Society for Political Methodology
President (2017ndash2019)
Vice President and President Elect (2015ndash2017)
Annual Meeting Committee Chair (2011)
Career Award Committee (2015ndash2017)
Program Committee for Annual Meeting (2012) Chair (2011)
Graduate Student Selection Committee for the Annual Meeting (2005) Chair (2011)
Miller Prize Selection Committee (2010ndash2011)
Statistical Software Award Committee (2009ndash2010)
Emerging Scholar Award Committee (2013)
American Statistical Association
Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics Management Committee (2016 ndashpresent)
Others
External Expert Department of Methodology London School of Economics andPolitical Science (2017 ndash present)
Memberships
American Political Science Association American Statistical Association Midwest Polit-ical Science Association The Society for Political Methodology
22 January 2020
- Contact Information
- Education
- Positions
- Honors and Awards
- Selected Manuscripts
- Publications in English
-
- Book
- Refereed Journal Articles
- Invited Contributions
- Refereed Conference Proceedings
- Other Publications and Manuscripts
-
- Publications in Japanese
- Statistical Software
- External Research Grants
-
- Principal Investigator
- Adviser and Statistical Consultant
-
- Invited Short Courses
- Selected Presentations
- Conferences Organized
- Teaching
-
- Courses Taught at Harvard
- Courses Taught at Princeton
-
- Advising
-
- Current Students
- Former Students
- Former Predocs and Postdocs
-
- Editorial and Referee Service
- University and Departmental Committees
- Services to the Profession
- Memberships
-
Kosuke Imai
11 Fifield Benjamin Michael Higgins Kosuke Imai and Alexander Tarr ldquoAutomatedRedistricting Simulation Using Markov Chain Monte Carlordquo
12 Barber Michael and Kosuke Imai ldquoEstimating Neighborhood Effects on Turnout fromGeocoded Voter Registration Recordsrdquo
13 Hirano Shigeo Kosuke Imai Yuki Shiraito and Masaki Taniguchi ldquoPolicy Positions inMixed Member Electoral Systems Evidence from Japanrdquo
Publications in English
Book
Imai Kosuke (2018) Quantitative Social Science An Introduction Princeton Univer-sity Press Translated into Japanese (2018)
Refereed Journal Articles
1 Ning Yang Sida Peng and Kosuke Imai ldquoRobust Estimation of Causal Effects viaHigh-Dimensional Covariate Balancing Propensity Scorerdquo Biometrika Forthcoming
2 Zhao Shandong David A van Dyk and Kosuke Imai ldquoPropensity-Score Based Methodsfor Causal Inference in Observational Studies with Non-Binary Treatmentsrdquo StatisticalMethods in Medical Research Forthcoming
3 Imai Kosuke and Zhichao Jiang ldquoIdentification and Sensitivity Analysis of ContagionEffects with Randomized Placebo-Controlled Trialsrdquo Journal of the Royal StatisticalSociety Series A (Statistics in Society) Forthcoming
4 Enamorado Ted and Kosuke Imai ldquoValidating Self-reported Turnout by Linking PublicOpinion Surveys with Administrative Recordsrdquo Public Opinion Quarterly Forthcoming
5 Imai Kosuke Gary King and Carlos Velasco Rivera ldquoDo Nonpartisan ProgrammaticPolicies Have Partisan Electoral Effects Evidence from Two Large Scale RandomizedExperimentsrdquo Journal of Politics Forthcoming
6 Chou Winston Kosuke Imai and Bryn Rosenfeld ldquoSensitive Survey Questions withAuxiliary Informationrdquo Sociological Methods amp Research Forthcoming
7 Lyall Jason Yang-Yang Zhou and Kosuke Imai (2020) ldquoCan Economic AssistanceShape Combatant Support in Wartime Experimental Evidence from AfghanistanrdquoAmerican Political Science Review Vol 114 No 1 (February) pp 126ndash143
8 Kim In Song Steven Liao and Kosuke Imai (2020) ldquoMeasuring Trade Profile withGranular Product-level Trade Datardquo American Journal of Political Science Vol 64No 1 (January) pp 102-117
9 Blair Graeme Winston Chou and Kosuke Imai (2019) ldquoList Experiments with Mea-surement Errorrdquo Political Analysis Vol 27 No 4 (October) pp 455ndash480
4 January 2020
Kosuke Imai
10 Egami Naoki and Kosuke Imai ldquoCausal Interaction in Factorial Experiments Appli-cation to Conjoint Analysisrdquo Journal of the American Statistical Association Vol 114No 526 (June) pp 529-540
11 Enamorado Ted Benjamin Fifield and Kosuke Imai (2019) ldquoUsing a ProbabilisticModel to Assist Merging of Large-scale Administrative Recordsrdquo American PoliticalScience Review Vol 113 No 2 (May) pp 353ndash371
12 Imai Kosuke and In Song Kim (2019) ldquoWhen Should We Use Linear Fixed EffectsRegression Models for Causal Inference with Longitudinal Datardquo American Journal ofPolitical Science Vol 63 No 2 (April) pp 467ndash490
13 Imai Kosuke and Zhichao Jiang (2018) ldquoA Sensitivity Analysis for Missing OutcomesDue to Truncation-by-Death under the Matched-Pairs Designrdquo Statistics in MedicineVol 37 No 20 (September) pp 2907ndash2922
14 Fong Christian Chad Hazlett and Kosuke Imai (2018) ldquoCovariate Balancing Propen-sity Score for a Continuous Treatment Application to the Efficacy of Political Advertise-mentsrdquo Annals of Applied Statistics Vol 12 No 1 pp 156ndash177
15 Hirose Kentaro Kosuke Imai and Jason Lyall (2017) ldquoCan Civilian Attitudes PredictInsurgent Violence Ideology and Insurgent Tactical Choice in Civil Warrdquo Journal ofPeace Research Vol 51 No 1 (January) pp 47ndash63
16 Imai Kosuke James Lo and Jonathan Olmsted (2016) ldquoFast Estimation of Ideal Pointswith Massive Datardquo American Political Science Review Vol 110 No 4 (December)pp 631ndash656
17 Rosenfeld Bryn Kosuke Imai and Jacob Shapiro (2016) ldquoAn Empirical ValidationStudy of Popular Survey Methodologies for Sensitive Questionsrdquo American Journal ofPolitical Science Vol 60 No 3 (July) pp 783ndash802
18 Imai Kosuke and Kabir Khanna (2016) ldquoImproving Ecological Inference by PredictingIndividual Ethnicity from Voter Registration Recordrdquo Political Analysis Vol 24 No 2(Spring) pp 263ndash272
19 Blair Graeme Kosuke Imai and Yang-Yang Zhou (2015) ldquoDesign and Analysis of theRandomized Response Techniquerdquo Journal of the American Statistical Association Vol110 No 511 (September) pp 1304ndash1319
20 Imai Kosuke and Marc Ratkovic (2015) ldquoRobust Estimation of Inverse ProbabilityWeights for Marginal Structural Modelsrdquo Journal of the American Statistical Associa-tion Vol 110 No 511 (September) pp 1013ndash1023 (lead article)
21 Lyall Jason Yuki Shiraito and Kosuke Imai (2015) ldquoCoethnic Bias and WartimeInformingrdquo Journal of Politics Vol 77 No 3 (July) pp 833ndash848
22 Imai Kosuke Bethany Park and Kenneth Greene (2015) ldquoUsing the Predicted Re-sponses from List Experiments as Explanatory Variables in Regression Modelsrdquo PoliticalAnalysis Vol 23 No 2 (Spring) pp 180ndash196 Translated in Portuguese and Reprintedin Revista Debates Vol 9 No 1
5 January 2020
Kosuke Imai
23 Blair Graeme Kosuke Imai and Jason Lyall (2014) ldquoComparing and CombiningList and Endorsement Experiments Evidence from Afghanistanrdquo American Journal ofPolitical Science Vol 58 No 4 (October) pp 1043ndash1063
24 Tingley Dustin Teppei Yamamoto Kentaro Hirose Luke Keele and Kosuke Imai(2014) ldquomediation R Package for Causal Mediation Analysisrdquo Journal of StatisticalSoftware Vol 59 No 5 (August) pp 1ndash38
25 Imai Kosuke and Marc Ratkovic (2014) ldquoCovariate Balancing Propensity ScorerdquoJournal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B (Statistical Methodology) Vol 76 No1 (January) pp 243ndash263
26 Lyall Jason Graeme Blair and Kosuke Imai (2013) ldquoExplaining Support for Combat-ants during Wartime A Survey Experiment in Afghanistanrdquo American Political ScienceReview Vol 107 No 4 (November) pp 679-705 Winner of the Pi Sigma Alpha Award
27 Imai Kosuke and Teppei Yamamoto (2013) ldquoIdentification and Sensitivity Analysis forMultiple Causal Mechanisms Revisiting Evidence from Framing Experimentsrdquo PoliticalAnalysis Vol 21 No 2 (Spring) pp 141ndash171 (lead article)
28 Imai Kosuke and Marc Ratkovic (2013) ldquoEstimating Treatment Effect Heterogeneity inRandomized Program Evaluationrdquo Annals of Applied Statistics Vol 7 No 1 (March)pp 443ndash470 Winner of the Tom Ten Have Memorial Award Reprinted in Advances inPolitical Methodology R Franzese Jr ed Edward Elger 2017
29 Imai Kosuke Dustin Tingley and Teppei Yamamoto (2013) ldquoExperimental Designsfor Identifying Causal Mechanismsrdquo(with discussions) Journal of the Royal StatisticalSociety Series A (Statistics in Society) Vol 176 No 1 (January) pp 5ndash51 (leadarticle) Read before the Royal Statistical Society March 2012
30 Imai Kosuke and Dustin Tingley (2012) ldquoA Statistical Method for Empirical Testing ofCompeting Theoriesrdquo American Journal of Political Science Vol 56 No 1 (January)pp 218ndash236
31 Blair Graeme and Kosuke Imai (2012) ldquoStatistical Analysis of List ExperimentsrdquoPolitical Analysis Vol 20 No 1 (Winter) pp 47ndash77
32 Imai Kosuke Luke Keele Dustin Tingley and Teppei Yamamoto (2011) ldquoUnpackingthe Black Box of Causality Learning about Causal Mechanisms from Experimental andObservational Studiesrdquo American Political Science Review Vol 105 No 4 (November)pp 765ndash789 Reprinted in Advances in Political Methodology R Franzese Jr edEdward Elger 2017
33 Bullock Will Kosuke Imai and Jacob N Shapiro (2011) ldquoStatistical Analysis of En-dorsement Experiments Measuring Support for Militant Groups in Pakistanrdquo PoliticalAnalysis Vol 19 No 4 (Autumn) pp 363ndash384 (lead article)
34 Imai Kosuke (2011) ldquoMultivariate Regression Analysis for the Item Count TechniquerdquoJournal of the American Statistical Association Vol 106 No 494 (June) pp 407ndash416(featured article)
6 January 2020
Kosuke Imai
35 Ho Daniel E Kosuke Imai Gary King and Elizabeth Stuart (2011) ldquoMatchIt Non-parametric Preprocessing for Parametric Causal Inferencerdquo Journal of Statistical Soft-ware Vol 42 (Special Volume on Political Methodology) No 8 (June) pp 1ndash28
36 Imai Kosuke Ying Lu and Aaron Strauss (2011) ldquoeco R Package for EcologicalInference in 2 times 2 Tablesrdquo Journal of Statistical Software Vol 42 (Special Volume onPolitical Methodology) No 5 (June) pp 1ndash23
37 Imai Kosuke and Aaron Strauss (2011) ldquoEstimation of Heterogeneous TreatmentEffects from Randomized Experiments with Application to the Optimal Planning of theGet-out-the-vote Campaignrdquo Political Analysis Vol 19 No 1 (Winter) pp 1ndash19(lead article) Winner of the Political Analysis Editorsrsquo Choice Award
38 Imai Kosuke Luke Keele and Dustin Tingley (2010) ldquoA General Approach to CausalMediation Analysisrdquo Psychological Methods Vol 15 No 4 (December) pp 309ndash334(lead article)
39 Imai Kosuke and Teppei Yamamoto (2010) ldquoCausal Inference with Differential Mea-surement Error Nonparametric Identification and Sensitivity Analysisrdquo American Jour-nal of Political Science Vol 54 No 2 (April) pp 543ndash560
40 Imai Kosuke Luke Keele and Teppei Yamamoto (2010) ldquoIdentification Inference andSensitivity Analysis for Causal Mediation Effectsrdquo Statistical Science Vol 25 No 1(February) pp 51ndash71
41 King Gary Emmanuela Gakidou Kosuke Imai Jason Lakin Ryan T Moore ClaytonNall Nirmala Ravishankar Manett Vargas Martha Marıa Tellez-Rojo Juan EugenioHernandez Avila Mauricio Hernandez Avila and Hector Hernandez Llamas (2009)ldquoPublic Policy for the Poor A Randomized Ten-Month Evaluation of the MexicanUniversal Health Insurance Programrdquo (with a comment) The Lancet Vol 373 No9673 (April) pp 1447ndash1454
42 Imai Kosuke Gary King and Clayton Nall (2009) ldquoThe Essential Role of Pair Matchingin Cluster-Randomized Experiments with Application to the Mexican Universal HealthInsurance Evaluationrdquo (with discussions) Statistical Science Vol 24 No 1 (February)pp 29ndash53
43 Imai Kosuke (2009) ldquoStatistical Analysis of Randomized Experiments with Nonignor-able Missing Binary Outcomes An Application to a Voting Experimentrdquo Journal of theRoyal Statistical Society Series C (Applied Statistics) Vol 58 No 1 (February) pp83ndash104
44 Imai Kosuke Gary King and Olivia Lau (2008) ldquoToward A Common Framework ofStatistical Analysis and Developmentrdquo Journal of Computational and Graphical Statis-tics Vol 17 No 4 (December) pp 892ndash913
45 Imai Kosuke (2008) ldquoVariance Identification and Efficiency Analysis in Experimentsunder the Matched-Pair Designrdquo Statistics in Medicine Vol 27 No 4 (October) pp4857ndash4873
7 January 2020
Kosuke Imai
46 Ho Daniel E and Kosuke Imai (2008) ldquoEstimating Causal Effects of Ballot Order froma Randomized Natural Experiment California Alphabet Lottery 1978ndash2002rdquo PublicOpinion Quarterly Vol 72 No 2 (Summer) pp 216ndash240
47 Imai Kosuke Gary King and Elizabeth A Stuart (2008) ldquoMisunderstandings amongExperimentalists and Observationalists Balance Test Fallacies in Causal InferencerdquoJournal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A (Statistics in Society) Vol 171 No2 (April) pp 481ndash502 Reprinted in Field Experiments and their Critics D Teele edNew Haven Yale University Press 2013
48 Imai Kosuke Ying Lu and Aaron Strauss (2008) ldquoBayesian and Likelihood EcologicalInference for 2 times 2 Tables An Incomplete Data Approachrdquo Political Analysis Vol 16No 1 (Winter) pp 41ndash69
49 Imai Kosuke (2008) ldquoSharp Bounds on the Causal Effects in Randomized Experimentswith ldquoTruncation-by-Deathrdquordquo Statistics amp Probability Letters Vol 78 No 2 (February)pp 144ndash149
50 Imai Kosuke and Samir Soneji (2007) ldquoOn the Estimation of Disability-Free LifeExpectancy Sullivanrsquos Method and Its Extensionrdquo Journal of the American StatisticalAssociation Vol 102 No 480 (December) pp 1199ndash1211
51 Horiuchi Yusaku Kosuke Imai and Naoko Taniguchi (2007) ldquoDesigning and Analyz-ing Randomized Experiments Application to a Japanese Election Survey ExperimentrdquoAmerican Journal of Political Science Vol 51 No 3 (July) pp 669ndash687
52 Ho Daniel E Kosuke Imai Gary King and Elizabeth A Stuart (2007) ldquoMatchingas Nonparametric Preprocessing for Reducing Model Dependence in Parametric CausalInferencerdquo Political Analysis Vol 15 No 3 (Summer) pp 199ndash236 (lead article)Winner of the Warren Miller Prize
53 Ho Daniel E and Kosuke Imai (2006) ldquoRandomization Inference with Natural Exper-iments An Analysis of Ballot Effects in the 2003 California Recall Electionrdquo Journal ofthe American Statistical Association Vol 101 No 475 (September) pp 888ndash900
54 Imai Kosuke and David A van Dyk (2005) ldquoMNP R Package for Fitting the Multi-nomial Probit Modelrdquo Journal of Statistical Software Vol 14 No 3 (May) pp 1ndash32abstract reprinted in Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics (2005) Vol 14No 3 (September) p 747
55 Imai Kosuke (2005) ldquoDo Get-Out-The-Vote Calls Reduce Turnout The Importanceof Statistical Methods for Field Experimentsrdquo American Political Science Review Vol99 No 2 (May) pp 283ndash300
56 Imai Kosuke and David A van Dyk (2005) ldquoA Bayesian Analysis of the MultinomialProbit Model Using Marginal Data Augmentationrdquo Journal of Econometrics Vol 124No 2 (February) pp 311ndash334
57 Imai Kosuke and David A van Dyk (2004) ldquoCausal Inference With General Treat-ment Regimes Generalizing the Propensity Scorerdquo Journal of the American StatisticalAssociation Vol 99 No 467 (September) pp 854ndash866
8 January 2020
Kosuke Imai
58 Imai Kosuke and Gary King (2004) ldquoDid Illegal Overseas Absentee Ballots Decide the2000 US Presidential Electionrdquo Perspectives on Politics Vol 2 No 3 (September)pp 537ndash549 Our analysis is a part of The New York Times article ldquoHow Bush TookFlorida Mining the Overseas Absentee Voterdquo By David Barstow and Don van Natta JrJuly 15 2001 Page 1 Column 1
Invited Contributions
1 Imai Kosuke and Zhichao Jiang (2019) ldquoComment The Challenges of MultipleCausesrdquo Journal of the American Statistical Association Vol 114 No 528 pp 1605mdash1610
2 Benjamin Daniel J et al (2018) ldquoRedefine Statistical Significancerdquo Nature HumanBehaviour Vol 2 No 1 pp 6ndash10
3 de la Cuesta Brandon and Kosuke Imai (2016) ldquoMisunderstandings about the Regres-sion Discontinuity Design in the Study of Close Electionsrdquo Annual Review of PoliticalScience Vol 19 pp 375ndash396
4 Imai Kosuke (2016) ldquoBook Review of Causal Inference for Statistics Social andBiomedical Sciences An Introduction by Guido W Imbens and Donald B RubinrdquoJournal of the American Statistical Association Vol 111 No 515 pp 1365ndash1366
5 Imai Kosuke Bethany Park and Kenneth F Greene (2015) ldquoUsando as respostasprevisıveis da abordagem list-experiments como variaveis explicativas em modelos deregressaordquo Revista Debates Vol 9 No 1 pp 121ndash151 First printed in PoliticalAnalysis Vol 23 No 2 (Spring)
6 Imai Kosuke Luke Keele Dustin Tingley and Teppei Yamamoto (2014) ldquoCommenton Pearl Practical Implications of Theoretical Results for Causal Mediation AnalysisrdquoPsychological Methods Vol 19 No 4 (December) pp 482ndash487
7 Imai Kosuke Gary King and Elizabeth A Stuart (2014) ldquoMisunderstandings amongExperimentalists and Observationalists Balance Test Fallacies in Causal Inferencerdquo inField Experiments and their Critics Essays on the Uses and Abuses of Experimentationin the Social Sciences D L Teele ed New Haven Yale University Press pp 196ndash227First printed in Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A (Statistics in Society)Vol 171 No 2 (April)
8 Imai Kosuke Dustin Tingley and Teppei Yamamoto (2013) ldquoReply to Discussionsof ldquoExperimental Designs for Identifying Causal Mechanismsrdquordquo Journal of the RoyalStatistical Society Series A (Statistics in Society) Vol 173 No 1 (January) pp 46ndash49
9 Imai Kosuke (2012) ldquoComments Improving Weighting Methods for Causal MediationAnalysisrdquo Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness Vol 5 No 3 pp 293ndash295
10 Imai Kosuke (2011) ldquoIntroduction to the Virtual Issue Past and Future ResearchAgenda on Causal Inferencerdquo Political Analysis Virtual Issue Causal Inference andPolitical Methodology
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Kosuke Imai
11 Imai Kosuke Booil Jo and Elizabeth A Stuart (2011) ldquoCommentary Using PotentialOutcomes to Understand Causal Mediation Analysisrdquo Multivariate Behavioral ResearchVol 46 No 5 pp 842ndash854
12 Imai Kosuke Luke Keele Dustin Tingley and Teppei Yamamoto (2010) ldquoCausalMediation Analysis Using Rrdquo in Advances in Social Science Research Using R H DVinod (ed) New York Springer (Lecture Notes in Statistics) pp 129ndash154
13 Imai Kosuke Gary King and Clayton Nall (2009) ldquoRejoinder Matched Pairs andthe Future of Cluster-Randomized Experimentsrdquo Statistical Science Vol 24 No 1(February) pp 65ndash72
14 Imai Kosuke (2003) ldquoReview of Jeff Gillrsquos Bayesian Methods A Social and BehavioralSciences Approachrdquo The Political Methodologist Vol 11 No 1 9ndash10
Refereed Conference Proceedings
1 Svyatkovskiy Alexey Kosuke Imai Mary Kroeger and Yuki Shiraito (2016) ldquoLarge-scale text processing pipeline with Apache Sparkrdquo IEEE International Conference onBig Data Washington DC pp 3928-3935
Other Publications and Manuscripts
1 Goldstein Daniel Kosuke Imai Anja S Goritz and Peter M Gollwitzer (2008) ldquoNudg-ing Turnout Mere Measurement and Implementation Planning of Intentions to Voterdquo
2 Ho Daniel E and Kosuke Imai (2004) ldquo The Impact of Partisan Electoral RegulationBallot Effects from the California Alphabet Lottery 1978ndash2002rdquo Princeton Law amp PublicAffairs Paper No 04-001 Harvard Public Law Working Paper No 89
3 Imai Kosuke (2003) ldquoEssays on Political Methodologyrdquo PhD Thesis Department ofGovernment Harvard University
4 Imai Kosuke and Jeremy M Weinstein (2000) ldquoMeasuring the Economic Impact ofCivil Warrdquo Working Paper Series No 51 Center for International Development HarvardUniversity
Publications in Japanese
1 Imai Kosuke (2007) ldquoKeiryo Seijigaku niokeru Ingateki Suiron (Causal Inference inQuantitative Political Science)rdquo Leviathan Vol 40 Spring pp 224ndash233
2 Horiuchi Yusaku Kosuke Imai and Naoko Taniguchi (2005) ldquoSeisaku Jyoho to TohyoSanka Field Jikken ni yoru Kensyo (Policy Information and Voter Participation AField Experiment)rdquo Nenpo Seijigaku (The Annals of the Japanese Political ScienceAssociation) 2005ndashI pp 161ndash180
3 Taniguchi Naoko Yusaku Horiuchi and Kosuke Imai (2004) ldquoSeito Saito no Etsuranha Tohyo Kodo ni Eikyo Suruka (Does Visiting Political Party Websites Influence VotingBehavior)rdquo Nikkei Research Report Vol IV pp 16ndash19
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Kosuke Imai
Statistical Software
1 Kim In Song Erik Wang Adam Rauh and Kosuke Imai ldquoPanelMatch MatchingMethods for Causal Inference with Time-Series Cross-Section Datardquo available throughGitHub 2018
2 Olivella Santiago Adeline Lo Tyler Pratt and Kosuke Imai ldquoNetMix Mixed-membershipRegression Stochastic Blockmodel for Networksrdquo available through CRAN and Github2019
3 Egami Naoki Brandon de la Cuesta and Kosuke Imai ldquofactorEx Design and Analysisfor Factorial Experimentsrdquo available through The Comprehensive R Archive Networkand GitHub 2019
4 Enamorado Ted Benjamin Fifield and Kosuke Imai ldquofastLink Fast ProbabilisticRecord Linkagerdquo available through The Comprehensive R Archive Network and GitHub2017
5 Khanna Kabir and Kosuke Imai ldquowru Who Are You Bayesian Predictions of RacialCategory Using Surname and Geolocationrdquo available through The Comprehensive RArchive Network and GitHub 2015
6 Fifield Benjamin Alexander Tarr Michael Higgins and Kosuke Imai ldquoredist MarkovChain Monte Carlo Methods for Redistricting Simulationrdquo available through The Com-prehensive R Archive Network and GitHub 2015
7 Imai Kosuke James Lo and Jonathan Olmsted ldquoemIRT EM Algorithms for Estimat-ing Item Response Theory Modelsrdquo available through The Comprehensive R ArchiveNetwork 2015
8 Blair Graeme Yang-Yang Zhou and Kosuke Imai ldquorr Statistical Methods for theRandomized Response Techniquerdquo available through The Comprehensive R ArchiveNetwork and GitHub 2015
9 Fong Christian Marc Ratkovic and Kosuke Imai ldquoCBPS R Package for CovariateBalancing Propensity Scorerdquo available through The Comprehensive R Archive Networkand GitHub 2012
10 Egami Naoki Marc Ratkovic and Kosuke Imai ldquoFindIt R Package for Finding Hetero-geneous Treatment Effectsrdquo available through The Comprehensive R Archive Networkand GitHub 2012
11 Kim In Song and Kosuke Imai ldquowfe Weighted Linear Fixed Effects Regression Modelsfor Causal Inferencerdquo available through The Comprehensive R Archive Network 2011
12 Shiraito Yuki and Kosuke Imai ldquoendorse R Package for Analyzing Endorsement Ex-perimentsrdquo available through The Comprehensive R Archive Network and GitHub 2012
13 Blair Graeme and Kosuke Imai ldquolist Statistical Methods for the Item Count Techniqueand List Experimentsrdquo available through The Comprehensive R Archive Network andGitHub 2011
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Kosuke Imai
14 Tingley Dustin Teppei Yamamoto Kentaro Hirose Luke Keele and Kosuke Imai ldquome-diation R Package for Causal Mediation Analysisrdquo available through The Comprehen-sive R Archive Network and GitHub 2009 Winner of the Statistical Software AwardReviewed in Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics
15 Imai Kosuke ldquoexperiment R Package for Designing and Analyzing Randomized Exper-imentsrdquo available through The Comprehensive R Archive Network 2007
16 Ho Daniel E Kosuke Imai Gary King and Elizabeth Stuart ldquoMatchIt NonparametricPreprocessing for Parametric Causal Inferencerdquo available through The ComprehensiveR Archive Network and GitHub 2005
17 Imai Kosuke Ying Lu and Aaron Strauss ldquoeco Ecological Inference in 2 times 2 Tablesrdquoavailable through The Comprehensive R Archive Network and GitHub 2004
18 Imai Kosuke and David A van Dyk ldquoMNP R Package for Fitting the MultinomialProbit Modelrdquo available through The Comprehensive R Archive Network and GitHub2004
19 Imai Kosuke Gary King and Olivia Lau ldquoZelig Everyonersquos Statistical Softwarerdquoavailable through The Comprehensive R Archive Network 2004
External Research Grants
Principal Investigator
1 Facebook Research Grant (2018) $20000
2 National Science Foundation (2016ndash2019) ldquoCollaborative Conference Proposal Sup-port for Conferences and Mentoring of Women and Underrepresented Groups in PoliticalMethodologyrdquo (Methodology Measurement and Statistics and Political Science Pro-grams SESndash1628102) Principal Investigator (with Jeffrey Lewis) $312322 Supplement(SESndash1831370) $60000
3 The United States Agency for International Development (2015ndash2017) ldquoUnemploymentand Insurgent Violence in Afghanistan Evidence from the Community DevelopmentProgramrdquo (AIDndashOAAndashAndash12ndash00096) Principal Investigator (with Jason Lyall) $188037
4 The United States Institute of Peace (2015ndash2016) ldquoAssessing the Links between Eco-nomic Interventions and Stability An impact evaluation of vocational and skills trainingin Kandahar Afghanistanrdquo Principal Investigator (with David Haines Jon Kurtz andJason Lyall) $144494
5 Amazon Web Services in Education Research Grant (2014) Principal Investigator (withGraeme Blair and Carlos Velasco Rivera) $3000
6 Development Bank of Latin America (CAF) (2013) ldquoThe Origins of Citizen Support forNarcos An Empirical Investigationrdquo Principal Investigator (with Graeme Blair FabianaMachado and Carlos Velasco Rivera) $15000
12 January 2020
Kosuke Imai
7 The International Growth Centre (2011ndash2013) ldquoPoverty Militancy and Citizen Demandsin Natural Resource-Rich Regions Randomized Evaluation of the Oil Profits DividendPlan for the Niger Deltardquo (RA-2010-12-013) Principal Investigator (with Graeme Blair)$117116
8 National Science Foundation (2009ndash2012) ldquoStatistical Analysis of Causal MechanismsIdentification Inference and Sensitivity Analysisrdquo (Methodology Measurement andStatistics Program and Political Science Program SESndash0918968) Principal Investigator$97574
9 National Science Foundation (2009ndash2011) ldquoCollaborative Research The Measurementand Identification of Media Priming Effects in Political Sciencerdquo (Methodology Measure-ment and Statistics Program and Political Science Program SESndash0849715) PrincipalInvestigator (with Nicholas Valentino) $317126
10 National Science Foundation (2008ndash2009) ldquoNew Statistical Methods for RandomizedExperiments in Political Science and Public Policyrdquo (Political Science Program SESndash0752050) Principal Investigator $52565
11 National Science Foundation (2006ndash2009) ldquoCollaborative Research Generalized Propen-sity Score Methodsrdquo (Methodology Measurement and Statistics Program SESndash0550873)Principal Investigator (with Donald B Rubin and David A van Dyk) $460000
12 The Telecommunications Advancement Foundation (2004) ldquoAnalyzing the Effects ofParty Webpages on Political Opinions and Voting Behaviorrdquo Principal Investigator (withNaoko Taniguchi and Yusaku Horiuchi) $12000
Adviser and Statistical Consultant
1 National Science Foundation (2016ndash2017) ldquoDoctoral Dissertation Research CrossingAfricarsquos Arbitrary Borders How Refugees Shape National Boundaries by ChallengingThemrdquo (Political Science Program SESndash1560636) Principal Investigator and Adviserfor Co-PI Yang-Yang Zhoursquos Dissertation Research $18900
2 Institute of Education Sciences (2012ndash2014) ldquoAcademic and Behavioral Consequencesof Visible Security Measures in Schoolsrdquo (R305A120181) Statistical Consultant (EmilyTanner-Smith Principal Investigator) $351228
3 National Science Foundation (2013ndash2014) ldquoDoctoral Dissertation Research Open Tradefor Sale Lobbying by Productive Exporting Firmrdquo (Political Science Program SESndash1264090) Principal Investigator and Adviser for Co-PI In Song Kimrsquos Dissertation Re-search $22540
4 National Science Foundation (2012ndash2013) ldquoDoctoral Dissertation Research The Poli-tics of Location in Resource Rent Distribution and the Projection of Power in Africardquo(Political Science Program SESndash1260754) Principal Investigator and Adviser for Co-PIGraeme Blairrsquos Dissertation Research $17640
13 January 2020
Kosuke Imai
Invited Short Courses and Outreach Lectures
1 Short Course on Causal Inference and Statistics ndash Department of Political Science RiceUniversity 2009 Institute of Political Science Academia Sinica 2014
2 Short Course on Causal Inference and Identification The Empirical Implications of The-oretical Models (EITM) Summer Institute ndash Harris School of Public Policy University ofChicago 2011 Department of Politics Princeton University 2012
3 Short Course on Causal Mediation Analysis ndash Summer Graduate Seminar Institute ofStatistical Mathematics Tokyo Japan 2010 Society for Research on Educational Effec-tiveness Conference Washington DC Fall 2011 Spring 2012 Spring 2015 Inter-AmericanDevelopment Bank 2012 Center for Education Research University of Wisconsin Madi-son 2012 Bobst Center for Peace and Justice Princeton University 2014 GraduateSchool of Education University of Pennsylvania 2014 EITM Summer Institute DukeUniversity 2014 Center for Lifespan Psychology Max Planck Institute for Human De-velopment 2015 School of Communication Research University of Amsterdam 2015Uppsala University 2016
4 Short Course on Covariate Balancing Propensity Score ndash Society for Research on Ed-ucational Effectiveness Conference Washington DC Spring 2013 Uppsala University2016
5 Short Course on Matching Methods for Causal Inference ndash Institute of Behavioral ScienceUniversity of Colorado Boulder 2009 Department of Political Science Duke University2013
6 Lecture on Statistics and Social Sciences ndash New Jersey Japanese School 2011 2016Kaisei Academy 2012 2014 Princeton University Wilson College 2012 University ofTokyo 2014
Selected Presentations
1 Keynote speaker Special Workshop on Evidence-based Policy Making World EconomicForum Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution Japan 2020
2 Distinguished speaker seminar Institute for Data Systems and Society MassachusettsInstitute of Technology 2019
3 Keynote speaker The Harvard Experimental Political Science Graduate Student Confer-ence Harvard University 2019
4 Invited speaker Beyond Curve Fitting Causation Counterfactuals and Imagination-based AI Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Spring SymposiumStanford University 2019
5 Inaugural speaker Causal Inference Seminar Departments of Biostatistics and StatisticsBoston University 2019
6 Keynote speaker The Second Latin American Political Methodology Meeting Universi-dad de los Andes (Department of Political Science) 2018
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Kosuke Imai
7 Keynote speaker The First Latin American Political Methodology Meeting PontificalCatholic University of Chile (Department of Political Science) 2017
8 Keynote speaker Workshop on Uncovering Causal Mechanisms University of Munich(Department of Economics) 2016
9 Keynote speaker The National Quality Registry Research Conference Stockholm 2016
10 Keynote speaker The UK-Causal Inference Meeting University of Bristol (School ofMathematics) 2015
11 Keynote speaker The UP-STAT Conference the Upstate Chapters of the American Sta-tistical Association 2015
12 Keynote speaker The Winter Conference in Statistics Swedish Statistical Society andUmea University (Department of Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics) 2015
13 Inaugural invited speaker The International Methods Colloquium Rice University 2015
14 Invited speaker The International Meeting on Experimental and Behavioral Social Sci-ences University of Oxford (Nuffield College) 2014
15 Keynote speaker The Annual Conference of Australian Society for Quantitative PoliticalScience University of Sydney 2013
16 Keynote speaker The Graduate Student Conference on Experiments in Interactive Deci-sion Making Princeton University 2008
Conferences Organized
1 The Asian Political Methodology Meetings (January 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 co-organizer)
2 The Experimental Research Workshop (September 2012 co-organizer)
3 The 12th World Meeting of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis (June 2012a member of the organizing committee)
4 Conference on Causal Inference and the Study of Conflict and State Building (May 2012organizer)
5 The 28th Annual Society for Political Methodology Summer Meeting (July 2011 host)
6 Conference on New Methodologies and their Applications in Comparative Politics andInternational Relations (February 2011 co-organizer)
15 January 2020
Kosuke Imai
Teaching
Courses Taught at Harvard
1 STAT 186GOV 2002 Causal Inference introduction to causal inference
2 GOV 2003 Topics in Quantitative Methodology causal inference applied Bayesian statis-tics machine learning
Courses Taught at Princeton
1 POL 245 Visualizing Data exploratory data analysis graphical statistics data visual-ization
2 POL 345 Quantitative Analysis and Politics a first course in quantitative social science
3 POL 451 Statistical Methods in Political Science basic probability and statistical theorytheir applications in the social sciences
4 POL 502 Mathematics for Political Science real analysis linear algebra calculus
5 POL 571 Quantitative Analysis I probability theory statistical theory linear models
6 POL 572 Quantitative Analysis II intermediate applied statistics
7 POL 573 Quantitative Analysis III advanced applied statistics
8 POL 574 Quantitative Analysis IV advanced applied statistics with various topics in-cluding Bayesian statistics and causal inference
9 Reading Courses basic mathematical probability and statistics applied bayesian statis-tics spatial statistics
Advising
Current Students
1 Soubhik Barari
2 Naoki Egami (Primary adviser) To be Assistant Professor Department of PoliticalScience Columbia University
3 Shusei Eshima (Primary adviser)
4 Max Goplerud To be Assistant Professor Department of Political Science University ofPittsburgh
5 June Hwang (Primary adviser)
6 Connor Jerzak
7 Shiro Kuriwaki
16 January 2020
Kosuke Imai
8 Asya Magazinnik To be Assistant Professor Department of Political Science Mas-sachusetts Institute of Technology
9 Sun Young Park
10 Nicole Pashley
11 Casey Petroff
12 Averell Schmidt
13 Diana Stanescu
14 Sooahn Shin
15 Tyler Simko
16 Alex Tarr (Primary adviser)
17 Soichiro Yamauchi (Primary adviser)
18 Erik Wang To be Assistant Professor Department of Political and Social Change Aus-tralian National University
Former Students
1 Brandon de la Cuesta (PhD in 2019 Department of Politics Princeton University)Postdoctoral Fellow Center on Global Poverty and Development Stanford University
2 Yang-Yang Zhou (PhD in 2019 Department of Politics Princeton University) Assis-tant Professor Department of Political Science University of British Columbia
3 Winston Chou (PhD in 2019 Department of Politics Princeton University) ResearchScientist at Facebook
4 Ted Enamorado (PhD in 2019 Department of Politics Princeton University Disserta-tion Committee Chair) Assistant Professor Department of Political Science Universityof North Carolina at Chapel Hill
5 Benjamin Fifield (PhD in 2018 Department of Politics Princeton University Disserta-tion Committee Chair) Research Scientist Facebook
6 Tyler Pratt (PhD in 2018 Department of Politics Princeton University) AssistantProfessor Department of Political Science Yale University
7 Romain Ferrali (PhD in 2018 Department of Politics Princeton University) Postdoc-toral Fellow New York University Abu Dhabi
8 Julia Morse (PhD in 2017 Woodrow Wilson School Princeton University) AssistantProfessor Department of Political Science University of California Santa Barbara
9 Yuki Shiraito (PhD in 2017 Department of Politics Princeton University DissertationCommittee Chair) Assistant Professor Department of Political Science University ofMichigan
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Kosuke Imai
10 Carlos Velasco Rivera (PhD in 2016 Department of Politics Princeton University)Research Scientist Facebook
11 Gabriel Lopez Moctezuma (PhD in 2016 Department of Politics Princeton University)Assistant Professor Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences California Instituteof Technology
12 Graeme Blair (PhD in 2016 Department of Politics Princeton University) AssistantProfessor University of California Los Angeles
13 Jaquilyn R Waddell Boie (PhD in 2015 Department of Politics Princeton University)Private consultant
14 Scott Abramson (PhD in 2014 Department of Politics Princeton University) AssistantProfessor Department of Political Science University of Rochester
15 Michael Barber (PhD in 2014 Department of Politics Princeton University) AssistantProfessor Department of Political Science Brigham Young University
16 In Song Kim (PhD in 2014 Department of Politics Princeton University) AssociateProfessor Department of Political Science Massachusetts Institute of Technology
17 Alex Ruder (PhD in 2014 Department of Politics Princeton University) Senior Com-munity Economic Development Advisor Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
18 Meredith Wilf (PhD in 2014 Department of Politics Princeton University) AssistantProfessor Graduate School of Public and International Affairs University of Pittsburgh
19 Will Bullock (PhD candidate Department of Politics Princeton University) SeniorResearcher Facebook
20 Teppei Yamamoto (PhD in 2011 Department of Politics Princeton University Dis-sertation Committee Chair) Associate Professor Department of Political Science Mas-sachusetts Institute of Technology
21 Dustin Tingley (PhD in 2010 Department of Politics Princeton University) ProfessorDepartment of Government Harvard University
22 Aaron Strauss (PhD in 2009 Department of Politics Princeton University) ExecutiveDirector Analyst Institute
23 Samir Soneji (PhD in 2008 Office of Population Research Princeton University Dis-sertation Committee Chair) Associate Professor Dartmouth Institute for Health Policyamp Clinical Practice Geisel School of Medicine Dartmouth College
24 Ying Lu (PhD in 2005 Woodrow Wilson School Princeton University DissertationCommittee Chair) Associate Professor Steinhardt School of Culture Education andHuman Development New York University
18 January 2020
Kosuke Imai
Former Predocs and Postdocs
1 Zhichao Jiang (Postdoctoral Fellow 2016ndash2019) Assistant Professor Department ofBiostatistics and Epidemiology School of Public Health and Health Sciences Universityof Massachusetts Amherst
2 Adeline Lo (Postdoctoral Fellow 2016ndash2019) Assistant Professor Department of Politi-cal Science University of Wisconsin Madison
3 Yunkyu Sohn (Postdoctoral Fellow 2016ndash2018) Assistant Professor School of PoliticalScience and Economics Waseda University
4 Xiaolin Yang (Postdoctoral Fellow 2015ndash2017) Research Scientist Amazon
5 Santiago Olivella (Postdoctoral Fellow 2015ndash2016) Assistant Professor Department ofPolitical Science University of North Carolina
6 Drew Dimmery (Predoctoral Fellow 2015ndash2016) Research Scientist Facebook
7 James Lo (Postdoctoral Fellow 2014ndash2016) Assistant Professor Department of PoliticalScience University of Southern California
8 Steven Liao (Predoctoral Fellow 2014ndash2015) Assistant Professor Department of Politi-cal Science University of California Riverside
9 Michael Higgins (Postdoctoral Fellow 2013ndash2015) Assistant Professor Department ofStatistics Kansas State University
10 Kentaro Hirose (Postdoctoral Fellow 2012ndash2015) Assistant Professor Waseda Institutefor Advanced Studies
11 Chad Hazlett (Predoctoral Fellow 2013ndash2014) Assistant Professor Departments of Po-litical Science and Statistics University of California Los Angeles
12 Florian Hollenbach (Predoctoral Fellow 2013ndash2014) Assistant Professor Department ofPolitical Science Texas AampM University
13 Marc Ratkovic (Predoctoral and Postdoctoral Fellow 2010ndash2012) Assistant ProfessorDepartment of Politics Princeton University
Editorial and Referee Service
Co-editor for Journal of Causal Inference (2014 ndash present)
Associate editor for American Journal of Political Science (2014 ndash 2019) Journal ofBusiness amp Economic Statistics (2015 ndash 2021) Journal of Causal Inference (2011 ndash 2014)Journal of Experimental Political Science (2013 ndash 2017) Observational Studies (2014 ndashpresent) Political Analysis (2014 ndash 2017)
Editorial board member for Asian Journal of Comparative Politics (2014 ndash present) Jour-nal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics (2011 ndash present) Journal of Politics (2007ndash 2008 2019ndash2020) Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness (2014 ndash present)Political Analysis (2010 ndash 2013) Political Science Research and Methods (2019 ndash present)
19 January 2020
Kosuke Imai
Guest editor for Political Analysis virtual issue on causal inference (2011)
Referee for ACM Computing Surveys American Economic Journal Applied EconomicsAmerican Economic Review Insights American Journal of Epidemiology AmericanJournal of Evaluation American Journal of Political Science American Political ScienceReview American Politics Research Annals of Applied Statistics Annals of StatisticsAnnals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics Biometrics Biometrika BiostatisticsBMC Medical Research Methodology British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psy-chology British Journal of Political Science Canadian Journal of Statistics Chapmanamp HallCRC Press Child Development Communications for Statistical Applications andMethods Computational Statistics and Data Analysis Electoral Studies EconometricaEconometrics Empirical Economics Environmental Management Epidemiology Euro-pean Union Politics IEEE Transactions on Information Theory International Journalof Biostatistics International Journal of Epidemiology International Journal of PublicOpinion Research International Migration Review John Wiley amp Sons Journal of Ap-plied Econometrics Journal of Applied Statistics Journal of Biopharmaceutical Statis-tics Journal of Business and Economic Statistics Journal of Causal Inference Journalof Computational and Graphical Statistics Journal of Conflict Resolution Journal ofConsulting and Clinical Psychology Journal of Econometrics Journal of Educationaland Behavioral Statistics Journal of Empirical Legal Studies Journal of MultivariateAnalysis Journal of Official Statistics Journal of Peace Research Journal of PoliticsJournal of Research on Educational EffectivenessJournal of Statistical Planning and In-ference Journal of Statistical Software Journal of the American Statistical Association(Case Studies and Applications Theory and Methods) Journal of the Japanese and In-ternational Economies Journal of the Japan Statistical Society Journal of the RoyalStatistical Society (Series A Series B Series C) Law amp Social Inquiry Legislative Stud-ies Quarterly Management Science Multivariate Behavioral Research National ScienceFoundation (Economics Methodology Measurement and Statistics Political Science)Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada NeuroImage Osteoporo-sis International Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics Pharmaceutical StatisticsPharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety PLOS One Policy and Internet Political Anal-ysis Political Behavior Political Communication Political Research Quarterly PoliticalScience Research and Methods Population Health Metrics Population Studies PreventionScience Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Princeton University PressPsychological Methods Psychometrika Public Opinion Quarterly Quarterly Journal ofEconomics Quarterly Journal of Political Science Review of Economics and StatisticsRoutledge Sage Publications Scandinavian Journal of Statistics Science Sloan Foun-dation Springer Sociological Methodology Sociological Methods amp Research StatisticalMethodology Statistical Methods and Applications Statistical Methods in Medical Re-search Statistical Science Statistica Sinica Statistics amp Probability Letters Statistics inMedicine Systems Biology US-Israel Binational Science Foundation Value in HealthWorld Politics
University and Departmental Committees
Harvard University
Department of Government
20 January 2020
Kosuke Imai
Member Second-year Progress Committee (2019ndash2020)
Member Placement Committee (2019ndash2020)
Member Graduate Admissions Committee (2018ndash2019)
Member Graduate Poster Session Committee (2018ndash2019)
Department of Statistics
Member Junior Faculty Search Committee (2018ndash2019)
Member Second-year Progress Committee (2018ndash2019)
Princeton University
University
Executive Committee Member Program in Statistics and Machine Learning (2013ndash2018)
Executive Committee Member Committee for Statistical Studies (2011-2018)
Member Organizing Committee Retreat on Data and Information Science at Prince-ton (2016)
Member Council of the Princeton University Community (2015)
Member Search Committee for the Dean of College (2015)
Member Committee on the Library and Computing (2013ndash2016)
Member Committee on the Fund for Experimental Social Science (2013ndash2018)
Member Personally Identifiable Research Data Group (2012ndash2018)
Member Research Computing Advisory Group (2013ndash2018)
Member Task Force on Statistics and Machine Learning (2014ndash2015)
Department of Politics
Chair Department Committee on Research and Computing (2012ndash2018)
Chair Formal and Quantitative Methods Junior Search Committee (2012ndash20132014ndash2015 2016ndash2017)
Chair Reappointment Committee (2015ndash2016)
Member Diversity Initiative Committee (2014ndash2015)
Member American Politics Junior Search Committee (2012ndash2014)
Member Department Chairrsquos Advisory Committee (2010ndash2013 2015ndash2016)
Member Department Priority Committee (2012ndash2013 2014ndash2015 2016ndash2017)
Member Formal and Quantitative Methods Curriculum Committee (2005ndash2006)
Member Formal and Quantitative Methods Junior Search Committee (2009ndash20102015ndash2016)
Member Formal and Quantitative Methods Postdoc Search Committee (2009ndash2018)
Member Graduate Admissions Committee (2012ndash2013)
Member Reappointment Committee (2014ndash2016)
21 January 2020
Kosuke Imai
Member Space Committee (2014ndash2016)
Member Undergraduate Curriculum Committee (2014ndash2015)
Member Undergraduate Exam Committee (2007ndash2008)
Member Undergraduate Thesis Prize Committee (2005ndash2006 2008ndash2011)
Center for Statistics and Machine Learning
Executive Committee Member (2016ndash2018)
Member Search Committee (2015ndash2017)
Services to the Profession
National Academies of Sciences Engineering and Medicine
Committee on National Statistics Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences andEducation Panel on the Review and Evaluation of the 2014 Survey of Income andProgram Participation Content and Design (2014ndash2017)
The Society for Political Methodology
President (2017ndash2019)
Vice President and President Elect (2015ndash2017)
Annual Meeting Committee Chair (2011)
Career Award Committee (2015ndash2017)
Program Committee for Annual Meeting (2012) Chair (2011)
Graduate Student Selection Committee for the Annual Meeting (2005) Chair (2011)
Miller Prize Selection Committee (2010ndash2011)
Statistical Software Award Committee (2009ndash2010)
Emerging Scholar Award Committee (2013)
American Statistical Association
Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics Management Committee (2016 ndashpresent)
Others
External Expert Department of Methodology London School of Economics andPolitical Science (2017 ndash present)
Memberships
American Political Science Association American Statistical Association Midwest Polit-ical Science Association The Society for Political Methodology
22 January 2020
- Contact Information
- Education
- Positions
- Honors and Awards
- Selected Manuscripts
- Publications in English
-
- Book
- Refereed Journal Articles
- Invited Contributions
- Refereed Conference Proceedings
- Other Publications and Manuscripts
-
- Publications in Japanese
- Statistical Software
- External Research Grants
-
- Principal Investigator
- Adviser and Statistical Consultant
-
- Invited Short Courses
- Selected Presentations
- Conferences Organized
- Teaching
-
- Courses Taught at Harvard
- Courses Taught at Princeton
-
- Advising
-
- Current Students
- Former Students
- Former Predocs and Postdocs
-
- Editorial and Referee Service
- University and Departmental Committees
- Services to the Profession
- Memberships
-
Kosuke Imai
10 Egami Naoki and Kosuke Imai ldquoCausal Interaction in Factorial Experiments Appli-cation to Conjoint Analysisrdquo Journal of the American Statistical Association Vol 114No 526 (June) pp 529-540
11 Enamorado Ted Benjamin Fifield and Kosuke Imai (2019) ldquoUsing a ProbabilisticModel to Assist Merging of Large-scale Administrative Recordsrdquo American PoliticalScience Review Vol 113 No 2 (May) pp 353ndash371
12 Imai Kosuke and In Song Kim (2019) ldquoWhen Should We Use Linear Fixed EffectsRegression Models for Causal Inference with Longitudinal Datardquo American Journal ofPolitical Science Vol 63 No 2 (April) pp 467ndash490
13 Imai Kosuke and Zhichao Jiang (2018) ldquoA Sensitivity Analysis for Missing OutcomesDue to Truncation-by-Death under the Matched-Pairs Designrdquo Statistics in MedicineVol 37 No 20 (September) pp 2907ndash2922
14 Fong Christian Chad Hazlett and Kosuke Imai (2018) ldquoCovariate Balancing Propen-sity Score for a Continuous Treatment Application to the Efficacy of Political Advertise-mentsrdquo Annals of Applied Statistics Vol 12 No 1 pp 156ndash177
15 Hirose Kentaro Kosuke Imai and Jason Lyall (2017) ldquoCan Civilian Attitudes PredictInsurgent Violence Ideology and Insurgent Tactical Choice in Civil Warrdquo Journal ofPeace Research Vol 51 No 1 (January) pp 47ndash63
16 Imai Kosuke James Lo and Jonathan Olmsted (2016) ldquoFast Estimation of Ideal Pointswith Massive Datardquo American Political Science Review Vol 110 No 4 (December)pp 631ndash656
17 Rosenfeld Bryn Kosuke Imai and Jacob Shapiro (2016) ldquoAn Empirical ValidationStudy of Popular Survey Methodologies for Sensitive Questionsrdquo American Journal ofPolitical Science Vol 60 No 3 (July) pp 783ndash802
18 Imai Kosuke and Kabir Khanna (2016) ldquoImproving Ecological Inference by PredictingIndividual Ethnicity from Voter Registration Recordrdquo Political Analysis Vol 24 No 2(Spring) pp 263ndash272
19 Blair Graeme Kosuke Imai and Yang-Yang Zhou (2015) ldquoDesign and Analysis of theRandomized Response Techniquerdquo Journal of the American Statistical Association Vol110 No 511 (September) pp 1304ndash1319
20 Imai Kosuke and Marc Ratkovic (2015) ldquoRobust Estimation of Inverse ProbabilityWeights for Marginal Structural Modelsrdquo Journal of the American Statistical Associa-tion Vol 110 No 511 (September) pp 1013ndash1023 (lead article)
21 Lyall Jason Yuki Shiraito and Kosuke Imai (2015) ldquoCoethnic Bias and WartimeInformingrdquo Journal of Politics Vol 77 No 3 (July) pp 833ndash848
22 Imai Kosuke Bethany Park and Kenneth Greene (2015) ldquoUsing the Predicted Re-sponses from List Experiments as Explanatory Variables in Regression Modelsrdquo PoliticalAnalysis Vol 23 No 2 (Spring) pp 180ndash196 Translated in Portuguese and Reprintedin Revista Debates Vol 9 No 1
5 January 2020
Kosuke Imai
23 Blair Graeme Kosuke Imai and Jason Lyall (2014) ldquoComparing and CombiningList and Endorsement Experiments Evidence from Afghanistanrdquo American Journal ofPolitical Science Vol 58 No 4 (October) pp 1043ndash1063
24 Tingley Dustin Teppei Yamamoto Kentaro Hirose Luke Keele and Kosuke Imai(2014) ldquomediation R Package for Causal Mediation Analysisrdquo Journal of StatisticalSoftware Vol 59 No 5 (August) pp 1ndash38
25 Imai Kosuke and Marc Ratkovic (2014) ldquoCovariate Balancing Propensity ScorerdquoJournal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B (Statistical Methodology) Vol 76 No1 (January) pp 243ndash263
26 Lyall Jason Graeme Blair and Kosuke Imai (2013) ldquoExplaining Support for Combat-ants during Wartime A Survey Experiment in Afghanistanrdquo American Political ScienceReview Vol 107 No 4 (November) pp 679-705 Winner of the Pi Sigma Alpha Award
27 Imai Kosuke and Teppei Yamamoto (2013) ldquoIdentification and Sensitivity Analysis forMultiple Causal Mechanisms Revisiting Evidence from Framing Experimentsrdquo PoliticalAnalysis Vol 21 No 2 (Spring) pp 141ndash171 (lead article)
28 Imai Kosuke and Marc Ratkovic (2013) ldquoEstimating Treatment Effect Heterogeneity inRandomized Program Evaluationrdquo Annals of Applied Statistics Vol 7 No 1 (March)pp 443ndash470 Winner of the Tom Ten Have Memorial Award Reprinted in Advances inPolitical Methodology R Franzese Jr ed Edward Elger 2017
29 Imai Kosuke Dustin Tingley and Teppei Yamamoto (2013) ldquoExperimental Designsfor Identifying Causal Mechanismsrdquo(with discussions) Journal of the Royal StatisticalSociety Series A (Statistics in Society) Vol 176 No 1 (January) pp 5ndash51 (leadarticle) Read before the Royal Statistical Society March 2012
30 Imai Kosuke and Dustin Tingley (2012) ldquoA Statistical Method for Empirical Testing ofCompeting Theoriesrdquo American Journal of Political Science Vol 56 No 1 (January)pp 218ndash236
31 Blair Graeme and Kosuke Imai (2012) ldquoStatistical Analysis of List ExperimentsrdquoPolitical Analysis Vol 20 No 1 (Winter) pp 47ndash77
32 Imai Kosuke Luke Keele Dustin Tingley and Teppei Yamamoto (2011) ldquoUnpackingthe Black Box of Causality Learning about Causal Mechanisms from Experimental andObservational Studiesrdquo American Political Science Review Vol 105 No 4 (November)pp 765ndash789 Reprinted in Advances in Political Methodology R Franzese Jr edEdward Elger 2017
33 Bullock Will Kosuke Imai and Jacob N Shapiro (2011) ldquoStatistical Analysis of En-dorsement Experiments Measuring Support for Militant Groups in Pakistanrdquo PoliticalAnalysis Vol 19 No 4 (Autumn) pp 363ndash384 (lead article)
34 Imai Kosuke (2011) ldquoMultivariate Regression Analysis for the Item Count TechniquerdquoJournal of the American Statistical Association Vol 106 No 494 (June) pp 407ndash416(featured article)
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35 Ho Daniel E Kosuke Imai Gary King and Elizabeth Stuart (2011) ldquoMatchIt Non-parametric Preprocessing for Parametric Causal Inferencerdquo Journal of Statistical Soft-ware Vol 42 (Special Volume on Political Methodology) No 8 (June) pp 1ndash28
36 Imai Kosuke Ying Lu and Aaron Strauss (2011) ldquoeco R Package for EcologicalInference in 2 times 2 Tablesrdquo Journal of Statistical Software Vol 42 (Special Volume onPolitical Methodology) No 5 (June) pp 1ndash23
37 Imai Kosuke and Aaron Strauss (2011) ldquoEstimation of Heterogeneous TreatmentEffects from Randomized Experiments with Application to the Optimal Planning of theGet-out-the-vote Campaignrdquo Political Analysis Vol 19 No 1 (Winter) pp 1ndash19(lead article) Winner of the Political Analysis Editorsrsquo Choice Award
38 Imai Kosuke Luke Keele and Dustin Tingley (2010) ldquoA General Approach to CausalMediation Analysisrdquo Psychological Methods Vol 15 No 4 (December) pp 309ndash334(lead article)
39 Imai Kosuke and Teppei Yamamoto (2010) ldquoCausal Inference with Differential Mea-surement Error Nonparametric Identification and Sensitivity Analysisrdquo American Jour-nal of Political Science Vol 54 No 2 (April) pp 543ndash560
40 Imai Kosuke Luke Keele and Teppei Yamamoto (2010) ldquoIdentification Inference andSensitivity Analysis for Causal Mediation Effectsrdquo Statistical Science Vol 25 No 1(February) pp 51ndash71
41 King Gary Emmanuela Gakidou Kosuke Imai Jason Lakin Ryan T Moore ClaytonNall Nirmala Ravishankar Manett Vargas Martha Marıa Tellez-Rojo Juan EugenioHernandez Avila Mauricio Hernandez Avila and Hector Hernandez Llamas (2009)ldquoPublic Policy for the Poor A Randomized Ten-Month Evaluation of the MexicanUniversal Health Insurance Programrdquo (with a comment) The Lancet Vol 373 No9673 (April) pp 1447ndash1454
42 Imai Kosuke Gary King and Clayton Nall (2009) ldquoThe Essential Role of Pair Matchingin Cluster-Randomized Experiments with Application to the Mexican Universal HealthInsurance Evaluationrdquo (with discussions) Statistical Science Vol 24 No 1 (February)pp 29ndash53
43 Imai Kosuke (2009) ldquoStatistical Analysis of Randomized Experiments with Nonignor-able Missing Binary Outcomes An Application to a Voting Experimentrdquo Journal of theRoyal Statistical Society Series C (Applied Statistics) Vol 58 No 1 (February) pp83ndash104
44 Imai Kosuke Gary King and Olivia Lau (2008) ldquoToward A Common Framework ofStatistical Analysis and Developmentrdquo Journal of Computational and Graphical Statis-tics Vol 17 No 4 (December) pp 892ndash913
45 Imai Kosuke (2008) ldquoVariance Identification and Efficiency Analysis in Experimentsunder the Matched-Pair Designrdquo Statistics in Medicine Vol 27 No 4 (October) pp4857ndash4873
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46 Ho Daniel E and Kosuke Imai (2008) ldquoEstimating Causal Effects of Ballot Order froma Randomized Natural Experiment California Alphabet Lottery 1978ndash2002rdquo PublicOpinion Quarterly Vol 72 No 2 (Summer) pp 216ndash240
47 Imai Kosuke Gary King and Elizabeth A Stuart (2008) ldquoMisunderstandings amongExperimentalists and Observationalists Balance Test Fallacies in Causal InferencerdquoJournal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A (Statistics in Society) Vol 171 No2 (April) pp 481ndash502 Reprinted in Field Experiments and their Critics D Teele edNew Haven Yale University Press 2013
48 Imai Kosuke Ying Lu and Aaron Strauss (2008) ldquoBayesian and Likelihood EcologicalInference for 2 times 2 Tables An Incomplete Data Approachrdquo Political Analysis Vol 16No 1 (Winter) pp 41ndash69
49 Imai Kosuke (2008) ldquoSharp Bounds on the Causal Effects in Randomized Experimentswith ldquoTruncation-by-Deathrdquordquo Statistics amp Probability Letters Vol 78 No 2 (February)pp 144ndash149
50 Imai Kosuke and Samir Soneji (2007) ldquoOn the Estimation of Disability-Free LifeExpectancy Sullivanrsquos Method and Its Extensionrdquo Journal of the American StatisticalAssociation Vol 102 No 480 (December) pp 1199ndash1211
51 Horiuchi Yusaku Kosuke Imai and Naoko Taniguchi (2007) ldquoDesigning and Analyz-ing Randomized Experiments Application to a Japanese Election Survey ExperimentrdquoAmerican Journal of Political Science Vol 51 No 3 (July) pp 669ndash687
52 Ho Daniel E Kosuke Imai Gary King and Elizabeth A Stuart (2007) ldquoMatchingas Nonparametric Preprocessing for Reducing Model Dependence in Parametric CausalInferencerdquo Political Analysis Vol 15 No 3 (Summer) pp 199ndash236 (lead article)Winner of the Warren Miller Prize
53 Ho Daniel E and Kosuke Imai (2006) ldquoRandomization Inference with Natural Exper-iments An Analysis of Ballot Effects in the 2003 California Recall Electionrdquo Journal ofthe American Statistical Association Vol 101 No 475 (September) pp 888ndash900
54 Imai Kosuke and David A van Dyk (2005) ldquoMNP R Package for Fitting the Multi-nomial Probit Modelrdquo Journal of Statistical Software Vol 14 No 3 (May) pp 1ndash32abstract reprinted in Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics (2005) Vol 14No 3 (September) p 747
55 Imai Kosuke (2005) ldquoDo Get-Out-The-Vote Calls Reduce Turnout The Importanceof Statistical Methods for Field Experimentsrdquo American Political Science Review Vol99 No 2 (May) pp 283ndash300
56 Imai Kosuke and David A van Dyk (2005) ldquoA Bayesian Analysis of the MultinomialProbit Model Using Marginal Data Augmentationrdquo Journal of Econometrics Vol 124No 2 (February) pp 311ndash334
57 Imai Kosuke and David A van Dyk (2004) ldquoCausal Inference With General Treat-ment Regimes Generalizing the Propensity Scorerdquo Journal of the American StatisticalAssociation Vol 99 No 467 (September) pp 854ndash866
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58 Imai Kosuke and Gary King (2004) ldquoDid Illegal Overseas Absentee Ballots Decide the2000 US Presidential Electionrdquo Perspectives on Politics Vol 2 No 3 (September)pp 537ndash549 Our analysis is a part of The New York Times article ldquoHow Bush TookFlorida Mining the Overseas Absentee Voterdquo By David Barstow and Don van Natta JrJuly 15 2001 Page 1 Column 1
Invited Contributions
1 Imai Kosuke and Zhichao Jiang (2019) ldquoComment The Challenges of MultipleCausesrdquo Journal of the American Statistical Association Vol 114 No 528 pp 1605mdash1610
2 Benjamin Daniel J et al (2018) ldquoRedefine Statistical Significancerdquo Nature HumanBehaviour Vol 2 No 1 pp 6ndash10
3 de la Cuesta Brandon and Kosuke Imai (2016) ldquoMisunderstandings about the Regres-sion Discontinuity Design in the Study of Close Electionsrdquo Annual Review of PoliticalScience Vol 19 pp 375ndash396
4 Imai Kosuke (2016) ldquoBook Review of Causal Inference for Statistics Social andBiomedical Sciences An Introduction by Guido W Imbens and Donald B RubinrdquoJournal of the American Statistical Association Vol 111 No 515 pp 1365ndash1366
5 Imai Kosuke Bethany Park and Kenneth F Greene (2015) ldquoUsando as respostasprevisıveis da abordagem list-experiments como variaveis explicativas em modelos deregressaordquo Revista Debates Vol 9 No 1 pp 121ndash151 First printed in PoliticalAnalysis Vol 23 No 2 (Spring)
6 Imai Kosuke Luke Keele Dustin Tingley and Teppei Yamamoto (2014) ldquoCommenton Pearl Practical Implications of Theoretical Results for Causal Mediation AnalysisrdquoPsychological Methods Vol 19 No 4 (December) pp 482ndash487
7 Imai Kosuke Gary King and Elizabeth A Stuart (2014) ldquoMisunderstandings amongExperimentalists and Observationalists Balance Test Fallacies in Causal Inferencerdquo inField Experiments and their Critics Essays on the Uses and Abuses of Experimentationin the Social Sciences D L Teele ed New Haven Yale University Press pp 196ndash227First printed in Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A (Statistics in Society)Vol 171 No 2 (April)
8 Imai Kosuke Dustin Tingley and Teppei Yamamoto (2013) ldquoReply to Discussionsof ldquoExperimental Designs for Identifying Causal Mechanismsrdquordquo Journal of the RoyalStatistical Society Series A (Statistics in Society) Vol 173 No 1 (January) pp 46ndash49
9 Imai Kosuke (2012) ldquoComments Improving Weighting Methods for Causal MediationAnalysisrdquo Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness Vol 5 No 3 pp 293ndash295
10 Imai Kosuke (2011) ldquoIntroduction to the Virtual Issue Past and Future ResearchAgenda on Causal Inferencerdquo Political Analysis Virtual Issue Causal Inference andPolitical Methodology
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11 Imai Kosuke Booil Jo and Elizabeth A Stuart (2011) ldquoCommentary Using PotentialOutcomes to Understand Causal Mediation Analysisrdquo Multivariate Behavioral ResearchVol 46 No 5 pp 842ndash854
12 Imai Kosuke Luke Keele Dustin Tingley and Teppei Yamamoto (2010) ldquoCausalMediation Analysis Using Rrdquo in Advances in Social Science Research Using R H DVinod (ed) New York Springer (Lecture Notes in Statistics) pp 129ndash154
13 Imai Kosuke Gary King and Clayton Nall (2009) ldquoRejoinder Matched Pairs andthe Future of Cluster-Randomized Experimentsrdquo Statistical Science Vol 24 No 1(February) pp 65ndash72
14 Imai Kosuke (2003) ldquoReview of Jeff Gillrsquos Bayesian Methods A Social and BehavioralSciences Approachrdquo The Political Methodologist Vol 11 No 1 9ndash10
Refereed Conference Proceedings
1 Svyatkovskiy Alexey Kosuke Imai Mary Kroeger and Yuki Shiraito (2016) ldquoLarge-scale text processing pipeline with Apache Sparkrdquo IEEE International Conference onBig Data Washington DC pp 3928-3935
Other Publications and Manuscripts
1 Goldstein Daniel Kosuke Imai Anja S Goritz and Peter M Gollwitzer (2008) ldquoNudg-ing Turnout Mere Measurement and Implementation Planning of Intentions to Voterdquo
2 Ho Daniel E and Kosuke Imai (2004) ldquo The Impact of Partisan Electoral RegulationBallot Effects from the California Alphabet Lottery 1978ndash2002rdquo Princeton Law amp PublicAffairs Paper No 04-001 Harvard Public Law Working Paper No 89
3 Imai Kosuke (2003) ldquoEssays on Political Methodologyrdquo PhD Thesis Department ofGovernment Harvard University
4 Imai Kosuke and Jeremy M Weinstein (2000) ldquoMeasuring the Economic Impact ofCivil Warrdquo Working Paper Series No 51 Center for International Development HarvardUniversity
Publications in Japanese
1 Imai Kosuke (2007) ldquoKeiryo Seijigaku niokeru Ingateki Suiron (Causal Inference inQuantitative Political Science)rdquo Leviathan Vol 40 Spring pp 224ndash233
2 Horiuchi Yusaku Kosuke Imai and Naoko Taniguchi (2005) ldquoSeisaku Jyoho to TohyoSanka Field Jikken ni yoru Kensyo (Policy Information and Voter Participation AField Experiment)rdquo Nenpo Seijigaku (The Annals of the Japanese Political ScienceAssociation) 2005ndashI pp 161ndash180
3 Taniguchi Naoko Yusaku Horiuchi and Kosuke Imai (2004) ldquoSeito Saito no Etsuranha Tohyo Kodo ni Eikyo Suruka (Does Visiting Political Party Websites Influence VotingBehavior)rdquo Nikkei Research Report Vol IV pp 16ndash19
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Statistical Software
1 Kim In Song Erik Wang Adam Rauh and Kosuke Imai ldquoPanelMatch MatchingMethods for Causal Inference with Time-Series Cross-Section Datardquo available throughGitHub 2018
2 Olivella Santiago Adeline Lo Tyler Pratt and Kosuke Imai ldquoNetMix Mixed-membershipRegression Stochastic Blockmodel for Networksrdquo available through CRAN and Github2019
3 Egami Naoki Brandon de la Cuesta and Kosuke Imai ldquofactorEx Design and Analysisfor Factorial Experimentsrdquo available through The Comprehensive R Archive Networkand GitHub 2019
4 Enamorado Ted Benjamin Fifield and Kosuke Imai ldquofastLink Fast ProbabilisticRecord Linkagerdquo available through The Comprehensive R Archive Network and GitHub2017
5 Khanna Kabir and Kosuke Imai ldquowru Who Are You Bayesian Predictions of RacialCategory Using Surname and Geolocationrdquo available through The Comprehensive RArchive Network and GitHub 2015
6 Fifield Benjamin Alexander Tarr Michael Higgins and Kosuke Imai ldquoredist MarkovChain Monte Carlo Methods for Redistricting Simulationrdquo available through The Com-prehensive R Archive Network and GitHub 2015
7 Imai Kosuke James Lo and Jonathan Olmsted ldquoemIRT EM Algorithms for Estimat-ing Item Response Theory Modelsrdquo available through The Comprehensive R ArchiveNetwork 2015
8 Blair Graeme Yang-Yang Zhou and Kosuke Imai ldquorr Statistical Methods for theRandomized Response Techniquerdquo available through The Comprehensive R ArchiveNetwork and GitHub 2015
9 Fong Christian Marc Ratkovic and Kosuke Imai ldquoCBPS R Package for CovariateBalancing Propensity Scorerdquo available through The Comprehensive R Archive Networkand GitHub 2012
10 Egami Naoki Marc Ratkovic and Kosuke Imai ldquoFindIt R Package for Finding Hetero-geneous Treatment Effectsrdquo available through The Comprehensive R Archive Networkand GitHub 2012
11 Kim In Song and Kosuke Imai ldquowfe Weighted Linear Fixed Effects Regression Modelsfor Causal Inferencerdquo available through The Comprehensive R Archive Network 2011
12 Shiraito Yuki and Kosuke Imai ldquoendorse R Package for Analyzing Endorsement Ex-perimentsrdquo available through The Comprehensive R Archive Network and GitHub 2012
13 Blair Graeme and Kosuke Imai ldquolist Statistical Methods for the Item Count Techniqueand List Experimentsrdquo available through The Comprehensive R Archive Network andGitHub 2011
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14 Tingley Dustin Teppei Yamamoto Kentaro Hirose Luke Keele and Kosuke Imai ldquome-diation R Package for Causal Mediation Analysisrdquo available through The Comprehen-sive R Archive Network and GitHub 2009 Winner of the Statistical Software AwardReviewed in Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics
15 Imai Kosuke ldquoexperiment R Package for Designing and Analyzing Randomized Exper-imentsrdquo available through The Comprehensive R Archive Network 2007
16 Ho Daniel E Kosuke Imai Gary King and Elizabeth Stuart ldquoMatchIt NonparametricPreprocessing for Parametric Causal Inferencerdquo available through The ComprehensiveR Archive Network and GitHub 2005
17 Imai Kosuke Ying Lu and Aaron Strauss ldquoeco Ecological Inference in 2 times 2 Tablesrdquoavailable through The Comprehensive R Archive Network and GitHub 2004
18 Imai Kosuke and David A van Dyk ldquoMNP R Package for Fitting the MultinomialProbit Modelrdquo available through The Comprehensive R Archive Network and GitHub2004
19 Imai Kosuke Gary King and Olivia Lau ldquoZelig Everyonersquos Statistical Softwarerdquoavailable through The Comprehensive R Archive Network 2004
External Research Grants
Principal Investigator
1 Facebook Research Grant (2018) $20000
2 National Science Foundation (2016ndash2019) ldquoCollaborative Conference Proposal Sup-port for Conferences and Mentoring of Women and Underrepresented Groups in PoliticalMethodologyrdquo (Methodology Measurement and Statistics and Political Science Pro-grams SESndash1628102) Principal Investigator (with Jeffrey Lewis) $312322 Supplement(SESndash1831370) $60000
3 The United States Agency for International Development (2015ndash2017) ldquoUnemploymentand Insurgent Violence in Afghanistan Evidence from the Community DevelopmentProgramrdquo (AIDndashOAAndashAndash12ndash00096) Principal Investigator (with Jason Lyall) $188037
4 The United States Institute of Peace (2015ndash2016) ldquoAssessing the Links between Eco-nomic Interventions and Stability An impact evaluation of vocational and skills trainingin Kandahar Afghanistanrdquo Principal Investigator (with David Haines Jon Kurtz andJason Lyall) $144494
5 Amazon Web Services in Education Research Grant (2014) Principal Investigator (withGraeme Blair and Carlos Velasco Rivera) $3000
6 Development Bank of Latin America (CAF) (2013) ldquoThe Origins of Citizen Support forNarcos An Empirical Investigationrdquo Principal Investigator (with Graeme Blair FabianaMachado and Carlos Velasco Rivera) $15000
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Kosuke Imai
7 The International Growth Centre (2011ndash2013) ldquoPoverty Militancy and Citizen Demandsin Natural Resource-Rich Regions Randomized Evaluation of the Oil Profits DividendPlan for the Niger Deltardquo (RA-2010-12-013) Principal Investigator (with Graeme Blair)$117116
8 National Science Foundation (2009ndash2012) ldquoStatistical Analysis of Causal MechanismsIdentification Inference and Sensitivity Analysisrdquo (Methodology Measurement andStatistics Program and Political Science Program SESndash0918968) Principal Investigator$97574
9 National Science Foundation (2009ndash2011) ldquoCollaborative Research The Measurementand Identification of Media Priming Effects in Political Sciencerdquo (Methodology Measure-ment and Statistics Program and Political Science Program SESndash0849715) PrincipalInvestigator (with Nicholas Valentino) $317126
10 National Science Foundation (2008ndash2009) ldquoNew Statistical Methods for RandomizedExperiments in Political Science and Public Policyrdquo (Political Science Program SESndash0752050) Principal Investigator $52565
11 National Science Foundation (2006ndash2009) ldquoCollaborative Research Generalized Propen-sity Score Methodsrdquo (Methodology Measurement and Statistics Program SESndash0550873)Principal Investigator (with Donald B Rubin and David A van Dyk) $460000
12 The Telecommunications Advancement Foundation (2004) ldquoAnalyzing the Effects ofParty Webpages on Political Opinions and Voting Behaviorrdquo Principal Investigator (withNaoko Taniguchi and Yusaku Horiuchi) $12000
Adviser and Statistical Consultant
1 National Science Foundation (2016ndash2017) ldquoDoctoral Dissertation Research CrossingAfricarsquos Arbitrary Borders How Refugees Shape National Boundaries by ChallengingThemrdquo (Political Science Program SESndash1560636) Principal Investigator and Adviserfor Co-PI Yang-Yang Zhoursquos Dissertation Research $18900
2 Institute of Education Sciences (2012ndash2014) ldquoAcademic and Behavioral Consequencesof Visible Security Measures in Schoolsrdquo (R305A120181) Statistical Consultant (EmilyTanner-Smith Principal Investigator) $351228
3 National Science Foundation (2013ndash2014) ldquoDoctoral Dissertation Research Open Tradefor Sale Lobbying by Productive Exporting Firmrdquo (Political Science Program SESndash1264090) Principal Investigator and Adviser for Co-PI In Song Kimrsquos Dissertation Re-search $22540
4 National Science Foundation (2012ndash2013) ldquoDoctoral Dissertation Research The Poli-tics of Location in Resource Rent Distribution and the Projection of Power in Africardquo(Political Science Program SESndash1260754) Principal Investigator and Adviser for Co-PIGraeme Blairrsquos Dissertation Research $17640
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Kosuke Imai
Invited Short Courses and Outreach Lectures
1 Short Course on Causal Inference and Statistics ndash Department of Political Science RiceUniversity 2009 Institute of Political Science Academia Sinica 2014
2 Short Course on Causal Inference and Identification The Empirical Implications of The-oretical Models (EITM) Summer Institute ndash Harris School of Public Policy University ofChicago 2011 Department of Politics Princeton University 2012
3 Short Course on Causal Mediation Analysis ndash Summer Graduate Seminar Institute ofStatistical Mathematics Tokyo Japan 2010 Society for Research on Educational Effec-tiveness Conference Washington DC Fall 2011 Spring 2012 Spring 2015 Inter-AmericanDevelopment Bank 2012 Center for Education Research University of Wisconsin Madi-son 2012 Bobst Center for Peace and Justice Princeton University 2014 GraduateSchool of Education University of Pennsylvania 2014 EITM Summer Institute DukeUniversity 2014 Center for Lifespan Psychology Max Planck Institute for Human De-velopment 2015 School of Communication Research University of Amsterdam 2015Uppsala University 2016
4 Short Course on Covariate Balancing Propensity Score ndash Society for Research on Ed-ucational Effectiveness Conference Washington DC Spring 2013 Uppsala University2016
5 Short Course on Matching Methods for Causal Inference ndash Institute of Behavioral ScienceUniversity of Colorado Boulder 2009 Department of Political Science Duke University2013
6 Lecture on Statistics and Social Sciences ndash New Jersey Japanese School 2011 2016Kaisei Academy 2012 2014 Princeton University Wilson College 2012 University ofTokyo 2014
Selected Presentations
1 Keynote speaker Special Workshop on Evidence-based Policy Making World EconomicForum Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution Japan 2020
2 Distinguished speaker seminar Institute for Data Systems and Society MassachusettsInstitute of Technology 2019
3 Keynote speaker The Harvard Experimental Political Science Graduate Student Confer-ence Harvard University 2019
4 Invited speaker Beyond Curve Fitting Causation Counterfactuals and Imagination-based AI Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Spring SymposiumStanford University 2019
5 Inaugural speaker Causal Inference Seminar Departments of Biostatistics and StatisticsBoston University 2019
6 Keynote speaker The Second Latin American Political Methodology Meeting Universi-dad de los Andes (Department of Political Science) 2018
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7 Keynote speaker The First Latin American Political Methodology Meeting PontificalCatholic University of Chile (Department of Political Science) 2017
8 Keynote speaker Workshop on Uncovering Causal Mechanisms University of Munich(Department of Economics) 2016
9 Keynote speaker The National Quality Registry Research Conference Stockholm 2016
10 Keynote speaker The UK-Causal Inference Meeting University of Bristol (School ofMathematics) 2015
11 Keynote speaker The UP-STAT Conference the Upstate Chapters of the American Sta-tistical Association 2015
12 Keynote speaker The Winter Conference in Statistics Swedish Statistical Society andUmea University (Department of Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics) 2015
13 Inaugural invited speaker The International Methods Colloquium Rice University 2015
14 Invited speaker The International Meeting on Experimental and Behavioral Social Sci-ences University of Oxford (Nuffield College) 2014
15 Keynote speaker The Annual Conference of Australian Society for Quantitative PoliticalScience University of Sydney 2013
16 Keynote speaker The Graduate Student Conference on Experiments in Interactive Deci-sion Making Princeton University 2008
Conferences Organized
1 The Asian Political Methodology Meetings (January 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 co-organizer)
2 The Experimental Research Workshop (September 2012 co-organizer)
3 The 12th World Meeting of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis (June 2012a member of the organizing committee)
4 Conference on Causal Inference and the Study of Conflict and State Building (May 2012organizer)
5 The 28th Annual Society for Political Methodology Summer Meeting (July 2011 host)
6 Conference on New Methodologies and their Applications in Comparative Politics andInternational Relations (February 2011 co-organizer)
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Kosuke Imai
Teaching
Courses Taught at Harvard
1 STAT 186GOV 2002 Causal Inference introduction to causal inference
2 GOV 2003 Topics in Quantitative Methodology causal inference applied Bayesian statis-tics machine learning
Courses Taught at Princeton
1 POL 245 Visualizing Data exploratory data analysis graphical statistics data visual-ization
2 POL 345 Quantitative Analysis and Politics a first course in quantitative social science
3 POL 451 Statistical Methods in Political Science basic probability and statistical theorytheir applications in the social sciences
4 POL 502 Mathematics for Political Science real analysis linear algebra calculus
5 POL 571 Quantitative Analysis I probability theory statistical theory linear models
6 POL 572 Quantitative Analysis II intermediate applied statistics
7 POL 573 Quantitative Analysis III advanced applied statistics
8 POL 574 Quantitative Analysis IV advanced applied statistics with various topics in-cluding Bayesian statistics and causal inference
9 Reading Courses basic mathematical probability and statistics applied bayesian statis-tics spatial statistics
Advising
Current Students
1 Soubhik Barari
2 Naoki Egami (Primary adviser) To be Assistant Professor Department of PoliticalScience Columbia University
3 Shusei Eshima (Primary adviser)
4 Max Goplerud To be Assistant Professor Department of Political Science University ofPittsburgh
5 June Hwang (Primary adviser)
6 Connor Jerzak
7 Shiro Kuriwaki
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8 Asya Magazinnik To be Assistant Professor Department of Political Science Mas-sachusetts Institute of Technology
9 Sun Young Park
10 Nicole Pashley
11 Casey Petroff
12 Averell Schmidt
13 Diana Stanescu
14 Sooahn Shin
15 Tyler Simko
16 Alex Tarr (Primary adviser)
17 Soichiro Yamauchi (Primary adviser)
18 Erik Wang To be Assistant Professor Department of Political and Social Change Aus-tralian National University
Former Students
1 Brandon de la Cuesta (PhD in 2019 Department of Politics Princeton University)Postdoctoral Fellow Center on Global Poverty and Development Stanford University
2 Yang-Yang Zhou (PhD in 2019 Department of Politics Princeton University) Assis-tant Professor Department of Political Science University of British Columbia
3 Winston Chou (PhD in 2019 Department of Politics Princeton University) ResearchScientist at Facebook
4 Ted Enamorado (PhD in 2019 Department of Politics Princeton University Disserta-tion Committee Chair) Assistant Professor Department of Political Science Universityof North Carolina at Chapel Hill
5 Benjamin Fifield (PhD in 2018 Department of Politics Princeton University Disserta-tion Committee Chair) Research Scientist Facebook
6 Tyler Pratt (PhD in 2018 Department of Politics Princeton University) AssistantProfessor Department of Political Science Yale University
7 Romain Ferrali (PhD in 2018 Department of Politics Princeton University) Postdoc-toral Fellow New York University Abu Dhabi
8 Julia Morse (PhD in 2017 Woodrow Wilson School Princeton University) AssistantProfessor Department of Political Science University of California Santa Barbara
9 Yuki Shiraito (PhD in 2017 Department of Politics Princeton University DissertationCommittee Chair) Assistant Professor Department of Political Science University ofMichigan
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10 Carlos Velasco Rivera (PhD in 2016 Department of Politics Princeton University)Research Scientist Facebook
11 Gabriel Lopez Moctezuma (PhD in 2016 Department of Politics Princeton University)Assistant Professor Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences California Instituteof Technology
12 Graeme Blair (PhD in 2016 Department of Politics Princeton University) AssistantProfessor University of California Los Angeles
13 Jaquilyn R Waddell Boie (PhD in 2015 Department of Politics Princeton University)Private consultant
14 Scott Abramson (PhD in 2014 Department of Politics Princeton University) AssistantProfessor Department of Political Science University of Rochester
15 Michael Barber (PhD in 2014 Department of Politics Princeton University) AssistantProfessor Department of Political Science Brigham Young University
16 In Song Kim (PhD in 2014 Department of Politics Princeton University) AssociateProfessor Department of Political Science Massachusetts Institute of Technology
17 Alex Ruder (PhD in 2014 Department of Politics Princeton University) Senior Com-munity Economic Development Advisor Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
18 Meredith Wilf (PhD in 2014 Department of Politics Princeton University) AssistantProfessor Graduate School of Public and International Affairs University of Pittsburgh
19 Will Bullock (PhD candidate Department of Politics Princeton University) SeniorResearcher Facebook
20 Teppei Yamamoto (PhD in 2011 Department of Politics Princeton University Dis-sertation Committee Chair) Associate Professor Department of Political Science Mas-sachusetts Institute of Technology
21 Dustin Tingley (PhD in 2010 Department of Politics Princeton University) ProfessorDepartment of Government Harvard University
22 Aaron Strauss (PhD in 2009 Department of Politics Princeton University) ExecutiveDirector Analyst Institute
23 Samir Soneji (PhD in 2008 Office of Population Research Princeton University Dis-sertation Committee Chair) Associate Professor Dartmouth Institute for Health Policyamp Clinical Practice Geisel School of Medicine Dartmouth College
24 Ying Lu (PhD in 2005 Woodrow Wilson School Princeton University DissertationCommittee Chair) Associate Professor Steinhardt School of Culture Education andHuman Development New York University
18 January 2020
Kosuke Imai
Former Predocs and Postdocs
1 Zhichao Jiang (Postdoctoral Fellow 2016ndash2019) Assistant Professor Department ofBiostatistics and Epidemiology School of Public Health and Health Sciences Universityof Massachusetts Amherst
2 Adeline Lo (Postdoctoral Fellow 2016ndash2019) Assistant Professor Department of Politi-cal Science University of Wisconsin Madison
3 Yunkyu Sohn (Postdoctoral Fellow 2016ndash2018) Assistant Professor School of PoliticalScience and Economics Waseda University
4 Xiaolin Yang (Postdoctoral Fellow 2015ndash2017) Research Scientist Amazon
5 Santiago Olivella (Postdoctoral Fellow 2015ndash2016) Assistant Professor Department ofPolitical Science University of North Carolina
6 Drew Dimmery (Predoctoral Fellow 2015ndash2016) Research Scientist Facebook
7 James Lo (Postdoctoral Fellow 2014ndash2016) Assistant Professor Department of PoliticalScience University of Southern California
8 Steven Liao (Predoctoral Fellow 2014ndash2015) Assistant Professor Department of Politi-cal Science University of California Riverside
9 Michael Higgins (Postdoctoral Fellow 2013ndash2015) Assistant Professor Department ofStatistics Kansas State University
10 Kentaro Hirose (Postdoctoral Fellow 2012ndash2015) Assistant Professor Waseda Institutefor Advanced Studies
11 Chad Hazlett (Predoctoral Fellow 2013ndash2014) Assistant Professor Departments of Po-litical Science and Statistics University of California Los Angeles
12 Florian Hollenbach (Predoctoral Fellow 2013ndash2014) Assistant Professor Department ofPolitical Science Texas AampM University
13 Marc Ratkovic (Predoctoral and Postdoctoral Fellow 2010ndash2012) Assistant ProfessorDepartment of Politics Princeton University
Editorial and Referee Service
Co-editor for Journal of Causal Inference (2014 ndash present)
Associate editor for American Journal of Political Science (2014 ndash 2019) Journal ofBusiness amp Economic Statistics (2015 ndash 2021) Journal of Causal Inference (2011 ndash 2014)Journal of Experimental Political Science (2013 ndash 2017) Observational Studies (2014 ndashpresent) Political Analysis (2014 ndash 2017)
Editorial board member for Asian Journal of Comparative Politics (2014 ndash present) Jour-nal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics (2011 ndash present) Journal of Politics (2007ndash 2008 2019ndash2020) Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness (2014 ndash present)Political Analysis (2010 ndash 2013) Political Science Research and Methods (2019 ndash present)
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Kosuke Imai
Guest editor for Political Analysis virtual issue on causal inference (2011)
Referee for ACM Computing Surveys American Economic Journal Applied EconomicsAmerican Economic Review Insights American Journal of Epidemiology AmericanJournal of Evaluation American Journal of Political Science American Political ScienceReview American Politics Research Annals of Applied Statistics Annals of StatisticsAnnals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics Biometrics Biometrika BiostatisticsBMC Medical Research Methodology British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psy-chology British Journal of Political Science Canadian Journal of Statistics Chapmanamp HallCRC Press Child Development Communications for Statistical Applications andMethods Computational Statistics and Data Analysis Electoral Studies EconometricaEconometrics Empirical Economics Environmental Management Epidemiology Euro-pean Union Politics IEEE Transactions on Information Theory International Journalof Biostatistics International Journal of Epidemiology International Journal of PublicOpinion Research International Migration Review John Wiley amp Sons Journal of Ap-plied Econometrics Journal of Applied Statistics Journal of Biopharmaceutical Statis-tics Journal of Business and Economic Statistics Journal of Causal Inference Journalof Computational and Graphical Statistics Journal of Conflict Resolution Journal ofConsulting and Clinical Psychology Journal of Econometrics Journal of Educationaland Behavioral Statistics Journal of Empirical Legal Studies Journal of MultivariateAnalysis Journal of Official Statistics Journal of Peace Research Journal of PoliticsJournal of Research on Educational EffectivenessJournal of Statistical Planning and In-ference Journal of Statistical Software Journal of the American Statistical Association(Case Studies and Applications Theory and Methods) Journal of the Japanese and In-ternational Economies Journal of the Japan Statistical Society Journal of the RoyalStatistical Society (Series A Series B Series C) Law amp Social Inquiry Legislative Stud-ies Quarterly Management Science Multivariate Behavioral Research National ScienceFoundation (Economics Methodology Measurement and Statistics Political Science)Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada NeuroImage Osteoporo-sis International Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics Pharmaceutical StatisticsPharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety PLOS One Policy and Internet Political Anal-ysis Political Behavior Political Communication Political Research Quarterly PoliticalScience Research and Methods Population Health Metrics Population Studies PreventionScience Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Princeton University PressPsychological Methods Psychometrika Public Opinion Quarterly Quarterly Journal ofEconomics Quarterly Journal of Political Science Review of Economics and StatisticsRoutledge Sage Publications Scandinavian Journal of Statistics Science Sloan Foun-dation Springer Sociological Methodology Sociological Methods amp Research StatisticalMethodology Statistical Methods and Applications Statistical Methods in Medical Re-search Statistical Science Statistica Sinica Statistics amp Probability Letters Statistics inMedicine Systems Biology US-Israel Binational Science Foundation Value in HealthWorld Politics
University and Departmental Committees
Harvard University
Department of Government
20 January 2020
Kosuke Imai
Member Second-year Progress Committee (2019ndash2020)
Member Placement Committee (2019ndash2020)
Member Graduate Admissions Committee (2018ndash2019)
Member Graduate Poster Session Committee (2018ndash2019)
Department of Statistics
Member Junior Faculty Search Committee (2018ndash2019)
Member Second-year Progress Committee (2018ndash2019)
Princeton University
University
Executive Committee Member Program in Statistics and Machine Learning (2013ndash2018)
Executive Committee Member Committee for Statistical Studies (2011-2018)
Member Organizing Committee Retreat on Data and Information Science at Prince-ton (2016)
Member Council of the Princeton University Community (2015)
Member Search Committee for the Dean of College (2015)
Member Committee on the Library and Computing (2013ndash2016)
Member Committee on the Fund for Experimental Social Science (2013ndash2018)
Member Personally Identifiable Research Data Group (2012ndash2018)
Member Research Computing Advisory Group (2013ndash2018)
Member Task Force on Statistics and Machine Learning (2014ndash2015)
Department of Politics
Chair Department Committee on Research and Computing (2012ndash2018)
Chair Formal and Quantitative Methods Junior Search Committee (2012ndash20132014ndash2015 2016ndash2017)
Chair Reappointment Committee (2015ndash2016)
Member Diversity Initiative Committee (2014ndash2015)
Member American Politics Junior Search Committee (2012ndash2014)
Member Department Chairrsquos Advisory Committee (2010ndash2013 2015ndash2016)
Member Department Priority Committee (2012ndash2013 2014ndash2015 2016ndash2017)
Member Formal and Quantitative Methods Curriculum Committee (2005ndash2006)
Member Formal and Quantitative Methods Junior Search Committee (2009ndash20102015ndash2016)
Member Formal and Quantitative Methods Postdoc Search Committee (2009ndash2018)
Member Graduate Admissions Committee (2012ndash2013)
Member Reappointment Committee (2014ndash2016)
21 January 2020
Kosuke Imai
Member Space Committee (2014ndash2016)
Member Undergraduate Curriculum Committee (2014ndash2015)
Member Undergraduate Exam Committee (2007ndash2008)
Member Undergraduate Thesis Prize Committee (2005ndash2006 2008ndash2011)
Center for Statistics and Machine Learning
Executive Committee Member (2016ndash2018)
Member Search Committee (2015ndash2017)
Services to the Profession
National Academies of Sciences Engineering and Medicine
Committee on National Statistics Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences andEducation Panel on the Review and Evaluation of the 2014 Survey of Income andProgram Participation Content and Design (2014ndash2017)
The Society for Political Methodology
President (2017ndash2019)
Vice President and President Elect (2015ndash2017)
Annual Meeting Committee Chair (2011)
Career Award Committee (2015ndash2017)
Program Committee for Annual Meeting (2012) Chair (2011)
Graduate Student Selection Committee for the Annual Meeting (2005) Chair (2011)
Miller Prize Selection Committee (2010ndash2011)
Statistical Software Award Committee (2009ndash2010)
Emerging Scholar Award Committee (2013)
American Statistical Association
Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics Management Committee (2016 ndashpresent)
Others
External Expert Department of Methodology London School of Economics andPolitical Science (2017 ndash present)
Memberships
American Political Science Association American Statistical Association Midwest Polit-ical Science Association The Society for Political Methodology
22 January 2020
- Contact Information
- Education
- Positions
- Honors and Awards
- Selected Manuscripts
- Publications in English
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- Book
- Refereed Journal Articles
- Invited Contributions
- Refereed Conference Proceedings
- Other Publications and Manuscripts
-
- Publications in Japanese
- Statistical Software
- External Research Grants
-
- Principal Investigator
- Adviser and Statistical Consultant
-
- Invited Short Courses
- Selected Presentations
- Conferences Organized
- Teaching
-
- Courses Taught at Harvard
- Courses Taught at Princeton
-
- Advising
-
- Current Students
- Former Students
- Former Predocs and Postdocs
-
- Editorial and Referee Service
- University and Departmental Committees
- Services to the Profession
- Memberships
-
Kosuke Imai
23 Blair Graeme Kosuke Imai and Jason Lyall (2014) ldquoComparing and CombiningList and Endorsement Experiments Evidence from Afghanistanrdquo American Journal ofPolitical Science Vol 58 No 4 (October) pp 1043ndash1063
24 Tingley Dustin Teppei Yamamoto Kentaro Hirose Luke Keele and Kosuke Imai(2014) ldquomediation R Package for Causal Mediation Analysisrdquo Journal of StatisticalSoftware Vol 59 No 5 (August) pp 1ndash38
25 Imai Kosuke and Marc Ratkovic (2014) ldquoCovariate Balancing Propensity ScorerdquoJournal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B (Statistical Methodology) Vol 76 No1 (January) pp 243ndash263
26 Lyall Jason Graeme Blair and Kosuke Imai (2013) ldquoExplaining Support for Combat-ants during Wartime A Survey Experiment in Afghanistanrdquo American Political ScienceReview Vol 107 No 4 (November) pp 679-705 Winner of the Pi Sigma Alpha Award
27 Imai Kosuke and Teppei Yamamoto (2013) ldquoIdentification and Sensitivity Analysis forMultiple Causal Mechanisms Revisiting Evidence from Framing Experimentsrdquo PoliticalAnalysis Vol 21 No 2 (Spring) pp 141ndash171 (lead article)
28 Imai Kosuke and Marc Ratkovic (2013) ldquoEstimating Treatment Effect Heterogeneity inRandomized Program Evaluationrdquo Annals of Applied Statistics Vol 7 No 1 (March)pp 443ndash470 Winner of the Tom Ten Have Memorial Award Reprinted in Advances inPolitical Methodology R Franzese Jr ed Edward Elger 2017
29 Imai Kosuke Dustin Tingley and Teppei Yamamoto (2013) ldquoExperimental Designsfor Identifying Causal Mechanismsrdquo(with discussions) Journal of the Royal StatisticalSociety Series A (Statistics in Society) Vol 176 No 1 (January) pp 5ndash51 (leadarticle) Read before the Royal Statistical Society March 2012
30 Imai Kosuke and Dustin Tingley (2012) ldquoA Statistical Method for Empirical Testing ofCompeting Theoriesrdquo American Journal of Political Science Vol 56 No 1 (January)pp 218ndash236
31 Blair Graeme and Kosuke Imai (2012) ldquoStatistical Analysis of List ExperimentsrdquoPolitical Analysis Vol 20 No 1 (Winter) pp 47ndash77
32 Imai Kosuke Luke Keele Dustin Tingley and Teppei Yamamoto (2011) ldquoUnpackingthe Black Box of Causality Learning about Causal Mechanisms from Experimental andObservational Studiesrdquo American Political Science Review Vol 105 No 4 (November)pp 765ndash789 Reprinted in Advances in Political Methodology R Franzese Jr edEdward Elger 2017
33 Bullock Will Kosuke Imai and Jacob N Shapiro (2011) ldquoStatistical Analysis of En-dorsement Experiments Measuring Support for Militant Groups in Pakistanrdquo PoliticalAnalysis Vol 19 No 4 (Autumn) pp 363ndash384 (lead article)
34 Imai Kosuke (2011) ldquoMultivariate Regression Analysis for the Item Count TechniquerdquoJournal of the American Statistical Association Vol 106 No 494 (June) pp 407ndash416(featured article)
6 January 2020
Kosuke Imai
35 Ho Daniel E Kosuke Imai Gary King and Elizabeth Stuart (2011) ldquoMatchIt Non-parametric Preprocessing for Parametric Causal Inferencerdquo Journal of Statistical Soft-ware Vol 42 (Special Volume on Political Methodology) No 8 (June) pp 1ndash28
36 Imai Kosuke Ying Lu and Aaron Strauss (2011) ldquoeco R Package for EcologicalInference in 2 times 2 Tablesrdquo Journal of Statistical Software Vol 42 (Special Volume onPolitical Methodology) No 5 (June) pp 1ndash23
37 Imai Kosuke and Aaron Strauss (2011) ldquoEstimation of Heterogeneous TreatmentEffects from Randomized Experiments with Application to the Optimal Planning of theGet-out-the-vote Campaignrdquo Political Analysis Vol 19 No 1 (Winter) pp 1ndash19(lead article) Winner of the Political Analysis Editorsrsquo Choice Award
38 Imai Kosuke Luke Keele and Dustin Tingley (2010) ldquoA General Approach to CausalMediation Analysisrdquo Psychological Methods Vol 15 No 4 (December) pp 309ndash334(lead article)
39 Imai Kosuke and Teppei Yamamoto (2010) ldquoCausal Inference with Differential Mea-surement Error Nonparametric Identification and Sensitivity Analysisrdquo American Jour-nal of Political Science Vol 54 No 2 (April) pp 543ndash560
40 Imai Kosuke Luke Keele and Teppei Yamamoto (2010) ldquoIdentification Inference andSensitivity Analysis for Causal Mediation Effectsrdquo Statistical Science Vol 25 No 1(February) pp 51ndash71
41 King Gary Emmanuela Gakidou Kosuke Imai Jason Lakin Ryan T Moore ClaytonNall Nirmala Ravishankar Manett Vargas Martha Marıa Tellez-Rojo Juan EugenioHernandez Avila Mauricio Hernandez Avila and Hector Hernandez Llamas (2009)ldquoPublic Policy for the Poor A Randomized Ten-Month Evaluation of the MexicanUniversal Health Insurance Programrdquo (with a comment) The Lancet Vol 373 No9673 (April) pp 1447ndash1454
42 Imai Kosuke Gary King and Clayton Nall (2009) ldquoThe Essential Role of Pair Matchingin Cluster-Randomized Experiments with Application to the Mexican Universal HealthInsurance Evaluationrdquo (with discussions) Statistical Science Vol 24 No 1 (February)pp 29ndash53
43 Imai Kosuke (2009) ldquoStatistical Analysis of Randomized Experiments with Nonignor-able Missing Binary Outcomes An Application to a Voting Experimentrdquo Journal of theRoyal Statistical Society Series C (Applied Statistics) Vol 58 No 1 (February) pp83ndash104
44 Imai Kosuke Gary King and Olivia Lau (2008) ldquoToward A Common Framework ofStatistical Analysis and Developmentrdquo Journal of Computational and Graphical Statis-tics Vol 17 No 4 (December) pp 892ndash913
45 Imai Kosuke (2008) ldquoVariance Identification and Efficiency Analysis in Experimentsunder the Matched-Pair Designrdquo Statistics in Medicine Vol 27 No 4 (October) pp4857ndash4873
7 January 2020
Kosuke Imai
46 Ho Daniel E and Kosuke Imai (2008) ldquoEstimating Causal Effects of Ballot Order froma Randomized Natural Experiment California Alphabet Lottery 1978ndash2002rdquo PublicOpinion Quarterly Vol 72 No 2 (Summer) pp 216ndash240
47 Imai Kosuke Gary King and Elizabeth A Stuart (2008) ldquoMisunderstandings amongExperimentalists and Observationalists Balance Test Fallacies in Causal InferencerdquoJournal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A (Statistics in Society) Vol 171 No2 (April) pp 481ndash502 Reprinted in Field Experiments and their Critics D Teele edNew Haven Yale University Press 2013
48 Imai Kosuke Ying Lu and Aaron Strauss (2008) ldquoBayesian and Likelihood EcologicalInference for 2 times 2 Tables An Incomplete Data Approachrdquo Political Analysis Vol 16No 1 (Winter) pp 41ndash69
49 Imai Kosuke (2008) ldquoSharp Bounds on the Causal Effects in Randomized Experimentswith ldquoTruncation-by-Deathrdquordquo Statistics amp Probability Letters Vol 78 No 2 (February)pp 144ndash149
50 Imai Kosuke and Samir Soneji (2007) ldquoOn the Estimation of Disability-Free LifeExpectancy Sullivanrsquos Method and Its Extensionrdquo Journal of the American StatisticalAssociation Vol 102 No 480 (December) pp 1199ndash1211
51 Horiuchi Yusaku Kosuke Imai and Naoko Taniguchi (2007) ldquoDesigning and Analyz-ing Randomized Experiments Application to a Japanese Election Survey ExperimentrdquoAmerican Journal of Political Science Vol 51 No 3 (July) pp 669ndash687
52 Ho Daniel E Kosuke Imai Gary King and Elizabeth A Stuart (2007) ldquoMatchingas Nonparametric Preprocessing for Reducing Model Dependence in Parametric CausalInferencerdquo Political Analysis Vol 15 No 3 (Summer) pp 199ndash236 (lead article)Winner of the Warren Miller Prize
53 Ho Daniel E and Kosuke Imai (2006) ldquoRandomization Inference with Natural Exper-iments An Analysis of Ballot Effects in the 2003 California Recall Electionrdquo Journal ofthe American Statistical Association Vol 101 No 475 (September) pp 888ndash900
54 Imai Kosuke and David A van Dyk (2005) ldquoMNP R Package for Fitting the Multi-nomial Probit Modelrdquo Journal of Statistical Software Vol 14 No 3 (May) pp 1ndash32abstract reprinted in Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics (2005) Vol 14No 3 (September) p 747
55 Imai Kosuke (2005) ldquoDo Get-Out-The-Vote Calls Reduce Turnout The Importanceof Statistical Methods for Field Experimentsrdquo American Political Science Review Vol99 No 2 (May) pp 283ndash300
56 Imai Kosuke and David A van Dyk (2005) ldquoA Bayesian Analysis of the MultinomialProbit Model Using Marginal Data Augmentationrdquo Journal of Econometrics Vol 124No 2 (February) pp 311ndash334
57 Imai Kosuke and David A van Dyk (2004) ldquoCausal Inference With General Treat-ment Regimes Generalizing the Propensity Scorerdquo Journal of the American StatisticalAssociation Vol 99 No 467 (September) pp 854ndash866
8 January 2020
Kosuke Imai
58 Imai Kosuke and Gary King (2004) ldquoDid Illegal Overseas Absentee Ballots Decide the2000 US Presidential Electionrdquo Perspectives on Politics Vol 2 No 3 (September)pp 537ndash549 Our analysis is a part of The New York Times article ldquoHow Bush TookFlorida Mining the Overseas Absentee Voterdquo By David Barstow and Don van Natta JrJuly 15 2001 Page 1 Column 1
Invited Contributions
1 Imai Kosuke and Zhichao Jiang (2019) ldquoComment The Challenges of MultipleCausesrdquo Journal of the American Statistical Association Vol 114 No 528 pp 1605mdash1610
2 Benjamin Daniel J et al (2018) ldquoRedefine Statistical Significancerdquo Nature HumanBehaviour Vol 2 No 1 pp 6ndash10
3 de la Cuesta Brandon and Kosuke Imai (2016) ldquoMisunderstandings about the Regres-sion Discontinuity Design in the Study of Close Electionsrdquo Annual Review of PoliticalScience Vol 19 pp 375ndash396
4 Imai Kosuke (2016) ldquoBook Review of Causal Inference for Statistics Social andBiomedical Sciences An Introduction by Guido W Imbens and Donald B RubinrdquoJournal of the American Statistical Association Vol 111 No 515 pp 1365ndash1366
5 Imai Kosuke Bethany Park and Kenneth F Greene (2015) ldquoUsando as respostasprevisıveis da abordagem list-experiments como variaveis explicativas em modelos deregressaordquo Revista Debates Vol 9 No 1 pp 121ndash151 First printed in PoliticalAnalysis Vol 23 No 2 (Spring)
6 Imai Kosuke Luke Keele Dustin Tingley and Teppei Yamamoto (2014) ldquoCommenton Pearl Practical Implications of Theoretical Results for Causal Mediation AnalysisrdquoPsychological Methods Vol 19 No 4 (December) pp 482ndash487
7 Imai Kosuke Gary King and Elizabeth A Stuart (2014) ldquoMisunderstandings amongExperimentalists and Observationalists Balance Test Fallacies in Causal Inferencerdquo inField Experiments and their Critics Essays on the Uses and Abuses of Experimentationin the Social Sciences D L Teele ed New Haven Yale University Press pp 196ndash227First printed in Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A (Statistics in Society)Vol 171 No 2 (April)
8 Imai Kosuke Dustin Tingley and Teppei Yamamoto (2013) ldquoReply to Discussionsof ldquoExperimental Designs for Identifying Causal Mechanismsrdquordquo Journal of the RoyalStatistical Society Series A (Statistics in Society) Vol 173 No 1 (January) pp 46ndash49
9 Imai Kosuke (2012) ldquoComments Improving Weighting Methods for Causal MediationAnalysisrdquo Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness Vol 5 No 3 pp 293ndash295
10 Imai Kosuke (2011) ldquoIntroduction to the Virtual Issue Past and Future ResearchAgenda on Causal Inferencerdquo Political Analysis Virtual Issue Causal Inference andPolitical Methodology
9 January 2020
Kosuke Imai
11 Imai Kosuke Booil Jo and Elizabeth A Stuart (2011) ldquoCommentary Using PotentialOutcomes to Understand Causal Mediation Analysisrdquo Multivariate Behavioral ResearchVol 46 No 5 pp 842ndash854
12 Imai Kosuke Luke Keele Dustin Tingley and Teppei Yamamoto (2010) ldquoCausalMediation Analysis Using Rrdquo in Advances in Social Science Research Using R H DVinod (ed) New York Springer (Lecture Notes in Statistics) pp 129ndash154
13 Imai Kosuke Gary King and Clayton Nall (2009) ldquoRejoinder Matched Pairs andthe Future of Cluster-Randomized Experimentsrdquo Statistical Science Vol 24 No 1(February) pp 65ndash72
14 Imai Kosuke (2003) ldquoReview of Jeff Gillrsquos Bayesian Methods A Social and BehavioralSciences Approachrdquo The Political Methodologist Vol 11 No 1 9ndash10
Refereed Conference Proceedings
1 Svyatkovskiy Alexey Kosuke Imai Mary Kroeger and Yuki Shiraito (2016) ldquoLarge-scale text processing pipeline with Apache Sparkrdquo IEEE International Conference onBig Data Washington DC pp 3928-3935
Other Publications and Manuscripts
1 Goldstein Daniel Kosuke Imai Anja S Goritz and Peter M Gollwitzer (2008) ldquoNudg-ing Turnout Mere Measurement and Implementation Planning of Intentions to Voterdquo
2 Ho Daniel E and Kosuke Imai (2004) ldquo The Impact of Partisan Electoral RegulationBallot Effects from the California Alphabet Lottery 1978ndash2002rdquo Princeton Law amp PublicAffairs Paper No 04-001 Harvard Public Law Working Paper No 89
3 Imai Kosuke (2003) ldquoEssays on Political Methodologyrdquo PhD Thesis Department ofGovernment Harvard University
4 Imai Kosuke and Jeremy M Weinstein (2000) ldquoMeasuring the Economic Impact ofCivil Warrdquo Working Paper Series No 51 Center for International Development HarvardUniversity
Publications in Japanese
1 Imai Kosuke (2007) ldquoKeiryo Seijigaku niokeru Ingateki Suiron (Causal Inference inQuantitative Political Science)rdquo Leviathan Vol 40 Spring pp 224ndash233
2 Horiuchi Yusaku Kosuke Imai and Naoko Taniguchi (2005) ldquoSeisaku Jyoho to TohyoSanka Field Jikken ni yoru Kensyo (Policy Information and Voter Participation AField Experiment)rdquo Nenpo Seijigaku (The Annals of the Japanese Political ScienceAssociation) 2005ndashI pp 161ndash180
3 Taniguchi Naoko Yusaku Horiuchi and Kosuke Imai (2004) ldquoSeito Saito no Etsuranha Tohyo Kodo ni Eikyo Suruka (Does Visiting Political Party Websites Influence VotingBehavior)rdquo Nikkei Research Report Vol IV pp 16ndash19
10 January 2020
Kosuke Imai
Statistical Software
1 Kim In Song Erik Wang Adam Rauh and Kosuke Imai ldquoPanelMatch MatchingMethods for Causal Inference with Time-Series Cross-Section Datardquo available throughGitHub 2018
2 Olivella Santiago Adeline Lo Tyler Pratt and Kosuke Imai ldquoNetMix Mixed-membershipRegression Stochastic Blockmodel for Networksrdquo available through CRAN and Github2019
3 Egami Naoki Brandon de la Cuesta and Kosuke Imai ldquofactorEx Design and Analysisfor Factorial Experimentsrdquo available through The Comprehensive R Archive Networkand GitHub 2019
4 Enamorado Ted Benjamin Fifield and Kosuke Imai ldquofastLink Fast ProbabilisticRecord Linkagerdquo available through The Comprehensive R Archive Network and GitHub2017
5 Khanna Kabir and Kosuke Imai ldquowru Who Are You Bayesian Predictions of RacialCategory Using Surname and Geolocationrdquo available through The Comprehensive RArchive Network and GitHub 2015
6 Fifield Benjamin Alexander Tarr Michael Higgins and Kosuke Imai ldquoredist MarkovChain Monte Carlo Methods for Redistricting Simulationrdquo available through The Com-prehensive R Archive Network and GitHub 2015
7 Imai Kosuke James Lo and Jonathan Olmsted ldquoemIRT EM Algorithms for Estimat-ing Item Response Theory Modelsrdquo available through The Comprehensive R ArchiveNetwork 2015
8 Blair Graeme Yang-Yang Zhou and Kosuke Imai ldquorr Statistical Methods for theRandomized Response Techniquerdquo available through The Comprehensive R ArchiveNetwork and GitHub 2015
9 Fong Christian Marc Ratkovic and Kosuke Imai ldquoCBPS R Package for CovariateBalancing Propensity Scorerdquo available through The Comprehensive R Archive Networkand GitHub 2012
10 Egami Naoki Marc Ratkovic and Kosuke Imai ldquoFindIt R Package for Finding Hetero-geneous Treatment Effectsrdquo available through The Comprehensive R Archive Networkand GitHub 2012
11 Kim In Song and Kosuke Imai ldquowfe Weighted Linear Fixed Effects Regression Modelsfor Causal Inferencerdquo available through The Comprehensive R Archive Network 2011
12 Shiraito Yuki and Kosuke Imai ldquoendorse R Package for Analyzing Endorsement Ex-perimentsrdquo available through The Comprehensive R Archive Network and GitHub 2012
13 Blair Graeme and Kosuke Imai ldquolist Statistical Methods for the Item Count Techniqueand List Experimentsrdquo available through The Comprehensive R Archive Network andGitHub 2011
11 January 2020
Kosuke Imai
14 Tingley Dustin Teppei Yamamoto Kentaro Hirose Luke Keele and Kosuke Imai ldquome-diation R Package for Causal Mediation Analysisrdquo available through The Comprehen-sive R Archive Network and GitHub 2009 Winner of the Statistical Software AwardReviewed in Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics
15 Imai Kosuke ldquoexperiment R Package for Designing and Analyzing Randomized Exper-imentsrdquo available through The Comprehensive R Archive Network 2007
16 Ho Daniel E Kosuke Imai Gary King and Elizabeth Stuart ldquoMatchIt NonparametricPreprocessing for Parametric Causal Inferencerdquo available through The ComprehensiveR Archive Network and GitHub 2005
17 Imai Kosuke Ying Lu and Aaron Strauss ldquoeco Ecological Inference in 2 times 2 Tablesrdquoavailable through The Comprehensive R Archive Network and GitHub 2004
18 Imai Kosuke and David A van Dyk ldquoMNP R Package for Fitting the MultinomialProbit Modelrdquo available through The Comprehensive R Archive Network and GitHub2004
19 Imai Kosuke Gary King and Olivia Lau ldquoZelig Everyonersquos Statistical Softwarerdquoavailable through The Comprehensive R Archive Network 2004
External Research Grants
Principal Investigator
1 Facebook Research Grant (2018) $20000
2 National Science Foundation (2016ndash2019) ldquoCollaborative Conference Proposal Sup-port for Conferences and Mentoring of Women and Underrepresented Groups in PoliticalMethodologyrdquo (Methodology Measurement and Statistics and Political Science Pro-grams SESndash1628102) Principal Investigator (with Jeffrey Lewis) $312322 Supplement(SESndash1831370) $60000
3 The United States Agency for International Development (2015ndash2017) ldquoUnemploymentand Insurgent Violence in Afghanistan Evidence from the Community DevelopmentProgramrdquo (AIDndashOAAndashAndash12ndash00096) Principal Investigator (with Jason Lyall) $188037
4 The United States Institute of Peace (2015ndash2016) ldquoAssessing the Links between Eco-nomic Interventions and Stability An impact evaluation of vocational and skills trainingin Kandahar Afghanistanrdquo Principal Investigator (with David Haines Jon Kurtz andJason Lyall) $144494
5 Amazon Web Services in Education Research Grant (2014) Principal Investigator (withGraeme Blair and Carlos Velasco Rivera) $3000
6 Development Bank of Latin America (CAF) (2013) ldquoThe Origins of Citizen Support forNarcos An Empirical Investigationrdquo Principal Investigator (with Graeme Blair FabianaMachado and Carlos Velasco Rivera) $15000
12 January 2020
Kosuke Imai
7 The International Growth Centre (2011ndash2013) ldquoPoverty Militancy and Citizen Demandsin Natural Resource-Rich Regions Randomized Evaluation of the Oil Profits DividendPlan for the Niger Deltardquo (RA-2010-12-013) Principal Investigator (with Graeme Blair)$117116
8 National Science Foundation (2009ndash2012) ldquoStatistical Analysis of Causal MechanismsIdentification Inference and Sensitivity Analysisrdquo (Methodology Measurement andStatistics Program and Political Science Program SESndash0918968) Principal Investigator$97574
9 National Science Foundation (2009ndash2011) ldquoCollaborative Research The Measurementand Identification of Media Priming Effects in Political Sciencerdquo (Methodology Measure-ment and Statistics Program and Political Science Program SESndash0849715) PrincipalInvestigator (with Nicholas Valentino) $317126
10 National Science Foundation (2008ndash2009) ldquoNew Statistical Methods for RandomizedExperiments in Political Science and Public Policyrdquo (Political Science Program SESndash0752050) Principal Investigator $52565
11 National Science Foundation (2006ndash2009) ldquoCollaborative Research Generalized Propen-sity Score Methodsrdquo (Methodology Measurement and Statistics Program SESndash0550873)Principal Investigator (with Donald B Rubin and David A van Dyk) $460000
12 The Telecommunications Advancement Foundation (2004) ldquoAnalyzing the Effects ofParty Webpages on Political Opinions and Voting Behaviorrdquo Principal Investigator (withNaoko Taniguchi and Yusaku Horiuchi) $12000
Adviser and Statistical Consultant
1 National Science Foundation (2016ndash2017) ldquoDoctoral Dissertation Research CrossingAfricarsquos Arbitrary Borders How Refugees Shape National Boundaries by ChallengingThemrdquo (Political Science Program SESndash1560636) Principal Investigator and Adviserfor Co-PI Yang-Yang Zhoursquos Dissertation Research $18900
2 Institute of Education Sciences (2012ndash2014) ldquoAcademic and Behavioral Consequencesof Visible Security Measures in Schoolsrdquo (R305A120181) Statistical Consultant (EmilyTanner-Smith Principal Investigator) $351228
3 National Science Foundation (2013ndash2014) ldquoDoctoral Dissertation Research Open Tradefor Sale Lobbying by Productive Exporting Firmrdquo (Political Science Program SESndash1264090) Principal Investigator and Adviser for Co-PI In Song Kimrsquos Dissertation Re-search $22540
4 National Science Foundation (2012ndash2013) ldquoDoctoral Dissertation Research The Poli-tics of Location in Resource Rent Distribution and the Projection of Power in Africardquo(Political Science Program SESndash1260754) Principal Investigator and Adviser for Co-PIGraeme Blairrsquos Dissertation Research $17640
13 January 2020
Kosuke Imai
Invited Short Courses and Outreach Lectures
1 Short Course on Causal Inference and Statistics ndash Department of Political Science RiceUniversity 2009 Institute of Political Science Academia Sinica 2014
2 Short Course on Causal Inference and Identification The Empirical Implications of The-oretical Models (EITM) Summer Institute ndash Harris School of Public Policy University ofChicago 2011 Department of Politics Princeton University 2012
3 Short Course on Causal Mediation Analysis ndash Summer Graduate Seminar Institute ofStatistical Mathematics Tokyo Japan 2010 Society for Research on Educational Effec-tiveness Conference Washington DC Fall 2011 Spring 2012 Spring 2015 Inter-AmericanDevelopment Bank 2012 Center for Education Research University of Wisconsin Madi-son 2012 Bobst Center for Peace and Justice Princeton University 2014 GraduateSchool of Education University of Pennsylvania 2014 EITM Summer Institute DukeUniversity 2014 Center for Lifespan Psychology Max Planck Institute for Human De-velopment 2015 School of Communication Research University of Amsterdam 2015Uppsala University 2016
4 Short Course on Covariate Balancing Propensity Score ndash Society for Research on Ed-ucational Effectiveness Conference Washington DC Spring 2013 Uppsala University2016
5 Short Course on Matching Methods for Causal Inference ndash Institute of Behavioral ScienceUniversity of Colorado Boulder 2009 Department of Political Science Duke University2013
6 Lecture on Statistics and Social Sciences ndash New Jersey Japanese School 2011 2016Kaisei Academy 2012 2014 Princeton University Wilson College 2012 University ofTokyo 2014
Selected Presentations
1 Keynote speaker Special Workshop on Evidence-based Policy Making World EconomicForum Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution Japan 2020
2 Distinguished speaker seminar Institute for Data Systems and Society MassachusettsInstitute of Technology 2019
3 Keynote speaker The Harvard Experimental Political Science Graduate Student Confer-ence Harvard University 2019
4 Invited speaker Beyond Curve Fitting Causation Counterfactuals and Imagination-based AI Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Spring SymposiumStanford University 2019
5 Inaugural speaker Causal Inference Seminar Departments of Biostatistics and StatisticsBoston University 2019
6 Keynote speaker The Second Latin American Political Methodology Meeting Universi-dad de los Andes (Department of Political Science) 2018
14 January 2020
Kosuke Imai
7 Keynote speaker The First Latin American Political Methodology Meeting PontificalCatholic University of Chile (Department of Political Science) 2017
8 Keynote speaker Workshop on Uncovering Causal Mechanisms University of Munich(Department of Economics) 2016
9 Keynote speaker The National Quality Registry Research Conference Stockholm 2016
10 Keynote speaker The UK-Causal Inference Meeting University of Bristol (School ofMathematics) 2015
11 Keynote speaker The UP-STAT Conference the Upstate Chapters of the American Sta-tistical Association 2015
12 Keynote speaker The Winter Conference in Statistics Swedish Statistical Society andUmea University (Department of Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics) 2015
13 Inaugural invited speaker The International Methods Colloquium Rice University 2015
14 Invited speaker The International Meeting on Experimental and Behavioral Social Sci-ences University of Oxford (Nuffield College) 2014
15 Keynote speaker The Annual Conference of Australian Society for Quantitative PoliticalScience University of Sydney 2013
16 Keynote speaker The Graduate Student Conference on Experiments in Interactive Deci-sion Making Princeton University 2008
Conferences Organized
1 The Asian Political Methodology Meetings (January 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 co-organizer)
2 The Experimental Research Workshop (September 2012 co-organizer)
3 The 12th World Meeting of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis (June 2012a member of the organizing committee)
4 Conference on Causal Inference and the Study of Conflict and State Building (May 2012organizer)
5 The 28th Annual Society for Political Methodology Summer Meeting (July 2011 host)
6 Conference on New Methodologies and their Applications in Comparative Politics andInternational Relations (February 2011 co-organizer)
15 January 2020
Kosuke Imai
Teaching
Courses Taught at Harvard
1 STAT 186GOV 2002 Causal Inference introduction to causal inference
2 GOV 2003 Topics in Quantitative Methodology causal inference applied Bayesian statis-tics machine learning
Courses Taught at Princeton
1 POL 245 Visualizing Data exploratory data analysis graphical statistics data visual-ization
2 POL 345 Quantitative Analysis and Politics a first course in quantitative social science
3 POL 451 Statistical Methods in Political Science basic probability and statistical theorytheir applications in the social sciences
4 POL 502 Mathematics for Political Science real analysis linear algebra calculus
5 POL 571 Quantitative Analysis I probability theory statistical theory linear models
6 POL 572 Quantitative Analysis II intermediate applied statistics
7 POL 573 Quantitative Analysis III advanced applied statistics
8 POL 574 Quantitative Analysis IV advanced applied statistics with various topics in-cluding Bayesian statistics and causal inference
9 Reading Courses basic mathematical probability and statistics applied bayesian statis-tics spatial statistics
Advising
Current Students
1 Soubhik Barari
2 Naoki Egami (Primary adviser) To be Assistant Professor Department of PoliticalScience Columbia University
3 Shusei Eshima (Primary adviser)
4 Max Goplerud To be Assistant Professor Department of Political Science University ofPittsburgh
5 June Hwang (Primary adviser)
6 Connor Jerzak
7 Shiro Kuriwaki
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Kosuke Imai
8 Asya Magazinnik To be Assistant Professor Department of Political Science Mas-sachusetts Institute of Technology
9 Sun Young Park
10 Nicole Pashley
11 Casey Petroff
12 Averell Schmidt
13 Diana Stanescu
14 Sooahn Shin
15 Tyler Simko
16 Alex Tarr (Primary adviser)
17 Soichiro Yamauchi (Primary adviser)
18 Erik Wang To be Assistant Professor Department of Political and Social Change Aus-tralian National University
Former Students
1 Brandon de la Cuesta (PhD in 2019 Department of Politics Princeton University)Postdoctoral Fellow Center on Global Poverty and Development Stanford University
2 Yang-Yang Zhou (PhD in 2019 Department of Politics Princeton University) Assis-tant Professor Department of Political Science University of British Columbia
3 Winston Chou (PhD in 2019 Department of Politics Princeton University) ResearchScientist at Facebook
4 Ted Enamorado (PhD in 2019 Department of Politics Princeton University Disserta-tion Committee Chair) Assistant Professor Department of Political Science Universityof North Carolina at Chapel Hill
5 Benjamin Fifield (PhD in 2018 Department of Politics Princeton University Disserta-tion Committee Chair) Research Scientist Facebook
6 Tyler Pratt (PhD in 2018 Department of Politics Princeton University) AssistantProfessor Department of Political Science Yale University
7 Romain Ferrali (PhD in 2018 Department of Politics Princeton University) Postdoc-toral Fellow New York University Abu Dhabi
8 Julia Morse (PhD in 2017 Woodrow Wilson School Princeton University) AssistantProfessor Department of Political Science University of California Santa Barbara
9 Yuki Shiraito (PhD in 2017 Department of Politics Princeton University DissertationCommittee Chair) Assistant Professor Department of Political Science University ofMichigan
17 January 2020
Kosuke Imai
10 Carlos Velasco Rivera (PhD in 2016 Department of Politics Princeton University)Research Scientist Facebook
11 Gabriel Lopez Moctezuma (PhD in 2016 Department of Politics Princeton University)Assistant Professor Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences California Instituteof Technology
12 Graeme Blair (PhD in 2016 Department of Politics Princeton University) AssistantProfessor University of California Los Angeles
13 Jaquilyn R Waddell Boie (PhD in 2015 Department of Politics Princeton University)Private consultant
14 Scott Abramson (PhD in 2014 Department of Politics Princeton University) AssistantProfessor Department of Political Science University of Rochester
15 Michael Barber (PhD in 2014 Department of Politics Princeton University) AssistantProfessor Department of Political Science Brigham Young University
16 In Song Kim (PhD in 2014 Department of Politics Princeton University) AssociateProfessor Department of Political Science Massachusetts Institute of Technology
17 Alex Ruder (PhD in 2014 Department of Politics Princeton University) Senior Com-munity Economic Development Advisor Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
18 Meredith Wilf (PhD in 2014 Department of Politics Princeton University) AssistantProfessor Graduate School of Public and International Affairs University of Pittsburgh
19 Will Bullock (PhD candidate Department of Politics Princeton University) SeniorResearcher Facebook
20 Teppei Yamamoto (PhD in 2011 Department of Politics Princeton University Dis-sertation Committee Chair) Associate Professor Department of Political Science Mas-sachusetts Institute of Technology
21 Dustin Tingley (PhD in 2010 Department of Politics Princeton University) ProfessorDepartment of Government Harvard University
22 Aaron Strauss (PhD in 2009 Department of Politics Princeton University) ExecutiveDirector Analyst Institute
23 Samir Soneji (PhD in 2008 Office of Population Research Princeton University Dis-sertation Committee Chair) Associate Professor Dartmouth Institute for Health Policyamp Clinical Practice Geisel School of Medicine Dartmouth College
24 Ying Lu (PhD in 2005 Woodrow Wilson School Princeton University DissertationCommittee Chair) Associate Professor Steinhardt School of Culture Education andHuman Development New York University
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Former Predocs and Postdocs
1 Zhichao Jiang (Postdoctoral Fellow 2016ndash2019) Assistant Professor Department ofBiostatistics and Epidemiology School of Public Health and Health Sciences Universityof Massachusetts Amherst
2 Adeline Lo (Postdoctoral Fellow 2016ndash2019) Assistant Professor Department of Politi-cal Science University of Wisconsin Madison
3 Yunkyu Sohn (Postdoctoral Fellow 2016ndash2018) Assistant Professor School of PoliticalScience and Economics Waseda University
4 Xiaolin Yang (Postdoctoral Fellow 2015ndash2017) Research Scientist Amazon
5 Santiago Olivella (Postdoctoral Fellow 2015ndash2016) Assistant Professor Department ofPolitical Science University of North Carolina
6 Drew Dimmery (Predoctoral Fellow 2015ndash2016) Research Scientist Facebook
7 James Lo (Postdoctoral Fellow 2014ndash2016) Assistant Professor Department of PoliticalScience University of Southern California
8 Steven Liao (Predoctoral Fellow 2014ndash2015) Assistant Professor Department of Politi-cal Science University of California Riverside
9 Michael Higgins (Postdoctoral Fellow 2013ndash2015) Assistant Professor Department ofStatistics Kansas State University
10 Kentaro Hirose (Postdoctoral Fellow 2012ndash2015) Assistant Professor Waseda Institutefor Advanced Studies
11 Chad Hazlett (Predoctoral Fellow 2013ndash2014) Assistant Professor Departments of Po-litical Science and Statistics University of California Los Angeles
12 Florian Hollenbach (Predoctoral Fellow 2013ndash2014) Assistant Professor Department ofPolitical Science Texas AampM University
13 Marc Ratkovic (Predoctoral and Postdoctoral Fellow 2010ndash2012) Assistant ProfessorDepartment of Politics Princeton University
Editorial and Referee Service
Co-editor for Journal of Causal Inference (2014 ndash present)
Associate editor for American Journal of Political Science (2014 ndash 2019) Journal ofBusiness amp Economic Statistics (2015 ndash 2021) Journal of Causal Inference (2011 ndash 2014)Journal of Experimental Political Science (2013 ndash 2017) Observational Studies (2014 ndashpresent) Political Analysis (2014 ndash 2017)
Editorial board member for Asian Journal of Comparative Politics (2014 ndash present) Jour-nal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics (2011 ndash present) Journal of Politics (2007ndash 2008 2019ndash2020) Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness (2014 ndash present)Political Analysis (2010 ndash 2013) Political Science Research and Methods (2019 ndash present)
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Kosuke Imai
Guest editor for Political Analysis virtual issue on causal inference (2011)
Referee for ACM Computing Surveys American Economic Journal Applied EconomicsAmerican Economic Review Insights American Journal of Epidemiology AmericanJournal of Evaluation American Journal of Political Science American Political ScienceReview American Politics Research Annals of Applied Statistics Annals of StatisticsAnnals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics Biometrics Biometrika BiostatisticsBMC Medical Research Methodology British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psy-chology British Journal of Political Science Canadian Journal of Statistics Chapmanamp HallCRC Press Child Development Communications for Statistical Applications andMethods Computational Statistics and Data Analysis Electoral Studies EconometricaEconometrics Empirical Economics Environmental Management Epidemiology Euro-pean Union Politics IEEE Transactions on Information Theory International Journalof Biostatistics International Journal of Epidemiology International Journal of PublicOpinion Research International Migration Review John Wiley amp Sons Journal of Ap-plied Econometrics Journal of Applied Statistics Journal of Biopharmaceutical Statis-tics Journal of Business and Economic Statistics Journal of Causal Inference Journalof Computational and Graphical Statistics Journal of Conflict Resolution Journal ofConsulting and Clinical Psychology Journal of Econometrics Journal of Educationaland Behavioral Statistics Journal of Empirical Legal Studies Journal of MultivariateAnalysis Journal of Official Statistics Journal of Peace Research Journal of PoliticsJournal of Research on Educational EffectivenessJournal of Statistical Planning and In-ference Journal of Statistical Software Journal of the American Statistical Association(Case Studies and Applications Theory and Methods) Journal of the Japanese and In-ternational Economies Journal of the Japan Statistical Society Journal of the RoyalStatistical Society (Series A Series B Series C) Law amp Social Inquiry Legislative Stud-ies Quarterly Management Science Multivariate Behavioral Research National ScienceFoundation (Economics Methodology Measurement and Statistics Political Science)Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada NeuroImage Osteoporo-sis International Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics Pharmaceutical StatisticsPharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety PLOS One Policy and Internet Political Anal-ysis Political Behavior Political Communication Political Research Quarterly PoliticalScience Research and Methods Population Health Metrics Population Studies PreventionScience Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Princeton University PressPsychological Methods Psychometrika Public Opinion Quarterly Quarterly Journal ofEconomics Quarterly Journal of Political Science Review of Economics and StatisticsRoutledge Sage Publications Scandinavian Journal of Statistics Science Sloan Foun-dation Springer Sociological Methodology Sociological Methods amp Research StatisticalMethodology Statistical Methods and Applications Statistical Methods in Medical Re-search Statistical Science Statistica Sinica Statistics amp Probability Letters Statistics inMedicine Systems Biology US-Israel Binational Science Foundation Value in HealthWorld Politics
University and Departmental Committees
Harvard University
Department of Government
20 January 2020
Kosuke Imai
Member Second-year Progress Committee (2019ndash2020)
Member Placement Committee (2019ndash2020)
Member Graduate Admissions Committee (2018ndash2019)
Member Graduate Poster Session Committee (2018ndash2019)
Department of Statistics
Member Junior Faculty Search Committee (2018ndash2019)
Member Second-year Progress Committee (2018ndash2019)
Princeton University
University
Executive Committee Member Program in Statistics and Machine Learning (2013ndash2018)
Executive Committee Member Committee for Statistical Studies (2011-2018)
Member Organizing Committee Retreat on Data and Information Science at Prince-ton (2016)
Member Council of the Princeton University Community (2015)
Member Search Committee for the Dean of College (2015)
Member Committee on the Library and Computing (2013ndash2016)
Member Committee on the Fund for Experimental Social Science (2013ndash2018)
Member Personally Identifiable Research Data Group (2012ndash2018)
Member Research Computing Advisory Group (2013ndash2018)
Member Task Force on Statistics and Machine Learning (2014ndash2015)
Department of Politics
Chair Department Committee on Research and Computing (2012ndash2018)
Chair Formal and Quantitative Methods Junior Search Committee (2012ndash20132014ndash2015 2016ndash2017)
Chair Reappointment Committee (2015ndash2016)
Member Diversity Initiative Committee (2014ndash2015)
Member American Politics Junior Search Committee (2012ndash2014)
Member Department Chairrsquos Advisory Committee (2010ndash2013 2015ndash2016)
Member Department Priority Committee (2012ndash2013 2014ndash2015 2016ndash2017)
Member Formal and Quantitative Methods Curriculum Committee (2005ndash2006)
Member Formal and Quantitative Methods Junior Search Committee (2009ndash20102015ndash2016)
Member Formal and Quantitative Methods Postdoc Search Committee (2009ndash2018)
Member Graduate Admissions Committee (2012ndash2013)
Member Reappointment Committee (2014ndash2016)
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Kosuke Imai
Member Space Committee (2014ndash2016)
Member Undergraduate Curriculum Committee (2014ndash2015)
Member Undergraduate Exam Committee (2007ndash2008)
Member Undergraduate Thesis Prize Committee (2005ndash2006 2008ndash2011)
Center for Statistics and Machine Learning
Executive Committee Member (2016ndash2018)
Member Search Committee (2015ndash2017)
Services to the Profession
National Academies of Sciences Engineering and Medicine
Committee on National Statistics Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences andEducation Panel on the Review and Evaluation of the 2014 Survey of Income andProgram Participation Content and Design (2014ndash2017)
The Society for Political Methodology
President (2017ndash2019)
Vice President and President Elect (2015ndash2017)
Annual Meeting Committee Chair (2011)
Career Award Committee (2015ndash2017)
Program Committee for Annual Meeting (2012) Chair (2011)
Graduate Student Selection Committee for the Annual Meeting (2005) Chair (2011)
Miller Prize Selection Committee (2010ndash2011)
Statistical Software Award Committee (2009ndash2010)
Emerging Scholar Award Committee (2013)
American Statistical Association
Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics Management Committee (2016 ndashpresent)
Others
External Expert Department of Methodology London School of Economics andPolitical Science (2017 ndash present)
Memberships
American Political Science Association American Statistical Association Midwest Polit-ical Science Association The Society for Political Methodology
22 January 2020
- Contact Information
- Education
- Positions
- Honors and Awards
- Selected Manuscripts
- Publications in English
-
- Book
- Refereed Journal Articles
- Invited Contributions
- Refereed Conference Proceedings
- Other Publications and Manuscripts
-
- Publications in Japanese
- Statistical Software
- External Research Grants
-
- Principal Investigator
- Adviser and Statistical Consultant
-
- Invited Short Courses
- Selected Presentations
- Conferences Organized
- Teaching
-
- Courses Taught at Harvard
- Courses Taught at Princeton
-
- Advising
-
- Current Students
- Former Students
- Former Predocs and Postdocs
-
- Editorial and Referee Service
- University and Departmental Committees
- Services to the Profession
- Memberships
-
Kosuke Imai
35 Ho Daniel E Kosuke Imai Gary King and Elizabeth Stuart (2011) ldquoMatchIt Non-parametric Preprocessing for Parametric Causal Inferencerdquo Journal of Statistical Soft-ware Vol 42 (Special Volume on Political Methodology) No 8 (June) pp 1ndash28
36 Imai Kosuke Ying Lu and Aaron Strauss (2011) ldquoeco R Package for EcologicalInference in 2 times 2 Tablesrdquo Journal of Statistical Software Vol 42 (Special Volume onPolitical Methodology) No 5 (June) pp 1ndash23
37 Imai Kosuke and Aaron Strauss (2011) ldquoEstimation of Heterogeneous TreatmentEffects from Randomized Experiments with Application to the Optimal Planning of theGet-out-the-vote Campaignrdquo Political Analysis Vol 19 No 1 (Winter) pp 1ndash19(lead article) Winner of the Political Analysis Editorsrsquo Choice Award
38 Imai Kosuke Luke Keele and Dustin Tingley (2010) ldquoA General Approach to CausalMediation Analysisrdquo Psychological Methods Vol 15 No 4 (December) pp 309ndash334(lead article)
39 Imai Kosuke and Teppei Yamamoto (2010) ldquoCausal Inference with Differential Mea-surement Error Nonparametric Identification and Sensitivity Analysisrdquo American Jour-nal of Political Science Vol 54 No 2 (April) pp 543ndash560
40 Imai Kosuke Luke Keele and Teppei Yamamoto (2010) ldquoIdentification Inference andSensitivity Analysis for Causal Mediation Effectsrdquo Statistical Science Vol 25 No 1(February) pp 51ndash71
41 King Gary Emmanuela Gakidou Kosuke Imai Jason Lakin Ryan T Moore ClaytonNall Nirmala Ravishankar Manett Vargas Martha Marıa Tellez-Rojo Juan EugenioHernandez Avila Mauricio Hernandez Avila and Hector Hernandez Llamas (2009)ldquoPublic Policy for the Poor A Randomized Ten-Month Evaluation of the MexicanUniversal Health Insurance Programrdquo (with a comment) The Lancet Vol 373 No9673 (April) pp 1447ndash1454
42 Imai Kosuke Gary King and Clayton Nall (2009) ldquoThe Essential Role of Pair Matchingin Cluster-Randomized Experiments with Application to the Mexican Universal HealthInsurance Evaluationrdquo (with discussions) Statistical Science Vol 24 No 1 (February)pp 29ndash53
43 Imai Kosuke (2009) ldquoStatistical Analysis of Randomized Experiments with Nonignor-able Missing Binary Outcomes An Application to a Voting Experimentrdquo Journal of theRoyal Statistical Society Series C (Applied Statistics) Vol 58 No 1 (February) pp83ndash104
44 Imai Kosuke Gary King and Olivia Lau (2008) ldquoToward A Common Framework ofStatistical Analysis and Developmentrdquo Journal of Computational and Graphical Statis-tics Vol 17 No 4 (December) pp 892ndash913
45 Imai Kosuke (2008) ldquoVariance Identification and Efficiency Analysis in Experimentsunder the Matched-Pair Designrdquo Statistics in Medicine Vol 27 No 4 (October) pp4857ndash4873
7 January 2020
Kosuke Imai
46 Ho Daniel E and Kosuke Imai (2008) ldquoEstimating Causal Effects of Ballot Order froma Randomized Natural Experiment California Alphabet Lottery 1978ndash2002rdquo PublicOpinion Quarterly Vol 72 No 2 (Summer) pp 216ndash240
47 Imai Kosuke Gary King and Elizabeth A Stuart (2008) ldquoMisunderstandings amongExperimentalists and Observationalists Balance Test Fallacies in Causal InferencerdquoJournal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A (Statistics in Society) Vol 171 No2 (April) pp 481ndash502 Reprinted in Field Experiments and their Critics D Teele edNew Haven Yale University Press 2013
48 Imai Kosuke Ying Lu and Aaron Strauss (2008) ldquoBayesian and Likelihood EcologicalInference for 2 times 2 Tables An Incomplete Data Approachrdquo Political Analysis Vol 16No 1 (Winter) pp 41ndash69
49 Imai Kosuke (2008) ldquoSharp Bounds on the Causal Effects in Randomized Experimentswith ldquoTruncation-by-Deathrdquordquo Statistics amp Probability Letters Vol 78 No 2 (February)pp 144ndash149
50 Imai Kosuke and Samir Soneji (2007) ldquoOn the Estimation of Disability-Free LifeExpectancy Sullivanrsquos Method and Its Extensionrdquo Journal of the American StatisticalAssociation Vol 102 No 480 (December) pp 1199ndash1211
51 Horiuchi Yusaku Kosuke Imai and Naoko Taniguchi (2007) ldquoDesigning and Analyz-ing Randomized Experiments Application to a Japanese Election Survey ExperimentrdquoAmerican Journal of Political Science Vol 51 No 3 (July) pp 669ndash687
52 Ho Daniel E Kosuke Imai Gary King and Elizabeth A Stuart (2007) ldquoMatchingas Nonparametric Preprocessing for Reducing Model Dependence in Parametric CausalInferencerdquo Political Analysis Vol 15 No 3 (Summer) pp 199ndash236 (lead article)Winner of the Warren Miller Prize
53 Ho Daniel E and Kosuke Imai (2006) ldquoRandomization Inference with Natural Exper-iments An Analysis of Ballot Effects in the 2003 California Recall Electionrdquo Journal ofthe American Statistical Association Vol 101 No 475 (September) pp 888ndash900
54 Imai Kosuke and David A van Dyk (2005) ldquoMNP R Package for Fitting the Multi-nomial Probit Modelrdquo Journal of Statistical Software Vol 14 No 3 (May) pp 1ndash32abstract reprinted in Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics (2005) Vol 14No 3 (September) p 747
55 Imai Kosuke (2005) ldquoDo Get-Out-The-Vote Calls Reduce Turnout The Importanceof Statistical Methods for Field Experimentsrdquo American Political Science Review Vol99 No 2 (May) pp 283ndash300
56 Imai Kosuke and David A van Dyk (2005) ldquoA Bayesian Analysis of the MultinomialProbit Model Using Marginal Data Augmentationrdquo Journal of Econometrics Vol 124No 2 (February) pp 311ndash334
57 Imai Kosuke and David A van Dyk (2004) ldquoCausal Inference With General Treat-ment Regimes Generalizing the Propensity Scorerdquo Journal of the American StatisticalAssociation Vol 99 No 467 (September) pp 854ndash866
8 January 2020
Kosuke Imai
58 Imai Kosuke and Gary King (2004) ldquoDid Illegal Overseas Absentee Ballots Decide the2000 US Presidential Electionrdquo Perspectives on Politics Vol 2 No 3 (September)pp 537ndash549 Our analysis is a part of The New York Times article ldquoHow Bush TookFlorida Mining the Overseas Absentee Voterdquo By David Barstow and Don van Natta JrJuly 15 2001 Page 1 Column 1
Invited Contributions
1 Imai Kosuke and Zhichao Jiang (2019) ldquoComment The Challenges of MultipleCausesrdquo Journal of the American Statistical Association Vol 114 No 528 pp 1605mdash1610
2 Benjamin Daniel J et al (2018) ldquoRedefine Statistical Significancerdquo Nature HumanBehaviour Vol 2 No 1 pp 6ndash10
3 de la Cuesta Brandon and Kosuke Imai (2016) ldquoMisunderstandings about the Regres-sion Discontinuity Design in the Study of Close Electionsrdquo Annual Review of PoliticalScience Vol 19 pp 375ndash396
4 Imai Kosuke (2016) ldquoBook Review of Causal Inference for Statistics Social andBiomedical Sciences An Introduction by Guido W Imbens and Donald B RubinrdquoJournal of the American Statistical Association Vol 111 No 515 pp 1365ndash1366
5 Imai Kosuke Bethany Park and Kenneth F Greene (2015) ldquoUsando as respostasprevisıveis da abordagem list-experiments como variaveis explicativas em modelos deregressaordquo Revista Debates Vol 9 No 1 pp 121ndash151 First printed in PoliticalAnalysis Vol 23 No 2 (Spring)
6 Imai Kosuke Luke Keele Dustin Tingley and Teppei Yamamoto (2014) ldquoCommenton Pearl Practical Implications of Theoretical Results for Causal Mediation AnalysisrdquoPsychological Methods Vol 19 No 4 (December) pp 482ndash487
7 Imai Kosuke Gary King and Elizabeth A Stuart (2014) ldquoMisunderstandings amongExperimentalists and Observationalists Balance Test Fallacies in Causal Inferencerdquo inField Experiments and their Critics Essays on the Uses and Abuses of Experimentationin the Social Sciences D L Teele ed New Haven Yale University Press pp 196ndash227First printed in Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A (Statistics in Society)Vol 171 No 2 (April)
8 Imai Kosuke Dustin Tingley and Teppei Yamamoto (2013) ldquoReply to Discussionsof ldquoExperimental Designs for Identifying Causal Mechanismsrdquordquo Journal of the RoyalStatistical Society Series A (Statistics in Society) Vol 173 No 1 (January) pp 46ndash49
9 Imai Kosuke (2012) ldquoComments Improving Weighting Methods for Causal MediationAnalysisrdquo Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness Vol 5 No 3 pp 293ndash295
10 Imai Kosuke (2011) ldquoIntroduction to the Virtual Issue Past and Future ResearchAgenda on Causal Inferencerdquo Political Analysis Virtual Issue Causal Inference andPolitical Methodology
9 January 2020
Kosuke Imai
11 Imai Kosuke Booil Jo and Elizabeth A Stuart (2011) ldquoCommentary Using PotentialOutcomes to Understand Causal Mediation Analysisrdquo Multivariate Behavioral ResearchVol 46 No 5 pp 842ndash854
12 Imai Kosuke Luke Keele Dustin Tingley and Teppei Yamamoto (2010) ldquoCausalMediation Analysis Using Rrdquo in Advances in Social Science Research Using R H DVinod (ed) New York Springer (Lecture Notes in Statistics) pp 129ndash154
13 Imai Kosuke Gary King and Clayton Nall (2009) ldquoRejoinder Matched Pairs andthe Future of Cluster-Randomized Experimentsrdquo Statistical Science Vol 24 No 1(February) pp 65ndash72
14 Imai Kosuke (2003) ldquoReview of Jeff Gillrsquos Bayesian Methods A Social and BehavioralSciences Approachrdquo The Political Methodologist Vol 11 No 1 9ndash10
Refereed Conference Proceedings
1 Svyatkovskiy Alexey Kosuke Imai Mary Kroeger and Yuki Shiraito (2016) ldquoLarge-scale text processing pipeline with Apache Sparkrdquo IEEE International Conference onBig Data Washington DC pp 3928-3935
Other Publications and Manuscripts
1 Goldstein Daniel Kosuke Imai Anja S Goritz and Peter M Gollwitzer (2008) ldquoNudg-ing Turnout Mere Measurement and Implementation Planning of Intentions to Voterdquo
2 Ho Daniel E and Kosuke Imai (2004) ldquo The Impact of Partisan Electoral RegulationBallot Effects from the California Alphabet Lottery 1978ndash2002rdquo Princeton Law amp PublicAffairs Paper No 04-001 Harvard Public Law Working Paper No 89
3 Imai Kosuke (2003) ldquoEssays on Political Methodologyrdquo PhD Thesis Department ofGovernment Harvard University
4 Imai Kosuke and Jeremy M Weinstein (2000) ldquoMeasuring the Economic Impact ofCivil Warrdquo Working Paper Series No 51 Center for International Development HarvardUniversity
Publications in Japanese
1 Imai Kosuke (2007) ldquoKeiryo Seijigaku niokeru Ingateki Suiron (Causal Inference inQuantitative Political Science)rdquo Leviathan Vol 40 Spring pp 224ndash233
2 Horiuchi Yusaku Kosuke Imai and Naoko Taniguchi (2005) ldquoSeisaku Jyoho to TohyoSanka Field Jikken ni yoru Kensyo (Policy Information and Voter Participation AField Experiment)rdquo Nenpo Seijigaku (The Annals of the Japanese Political ScienceAssociation) 2005ndashI pp 161ndash180
3 Taniguchi Naoko Yusaku Horiuchi and Kosuke Imai (2004) ldquoSeito Saito no Etsuranha Tohyo Kodo ni Eikyo Suruka (Does Visiting Political Party Websites Influence VotingBehavior)rdquo Nikkei Research Report Vol IV pp 16ndash19
10 January 2020
Kosuke Imai
Statistical Software
1 Kim In Song Erik Wang Adam Rauh and Kosuke Imai ldquoPanelMatch MatchingMethods for Causal Inference with Time-Series Cross-Section Datardquo available throughGitHub 2018
2 Olivella Santiago Adeline Lo Tyler Pratt and Kosuke Imai ldquoNetMix Mixed-membershipRegression Stochastic Blockmodel for Networksrdquo available through CRAN and Github2019
3 Egami Naoki Brandon de la Cuesta and Kosuke Imai ldquofactorEx Design and Analysisfor Factorial Experimentsrdquo available through The Comprehensive R Archive Networkand GitHub 2019
4 Enamorado Ted Benjamin Fifield and Kosuke Imai ldquofastLink Fast ProbabilisticRecord Linkagerdquo available through The Comprehensive R Archive Network and GitHub2017
5 Khanna Kabir and Kosuke Imai ldquowru Who Are You Bayesian Predictions of RacialCategory Using Surname and Geolocationrdquo available through The Comprehensive RArchive Network and GitHub 2015
6 Fifield Benjamin Alexander Tarr Michael Higgins and Kosuke Imai ldquoredist MarkovChain Monte Carlo Methods for Redistricting Simulationrdquo available through The Com-prehensive R Archive Network and GitHub 2015
7 Imai Kosuke James Lo and Jonathan Olmsted ldquoemIRT EM Algorithms for Estimat-ing Item Response Theory Modelsrdquo available through The Comprehensive R ArchiveNetwork 2015
8 Blair Graeme Yang-Yang Zhou and Kosuke Imai ldquorr Statistical Methods for theRandomized Response Techniquerdquo available through The Comprehensive R ArchiveNetwork and GitHub 2015
9 Fong Christian Marc Ratkovic and Kosuke Imai ldquoCBPS R Package for CovariateBalancing Propensity Scorerdquo available through The Comprehensive R Archive Networkand GitHub 2012
10 Egami Naoki Marc Ratkovic and Kosuke Imai ldquoFindIt R Package for Finding Hetero-geneous Treatment Effectsrdquo available through The Comprehensive R Archive Networkand GitHub 2012
11 Kim In Song and Kosuke Imai ldquowfe Weighted Linear Fixed Effects Regression Modelsfor Causal Inferencerdquo available through The Comprehensive R Archive Network 2011
12 Shiraito Yuki and Kosuke Imai ldquoendorse R Package for Analyzing Endorsement Ex-perimentsrdquo available through The Comprehensive R Archive Network and GitHub 2012
13 Blair Graeme and Kosuke Imai ldquolist Statistical Methods for the Item Count Techniqueand List Experimentsrdquo available through The Comprehensive R Archive Network andGitHub 2011
11 January 2020
Kosuke Imai
14 Tingley Dustin Teppei Yamamoto Kentaro Hirose Luke Keele and Kosuke Imai ldquome-diation R Package for Causal Mediation Analysisrdquo available through The Comprehen-sive R Archive Network and GitHub 2009 Winner of the Statistical Software AwardReviewed in Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics
15 Imai Kosuke ldquoexperiment R Package for Designing and Analyzing Randomized Exper-imentsrdquo available through The Comprehensive R Archive Network 2007
16 Ho Daniel E Kosuke Imai Gary King and Elizabeth Stuart ldquoMatchIt NonparametricPreprocessing for Parametric Causal Inferencerdquo available through The ComprehensiveR Archive Network and GitHub 2005
17 Imai Kosuke Ying Lu and Aaron Strauss ldquoeco Ecological Inference in 2 times 2 Tablesrdquoavailable through The Comprehensive R Archive Network and GitHub 2004
18 Imai Kosuke and David A van Dyk ldquoMNP R Package for Fitting the MultinomialProbit Modelrdquo available through The Comprehensive R Archive Network and GitHub2004
19 Imai Kosuke Gary King and Olivia Lau ldquoZelig Everyonersquos Statistical Softwarerdquoavailable through The Comprehensive R Archive Network 2004
External Research Grants
Principal Investigator
1 Facebook Research Grant (2018) $20000
2 National Science Foundation (2016ndash2019) ldquoCollaborative Conference Proposal Sup-port for Conferences and Mentoring of Women and Underrepresented Groups in PoliticalMethodologyrdquo (Methodology Measurement and Statistics and Political Science Pro-grams SESndash1628102) Principal Investigator (with Jeffrey Lewis) $312322 Supplement(SESndash1831370) $60000
3 The United States Agency for International Development (2015ndash2017) ldquoUnemploymentand Insurgent Violence in Afghanistan Evidence from the Community DevelopmentProgramrdquo (AIDndashOAAndashAndash12ndash00096) Principal Investigator (with Jason Lyall) $188037
4 The United States Institute of Peace (2015ndash2016) ldquoAssessing the Links between Eco-nomic Interventions and Stability An impact evaluation of vocational and skills trainingin Kandahar Afghanistanrdquo Principal Investigator (with David Haines Jon Kurtz andJason Lyall) $144494
5 Amazon Web Services in Education Research Grant (2014) Principal Investigator (withGraeme Blair and Carlos Velasco Rivera) $3000
6 Development Bank of Latin America (CAF) (2013) ldquoThe Origins of Citizen Support forNarcos An Empirical Investigationrdquo Principal Investigator (with Graeme Blair FabianaMachado and Carlos Velasco Rivera) $15000
12 January 2020
Kosuke Imai
7 The International Growth Centre (2011ndash2013) ldquoPoverty Militancy and Citizen Demandsin Natural Resource-Rich Regions Randomized Evaluation of the Oil Profits DividendPlan for the Niger Deltardquo (RA-2010-12-013) Principal Investigator (with Graeme Blair)$117116
8 National Science Foundation (2009ndash2012) ldquoStatistical Analysis of Causal MechanismsIdentification Inference and Sensitivity Analysisrdquo (Methodology Measurement andStatistics Program and Political Science Program SESndash0918968) Principal Investigator$97574
9 National Science Foundation (2009ndash2011) ldquoCollaborative Research The Measurementand Identification of Media Priming Effects in Political Sciencerdquo (Methodology Measure-ment and Statistics Program and Political Science Program SESndash0849715) PrincipalInvestigator (with Nicholas Valentino) $317126
10 National Science Foundation (2008ndash2009) ldquoNew Statistical Methods for RandomizedExperiments in Political Science and Public Policyrdquo (Political Science Program SESndash0752050) Principal Investigator $52565
11 National Science Foundation (2006ndash2009) ldquoCollaborative Research Generalized Propen-sity Score Methodsrdquo (Methodology Measurement and Statistics Program SESndash0550873)Principal Investigator (with Donald B Rubin and David A van Dyk) $460000
12 The Telecommunications Advancement Foundation (2004) ldquoAnalyzing the Effects ofParty Webpages on Political Opinions and Voting Behaviorrdquo Principal Investigator (withNaoko Taniguchi and Yusaku Horiuchi) $12000
Adviser and Statistical Consultant
1 National Science Foundation (2016ndash2017) ldquoDoctoral Dissertation Research CrossingAfricarsquos Arbitrary Borders How Refugees Shape National Boundaries by ChallengingThemrdquo (Political Science Program SESndash1560636) Principal Investigator and Adviserfor Co-PI Yang-Yang Zhoursquos Dissertation Research $18900
2 Institute of Education Sciences (2012ndash2014) ldquoAcademic and Behavioral Consequencesof Visible Security Measures in Schoolsrdquo (R305A120181) Statistical Consultant (EmilyTanner-Smith Principal Investigator) $351228
3 National Science Foundation (2013ndash2014) ldquoDoctoral Dissertation Research Open Tradefor Sale Lobbying by Productive Exporting Firmrdquo (Political Science Program SESndash1264090) Principal Investigator and Adviser for Co-PI In Song Kimrsquos Dissertation Re-search $22540
4 National Science Foundation (2012ndash2013) ldquoDoctoral Dissertation Research The Poli-tics of Location in Resource Rent Distribution and the Projection of Power in Africardquo(Political Science Program SESndash1260754) Principal Investigator and Adviser for Co-PIGraeme Blairrsquos Dissertation Research $17640
13 January 2020
Kosuke Imai
Invited Short Courses and Outreach Lectures
1 Short Course on Causal Inference and Statistics ndash Department of Political Science RiceUniversity 2009 Institute of Political Science Academia Sinica 2014
2 Short Course on Causal Inference and Identification The Empirical Implications of The-oretical Models (EITM) Summer Institute ndash Harris School of Public Policy University ofChicago 2011 Department of Politics Princeton University 2012
3 Short Course on Causal Mediation Analysis ndash Summer Graduate Seminar Institute ofStatistical Mathematics Tokyo Japan 2010 Society for Research on Educational Effec-tiveness Conference Washington DC Fall 2011 Spring 2012 Spring 2015 Inter-AmericanDevelopment Bank 2012 Center for Education Research University of Wisconsin Madi-son 2012 Bobst Center for Peace and Justice Princeton University 2014 GraduateSchool of Education University of Pennsylvania 2014 EITM Summer Institute DukeUniversity 2014 Center for Lifespan Psychology Max Planck Institute for Human De-velopment 2015 School of Communication Research University of Amsterdam 2015Uppsala University 2016
4 Short Course on Covariate Balancing Propensity Score ndash Society for Research on Ed-ucational Effectiveness Conference Washington DC Spring 2013 Uppsala University2016
5 Short Course on Matching Methods for Causal Inference ndash Institute of Behavioral ScienceUniversity of Colorado Boulder 2009 Department of Political Science Duke University2013
6 Lecture on Statistics and Social Sciences ndash New Jersey Japanese School 2011 2016Kaisei Academy 2012 2014 Princeton University Wilson College 2012 University ofTokyo 2014
Selected Presentations
1 Keynote speaker Special Workshop on Evidence-based Policy Making World EconomicForum Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution Japan 2020
2 Distinguished speaker seminar Institute for Data Systems and Society MassachusettsInstitute of Technology 2019
3 Keynote speaker The Harvard Experimental Political Science Graduate Student Confer-ence Harvard University 2019
4 Invited speaker Beyond Curve Fitting Causation Counterfactuals and Imagination-based AI Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Spring SymposiumStanford University 2019
5 Inaugural speaker Causal Inference Seminar Departments of Biostatistics and StatisticsBoston University 2019
6 Keynote speaker The Second Latin American Political Methodology Meeting Universi-dad de los Andes (Department of Political Science) 2018
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Kosuke Imai
7 Keynote speaker The First Latin American Political Methodology Meeting PontificalCatholic University of Chile (Department of Political Science) 2017
8 Keynote speaker Workshop on Uncovering Causal Mechanisms University of Munich(Department of Economics) 2016
9 Keynote speaker The National Quality Registry Research Conference Stockholm 2016
10 Keynote speaker The UK-Causal Inference Meeting University of Bristol (School ofMathematics) 2015
11 Keynote speaker The UP-STAT Conference the Upstate Chapters of the American Sta-tistical Association 2015
12 Keynote speaker The Winter Conference in Statistics Swedish Statistical Society andUmea University (Department of Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics) 2015
13 Inaugural invited speaker The International Methods Colloquium Rice University 2015
14 Invited speaker The International Meeting on Experimental and Behavioral Social Sci-ences University of Oxford (Nuffield College) 2014
15 Keynote speaker The Annual Conference of Australian Society for Quantitative PoliticalScience University of Sydney 2013
16 Keynote speaker The Graduate Student Conference on Experiments in Interactive Deci-sion Making Princeton University 2008
Conferences Organized
1 The Asian Political Methodology Meetings (January 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 co-organizer)
2 The Experimental Research Workshop (September 2012 co-organizer)
3 The 12th World Meeting of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis (June 2012a member of the organizing committee)
4 Conference on Causal Inference and the Study of Conflict and State Building (May 2012organizer)
5 The 28th Annual Society for Political Methodology Summer Meeting (July 2011 host)
6 Conference on New Methodologies and their Applications in Comparative Politics andInternational Relations (February 2011 co-organizer)
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Kosuke Imai
Teaching
Courses Taught at Harvard
1 STAT 186GOV 2002 Causal Inference introduction to causal inference
2 GOV 2003 Topics in Quantitative Methodology causal inference applied Bayesian statis-tics machine learning
Courses Taught at Princeton
1 POL 245 Visualizing Data exploratory data analysis graphical statistics data visual-ization
2 POL 345 Quantitative Analysis and Politics a first course in quantitative social science
3 POL 451 Statistical Methods in Political Science basic probability and statistical theorytheir applications in the social sciences
4 POL 502 Mathematics for Political Science real analysis linear algebra calculus
5 POL 571 Quantitative Analysis I probability theory statistical theory linear models
6 POL 572 Quantitative Analysis II intermediate applied statistics
7 POL 573 Quantitative Analysis III advanced applied statistics
8 POL 574 Quantitative Analysis IV advanced applied statistics with various topics in-cluding Bayesian statistics and causal inference
9 Reading Courses basic mathematical probability and statistics applied bayesian statis-tics spatial statistics
Advising
Current Students
1 Soubhik Barari
2 Naoki Egami (Primary adviser) To be Assistant Professor Department of PoliticalScience Columbia University
3 Shusei Eshima (Primary adviser)
4 Max Goplerud To be Assistant Professor Department of Political Science University ofPittsburgh
5 June Hwang (Primary adviser)
6 Connor Jerzak
7 Shiro Kuriwaki
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Kosuke Imai
8 Asya Magazinnik To be Assistant Professor Department of Political Science Mas-sachusetts Institute of Technology
9 Sun Young Park
10 Nicole Pashley
11 Casey Petroff
12 Averell Schmidt
13 Diana Stanescu
14 Sooahn Shin
15 Tyler Simko
16 Alex Tarr (Primary adviser)
17 Soichiro Yamauchi (Primary adviser)
18 Erik Wang To be Assistant Professor Department of Political and Social Change Aus-tralian National University
Former Students
1 Brandon de la Cuesta (PhD in 2019 Department of Politics Princeton University)Postdoctoral Fellow Center on Global Poverty and Development Stanford University
2 Yang-Yang Zhou (PhD in 2019 Department of Politics Princeton University) Assis-tant Professor Department of Political Science University of British Columbia
3 Winston Chou (PhD in 2019 Department of Politics Princeton University) ResearchScientist at Facebook
4 Ted Enamorado (PhD in 2019 Department of Politics Princeton University Disserta-tion Committee Chair) Assistant Professor Department of Political Science Universityof North Carolina at Chapel Hill
5 Benjamin Fifield (PhD in 2018 Department of Politics Princeton University Disserta-tion Committee Chair) Research Scientist Facebook
6 Tyler Pratt (PhD in 2018 Department of Politics Princeton University) AssistantProfessor Department of Political Science Yale University
7 Romain Ferrali (PhD in 2018 Department of Politics Princeton University) Postdoc-toral Fellow New York University Abu Dhabi
8 Julia Morse (PhD in 2017 Woodrow Wilson School Princeton University) AssistantProfessor Department of Political Science University of California Santa Barbara
9 Yuki Shiraito (PhD in 2017 Department of Politics Princeton University DissertationCommittee Chair) Assistant Professor Department of Political Science University ofMichigan
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Kosuke Imai
10 Carlos Velasco Rivera (PhD in 2016 Department of Politics Princeton University)Research Scientist Facebook
11 Gabriel Lopez Moctezuma (PhD in 2016 Department of Politics Princeton University)Assistant Professor Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences California Instituteof Technology
12 Graeme Blair (PhD in 2016 Department of Politics Princeton University) AssistantProfessor University of California Los Angeles
13 Jaquilyn R Waddell Boie (PhD in 2015 Department of Politics Princeton University)Private consultant
14 Scott Abramson (PhD in 2014 Department of Politics Princeton University) AssistantProfessor Department of Political Science University of Rochester
15 Michael Barber (PhD in 2014 Department of Politics Princeton University) AssistantProfessor Department of Political Science Brigham Young University
16 In Song Kim (PhD in 2014 Department of Politics Princeton University) AssociateProfessor Department of Political Science Massachusetts Institute of Technology
17 Alex Ruder (PhD in 2014 Department of Politics Princeton University) Senior Com-munity Economic Development Advisor Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
18 Meredith Wilf (PhD in 2014 Department of Politics Princeton University) AssistantProfessor Graduate School of Public and International Affairs University of Pittsburgh
19 Will Bullock (PhD candidate Department of Politics Princeton University) SeniorResearcher Facebook
20 Teppei Yamamoto (PhD in 2011 Department of Politics Princeton University Dis-sertation Committee Chair) Associate Professor Department of Political Science Mas-sachusetts Institute of Technology
21 Dustin Tingley (PhD in 2010 Department of Politics Princeton University) ProfessorDepartment of Government Harvard University
22 Aaron Strauss (PhD in 2009 Department of Politics Princeton University) ExecutiveDirector Analyst Institute
23 Samir Soneji (PhD in 2008 Office of Population Research Princeton University Dis-sertation Committee Chair) Associate Professor Dartmouth Institute for Health Policyamp Clinical Practice Geisel School of Medicine Dartmouth College
24 Ying Lu (PhD in 2005 Woodrow Wilson School Princeton University DissertationCommittee Chair) Associate Professor Steinhardt School of Culture Education andHuman Development New York University
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Kosuke Imai
Former Predocs and Postdocs
1 Zhichao Jiang (Postdoctoral Fellow 2016ndash2019) Assistant Professor Department ofBiostatistics and Epidemiology School of Public Health and Health Sciences Universityof Massachusetts Amherst
2 Adeline Lo (Postdoctoral Fellow 2016ndash2019) Assistant Professor Department of Politi-cal Science University of Wisconsin Madison
3 Yunkyu Sohn (Postdoctoral Fellow 2016ndash2018) Assistant Professor School of PoliticalScience and Economics Waseda University
4 Xiaolin Yang (Postdoctoral Fellow 2015ndash2017) Research Scientist Amazon
5 Santiago Olivella (Postdoctoral Fellow 2015ndash2016) Assistant Professor Department ofPolitical Science University of North Carolina
6 Drew Dimmery (Predoctoral Fellow 2015ndash2016) Research Scientist Facebook
7 James Lo (Postdoctoral Fellow 2014ndash2016) Assistant Professor Department of PoliticalScience University of Southern California
8 Steven Liao (Predoctoral Fellow 2014ndash2015) Assistant Professor Department of Politi-cal Science University of California Riverside
9 Michael Higgins (Postdoctoral Fellow 2013ndash2015) Assistant Professor Department ofStatistics Kansas State University
10 Kentaro Hirose (Postdoctoral Fellow 2012ndash2015) Assistant Professor Waseda Institutefor Advanced Studies
11 Chad Hazlett (Predoctoral Fellow 2013ndash2014) Assistant Professor Departments of Po-litical Science and Statistics University of California Los Angeles
12 Florian Hollenbach (Predoctoral Fellow 2013ndash2014) Assistant Professor Department ofPolitical Science Texas AampM University
13 Marc Ratkovic (Predoctoral and Postdoctoral Fellow 2010ndash2012) Assistant ProfessorDepartment of Politics Princeton University
Editorial and Referee Service
Co-editor for Journal of Causal Inference (2014 ndash present)
Associate editor for American Journal of Political Science (2014 ndash 2019) Journal ofBusiness amp Economic Statistics (2015 ndash 2021) Journal of Causal Inference (2011 ndash 2014)Journal of Experimental Political Science (2013 ndash 2017) Observational Studies (2014 ndashpresent) Political Analysis (2014 ndash 2017)
Editorial board member for Asian Journal of Comparative Politics (2014 ndash present) Jour-nal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics (2011 ndash present) Journal of Politics (2007ndash 2008 2019ndash2020) Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness (2014 ndash present)Political Analysis (2010 ndash 2013) Political Science Research and Methods (2019 ndash present)
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Kosuke Imai
Guest editor for Political Analysis virtual issue on causal inference (2011)
Referee for ACM Computing Surveys American Economic Journal Applied EconomicsAmerican Economic Review Insights American Journal of Epidemiology AmericanJournal of Evaluation American Journal of Political Science American Political ScienceReview American Politics Research Annals of Applied Statistics Annals of StatisticsAnnals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics Biometrics Biometrika BiostatisticsBMC Medical Research Methodology British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psy-chology British Journal of Political Science Canadian Journal of Statistics Chapmanamp HallCRC Press Child Development Communications for Statistical Applications andMethods Computational Statistics and Data Analysis Electoral Studies EconometricaEconometrics Empirical Economics Environmental Management Epidemiology Euro-pean Union Politics IEEE Transactions on Information Theory International Journalof Biostatistics International Journal of Epidemiology International Journal of PublicOpinion Research International Migration Review John Wiley amp Sons Journal of Ap-plied Econometrics Journal of Applied Statistics Journal of Biopharmaceutical Statis-tics Journal of Business and Economic Statistics Journal of Causal Inference Journalof Computational and Graphical Statistics Journal of Conflict Resolution Journal ofConsulting and Clinical Psychology Journal of Econometrics Journal of Educationaland Behavioral Statistics Journal of Empirical Legal Studies Journal of MultivariateAnalysis Journal of Official Statistics Journal of Peace Research Journal of PoliticsJournal of Research on Educational EffectivenessJournal of Statistical Planning and In-ference Journal of Statistical Software Journal of the American Statistical Association(Case Studies and Applications Theory and Methods) Journal of the Japanese and In-ternational Economies Journal of the Japan Statistical Society Journal of the RoyalStatistical Society (Series A Series B Series C) Law amp Social Inquiry Legislative Stud-ies Quarterly Management Science Multivariate Behavioral Research National ScienceFoundation (Economics Methodology Measurement and Statistics Political Science)Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada NeuroImage Osteoporo-sis International Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics Pharmaceutical StatisticsPharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety PLOS One Policy and Internet Political Anal-ysis Political Behavior Political Communication Political Research Quarterly PoliticalScience Research and Methods Population Health Metrics Population Studies PreventionScience Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Princeton University PressPsychological Methods Psychometrika Public Opinion Quarterly Quarterly Journal ofEconomics Quarterly Journal of Political Science Review of Economics and StatisticsRoutledge Sage Publications Scandinavian Journal of Statistics Science Sloan Foun-dation Springer Sociological Methodology Sociological Methods amp Research StatisticalMethodology Statistical Methods and Applications Statistical Methods in Medical Re-search Statistical Science Statistica Sinica Statistics amp Probability Letters Statistics inMedicine Systems Biology US-Israel Binational Science Foundation Value in HealthWorld Politics
University and Departmental Committees
Harvard University
Department of Government
20 January 2020
Kosuke Imai
Member Second-year Progress Committee (2019ndash2020)
Member Placement Committee (2019ndash2020)
Member Graduate Admissions Committee (2018ndash2019)
Member Graduate Poster Session Committee (2018ndash2019)
Department of Statistics
Member Junior Faculty Search Committee (2018ndash2019)
Member Second-year Progress Committee (2018ndash2019)
Princeton University
University
Executive Committee Member Program in Statistics and Machine Learning (2013ndash2018)
Executive Committee Member Committee for Statistical Studies (2011-2018)
Member Organizing Committee Retreat on Data and Information Science at Prince-ton (2016)
Member Council of the Princeton University Community (2015)
Member Search Committee for the Dean of College (2015)
Member Committee on the Library and Computing (2013ndash2016)
Member Committee on the Fund for Experimental Social Science (2013ndash2018)
Member Personally Identifiable Research Data Group (2012ndash2018)
Member Research Computing Advisory Group (2013ndash2018)
Member Task Force on Statistics and Machine Learning (2014ndash2015)
Department of Politics
Chair Department Committee on Research and Computing (2012ndash2018)
Chair Formal and Quantitative Methods Junior Search Committee (2012ndash20132014ndash2015 2016ndash2017)
Chair Reappointment Committee (2015ndash2016)
Member Diversity Initiative Committee (2014ndash2015)
Member American Politics Junior Search Committee (2012ndash2014)
Member Department Chairrsquos Advisory Committee (2010ndash2013 2015ndash2016)
Member Department Priority Committee (2012ndash2013 2014ndash2015 2016ndash2017)
Member Formal and Quantitative Methods Curriculum Committee (2005ndash2006)
Member Formal and Quantitative Methods Junior Search Committee (2009ndash20102015ndash2016)
Member Formal and Quantitative Methods Postdoc Search Committee (2009ndash2018)
Member Graduate Admissions Committee (2012ndash2013)
Member Reappointment Committee (2014ndash2016)
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Kosuke Imai
Member Space Committee (2014ndash2016)
Member Undergraduate Curriculum Committee (2014ndash2015)
Member Undergraduate Exam Committee (2007ndash2008)
Member Undergraduate Thesis Prize Committee (2005ndash2006 2008ndash2011)
Center for Statistics and Machine Learning
Executive Committee Member (2016ndash2018)
Member Search Committee (2015ndash2017)
Services to the Profession
National Academies of Sciences Engineering and Medicine
Committee on National Statistics Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences andEducation Panel on the Review and Evaluation of the 2014 Survey of Income andProgram Participation Content and Design (2014ndash2017)
The Society for Political Methodology
President (2017ndash2019)
Vice President and President Elect (2015ndash2017)
Annual Meeting Committee Chair (2011)
Career Award Committee (2015ndash2017)
Program Committee for Annual Meeting (2012) Chair (2011)
Graduate Student Selection Committee for the Annual Meeting (2005) Chair (2011)
Miller Prize Selection Committee (2010ndash2011)
Statistical Software Award Committee (2009ndash2010)
Emerging Scholar Award Committee (2013)
American Statistical Association
Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics Management Committee (2016 ndashpresent)
Others
External Expert Department of Methodology London School of Economics andPolitical Science (2017 ndash present)
Memberships
American Political Science Association American Statistical Association Midwest Polit-ical Science Association The Society for Political Methodology
22 January 2020
- Contact Information
- Education
- Positions
- Honors and Awards
- Selected Manuscripts
- Publications in English
-
- Book
- Refereed Journal Articles
- Invited Contributions
- Refereed Conference Proceedings
- Other Publications and Manuscripts
-
- Publications in Japanese
- Statistical Software
- External Research Grants
-
- Principal Investigator
- Adviser and Statistical Consultant
-
- Invited Short Courses
- Selected Presentations
- Conferences Organized
- Teaching
-
- Courses Taught at Harvard
- Courses Taught at Princeton
-
- Advising
-
- Current Students
- Former Students
- Former Predocs and Postdocs
-
- Editorial and Referee Service
- University and Departmental Committees
- Services to the Profession
- Memberships
-
Kosuke Imai
46 Ho Daniel E and Kosuke Imai (2008) ldquoEstimating Causal Effects of Ballot Order froma Randomized Natural Experiment California Alphabet Lottery 1978ndash2002rdquo PublicOpinion Quarterly Vol 72 No 2 (Summer) pp 216ndash240
47 Imai Kosuke Gary King and Elizabeth A Stuart (2008) ldquoMisunderstandings amongExperimentalists and Observationalists Balance Test Fallacies in Causal InferencerdquoJournal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A (Statistics in Society) Vol 171 No2 (April) pp 481ndash502 Reprinted in Field Experiments and their Critics D Teele edNew Haven Yale University Press 2013
48 Imai Kosuke Ying Lu and Aaron Strauss (2008) ldquoBayesian and Likelihood EcologicalInference for 2 times 2 Tables An Incomplete Data Approachrdquo Political Analysis Vol 16No 1 (Winter) pp 41ndash69
49 Imai Kosuke (2008) ldquoSharp Bounds on the Causal Effects in Randomized Experimentswith ldquoTruncation-by-Deathrdquordquo Statistics amp Probability Letters Vol 78 No 2 (February)pp 144ndash149
50 Imai Kosuke and Samir Soneji (2007) ldquoOn the Estimation of Disability-Free LifeExpectancy Sullivanrsquos Method and Its Extensionrdquo Journal of the American StatisticalAssociation Vol 102 No 480 (December) pp 1199ndash1211
51 Horiuchi Yusaku Kosuke Imai and Naoko Taniguchi (2007) ldquoDesigning and Analyz-ing Randomized Experiments Application to a Japanese Election Survey ExperimentrdquoAmerican Journal of Political Science Vol 51 No 3 (July) pp 669ndash687
52 Ho Daniel E Kosuke Imai Gary King and Elizabeth A Stuart (2007) ldquoMatchingas Nonparametric Preprocessing for Reducing Model Dependence in Parametric CausalInferencerdquo Political Analysis Vol 15 No 3 (Summer) pp 199ndash236 (lead article)Winner of the Warren Miller Prize
53 Ho Daniel E and Kosuke Imai (2006) ldquoRandomization Inference with Natural Exper-iments An Analysis of Ballot Effects in the 2003 California Recall Electionrdquo Journal ofthe American Statistical Association Vol 101 No 475 (September) pp 888ndash900
54 Imai Kosuke and David A van Dyk (2005) ldquoMNP R Package for Fitting the Multi-nomial Probit Modelrdquo Journal of Statistical Software Vol 14 No 3 (May) pp 1ndash32abstract reprinted in Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics (2005) Vol 14No 3 (September) p 747
55 Imai Kosuke (2005) ldquoDo Get-Out-The-Vote Calls Reduce Turnout The Importanceof Statistical Methods for Field Experimentsrdquo American Political Science Review Vol99 No 2 (May) pp 283ndash300
56 Imai Kosuke and David A van Dyk (2005) ldquoA Bayesian Analysis of the MultinomialProbit Model Using Marginal Data Augmentationrdquo Journal of Econometrics Vol 124No 2 (February) pp 311ndash334
57 Imai Kosuke and David A van Dyk (2004) ldquoCausal Inference With General Treat-ment Regimes Generalizing the Propensity Scorerdquo Journal of the American StatisticalAssociation Vol 99 No 467 (September) pp 854ndash866
8 January 2020
Kosuke Imai
58 Imai Kosuke and Gary King (2004) ldquoDid Illegal Overseas Absentee Ballots Decide the2000 US Presidential Electionrdquo Perspectives on Politics Vol 2 No 3 (September)pp 537ndash549 Our analysis is a part of The New York Times article ldquoHow Bush TookFlorida Mining the Overseas Absentee Voterdquo By David Barstow and Don van Natta JrJuly 15 2001 Page 1 Column 1
Invited Contributions
1 Imai Kosuke and Zhichao Jiang (2019) ldquoComment The Challenges of MultipleCausesrdquo Journal of the American Statistical Association Vol 114 No 528 pp 1605mdash1610
2 Benjamin Daniel J et al (2018) ldquoRedefine Statistical Significancerdquo Nature HumanBehaviour Vol 2 No 1 pp 6ndash10
3 de la Cuesta Brandon and Kosuke Imai (2016) ldquoMisunderstandings about the Regres-sion Discontinuity Design in the Study of Close Electionsrdquo Annual Review of PoliticalScience Vol 19 pp 375ndash396
4 Imai Kosuke (2016) ldquoBook Review of Causal Inference for Statistics Social andBiomedical Sciences An Introduction by Guido W Imbens and Donald B RubinrdquoJournal of the American Statistical Association Vol 111 No 515 pp 1365ndash1366
5 Imai Kosuke Bethany Park and Kenneth F Greene (2015) ldquoUsando as respostasprevisıveis da abordagem list-experiments como variaveis explicativas em modelos deregressaordquo Revista Debates Vol 9 No 1 pp 121ndash151 First printed in PoliticalAnalysis Vol 23 No 2 (Spring)
6 Imai Kosuke Luke Keele Dustin Tingley and Teppei Yamamoto (2014) ldquoCommenton Pearl Practical Implications of Theoretical Results for Causal Mediation AnalysisrdquoPsychological Methods Vol 19 No 4 (December) pp 482ndash487
7 Imai Kosuke Gary King and Elizabeth A Stuart (2014) ldquoMisunderstandings amongExperimentalists and Observationalists Balance Test Fallacies in Causal Inferencerdquo inField Experiments and their Critics Essays on the Uses and Abuses of Experimentationin the Social Sciences D L Teele ed New Haven Yale University Press pp 196ndash227First printed in Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A (Statistics in Society)Vol 171 No 2 (April)
8 Imai Kosuke Dustin Tingley and Teppei Yamamoto (2013) ldquoReply to Discussionsof ldquoExperimental Designs for Identifying Causal Mechanismsrdquordquo Journal of the RoyalStatistical Society Series A (Statistics in Society) Vol 173 No 1 (January) pp 46ndash49
9 Imai Kosuke (2012) ldquoComments Improving Weighting Methods for Causal MediationAnalysisrdquo Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness Vol 5 No 3 pp 293ndash295
10 Imai Kosuke (2011) ldquoIntroduction to the Virtual Issue Past and Future ResearchAgenda on Causal Inferencerdquo Political Analysis Virtual Issue Causal Inference andPolitical Methodology
9 January 2020
Kosuke Imai
11 Imai Kosuke Booil Jo and Elizabeth A Stuart (2011) ldquoCommentary Using PotentialOutcomes to Understand Causal Mediation Analysisrdquo Multivariate Behavioral ResearchVol 46 No 5 pp 842ndash854
12 Imai Kosuke Luke Keele Dustin Tingley and Teppei Yamamoto (2010) ldquoCausalMediation Analysis Using Rrdquo in Advances in Social Science Research Using R H DVinod (ed) New York Springer (Lecture Notes in Statistics) pp 129ndash154
13 Imai Kosuke Gary King and Clayton Nall (2009) ldquoRejoinder Matched Pairs andthe Future of Cluster-Randomized Experimentsrdquo Statistical Science Vol 24 No 1(February) pp 65ndash72
14 Imai Kosuke (2003) ldquoReview of Jeff Gillrsquos Bayesian Methods A Social and BehavioralSciences Approachrdquo The Political Methodologist Vol 11 No 1 9ndash10
Refereed Conference Proceedings
1 Svyatkovskiy Alexey Kosuke Imai Mary Kroeger and Yuki Shiraito (2016) ldquoLarge-scale text processing pipeline with Apache Sparkrdquo IEEE International Conference onBig Data Washington DC pp 3928-3935
Other Publications and Manuscripts
1 Goldstein Daniel Kosuke Imai Anja S Goritz and Peter M Gollwitzer (2008) ldquoNudg-ing Turnout Mere Measurement and Implementation Planning of Intentions to Voterdquo
2 Ho Daniel E and Kosuke Imai (2004) ldquo The Impact of Partisan Electoral RegulationBallot Effects from the California Alphabet Lottery 1978ndash2002rdquo Princeton Law amp PublicAffairs Paper No 04-001 Harvard Public Law Working Paper No 89
3 Imai Kosuke (2003) ldquoEssays on Political Methodologyrdquo PhD Thesis Department ofGovernment Harvard University
4 Imai Kosuke and Jeremy M Weinstein (2000) ldquoMeasuring the Economic Impact ofCivil Warrdquo Working Paper Series No 51 Center for International Development HarvardUniversity
Publications in Japanese
1 Imai Kosuke (2007) ldquoKeiryo Seijigaku niokeru Ingateki Suiron (Causal Inference inQuantitative Political Science)rdquo Leviathan Vol 40 Spring pp 224ndash233
2 Horiuchi Yusaku Kosuke Imai and Naoko Taniguchi (2005) ldquoSeisaku Jyoho to TohyoSanka Field Jikken ni yoru Kensyo (Policy Information and Voter Participation AField Experiment)rdquo Nenpo Seijigaku (The Annals of the Japanese Political ScienceAssociation) 2005ndashI pp 161ndash180
3 Taniguchi Naoko Yusaku Horiuchi and Kosuke Imai (2004) ldquoSeito Saito no Etsuranha Tohyo Kodo ni Eikyo Suruka (Does Visiting Political Party Websites Influence VotingBehavior)rdquo Nikkei Research Report Vol IV pp 16ndash19
10 January 2020
Kosuke Imai
Statistical Software
1 Kim In Song Erik Wang Adam Rauh and Kosuke Imai ldquoPanelMatch MatchingMethods for Causal Inference with Time-Series Cross-Section Datardquo available throughGitHub 2018
2 Olivella Santiago Adeline Lo Tyler Pratt and Kosuke Imai ldquoNetMix Mixed-membershipRegression Stochastic Blockmodel for Networksrdquo available through CRAN and Github2019
3 Egami Naoki Brandon de la Cuesta and Kosuke Imai ldquofactorEx Design and Analysisfor Factorial Experimentsrdquo available through The Comprehensive R Archive Networkand GitHub 2019
4 Enamorado Ted Benjamin Fifield and Kosuke Imai ldquofastLink Fast ProbabilisticRecord Linkagerdquo available through The Comprehensive R Archive Network and GitHub2017
5 Khanna Kabir and Kosuke Imai ldquowru Who Are You Bayesian Predictions of RacialCategory Using Surname and Geolocationrdquo available through The Comprehensive RArchive Network and GitHub 2015
6 Fifield Benjamin Alexander Tarr Michael Higgins and Kosuke Imai ldquoredist MarkovChain Monte Carlo Methods for Redistricting Simulationrdquo available through The Com-prehensive R Archive Network and GitHub 2015
7 Imai Kosuke James Lo and Jonathan Olmsted ldquoemIRT EM Algorithms for Estimat-ing Item Response Theory Modelsrdquo available through The Comprehensive R ArchiveNetwork 2015
8 Blair Graeme Yang-Yang Zhou and Kosuke Imai ldquorr Statistical Methods for theRandomized Response Techniquerdquo available through The Comprehensive R ArchiveNetwork and GitHub 2015
9 Fong Christian Marc Ratkovic and Kosuke Imai ldquoCBPS R Package for CovariateBalancing Propensity Scorerdquo available through The Comprehensive R Archive Networkand GitHub 2012
10 Egami Naoki Marc Ratkovic and Kosuke Imai ldquoFindIt R Package for Finding Hetero-geneous Treatment Effectsrdquo available through The Comprehensive R Archive Networkand GitHub 2012
11 Kim In Song and Kosuke Imai ldquowfe Weighted Linear Fixed Effects Regression Modelsfor Causal Inferencerdquo available through The Comprehensive R Archive Network 2011
12 Shiraito Yuki and Kosuke Imai ldquoendorse R Package for Analyzing Endorsement Ex-perimentsrdquo available through The Comprehensive R Archive Network and GitHub 2012
13 Blair Graeme and Kosuke Imai ldquolist Statistical Methods for the Item Count Techniqueand List Experimentsrdquo available through The Comprehensive R Archive Network andGitHub 2011
11 January 2020
Kosuke Imai
14 Tingley Dustin Teppei Yamamoto Kentaro Hirose Luke Keele and Kosuke Imai ldquome-diation R Package for Causal Mediation Analysisrdquo available through The Comprehen-sive R Archive Network and GitHub 2009 Winner of the Statistical Software AwardReviewed in Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics
15 Imai Kosuke ldquoexperiment R Package for Designing and Analyzing Randomized Exper-imentsrdquo available through The Comprehensive R Archive Network 2007
16 Ho Daniel E Kosuke Imai Gary King and Elizabeth Stuart ldquoMatchIt NonparametricPreprocessing for Parametric Causal Inferencerdquo available through The ComprehensiveR Archive Network and GitHub 2005
17 Imai Kosuke Ying Lu and Aaron Strauss ldquoeco Ecological Inference in 2 times 2 Tablesrdquoavailable through The Comprehensive R Archive Network and GitHub 2004
18 Imai Kosuke and David A van Dyk ldquoMNP R Package for Fitting the MultinomialProbit Modelrdquo available through The Comprehensive R Archive Network and GitHub2004
19 Imai Kosuke Gary King and Olivia Lau ldquoZelig Everyonersquos Statistical Softwarerdquoavailable through The Comprehensive R Archive Network 2004
External Research Grants
Principal Investigator
1 Facebook Research Grant (2018) $20000
2 National Science Foundation (2016ndash2019) ldquoCollaborative Conference Proposal Sup-port for Conferences and Mentoring of Women and Underrepresented Groups in PoliticalMethodologyrdquo (Methodology Measurement and Statistics and Political Science Pro-grams SESndash1628102) Principal Investigator (with Jeffrey Lewis) $312322 Supplement(SESndash1831370) $60000
3 The United States Agency for International Development (2015ndash2017) ldquoUnemploymentand Insurgent Violence in Afghanistan Evidence from the Community DevelopmentProgramrdquo (AIDndashOAAndashAndash12ndash00096) Principal Investigator (with Jason Lyall) $188037
4 The United States Institute of Peace (2015ndash2016) ldquoAssessing the Links between Eco-nomic Interventions and Stability An impact evaluation of vocational and skills trainingin Kandahar Afghanistanrdquo Principal Investigator (with David Haines Jon Kurtz andJason Lyall) $144494
5 Amazon Web Services in Education Research Grant (2014) Principal Investigator (withGraeme Blair and Carlos Velasco Rivera) $3000
6 Development Bank of Latin America (CAF) (2013) ldquoThe Origins of Citizen Support forNarcos An Empirical Investigationrdquo Principal Investigator (with Graeme Blair FabianaMachado and Carlos Velasco Rivera) $15000
12 January 2020
Kosuke Imai
7 The International Growth Centre (2011ndash2013) ldquoPoverty Militancy and Citizen Demandsin Natural Resource-Rich Regions Randomized Evaluation of the Oil Profits DividendPlan for the Niger Deltardquo (RA-2010-12-013) Principal Investigator (with Graeme Blair)$117116
8 National Science Foundation (2009ndash2012) ldquoStatistical Analysis of Causal MechanismsIdentification Inference and Sensitivity Analysisrdquo (Methodology Measurement andStatistics Program and Political Science Program SESndash0918968) Principal Investigator$97574
9 National Science Foundation (2009ndash2011) ldquoCollaborative Research The Measurementand Identification of Media Priming Effects in Political Sciencerdquo (Methodology Measure-ment and Statistics Program and Political Science Program SESndash0849715) PrincipalInvestigator (with Nicholas Valentino) $317126
10 National Science Foundation (2008ndash2009) ldquoNew Statistical Methods for RandomizedExperiments in Political Science and Public Policyrdquo (Political Science Program SESndash0752050) Principal Investigator $52565
11 National Science Foundation (2006ndash2009) ldquoCollaborative Research Generalized Propen-sity Score Methodsrdquo (Methodology Measurement and Statistics Program SESndash0550873)Principal Investigator (with Donald B Rubin and David A van Dyk) $460000
12 The Telecommunications Advancement Foundation (2004) ldquoAnalyzing the Effects ofParty Webpages on Political Opinions and Voting Behaviorrdquo Principal Investigator (withNaoko Taniguchi and Yusaku Horiuchi) $12000
Adviser and Statistical Consultant
1 National Science Foundation (2016ndash2017) ldquoDoctoral Dissertation Research CrossingAfricarsquos Arbitrary Borders How Refugees Shape National Boundaries by ChallengingThemrdquo (Political Science Program SESndash1560636) Principal Investigator and Adviserfor Co-PI Yang-Yang Zhoursquos Dissertation Research $18900
2 Institute of Education Sciences (2012ndash2014) ldquoAcademic and Behavioral Consequencesof Visible Security Measures in Schoolsrdquo (R305A120181) Statistical Consultant (EmilyTanner-Smith Principal Investigator) $351228
3 National Science Foundation (2013ndash2014) ldquoDoctoral Dissertation Research Open Tradefor Sale Lobbying by Productive Exporting Firmrdquo (Political Science Program SESndash1264090) Principal Investigator and Adviser for Co-PI In Song Kimrsquos Dissertation Re-search $22540
4 National Science Foundation (2012ndash2013) ldquoDoctoral Dissertation Research The Poli-tics of Location in Resource Rent Distribution and the Projection of Power in Africardquo(Political Science Program SESndash1260754) Principal Investigator and Adviser for Co-PIGraeme Blairrsquos Dissertation Research $17640
13 January 2020
Kosuke Imai
Invited Short Courses and Outreach Lectures
1 Short Course on Causal Inference and Statistics ndash Department of Political Science RiceUniversity 2009 Institute of Political Science Academia Sinica 2014
2 Short Course on Causal Inference and Identification The Empirical Implications of The-oretical Models (EITM) Summer Institute ndash Harris School of Public Policy University ofChicago 2011 Department of Politics Princeton University 2012
3 Short Course on Causal Mediation Analysis ndash Summer Graduate Seminar Institute ofStatistical Mathematics Tokyo Japan 2010 Society for Research on Educational Effec-tiveness Conference Washington DC Fall 2011 Spring 2012 Spring 2015 Inter-AmericanDevelopment Bank 2012 Center for Education Research University of Wisconsin Madi-son 2012 Bobst Center for Peace and Justice Princeton University 2014 GraduateSchool of Education University of Pennsylvania 2014 EITM Summer Institute DukeUniversity 2014 Center for Lifespan Psychology Max Planck Institute for Human De-velopment 2015 School of Communication Research University of Amsterdam 2015Uppsala University 2016
4 Short Course on Covariate Balancing Propensity Score ndash Society for Research on Ed-ucational Effectiveness Conference Washington DC Spring 2013 Uppsala University2016
5 Short Course on Matching Methods for Causal Inference ndash Institute of Behavioral ScienceUniversity of Colorado Boulder 2009 Department of Political Science Duke University2013
6 Lecture on Statistics and Social Sciences ndash New Jersey Japanese School 2011 2016Kaisei Academy 2012 2014 Princeton University Wilson College 2012 University ofTokyo 2014
Selected Presentations
1 Keynote speaker Special Workshop on Evidence-based Policy Making World EconomicForum Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution Japan 2020
2 Distinguished speaker seminar Institute for Data Systems and Society MassachusettsInstitute of Technology 2019
3 Keynote speaker The Harvard Experimental Political Science Graduate Student Confer-ence Harvard University 2019
4 Invited speaker Beyond Curve Fitting Causation Counterfactuals and Imagination-based AI Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Spring SymposiumStanford University 2019
5 Inaugural speaker Causal Inference Seminar Departments of Biostatistics and StatisticsBoston University 2019
6 Keynote speaker The Second Latin American Political Methodology Meeting Universi-dad de los Andes (Department of Political Science) 2018
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Kosuke Imai
7 Keynote speaker The First Latin American Political Methodology Meeting PontificalCatholic University of Chile (Department of Political Science) 2017
8 Keynote speaker Workshop on Uncovering Causal Mechanisms University of Munich(Department of Economics) 2016
9 Keynote speaker The National Quality Registry Research Conference Stockholm 2016
10 Keynote speaker The UK-Causal Inference Meeting University of Bristol (School ofMathematics) 2015
11 Keynote speaker The UP-STAT Conference the Upstate Chapters of the American Sta-tistical Association 2015
12 Keynote speaker The Winter Conference in Statistics Swedish Statistical Society andUmea University (Department of Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics) 2015
13 Inaugural invited speaker The International Methods Colloquium Rice University 2015
14 Invited speaker The International Meeting on Experimental and Behavioral Social Sci-ences University of Oxford (Nuffield College) 2014
15 Keynote speaker The Annual Conference of Australian Society for Quantitative PoliticalScience University of Sydney 2013
16 Keynote speaker The Graduate Student Conference on Experiments in Interactive Deci-sion Making Princeton University 2008
Conferences Organized
1 The Asian Political Methodology Meetings (January 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 co-organizer)
2 The Experimental Research Workshop (September 2012 co-organizer)
3 The 12th World Meeting of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis (June 2012a member of the organizing committee)
4 Conference on Causal Inference and the Study of Conflict and State Building (May 2012organizer)
5 The 28th Annual Society for Political Methodology Summer Meeting (July 2011 host)
6 Conference on New Methodologies and their Applications in Comparative Politics andInternational Relations (February 2011 co-organizer)
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Kosuke Imai
Teaching
Courses Taught at Harvard
1 STAT 186GOV 2002 Causal Inference introduction to causal inference
2 GOV 2003 Topics in Quantitative Methodology causal inference applied Bayesian statis-tics machine learning
Courses Taught at Princeton
1 POL 245 Visualizing Data exploratory data analysis graphical statistics data visual-ization
2 POL 345 Quantitative Analysis and Politics a first course in quantitative social science
3 POL 451 Statistical Methods in Political Science basic probability and statistical theorytheir applications in the social sciences
4 POL 502 Mathematics for Political Science real analysis linear algebra calculus
5 POL 571 Quantitative Analysis I probability theory statistical theory linear models
6 POL 572 Quantitative Analysis II intermediate applied statistics
7 POL 573 Quantitative Analysis III advanced applied statistics
8 POL 574 Quantitative Analysis IV advanced applied statistics with various topics in-cluding Bayesian statistics and causal inference
9 Reading Courses basic mathematical probability and statistics applied bayesian statis-tics spatial statistics
Advising
Current Students
1 Soubhik Barari
2 Naoki Egami (Primary adviser) To be Assistant Professor Department of PoliticalScience Columbia University
3 Shusei Eshima (Primary adviser)
4 Max Goplerud To be Assistant Professor Department of Political Science University ofPittsburgh
5 June Hwang (Primary adviser)
6 Connor Jerzak
7 Shiro Kuriwaki
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Kosuke Imai
8 Asya Magazinnik To be Assistant Professor Department of Political Science Mas-sachusetts Institute of Technology
9 Sun Young Park
10 Nicole Pashley
11 Casey Petroff
12 Averell Schmidt
13 Diana Stanescu
14 Sooahn Shin
15 Tyler Simko
16 Alex Tarr (Primary adviser)
17 Soichiro Yamauchi (Primary adviser)
18 Erik Wang To be Assistant Professor Department of Political and Social Change Aus-tralian National University
Former Students
1 Brandon de la Cuesta (PhD in 2019 Department of Politics Princeton University)Postdoctoral Fellow Center on Global Poverty and Development Stanford University
2 Yang-Yang Zhou (PhD in 2019 Department of Politics Princeton University) Assis-tant Professor Department of Political Science University of British Columbia
3 Winston Chou (PhD in 2019 Department of Politics Princeton University) ResearchScientist at Facebook
4 Ted Enamorado (PhD in 2019 Department of Politics Princeton University Disserta-tion Committee Chair) Assistant Professor Department of Political Science Universityof North Carolina at Chapel Hill
5 Benjamin Fifield (PhD in 2018 Department of Politics Princeton University Disserta-tion Committee Chair) Research Scientist Facebook
6 Tyler Pratt (PhD in 2018 Department of Politics Princeton University) AssistantProfessor Department of Political Science Yale University
7 Romain Ferrali (PhD in 2018 Department of Politics Princeton University) Postdoc-toral Fellow New York University Abu Dhabi
8 Julia Morse (PhD in 2017 Woodrow Wilson School Princeton University) AssistantProfessor Department of Political Science University of California Santa Barbara
9 Yuki Shiraito (PhD in 2017 Department of Politics Princeton University DissertationCommittee Chair) Assistant Professor Department of Political Science University ofMichigan
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Kosuke Imai
10 Carlos Velasco Rivera (PhD in 2016 Department of Politics Princeton University)Research Scientist Facebook
11 Gabriel Lopez Moctezuma (PhD in 2016 Department of Politics Princeton University)Assistant Professor Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences California Instituteof Technology
12 Graeme Blair (PhD in 2016 Department of Politics Princeton University) AssistantProfessor University of California Los Angeles
13 Jaquilyn R Waddell Boie (PhD in 2015 Department of Politics Princeton University)Private consultant
14 Scott Abramson (PhD in 2014 Department of Politics Princeton University) AssistantProfessor Department of Political Science University of Rochester
15 Michael Barber (PhD in 2014 Department of Politics Princeton University) AssistantProfessor Department of Political Science Brigham Young University
16 In Song Kim (PhD in 2014 Department of Politics Princeton University) AssociateProfessor Department of Political Science Massachusetts Institute of Technology
17 Alex Ruder (PhD in 2014 Department of Politics Princeton University) Senior Com-munity Economic Development Advisor Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
18 Meredith Wilf (PhD in 2014 Department of Politics Princeton University) AssistantProfessor Graduate School of Public and International Affairs University of Pittsburgh
19 Will Bullock (PhD candidate Department of Politics Princeton University) SeniorResearcher Facebook
20 Teppei Yamamoto (PhD in 2011 Department of Politics Princeton University Dis-sertation Committee Chair) Associate Professor Department of Political Science Mas-sachusetts Institute of Technology
21 Dustin Tingley (PhD in 2010 Department of Politics Princeton University) ProfessorDepartment of Government Harvard University
22 Aaron Strauss (PhD in 2009 Department of Politics Princeton University) ExecutiveDirector Analyst Institute
23 Samir Soneji (PhD in 2008 Office of Population Research Princeton University Dis-sertation Committee Chair) Associate Professor Dartmouth Institute for Health Policyamp Clinical Practice Geisel School of Medicine Dartmouth College
24 Ying Lu (PhD in 2005 Woodrow Wilson School Princeton University DissertationCommittee Chair) Associate Professor Steinhardt School of Culture Education andHuman Development New York University
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Kosuke Imai
Former Predocs and Postdocs
1 Zhichao Jiang (Postdoctoral Fellow 2016ndash2019) Assistant Professor Department ofBiostatistics and Epidemiology School of Public Health and Health Sciences Universityof Massachusetts Amherst
2 Adeline Lo (Postdoctoral Fellow 2016ndash2019) Assistant Professor Department of Politi-cal Science University of Wisconsin Madison
3 Yunkyu Sohn (Postdoctoral Fellow 2016ndash2018) Assistant Professor School of PoliticalScience and Economics Waseda University
4 Xiaolin Yang (Postdoctoral Fellow 2015ndash2017) Research Scientist Amazon
5 Santiago Olivella (Postdoctoral Fellow 2015ndash2016) Assistant Professor Department ofPolitical Science University of North Carolina
6 Drew Dimmery (Predoctoral Fellow 2015ndash2016) Research Scientist Facebook
7 James Lo (Postdoctoral Fellow 2014ndash2016) Assistant Professor Department of PoliticalScience University of Southern California
8 Steven Liao (Predoctoral Fellow 2014ndash2015) Assistant Professor Department of Politi-cal Science University of California Riverside
9 Michael Higgins (Postdoctoral Fellow 2013ndash2015) Assistant Professor Department ofStatistics Kansas State University
10 Kentaro Hirose (Postdoctoral Fellow 2012ndash2015) Assistant Professor Waseda Institutefor Advanced Studies
11 Chad Hazlett (Predoctoral Fellow 2013ndash2014) Assistant Professor Departments of Po-litical Science and Statistics University of California Los Angeles
12 Florian Hollenbach (Predoctoral Fellow 2013ndash2014) Assistant Professor Department ofPolitical Science Texas AampM University
13 Marc Ratkovic (Predoctoral and Postdoctoral Fellow 2010ndash2012) Assistant ProfessorDepartment of Politics Princeton University
Editorial and Referee Service
Co-editor for Journal of Causal Inference (2014 ndash present)
Associate editor for American Journal of Political Science (2014 ndash 2019) Journal ofBusiness amp Economic Statistics (2015 ndash 2021) Journal of Causal Inference (2011 ndash 2014)Journal of Experimental Political Science (2013 ndash 2017) Observational Studies (2014 ndashpresent) Political Analysis (2014 ndash 2017)
Editorial board member for Asian Journal of Comparative Politics (2014 ndash present) Jour-nal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics (2011 ndash present) Journal of Politics (2007ndash 2008 2019ndash2020) Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness (2014 ndash present)Political Analysis (2010 ndash 2013) Political Science Research and Methods (2019 ndash present)
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Kosuke Imai
Guest editor for Political Analysis virtual issue on causal inference (2011)
Referee for ACM Computing Surveys American Economic Journal Applied EconomicsAmerican Economic Review Insights American Journal of Epidemiology AmericanJournal of Evaluation American Journal of Political Science American Political ScienceReview American Politics Research Annals of Applied Statistics Annals of StatisticsAnnals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics Biometrics Biometrika BiostatisticsBMC Medical Research Methodology British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psy-chology British Journal of Political Science Canadian Journal of Statistics Chapmanamp HallCRC Press Child Development Communications for Statistical Applications andMethods Computational Statistics and Data Analysis Electoral Studies EconometricaEconometrics Empirical Economics Environmental Management Epidemiology Euro-pean Union Politics IEEE Transactions on Information Theory International Journalof Biostatistics International Journal of Epidemiology International Journal of PublicOpinion Research International Migration Review John Wiley amp Sons Journal of Ap-plied Econometrics Journal of Applied Statistics Journal of Biopharmaceutical Statis-tics Journal of Business and Economic Statistics Journal of Causal Inference Journalof Computational and Graphical Statistics Journal of Conflict Resolution Journal ofConsulting and Clinical Psychology Journal of Econometrics Journal of Educationaland Behavioral Statistics Journal of Empirical Legal Studies Journal of MultivariateAnalysis Journal of Official Statistics Journal of Peace Research Journal of PoliticsJournal of Research on Educational EffectivenessJournal of Statistical Planning and In-ference Journal of Statistical Software Journal of the American Statistical Association(Case Studies and Applications Theory and Methods) Journal of the Japanese and In-ternational Economies Journal of the Japan Statistical Society Journal of the RoyalStatistical Society (Series A Series B Series C) Law amp Social Inquiry Legislative Stud-ies Quarterly Management Science Multivariate Behavioral Research National ScienceFoundation (Economics Methodology Measurement and Statistics Political Science)Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada NeuroImage Osteoporo-sis International Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics Pharmaceutical StatisticsPharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety PLOS One Policy and Internet Political Anal-ysis Political Behavior Political Communication Political Research Quarterly PoliticalScience Research and Methods Population Health Metrics Population Studies PreventionScience Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Princeton University PressPsychological Methods Psychometrika Public Opinion Quarterly Quarterly Journal ofEconomics Quarterly Journal of Political Science Review of Economics and StatisticsRoutledge Sage Publications Scandinavian Journal of Statistics Science Sloan Foun-dation Springer Sociological Methodology Sociological Methods amp Research StatisticalMethodology Statistical Methods and Applications Statistical Methods in Medical Re-search Statistical Science Statistica Sinica Statistics amp Probability Letters Statistics inMedicine Systems Biology US-Israel Binational Science Foundation Value in HealthWorld Politics
University and Departmental Committees
Harvard University
Department of Government
20 January 2020
Kosuke Imai
Member Second-year Progress Committee (2019ndash2020)
Member Placement Committee (2019ndash2020)
Member Graduate Admissions Committee (2018ndash2019)
Member Graduate Poster Session Committee (2018ndash2019)
Department of Statistics
Member Junior Faculty Search Committee (2018ndash2019)
Member Second-year Progress Committee (2018ndash2019)
Princeton University
University
Executive Committee Member Program in Statistics and Machine Learning (2013ndash2018)
Executive Committee Member Committee for Statistical Studies (2011-2018)
Member Organizing Committee Retreat on Data and Information Science at Prince-ton (2016)
Member Council of the Princeton University Community (2015)
Member Search Committee for the Dean of College (2015)
Member Committee on the Library and Computing (2013ndash2016)
Member Committee on the Fund for Experimental Social Science (2013ndash2018)
Member Personally Identifiable Research Data Group (2012ndash2018)
Member Research Computing Advisory Group (2013ndash2018)
Member Task Force on Statistics and Machine Learning (2014ndash2015)
Department of Politics
Chair Department Committee on Research and Computing (2012ndash2018)
Chair Formal and Quantitative Methods Junior Search Committee (2012ndash20132014ndash2015 2016ndash2017)
Chair Reappointment Committee (2015ndash2016)
Member Diversity Initiative Committee (2014ndash2015)
Member American Politics Junior Search Committee (2012ndash2014)
Member Department Chairrsquos Advisory Committee (2010ndash2013 2015ndash2016)
Member Department Priority Committee (2012ndash2013 2014ndash2015 2016ndash2017)
Member Formal and Quantitative Methods Curriculum Committee (2005ndash2006)
Member Formal and Quantitative Methods Junior Search Committee (2009ndash20102015ndash2016)
Member Formal and Quantitative Methods Postdoc Search Committee (2009ndash2018)
Member Graduate Admissions Committee (2012ndash2013)
Member Reappointment Committee (2014ndash2016)
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Kosuke Imai
Member Space Committee (2014ndash2016)
Member Undergraduate Curriculum Committee (2014ndash2015)
Member Undergraduate Exam Committee (2007ndash2008)
Member Undergraduate Thesis Prize Committee (2005ndash2006 2008ndash2011)
Center for Statistics and Machine Learning
Executive Committee Member (2016ndash2018)
Member Search Committee (2015ndash2017)
Services to the Profession
National Academies of Sciences Engineering and Medicine
Committee on National Statistics Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences andEducation Panel on the Review and Evaluation of the 2014 Survey of Income andProgram Participation Content and Design (2014ndash2017)
The Society for Political Methodology
President (2017ndash2019)
Vice President and President Elect (2015ndash2017)
Annual Meeting Committee Chair (2011)
Career Award Committee (2015ndash2017)
Program Committee for Annual Meeting (2012) Chair (2011)
Graduate Student Selection Committee for the Annual Meeting (2005) Chair (2011)
Miller Prize Selection Committee (2010ndash2011)
Statistical Software Award Committee (2009ndash2010)
Emerging Scholar Award Committee (2013)
American Statistical Association
Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics Management Committee (2016 ndashpresent)
Others
External Expert Department of Methodology London School of Economics andPolitical Science (2017 ndash present)
Memberships
American Political Science Association American Statistical Association Midwest Polit-ical Science Association The Society for Political Methodology
22 January 2020
- Contact Information
- Education
- Positions
- Honors and Awards
- Selected Manuscripts
- Publications in English
-
- Book
- Refereed Journal Articles
- Invited Contributions
- Refereed Conference Proceedings
- Other Publications and Manuscripts
-
- Publications in Japanese
- Statistical Software
- External Research Grants
-
- Principal Investigator
- Adviser and Statistical Consultant
-
- Invited Short Courses
- Selected Presentations
- Conferences Organized
- Teaching
-
- Courses Taught at Harvard
- Courses Taught at Princeton
-
- Advising
-
- Current Students
- Former Students
- Former Predocs and Postdocs
-
- Editorial and Referee Service
- University and Departmental Committees
- Services to the Profession
- Memberships
-
Kosuke Imai
58 Imai Kosuke and Gary King (2004) ldquoDid Illegal Overseas Absentee Ballots Decide the2000 US Presidential Electionrdquo Perspectives on Politics Vol 2 No 3 (September)pp 537ndash549 Our analysis is a part of The New York Times article ldquoHow Bush TookFlorida Mining the Overseas Absentee Voterdquo By David Barstow and Don van Natta JrJuly 15 2001 Page 1 Column 1
Invited Contributions
1 Imai Kosuke and Zhichao Jiang (2019) ldquoComment The Challenges of MultipleCausesrdquo Journal of the American Statistical Association Vol 114 No 528 pp 1605mdash1610
2 Benjamin Daniel J et al (2018) ldquoRedefine Statistical Significancerdquo Nature HumanBehaviour Vol 2 No 1 pp 6ndash10
3 de la Cuesta Brandon and Kosuke Imai (2016) ldquoMisunderstandings about the Regres-sion Discontinuity Design in the Study of Close Electionsrdquo Annual Review of PoliticalScience Vol 19 pp 375ndash396
4 Imai Kosuke (2016) ldquoBook Review of Causal Inference for Statistics Social andBiomedical Sciences An Introduction by Guido W Imbens and Donald B RubinrdquoJournal of the American Statistical Association Vol 111 No 515 pp 1365ndash1366
5 Imai Kosuke Bethany Park and Kenneth F Greene (2015) ldquoUsando as respostasprevisıveis da abordagem list-experiments como variaveis explicativas em modelos deregressaordquo Revista Debates Vol 9 No 1 pp 121ndash151 First printed in PoliticalAnalysis Vol 23 No 2 (Spring)
6 Imai Kosuke Luke Keele Dustin Tingley and Teppei Yamamoto (2014) ldquoCommenton Pearl Practical Implications of Theoretical Results for Causal Mediation AnalysisrdquoPsychological Methods Vol 19 No 4 (December) pp 482ndash487
7 Imai Kosuke Gary King and Elizabeth A Stuart (2014) ldquoMisunderstandings amongExperimentalists and Observationalists Balance Test Fallacies in Causal Inferencerdquo inField Experiments and their Critics Essays on the Uses and Abuses of Experimentationin the Social Sciences D L Teele ed New Haven Yale University Press pp 196ndash227First printed in Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A (Statistics in Society)Vol 171 No 2 (April)
8 Imai Kosuke Dustin Tingley and Teppei Yamamoto (2013) ldquoReply to Discussionsof ldquoExperimental Designs for Identifying Causal Mechanismsrdquordquo Journal of the RoyalStatistical Society Series A (Statistics in Society) Vol 173 No 1 (January) pp 46ndash49
9 Imai Kosuke (2012) ldquoComments Improving Weighting Methods for Causal MediationAnalysisrdquo Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness Vol 5 No 3 pp 293ndash295
10 Imai Kosuke (2011) ldquoIntroduction to the Virtual Issue Past and Future ResearchAgenda on Causal Inferencerdquo Political Analysis Virtual Issue Causal Inference andPolitical Methodology
9 January 2020
Kosuke Imai
11 Imai Kosuke Booil Jo and Elizabeth A Stuart (2011) ldquoCommentary Using PotentialOutcomes to Understand Causal Mediation Analysisrdquo Multivariate Behavioral ResearchVol 46 No 5 pp 842ndash854
12 Imai Kosuke Luke Keele Dustin Tingley and Teppei Yamamoto (2010) ldquoCausalMediation Analysis Using Rrdquo in Advances in Social Science Research Using R H DVinod (ed) New York Springer (Lecture Notes in Statistics) pp 129ndash154
13 Imai Kosuke Gary King and Clayton Nall (2009) ldquoRejoinder Matched Pairs andthe Future of Cluster-Randomized Experimentsrdquo Statistical Science Vol 24 No 1(February) pp 65ndash72
14 Imai Kosuke (2003) ldquoReview of Jeff Gillrsquos Bayesian Methods A Social and BehavioralSciences Approachrdquo The Political Methodologist Vol 11 No 1 9ndash10
Refereed Conference Proceedings
1 Svyatkovskiy Alexey Kosuke Imai Mary Kroeger and Yuki Shiraito (2016) ldquoLarge-scale text processing pipeline with Apache Sparkrdquo IEEE International Conference onBig Data Washington DC pp 3928-3935
Other Publications and Manuscripts
1 Goldstein Daniel Kosuke Imai Anja S Goritz and Peter M Gollwitzer (2008) ldquoNudg-ing Turnout Mere Measurement and Implementation Planning of Intentions to Voterdquo
2 Ho Daniel E and Kosuke Imai (2004) ldquo The Impact of Partisan Electoral RegulationBallot Effects from the California Alphabet Lottery 1978ndash2002rdquo Princeton Law amp PublicAffairs Paper No 04-001 Harvard Public Law Working Paper No 89
3 Imai Kosuke (2003) ldquoEssays on Political Methodologyrdquo PhD Thesis Department ofGovernment Harvard University
4 Imai Kosuke and Jeremy M Weinstein (2000) ldquoMeasuring the Economic Impact ofCivil Warrdquo Working Paper Series No 51 Center for International Development HarvardUniversity
Publications in Japanese
1 Imai Kosuke (2007) ldquoKeiryo Seijigaku niokeru Ingateki Suiron (Causal Inference inQuantitative Political Science)rdquo Leviathan Vol 40 Spring pp 224ndash233
2 Horiuchi Yusaku Kosuke Imai and Naoko Taniguchi (2005) ldquoSeisaku Jyoho to TohyoSanka Field Jikken ni yoru Kensyo (Policy Information and Voter Participation AField Experiment)rdquo Nenpo Seijigaku (The Annals of the Japanese Political ScienceAssociation) 2005ndashI pp 161ndash180
3 Taniguchi Naoko Yusaku Horiuchi and Kosuke Imai (2004) ldquoSeito Saito no Etsuranha Tohyo Kodo ni Eikyo Suruka (Does Visiting Political Party Websites Influence VotingBehavior)rdquo Nikkei Research Report Vol IV pp 16ndash19
10 January 2020
Kosuke Imai
Statistical Software
1 Kim In Song Erik Wang Adam Rauh and Kosuke Imai ldquoPanelMatch MatchingMethods for Causal Inference with Time-Series Cross-Section Datardquo available throughGitHub 2018
2 Olivella Santiago Adeline Lo Tyler Pratt and Kosuke Imai ldquoNetMix Mixed-membershipRegression Stochastic Blockmodel for Networksrdquo available through CRAN and Github2019
3 Egami Naoki Brandon de la Cuesta and Kosuke Imai ldquofactorEx Design and Analysisfor Factorial Experimentsrdquo available through The Comprehensive R Archive Networkand GitHub 2019
4 Enamorado Ted Benjamin Fifield and Kosuke Imai ldquofastLink Fast ProbabilisticRecord Linkagerdquo available through The Comprehensive R Archive Network and GitHub2017
5 Khanna Kabir and Kosuke Imai ldquowru Who Are You Bayesian Predictions of RacialCategory Using Surname and Geolocationrdquo available through The Comprehensive RArchive Network and GitHub 2015
6 Fifield Benjamin Alexander Tarr Michael Higgins and Kosuke Imai ldquoredist MarkovChain Monte Carlo Methods for Redistricting Simulationrdquo available through The Com-prehensive R Archive Network and GitHub 2015
7 Imai Kosuke James Lo and Jonathan Olmsted ldquoemIRT EM Algorithms for Estimat-ing Item Response Theory Modelsrdquo available through The Comprehensive R ArchiveNetwork 2015
8 Blair Graeme Yang-Yang Zhou and Kosuke Imai ldquorr Statistical Methods for theRandomized Response Techniquerdquo available through The Comprehensive R ArchiveNetwork and GitHub 2015
9 Fong Christian Marc Ratkovic and Kosuke Imai ldquoCBPS R Package for CovariateBalancing Propensity Scorerdquo available through The Comprehensive R Archive Networkand GitHub 2012
10 Egami Naoki Marc Ratkovic and Kosuke Imai ldquoFindIt R Package for Finding Hetero-geneous Treatment Effectsrdquo available through The Comprehensive R Archive Networkand GitHub 2012
11 Kim In Song and Kosuke Imai ldquowfe Weighted Linear Fixed Effects Regression Modelsfor Causal Inferencerdquo available through The Comprehensive R Archive Network 2011
12 Shiraito Yuki and Kosuke Imai ldquoendorse R Package for Analyzing Endorsement Ex-perimentsrdquo available through The Comprehensive R Archive Network and GitHub 2012
13 Blair Graeme and Kosuke Imai ldquolist Statistical Methods for the Item Count Techniqueand List Experimentsrdquo available through The Comprehensive R Archive Network andGitHub 2011
11 January 2020
Kosuke Imai
14 Tingley Dustin Teppei Yamamoto Kentaro Hirose Luke Keele and Kosuke Imai ldquome-diation R Package for Causal Mediation Analysisrdquo available through The Comprehen-sive R Archive Network and GitHub 2009 Winner of the Statistical Software AwardReviewed in Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics
15 Imai Kosuke ldquoexperiment R Package for Designing and Analyzing Randomized Exper-imentsrdquo available through The Comprehensive R Archive Network 2007
16 Ho Daniel E Kosuke Imai Gary King and Elizabeth Stuart ldquoMatchIt NonparametricPreprocessing for Parametric Causal Inferencerdquo available through The ComprehensiveR Archive Network and GitHub 2005
17 Imai Kosuke Ying Lu and Aaron Strauss ldquoeco Ecological Inference in 2 times 2 Tablesrdquoavailable through The Comprehensive R Archive Network and GitHub 2004
18 Imai Kosuke and David A van Dyk ldquoMNP R Package for Fitting the MultinomialProbit Modelrdquo available through The Comprehensive R Archive Network and GitHub2004
19 Imai Kosuke Gary King and Olivia Lau ldquoZelig Everyonersquos Statistical Softwarerdquoavailable through The Comprehensive R Archive Network 2004
External Research Grants
Principal Investigator
1 Facebook Research Grant (2018) $20000
2 National Science Foundation (2016ndash2019) ldquoCollaborative Conference Proposal Sup-port for Conferences and Mentoring of Women and Underrepresented Groups in PoliticalMethodologyrdquo (Methodology Measurement and Statistics and Political Science Pro-grams SESndash1628102) Principal Investigator (with Jeffrey Lewis) $312322 Supplement(SESndash1831370) $60000
3 The United States Agency for International Development (2015ndash2017) ldquoUnemploymentand Insurgent Violence in Afghanistan Evidence from the Community DevelopmentProgramrdquo (AIDndashOAAndashAndash12ndash00096) Principal Investigator (with Jason Lyall) $188037
4 The United States Institute of Peace (2015ndash2016) ldquoAssessing the Links between Eco-nomic Interventions and Stability An impact evaluation of vocational and skills trainingin Kandahar Afghanistanrdquo Principal Investigator (with David Haines Jon Kurtz andJason Lyall) $144494
5 Amazon Web Services in Education Research Grant (2014) Principal Investigator (withGraeme Blair and Carlos Velasco Rivera) $3000
6 Development Bank of Latin America (CAF) (2013) ldquoThe Origins of Citizen Support forNarcos An Empirical Investigationrdquo Principal Investigator (with Graeme Blair FabianaMachado and Carlos Velasco Rivera) $15000
12 January 2020
Kosuke Imai
7 The International Growth Centre (2011ndash2013) ldquoPoverty Militancy and Citizen Demandsin Natural Resource-Rich Regions Randomized Evaluation of the Oil Profits DividendPlan for the Niger Deltardquo (RA-2010-12-013) Principal Investigator (with Graeme Blair)$117116
8 National Science Foundation (2009ndash2012) ldquoStatistical Analysis of Causal MechanismsIdentification Inference and Sensitivity Analysisrdquo (Methodology Measurement andStatistics Program and Political Science Program SESndash0918968) Principal Investigator$97574
9 National Science Foundation (2009ndash2011) ldquoCollaborative Research The Measurementand Identification of Media Priming Effects in Political Sciencerdquo (Methodology Measure-ment and Statistics Program and Political Science Program SESndash0849715) PrincipalInvestigator (with Nicholas Valentino) $317126
10 National Science Foundation (2008ndash2009) ldquoNew Statistical Methods for RandomizedExperiments in Political Science and Public Policyrdquo (Political Science Program SESndash0752050) Principal Investigator $52565
11 National Science Foundation (2006ndash2009) ldquoCollaborative Research Generalized Propen-sity Score Methodsrdquo (Methodology Measurement and Statistics Program SESndash0550873)Principal Investigator (with Donald B Rubin and David A van Dyk) $460000
12 The Telecommunications Advancement Foundation (2004) ldquoAnalyzing the Effects ofParty Webpages on Political Opinions and Voting Behaviorrdquo Principal Investigator (withNaoko Taniguchi and Yusaku Horiuchi) $12000
Adviser and Statistical Consultant
1 National Science Foundation (2016ndash2017) ldquoDoctoral Dissertation Research CrossingAfricarsquos Arbitrary Borders How Refugees Shape National Boundaries by ChallengingThemrdquo (Political Science Program SESndash1560636) Principal Investigator and Adviserfor Co-PI Yang-Yang Zhoursquos Dissertation Research $18900
2 Institute of Education Sciences (2012ndash2014) ldquoAcademic and Behavioral Consequencesof Visible Security Measures in Schoolsrdquo (R305A120181) Statistical Consultant (EmilyTanner-Smith Principal Investigator) $351228
3 National Science Foundation (2013ndash2014) ldquoDoctoral Dissertation Research Open Tradefor Sale Lobbying by Productive Exporting Firmrdquo (Political Science Program SESndash1264090) Principal Investigator and Adviser for Co-PI In Song Kimrsquos Dissertation Re-search $22540
4 National Science Foundation (2012ndash2013) ldquoDoctoral Dissertation Research The Poli-tics of Location in Resource Rent Distribution and the Projection of Power in Africardquo(Political Science Program SESndash1260754) Principal Investigator and Adviser for Co-PIGraeme Blairrsquos Dissertation Research $17640
13 January 2020
Kosuke Imai
Invited Short Courses and Outreach Lectures
1 Short Course on Causal Inference and Statistics ndash Department of Political Science RiceUniversity 2009 Institute of Political Science Academia Sinica 2014
2 Short Course on Causal Inference and Identification The Empirical Implications of The-oretical Models (EITM) Summer Institute ndash Harris School of Public Policy University ofChicago 2011 Department of Politics Princeton University 2012
3 Short Course on Causal Mediation Analysis ndash Summer Graduate Seminar Institute ofStatistical Mathematics Tokyo Japan 2010 Society for Research on Educational Effec-tiveness Conference Washington DC Fall 2011 Spring 2012 Spring 2015 Inter-AmericanDevelopment Bank 2012 Center for Education Research University of Wisconsin Madi-son 2012 Bobst Center for Peace and Justice Princeton University 2014 GraduateSchool of Education University of Pennsylvania 2014 EITM Summer Institute DukeUniversity 2014 Center for Lifespan Psychology Max Planck Institute for Human De-velopment 2015 School of Communication Research University of Amsterdam 2015Uppsala University 2016
4 Short Course on Covariate Balancing Propensity Score ndash Society for Research on Ed-ucational Effectiveness Conference Washington DC Spring 2013 Uppsala University2016
5 Short Course on Matching Methods for Causal Inference ndash Institute of Behavioral ScienceUniversity of Colorado Boulder 2009 Department of Political Science Duke University2013
6 Lecture on Statistics and Social Sciences ndash New Jersey Japanese School 2011 2016Kaisei Academy 2012 2014 Princeton University Wilson College 2012 University ofTokyo 2014
Selected Presentations
1 Keynote speaker Special Workshop on Evidence-based Policy Making World EconomicForum Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution Japan 2020
2 Distinguished speaker seminar Institute for Data Systems and Society MassachusettsInstitute of Technology 2019
3 Keynote speaker The Harvard Experimental Political Science Graduate Student Confer-ence Harvard University 2019
4 Invited speaker Beyond Curve Fitting Causation Counterfactuals and Imagination-based AI Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Spring SymposiumStanford University 2019
5 Inaugural speaker Causal Inference Seminar Departments of Biostatistics and StatisticsBoston University 2019
6 Keynote speaker The Second Latin American Political Methodology Meeting Universi-dad de los Andes (Department of Political Science) 2018
14 January 2020
Kosuke Imai
7 Keynote speaker The First Latin American Political Methodology Meeting PontificalCatholic University of Chile (Department of Political Science) 2017
8 Keynote speaker Workshop on Uncovering Causal Mechanisms University of Munich(Department of Economics) 2016
9 Keynote speaker The National Quality Registry Research Conference Stockholm 2016
10 Keynote speaker The UK-Causal Inference Meeting University of Bristol (School ofMathematics) 2015
11 Keynote speaker The UP-STAT Conference the Upstate Chapters of the American Sta-tistical Association 2015
12 Keynote speaker The Winter Conference in Statistics Swedish Statistical Society andUmea University (Department of Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics) 2015
13 Inaugural invited speaker The International Methods Colloquium Rice University 2015
14 Invited speaker The International Meeting on Experimental and Behavioral Social Sci-ences University of Oxford (Nuffield College) 2014
15 Keynote speaker The Annual Conference of Australian Society for Quantitative PoliticalScience University of Sydney 2013
16 Keynote speaker The Graduate Student Conference on Experiments in Interactive Deci-sion Making Princeton University 2008
Conferences Organized
1 The Asian Political Methodology Meetings (January 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 co-organizer)
2 The Experimental Research Workshop (September 2012 co-organizer)
3 The 12th World Meeting of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis (June 2012a member of the organizing committee)
4 Conference on Causal Inference and the Study of Conflict and State Building (May 2012organizer)
5 The 28th Annual Society for Political Methodology Summer Meeting (July 2011 host)
6 Conference on New Methodologies and their Applications in Comparative Politics andInternational Relations (February 2011 co-organizer)
15 January 2020
Kosuke Imai
Teaching
Courses Taught at Harvard
1 STAT 186GOV 2002 Causal Inference introduction to causal inference
2 GOV 2003 Topics in Quantitative Methodology causal inference applied Bayesian statis-tics machine learning
Courses Taught at Princeton
1 POL 245 Visualizing Data exploratory data analysis graphical statistics data visual-ization
2 POL 345 Quantitative Analysis and Politics a first course in quantitative social science
3 POL 451 Statistical Methods in Political Science basic probability and statistical theorytheir applications in the social sciences
4 POL 502 Mathematics for Political Science real analysis linear algebra calculus
5 POL 571 Quantitative Analysis I probability theory statistical theory linear models
6 POL 572 Quantitative Analysis II intermediate applied statistics
7 POL 573 Quantitative Analysis III advanced applied statistics
8 POL 574 Quantitative Analysis IV advanced applied statistics with various topics in-cluding Bayesian statistics and causal inference
9 Reading Courses basic mathematical probability and statistics applied bayesian statis-tics spatial statistics
Advising
Current Students
1 Soubhik Barari
2 Naoki Egami (Primary adviser) To be Assistant Professor Department of PoliticalScience Columbia University
3 Shusei Eshima (Primary adviser)
4 Max Goplerud To be Assistant Professor Department of Political Science University ofPittsburgh
5 June Hwang (Primary adviser)
6 Connor Jerzak
7 Shiro Kuriwaki
16 January 2020
Kosuke Imai
8 Asya Magazinnik To be Assistant Professor Department of Political Science Mas-sachusetts Institute of Technology
9 Sun Young Park
10 Nicole Pashley
11 Casey Petroff
12 Averell Schmidt
13 Diana Stanescu
14 Sooahn Shin
15 Tyler Simko
16 Alex Tarr (Primary adviser)
17 Soichiro Yamauchi (Primary adviser)
18 Erik Wang To be Assistant Professor Department of Political and Social Change Aus-tralian National University
Former Students
1 Brandon de la Cuesta (PhD in 2019 Department of Politics Princeton University)Postdoctoral Fellow Center on Global Poverty and Development Stanford University
2 Yang-Yang Zhou (PhD in 2019 Department of Politics Princeton University) Assis-tant Professor Department of Political Science University of British Columbia
3 Winston Chou (PhD in 2019 Department of Politics Princeton University) ResearchScientist at Facebook
4 Ted Enamorado (PhD in 2019 Department of Politics Princeton University Disserta-tion Committee Chair) Assistant Professor Department of Political Science Universityof North Carolina at Chapel Hill
5 Benjamin Fifield (PhD in 2018 Department of Politics Princeton University Disserta-tion Committee Chair) Research Scientist Facebook
6 Tyler Pratt (PhD in 2018 Department of Politics Princeton University) AssistantProfessor Department of Political Science Yale University
7 Romain Ferrali (PhD in 2018 Department of Politics Princeton University) Postdoc-toral Fellow New York University Abu Dhabi
8 Julia Morse (PhD in 2017 Woodrow Wilson School Princeton University) AssistantProfessor Department of Political Science University of California Santa Barbara
9 Yuki Shiraito (PhD in 2017 Department of Politics Princeton University DissertationCommittee Chair) Assistant Professor Department of Political Science University ofMichigan
17 January 2020
Kosuke Imai
10 Carlos Velasco Rivera (PhD in 2016 Department of Politics Princeton University)Research Scientist Facebook
11 Gabriel Lopez Moctezuma (PhD in 2016 Department of Politics Princeton University)Assistant Professor Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences California Instituteof Technology
12 Graeme Blair (PhD in 2016 Department of Politics Princeton University) AssistantProfessor University of California Los Angeles
13 Jaquilyn R Waddell Boie (PhD in 2015 Department of Politics Princeton University)Private consultant
14 Scott Abramson (PhD in 2014 Department of Politics Princeton University) AssistantProfessor Department of Political Science University of Rochester
15 Michael Barber (PhD in 2014 Department of Politics Princeton University) AssistantProfessor Department of Political Science Brigham Young University
16 In Song Kim (PhD in 2014 Department of Politics Princeton University) AssociateProfessor Department of Political Science Massachusetts Institute of Technology
17 Alex Ruder (PhD in 2014 Department of Politics Princeton University) Senior Com-munity Economic Development Advisor Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
18 Meredith Wilf (PhD in 2014 Department of Politics Princeton University) AssistantProfessor Graduate School of Public and International Affairs University of Pittsburgh
19 Will Bullock (PhD candidate Department of Politics Princeton University) SeniorResearcher Facebook
20 Teppei Yamamoto (PhD in 2011 Department of Politics Princeton University Dis-sertation Committee Chair) Associate Professor Department of Political Science Mas-sachusetts Institute of Technology
21 Dustin Tingley (PhD in 2010 Department of Politics Princeton University) ProfessorDepartment of Government Harvard University
22 Aaron Strauss (PhD in 2009 Department of Politics Princeton University) ExecutiveDirector Analyst Institute
23 Samir Soneji (PhD in 2008 Office of Population Research Princeton University Dis-sertation Committee Chair) Associate Professor Dartmouth Institute for Health Policyamp Clinical Practice Geisel School of Medicine Dartmouth College
24 Ying Lu (PhD in 2005 Woodrow Wilson School Princeton University DissertationCommittee Chair) Associate Professor Steinhardt School of Culture Education andHuman Development New York University
18 January 2020
Kosuke Imai
Former Predocs and Postdocs
1 Zhichao Jiang (Postdoctoral Fellow 2016ndash2019) Assistant Professor Department ofBiostatistics and Epidemiology School of Public Health and Health Sciences Universityof Massachusetts Amherst
2 Adeline Lo (Postdoctoral Fellow 2016ndash2019) Assistant Professor Department of Politi-cal Science University of Wisconsin Madison
3 Yunkyu Sohn (Postdoctoral Fellow 2016ndash2018) Assistant Professor School of PoliticalScience and Economics Waseda University
4 Xiaolin Yang (Postdoctoral Fellow 2015ndash2017) Research Scientist Amazon
5 Santiago Olivella (Postdoctoral Fellow 2015ndash2016) Assistant Professor Department ofPolitical Science University of North Carolina
6 Drew Dimmery (Predoctoral Fellow 2015ndash2016) Research Scientist Facebook
7 James Lo (Postdoctoral Fellow 2014ndash2016) Assistant Professor Department of PoliticalScience University of Southern California
8 Steven Liao (Predoctoral Fellow 2014ndash2015) Assistant Professor Department of Politi-cal Science University of California Riverside
9 Michael Higgins (Postdoctoral Fellow 2013ndash2015) Assistant Professor Department ofStatistics Kansas State University
10 Kentaro Hirose (Postdoctoral Fellow 2012ndash2015) Assistant Professor Waseda Institutefor Advanced Studies
11 Chad Hazlett (Predoctoral Fellow 2013ndash2014) Assistant Professor Departments of Po-litical Science and Statistics University of California Los Angeles
12 Florian Hollenbach (Predoctoral Fellow 2013ndash2014) Assistant Professor Department ofPolitical Science Texas AampM University
13 Marc Ratkovic (Predoctoral and Postdoctoral Fellow 2010ndash2012) Assistant ProfessorDepartment of Politics Princeton University
Editorial and Referee Service
Co-editor for Journal of Causal Inference (2014 ndash present)
Associate editor for American Journal of Political Science (2014 ndash 2019) Journal ofBusiness amp Economic Statistics (2015 ndash 2021) Journal of Causal Inference (2011 ndash 2014)Journal of Experimental Political Science (2013 ndash 2017) Observational Studies (2014 ndashpresent) Political Analysis (2014 ndash 2017)
Editorial board member for Asian Journal of Comparative Politics (2014 ndash present) Jour-nal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics (2011 ndash present) Journal of Politics (2007ndash 2008 2019ndash2020) Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness (2014 ndash present)Political Analysis (2010 ndash 2013) Political Science Research and Methods (2019 ndash present)
19 January 2020
Kosuke Imai
Guest editor for Political Analysis virtual issue on causal inference (2011)
Referee for ACM Computing Surveys American Economic Journal Applied EconomicsAmerican Economic Review Insights American Journal of Epidemiology AmericanJournal of Evaluation American Journal of Political Science American Political ScienceReview American Politics Research Annals of Applied Statistics Annals of StatisticsAnnals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics Biometrics Biometrika BiostatisticsBMC Medical Research Methodology British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psy-chology British Journal of Political Science Canadian Journal of Statistics Chapmanamp HallCRC Press Child Development Communications for Statistical Applications andMethods Computational Statistics and Data Analysis Electoral Studies EconometricaEconometrics Empirical Economics Environmental Management Epidemiology Euro-pean Union Politics IEEE Transactions on Information Theory International Journalof Biostatistics International Journal of Epidemiology International Journal of PublicOpinion Research International Migration Review John Wiley amp Sons Journal of Ap-plied Econometrics Journal of Applied Statistics Journal of Biopharmaceutical Statis-tics Journal of Business and Economic Statistics Journal of Causal Inference Journalof Computational and Graphical Statistics Journal of Conflict Resolution Journal ofConsulting and Clinical Psychology Journal of Econometrics Journal of Educationaland Behavioral Statistics Journal of Empirical Legal Studies Journal of MultivariateAnalysis Journal of Official Statistics Journal of Peace Research Journal of PoliticsJournal of Research on Educational EffectivenessJournal of Statistical Planning and In-ference Journal of Statistical Software Journal of the American Statistical Association(Case Studies and Applications Theory and Methods) Journal of the Japanese and In-ternational Economies Journal of the Japan Statistical Society Journal of the RoyalStatistical Society (Series A Series B Series C) Law amp Social Inquiry Legislative Stud-ies Quarterly Management Science Multivariate Behavioral Research National ScienceFoundation (Economics Methodology Measurement and Statistics Political Science)Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada NeuroImage Osteoporo-sis International Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics Pharmaceutical StatisticsPharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety PLOS One Policy and Internet Political Anal-ysis Political Behavior Political Communication Political Research Quarterly PoliticalScience Research and Methods Population Health Metrics Population Studies PreventionScience Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Princeton University PressPsychological Methods Psychometrika Public Opinion Quarterly Quarterly Journal ofEconomics Quarterly Journal of Political Science Review of Economics and StatisticsRoutledge Sage Publications Scandinavian Journal of Statistics Science Sloan Foun-dation Springer Sociological Methodology Sociological Methods amp Research StatisticalMethodology Statistical Methods and Applications Statistical Methods in Medical Re-search Statistical Science Statistica Sinica Statistics amp Probability Letters Statistics inMedicine Systems Biology US-Israel Binational Science Foundation Value in HealthWorld Politics
University and Departmental Committees
Harvard University
Department of Government
20 January 2020
Kosuke Imai
Member Second-year Progress Committee (2019ndash2020)
Member Placement Committee (2019ndash2020)
Member Graduate Admissions Committee (2018ndash2019)
Member Graduate Poster Session Committee (2018ndash2019)
Department of Statistics
Member Junior Faculty Search Committee (2018ndash2019)
Member Second-year Progress Committee (2018ndash2019)
Princeton University
University
Executive Committee Member Program in Statistics and Machine Learning (2013ndash2018)
Executive Committee Member Committee for Statistical Studies (2011-2018)
Member Organizing Committee Retreat on Data and Information Science at Prince-ton (2016)
Member Council of the Princeton University Community (2015)
Member Search Committee for the Dean of College (2015)
Member Committee on the Library and Computing (2013ndash2016)
Member Committee on the Fund for Experimental Social Science (2013ndash2018)
Member Personally Identifiable Research Data Group (2012ndash2018)
Member Research Computing Advisory Group (2013ndash2018)
Member Task Force on Statistics and Machine Learning (2014ndash2015)
Department of Politics
Chair Department Committee on Research and Computing (2012ndash2018)
Chair Formal and Quantitative Methods Junior Search Committee (2012ndash20132014ndash2015 2016ndash2017)
Chair Reappointment Committee (2015ndash2016)
Member Diversity Initiative Committee (2014ndash2015)
Member American Politics Junior Search Committee (2012ndash2014)
Member Department Chairrsquos Advisory Committee (2010ndash2013 2015ndash2016)
Member Department Priority Committee (2012ndash2013 2014ndash2015 2016ndash2017)
Member Formal and Quantitative Methods Curriculum Committee (2005ndash2006)
Member Formal and Quantitative Methods Junior Search Committee (2009ndash20102015ndash2016)
Member Formal and Quantitative Methods Postdoc Search Committee (2009ndash2018)
Member Graduate Admissions Committee (2012ndash2013)
Member Reappointment Committee (2014ndash2016)
21 January 2020
Kosuke Imai
Member Space Committee (2014ndash2016)
Member Undergraduate Curriculum Committee (2014ndash2015)
Member Undergraduate Exam Committee (2007ndash2008)
Member Undergraduate Thesis Prize Committee (2005ndash2006 2008ndash2011)
Center for Statistics and Machine Learning
Executive Committee Member (2016ndash2018)
Member Search Committee (2015ndash2017)
Services to the Profession
National Academies of Sciences Engineering and Medicine
Committee on National Statistics Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences andEducation Panel on the Review and Evaluation of the 2014 Survey of Income andProgram Participation Content and Design (2014ndash2017)
The Society for Political Methodology
President (2017ndash2019)
Vice President and President Elect (2015ndash2017)
Annual Meeting Committee Chair (2011)
Career Award Committee (2015ndash2017)
Program Committee for Annual Meeting (2012) Chair (2011)
Graduate Student Selection Committee for the Annual Meeting (2005) Chair (2011)
Miller Prize Selection Committee (2010ndash2011)
Statistical Software Award Committee (2009ndash2010)
Emerging Scholar Award Committee (2013)
American Statistical Association
Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics Management Committee (2016 ndashpresent)
Others
External Expert Department of Methodology London School of Economics andPolitical Science (2017 ndash present)
Memberships
American Political Science Association American Statistical Association Midwest Polit-ical Science Association The Society for Political Methodology
22 January 2020
- Contact Information
- Education
- Positions
- Honors and Awards
- Selected Manuscripts
- Publications in English
-
- Book
- Refereed Journal Articles
- Invited Contributions
- Refereed Conference Proceedings
- Other Publications and Manuscripts
-
- Publications in Japanese
- Statistical Software
- External Research Grants
-
- Principal Investigator
- Adviser and Statistical Consultant
-
- Invited Short Courses
- Selected Presentations
- Conferences Organized
- Teaching
-
- Courses Taught at Harvard
- Courses Taught at Princeton
-
- Advising
-
- Current Students
- Former Students
- Former Predocs and Postdocs
-
- Editorial and Referee Service
- University and Departmental Committees
- Services to the Profession
- Memberships
-
Kosuke Imai
11 Imai Kosuke Booil Jo and Elizabeth A Stuart (2011) ldquoCommentary Using PotentialOutcomes to Understand Causal Mediation Analysisrdquo Multivariate Behavioral ResearchVol 46 No 5 pp 842ndash854
12 Imai Kosuke Luke Keele Dustin Tingley and Teppei Yamamoto (2010) ldquoCausalMediation Analysis Using Rrdquo in Advances in Social Science Research Using R H DVinod (ed) New York Springer (Lecture Notes in Statistics) pp 129ndash154
13 Imai Kosuke Gary King and Clayton Nall (2009) ldquoRejoinder Matched Pairs andthe Future of Cluster-Randomized Experimentsrdquo Statistical Science Vol 24 No 1(February) pp 65ndash72
14 Imai Kosuke (2003) ldquoReview of Jeff Gillrsquos Bayesian Methods A Social and BehavioralSciences Approachrdquo The Political Methodologist Vol 11 No 1 9ndash10
Refereed Conference Proceedings
1 Svyatkovskiy Alexey Kosuke Imai Mary Kroeger and Yuki Shiraito (2016) ldquoLarge-scale text processing pipeline with Apache Sparkrdquo IEEE International Conference onBig Data Washington DC pp 3928-3935
Other Publications and Manuscripts
1 Goldstein Daniel Kosuke Imai Anja S Goritz and Peter M Gollwitzer (2008) ldquoNudg-ing Turnout Mere Measurement and Implementation Planning of Intentions to Voterdquo
2 Ho Daniel E and Kosuke Imai (2004) ldquo The Impact of Partisan Electoral RegulationBallot Effects from the California Alphabet Lottery 1978ndash2002rdquo Princeton Law amp PublicAffairs Paper No 04-001 Harvard Public Law Working Paper No 89
3 Imai Kosuke (2003) ldquoEssays on Political Methodologyrdquo PhD Thesis Department ofGovernment Harvard University
4 Imai Kosuke and Jeremy M Weinstein (2000) ldquoMeasuring the Economic Impact ofCivil Warrdquo Working Paper Series No 51 Center for International Development HarvardUniversity
Publications in Japanese
1 Imai Kosuke (2007) ldquoKeiryo Seijigaku niokeru Ingateki Suiron (Causal Inference inQuantitative Political Science)rdquo Leviathan Vol 40 Spring pp 224ndash233
2 Horiuchi Yusaku Kosuke Imai and Naoko Taniguchi (2005) ldquoSeisaku Jyoho to TohyoSanka Field Jikken ni yoru Kensyo (Policy Information and Voter Participation AField Experiment)rdquo Nenpo Seijigaku (The Annals of the Japanese Political ScienceAssociation) 2005ndashI pp 161ndash180
3 Taniguchi Naoko Yusaku Horiuchi and Kosuke Imai (2004) ldquoSeito Saito no Etsuranha Tohyo Kodo ni Eikyo Suruka (Does Visiting Political Party Websites Influence VotingBehavior)rdquo Nikkei Research Report Vol IV pp 16ndash19
10 January 2020
Kosuke Imai
Statistical Software
1 Kim In Song Erik Wang Adam Rauh and Kosuke Imai ldquoPanelMatch MatchingMethods for Causal Inference with Time-Series Cross-Section Datardquo available throughGitHub 2018
2 Olivella Santiago Adeline Lo Tyler Pratt and Kosuke Imai ldquoNetMix Mixed-membershipRegression Stochastic Blockmodel for Networksrdquo available through CRAN and Github2019
3 Egami Naoki Brandon de la Cuesta and Kosuke Imai ldquofactorEx Design and Analysisfor Factorial Experimentsrdquo available through The Comprehensive R Archive Networkand GitHub 2019
4 Enamorado Ted Benjamin Fifield and Kosuke Imai ldquofastLink Fast ProbabilisticRecord Linkagerdquo available through The Comprehensive R Archive Network and GitHub2017
5 Khanna Kabir and Kosuke Imai ldquowru Who Are You Bayesian Predictions of RacialCategory Using Surname and Geolocationrdquo available through The Comprehensive RArchive Network and GitHub 2015
6 Fifield Benjamin Alexander Tarr Michael Higgins and Kosuke Imai ldquoredist MarkovChain Monte Carlo Methods for Redistricting Simulationrdquo available through The Com-prehensive R Archive Network and GitHub 2015
7 Imai Kosuke James Lo and Jonathan Olmsted ldquoemIRT EM Algorithms for Estimat-ing Item Response Theory Modelsrdquo available through The Comprehensive R ArchiveNetwork 2015
8 Blair Graeme Yang-Yang Zhou and Kosuke Imai ldquorr Statistical Methods for theRandomized Response Techniquerdquo available through The Comprehensive R ArchiveNetwork and GitHub 2015
9 Fong Christian Marc Ratkovic and Kosuke Imai ldquoCBPS R Package for CovariateBalancing Propensity Scorerdquo available through The Comprehensive R Archive Networkand GitHub 2012
10 Egami Naoki Marc Ratkovic and Kosuke Imai ldquoFindIt R Package for Finding Hetero-geneous Treatment Effectsrdquo available through The Comprehensive R Archive Networkand GitHub 2012
11 Kim In Song and Kosuke Imai ldquowfe Weighted Linear Fixed Effects Regression Modelsfor Causal Inferencerdquo available through The Comprehensive R Archive Network 2011
12 Shiraito Yuki and Kosuke Imai ldquoendorse R Package for Analyzing Endorsement Ex-perimentsrdquo available through The Comprehensive R Archive Network and GitHub 2012
13 Blair Graeme and Kosuke Imai ldquolist Statistical Methods for the Item Count Techniqueand List Experimentsrdquo available through The Comprehensive R Archive Network andGitHub 2011
11 January 2020
Kosuke Imai
14 Tingley Dustin Teppei Yamamoto Kentaro Hirose Luke Keele and Kosuke Imai ldquome-diation R Package for Causal Mediation Analysisrdquo available through The Comprehen-sive R Archive Network and GitHub 2009 Winner of the Statistical Software AwardReviewed in Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics
15 Imai Kosuke ldquoexperiment R Package for Designing and Analyzing Randomized Exper-imentsrdquo available through The Comprehensive R Archive Network 2007
16 Ho Daniel E Kosuke Imai Gary King and Elizabeth Stuart ldquoMatchIt NonparametricPreprocessing for Parametric Causal Inferencerdquo available through The ComprehensiveR Archive Network and GitHub 2005
17 Imai Kosuke Ying Lu and Aaron Strauss ldquoeco Ecological Inference in 2 times 2 Tablesrdquoavailable through The Comprehensive R Archive Network and GitHub 2004
18 Imai Kosuke and David A van Dyk ldquoMNP R Package for Fitting the MultinomialProbit Modelrdquo available through The Comprehensive R Archive Network and GitHub2004
19 Imai Kosuke Gary King and Olivia Lau ldquoZelig Everyonersquos Statistical Softwarerdquoavailable through The Comprehensive R Archive Network 2004
External Research Grants
Principal Investigator
1 Facebook Research Grant (2018) $20000
2 National Science Foundation (2016ndash2019) ldquoCollaborative Conference Proposal Sup-port for Conferences and Mentoring of Women and Underrepresented Groups in PoliticalMethodologyrdquo (Methodology Measurement and Statistics and Political Science Pro-grams SESndash1628102) Principal Investigator (with Jeffrey Lewis) $312322 Supplement(SESndash1831370) $60000
3 The United States Agency for International Development (2015ndash2017) ldquoUnemploymentand Insurgent Violence in Afghanistan Evidence from the Community DevelopmentProgramrdquo (AIDndashOAAndashAndash12ndash00096) Principal Investigator (with Jason Lyall) $188037
4 The United States Institute of Peace (2015ndash2016) ldquoAssessing the Links between Eco-nomic Interventions and Stability An impact evaluation of vocational and skills trainingin Kandahar Afghanistanrdquo Principal Investigator (with David Haines Jon Kurtz andJason Lyall) $144494
5 Amazon Web Services in Education Research Grant (2014) Principal Investigator (withGraeme Blair and Carlos Velasco Rivera) $3000
6 Development Bank of Latin America (CAF) (2013) ldquoThe Origins of Citizen Support forNarcos An Empirical Investigationrdquo Principal Investigator (with Graeme Blair FabianaMachado and Carlos Velasco Rivera) $15000
12 January 2020
Kosuke Imai
7 The International Growth Centre (2011ndash2013) ldquoPoverty Militancy and Citizen Demandsin Natural Resource-Rich Regions Randomized Evaluation of the Oil Profits DividendPlan for the Niger Deltardquo (RA-2010-12-013) Principal Investigator (with Graeme Blair)$117116
8 National Science Foundation (2009ndash2012) ldquoStatistical Analysis of Causal MechanismsIdentification Inference and Sensitivity Analysisrdquo (Methodology Measurement andStatistics Program and Political Science Program SESndash0918968) Principal Investigator$97574
9 National Science Foundation (2009ndash2011) ldquoCollaborative Research The Measurementand Identification of Media Priming Effects in Political Sciencerdquo (Methodology Measure-ment and Statistics Program and Political Science Program SESndash0849715) PrincipalInvestigator (with Nicholas Valentino) $317126
10 National Science Foundation (2008ndash2009) ldquoNew Statistical Methods for RandomizedExperiments in Political Science and Public Policyrdquo (Political Science Program SESndash0752050) Principal Investigator $52565
11 National Science Foundation (2006ndash2009) ldquoCollaborative Research Generalized Propen-sity Score Methodsrdquo (Methodology Measurement and Statistics Program SESndash0550873)Principal Investigator (with Donald B Rubin and David A van Dyk) $460000
12 The Telecommunications Advancement Foundation (2004) ldquoAnalyzing the Effects ofParty Webpages on Political Opinions and Voting Behaviorrdquo Principal Investigator (withNaoko Taniguchi and Yusaku Horiuchi) $12000
Adviser and Statistical Consultant
1 National Science Foundation (2016ndash2017) ldquoDoctoral Dissertation Research CrossingAfricarsquos Arbitrary Borders How Refugees Shape National Boundaries by ChallengingThemrdquo (Political Science Program SESndash1560636) Principal Investigator and Adviserfor Co-PI Yang-Yang Zhoursquos Dissertation Research $18900
2 Institute of Education Sciences (2012ndash2014) ldquoAcademic and Behavioral Consequencesof Visible Security Measures in Schoolsrdquo (R305A120181) Statistical Consultant (EmilyTanner-Smith Principal Investigator) $351228
3 National Science Foundation (2013ndash2014) ldquoDoctoral Dissertation Research Open Tradefor Sale Lobbying by Productive Exporting Firmrdquo (Political Science Program SESndash1264090) Principal Investigator and Adviser for Co-PI In Song Kimrsquos Dissertation Re-search $22540
4 National Science Foundation (2012ndash2013) ldquoDoctoral Dissertation Research The Poli-tics of Location in Resource Rent Distribution and the Projection of Power in Africardquo(Political Science Program SESndash1260754) Principal Investigator and Adviser for Co-PIGraeme Blairrsquos Dissertation Research $17640
13 January 2020
Kosuke Imai
Invited Short Courses and Outreach Lectures
1 Short Course on Causal Inference and Statistics ndash Department of Political Science RiceUniversity 2009 Institute of Political Science Academia Sinica 2014
2 Short Course on Causal Inference and Identification The Empirical Implications of The-oretical Models (EITM) Summer Institute ndash Harris School of Public Policy University ofChicago 2011 Department of Politics Princeton University 2012
3 Short Course on Causal Mediation Analysis ndash Summer Graduate Seminar Institute ofStatistical Mathematics Tokyo Japan 2010 Society for Research on Educational Effec-tiveness Conference Washington DC Fall 2011 Spring 2012 Spring 2015 Inter-AmericanDevelopment Bank 2012 Center for Education Research University of Wisconsin Madi-son 2012 Bobst Center for Peace and Justice Princeton University 2014 GraduateSchool of Education University of Pennsylvania 2014 EITM Summer Institute DukeUniversity 2014 Center for Lifespan Psychology Max Planck Institute for Human De-velopment 2015 School of Communication Research University of Amsterdam 2015Uppsala University 2016
4 Short Course on Covariate Balancing Propensity Score ndash Society for Research on Ed-ucational Effectiveness Conference Washington DC Spring 2013 Uppsala University2016
5 Short Course on Matching Methods for Causal Inference ndash Institute of Behavioral ScienceUniversity of Colorado Boulder 2009 Department of Political Science Duke University2013
6 Lecture on Statistics and Social Sciences ndash New Jersey Japanese School 2011 2016Kaisei Academy 2012 2014 Princeton University Wilson College 2012 University ofTokyo 2014
Selected Presentations
1 Keynote speaker Special Workshop on Evidence-based Policy Making World EconomicForum Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution Japan 2020
2 Distinguished speaker seminar Institute for Data Systems and Society MassachusettsInstitute of Technology 2019
3 Keynote speaker The Harvard Experimental Political Science Graduate Student Confer-ence Harvard University 2019
4 Invited speaker Beyond Curve Fitting Causation Counterfactuals and Imagination-based AI Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Spring SymposiumStanford University 2019
5 Inaugural speaker Causal Inference Seminar Departments of Biostatistics and StatisticsBoston University 2019
6 Keynote speaker The Second Latin American Political Methodology Meeting Universi-dad de los Andes (Department of Political Science) 2018
14 January 2020
Kosuke Imai
7 Keynote speaker The First Latin American Political Methodology Meeting PontificalCatholic University of Chile (Department of Political Science) 2017
8 Keynote speaker Workshop on Uncovering Causal Mechanisms University of Munich(Department of Economics) 2016
9 Keynote speaker The National Quality Registry Research Conference Stockholm 2016
10 Keynote speaker The UK-Causal Inference Meeting University of Bristol (School ofMathematics) 2015
11 Keynote speaker The UP-STAT Conference the Upstate Chapters of the American Sta-tistical Association 2015
12 Keynote speaker The Winter Conference in Statistics Swedish Statistical Society andUmea University (Department of Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics) 2015
13 Inaugural invited speaker The International Methods Colloquium Rice University 2015
14 Invited speaker The International Meeting on Experimental and Behavioral Social Sci-ences University of Oxford (Nuffield College) 2014
15 Keynote speaker The Annual Conference of Australian Society for Quantitative PoliticalScience University of Sydney 2013
16 Keynote speaker The Graduate Student Conference on Experiments in Interactive Deci-sion Making Princeton University 2008
Conferences Organized
1 The Asian Political Methodology Meetings (January 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 co-organizer)
2 The Experimental Research Workshop (September 2012 co-organizer)
3 The 12th World Meeting of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis (June 2012a member of the organizing committee)
4 Conference on Causal Inference and the Study of Conflict and State Building (May 2012organizer)
5 The 28th Annual Society for Political Methodology Summer Meeting (July 2011 host)
6 Conference on New Methodologies and their Applications in Comparative Politics andInternational Relations (February 2011 co-organizer)
15 January 2020
Kosuke Imai
Teaching
Courses Taught at Harvard
1 STAT 186GOV 2002 Causal Inference introduction to causal inference
2 GOV 2003 Topics in Quantitative Methodology causal inference applied Bayesian statis-tics machine learning
Courses Taught at Princeton
1 POL 245 Visualizing Data exploratory data analysis graphical statistics data visual-ization
2 POL 345 Quantitative Analysis and Politics a first course in quantitative social science
3 POL 451 Statistical Methods in Political Science basic probability and statistical theorytheir applications in the social sciences
4 POL 502 Mathematics for Political Science real analysis linear algebra calculus
5 POL 571 Quantitative Analysis I probability theory statistical theory linear models
6 POL 572 Quantitative Analysis II intermediate applied statistics
7 POL 573 Quantitative Analysis III advanced applied statistics
8 POL 574 Quantitative Analysis IV advanced applied statistics with various topics in-cluding Bayesian statistics and causal inference
9 Reading Courses basic mathematical probability and statistics applied bayesian statis-tics spatial statistics
Advising
Current Students
1 Soubhik Barari
2 Naoki Egami (Primary adviser) To be Assistant Professor Department of PoliticalScience Columbia University
3 Shusei Eshima (Primary adviser)
4 Max Goplerud To be Assistant Professor Department of Political Science University ofPittsburgh
5 June Hwang (Primary adviser)
6 Connor Jerzak
7 Shiro Kuriwaki
16 January 2020
Kosuke Imai
8 Asya Magazinnik To be Assistant Professor Department of Political Science Mas-sachusetts Institute of Technology
9 Sun Young Park
10 Nicole Pashley
11 Casey Petroff
12 Averell Schmidt
13 Diana Stanescu
14 Sooahn Shin
15 Tyler Simko
16 Alex Tarr (Primary adviser)
17 Soichiro Yamauchi (Primary adviser)
18 Erik Wang To be Assistant Professor Department of Political and Social Change Aus-tralian National University
Former Students
1 Brandon de la Cuesta (PhD in 2019 Department of Politics Princeton University)Postdoctoral Fellow Center on Global Poverty and Development Stanford University
2 Yang-Yang Zhou (PhD in 2019 Department of Politics Princeton University) Assis-tant Professor Department of Political Science University of British Columbia
3 Winston Chou (PhD in 2019 Department of Politics Princeton University) ResearchScientist at Facebook
4 Ted Enamorado (PhD in 2019 Department of Politics Princeton University Disserta-tion Committee Chair) Assistant Professor Department of Political Science Universityof North Carolina at Chapel Hill
5 Benjamin Fifield (PhD in 2018 Department of Politics Princeton University Disserta-tion Committee Chair) Research Scientist Facebook
6 Tyler Pratt (PhD in 2018 Department of Politics Princeton University) AssistantProfessor Department of Political Science Yale University
7 Romain Ferrali (PhD in 2018 Department of Politics Princeton University) Postdoc-toral Fellow New York University Abu Dhabi
8 Julia Morse (PhD in 2017 Woodrow Wilson School Princeton University) AssistantProfessor Department of Political Science University of California Santa Barbara
9 Yuki Shiraito (PhD in 2017 Department of Politics Princeton University DissertationCommittee Chair) Assistant Professor Department of Political Science University ofMichigan
17 January 2020
Kosuke Imai
10 Carlos Velasco Rivera (PhD in 2016 Department of Politics Princeton University)Research Scientist Facebook
11 Gabriel Lopez Moctezuma (PhD in 2016 Department of Politics Princeton University)Assistant Professor Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences California Instituteof Technology
12 Graeme Blair (PhD in 2016 Department of Politics Princeton University) AssistantProfessor University of California Los Angeles
13 Jaquilyn R Waddell Boie (PhD in 2015 Department of Politics Princeton University)Private consultant
14 Scott Abramson (PhD in 2014 Department of Politics Princeton University) AssistantProfessor Department of Political Science University of Rochester
15 Michael Barber (PhD in 2014 Department of Politics Princeton University) AssistantProfessor Department of Political Science Brigham Young University
16 In Song Kim (PhD in 2014 Department of Politics Princeton University) AssociateProfessor Department of Political Science Massachusetts Institute of Technology
17 Alex Ruder (PhD in 2014 Department of Politics Princeton University) Senior Com-munity Economic Development Advisor Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
18 Meredith Wilf (PhD in 2014 Department of Politics Princeton University) AssistantProfessor Graduate School of Public and International Affairs University of Pittsburgh
19 Will Bullock (PhD candidate Department of Politics Princeton University) SeniorResearcher Facebook
20 Teppei Yamamoto (PhD in 2011 Department of Politics Princeton University Dis-sertation Committee Chair) Associate Professor Department of Political Science Mas-sachusetts Institute of Technology
21 Dustin Tingley (PhD in 2010 Department of Politics Princeton University) ProfessorDepartment of Government Harvard University
22 Aaron Strauss (PhD in 2009 Department of Politics Princeton University) ExecutiveDirector Analyst Institute
23 Samir Soneji (PhD in 2008 Office of Population Research Princeton University Dis-sertation Committee Chair) Associate Professor Dartmouth Institute for Health Policyamp Clinical Practice Geisel School of Medicine Dartmouth College
24 Ying Lu (PhD in 2005 Woodrow Wilson School Princeton University DissertationCommittee Chair) Associate Professor Steinhardt School of Culture Education andHuman Development New York University
18 January 2020
Kosuke Imai
Former Predocs and Postdocs
1 Zhichao Jiang (Postdoctoral Fellow 2016ndash2019) Assistant Professor Department ofBiostatistics and Epidemiology School of Public Health and Health Sciences Universityof Massachusetts Amherst
2 Adeline Lo (Postdoctoral Fellow 2016ndash2019) Assistant Professor Department of Politi-cal Science University of Wisconsin Madison
3 Yunkyu Sohn (Postdoctoral Fellow 2016ndash2018) Assistant Professor School of PoliticalScience and Economics Waseda University
4 Xiaolin Yang (Postdoctoral Fellow 2015ndash2017) Research Scientist Amazon
5 Santiago Olivella (Postdoctoral Fellow 2015ndash2016) Assistant Professor Department ofPolitical Science University of North Carolina
6 Drew Dimmery (Predoctoral Fellow 2015ndash2016) Research Scientist Facebook
7 James Lo (Postdoctoral Fellow 2014ndash2016) Assistant Professor Department of PoliticalScience University of Southern California
8 Steven Liao (Predoctoral Fellow 2014ndash2015) Assistant Professor Department of Politi-cal Science University of California Riverside
9 Michael Higgins (Postdoctoral Fellow 2013ndash2015) Assistant Professor Department ofStatistics Kansas State University
10 Kentaro Hirose (Postdoctoral Fellow 2012ndash2015) Assistant Professor Waseda Institutefor Advanced Studies
11 Chad Hazlett (Predoctoral Fellow 2013ndash2014) Assistant Professor Departments of Po-litical Science and Statistics University of California Los Angeles
12 Florian Hollenbach (Predoctoral Fellow 2013ndash2014) Assistant Professor Department ofPolitical Science Texas AampM University
13 Marc Ratkovic (Predoctoral and Postdoctoral Fellow 2010ndash2012) Assistant ProfessorDepartment of Politics Princeton University
Editorial and Referee Service
Co-editor for Journal of Causal Inference (2014 ndash present)
Associate editor for American Journal of Political Science (2014 ndash 2019) Journal ofBusiness amp Economic Statistics (2015 ndash 2021) Journal of Causal Inference (2011 ndash 2014)Journal of Experimental Political Science (2013 ndash 2017) Observational Studies (2014 ndashpresent) Political Analysis (2014 ndash 2017)
Editorial board member for Asian Journal of Comparative Politics (2014 ndash present) Jour-nal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics (2011 ndash present) Journal of Politics (2007ndash 2008 2019ndash2020) Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness (2014 ndash present)Political Analysis (2010 ndash 2013) Political Science Research and Methods (2019 ndash present)
19 January 2020
Kosuke Imai
Guest editor for Political Analysis virtual issue on causal inference (2011)
Referee for ACM Computing Surveys American Economic Journal Applied EconomicsAmerican Economic Review Insights American Journal of Epidemiology AmericanJournal of Evaluation American Journal of Political Science American Political ScienceReview American Politics Research Annals of Applied Statistics Annals of StatisticsAnnals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics Biometrics Biometrika BiostatisticsBMC Medical Research Methodology British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psy-chology British Journal of Political Science Canadian Journal of Statistics Chapmanamp HallCRC Press Child Development Communications for Statistical Applications andMethods Computational Statistics and Data Analysis Electoral Studies EconometricaEconometrics Empirical Economics Environmental Management Epidemiology Euro-pean Union Politics IEEE Transactions on Information Theory International Journalof Biostatistics International Journal of Epidemiology International Journal of PublicOpinion Research International Migration Review John Wiley amp Sons Journal of Ap-plied Econometrics Journal of Applied Statistics Journal of Biopharmaceutical Statis-tics Journal of Business and Economic Statistics Journal of Causal Inference Journalof Computational and Graphical Statistics Journal of Conflict Resolution Journal ofConsulting and Clinical Psychology Journal of Econometrics Journal of Educationaland Behavioral Statistics Journal of Empirical Legal Studies Journal of MultivariateAnalysis Journal of Official Statistics Journal of Peace Research Journal of PoliticsJournal of Research on Educational EffectivenessJournal of Statistical Planning and In-ference Journal of Statistical Software Journal of the American Statistical Association(Case Studies and Applications Theory and Methods) Journal of the Japanese and In-ternational Economies Journal of the Japan Statistical Society Journal of the RoyalStatistical Society (Series A Series B Series C) Law amp Social Inquiry Legislative Stud-ies Quarterly Management Science Multivariate Behavioral Research National ScienceFoundation (Economics Methodology Measurement and Statistics Political Science)Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada NeuroImage Osteoporo-sis International Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics Pharmaceutical StatisticsPharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety PLOS One Policy and Internet Political Anal-ysis Political Behavior Political Communication Political Research Quarterly PoliticalScience Research and Methods Population Health Metrics Population Studies PreventionScience Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Princeton University PressPsychological Methods Psychometrika Public Opinion Quarterly Quarterly Journal ofEconomics Quarterly Journal of Political Science Review of Economics and StatisticsRoutledge Sage Publications Scandinavian Journal of Statistics Science Sloan Foun-dation Springer Sociological Methodology Sociological Methods amp Research StatisticalMethodology Statistical Methods and Applications Statistical Methods in Medical Re-search Statistical Science Statistica Sinica Statistics amp Probability Letters Statistics inMedicine Systems Biology US-Israel Binational Science Foundation Value in HealthWorld Politics
University and Departmental Committees
Harvard University
Department of Government
20 January 2020
Kosuke Imai
Member Second-year Progress Committee (2019ndash2020)
Member Placement Committee (2019ndash2020)
Member Graduate Admissions Committee (2018ndash2019)
Member Graduate Poster Session Committee (2018ndash2019)
Department of Statistics
Member Junior Faculty Search Committee (2018ndash2019)
Member Second-year Progress Committee (2018ndash2019)
Princeton University
University
Executive Committee Member Program in Statistics and Machine Learning (2013ndash2018)
Executive Committee Member Committee for Statistical Studies (2011-2018)
Member Organizing Committee Retreat on Data and Information Science at Prince-ton (2016)
Member Council of the Princeton University Community (2015)
Member Search Committee for the Dean of College (2015)
Member Committee on the Library and Computing (2013ndash2016)
Member Committee on the Fund for Experimental Social Science (2013ndash2018)
Member Personally Identifiable Research Data Group (2012ndash2018)
Member Research Computing Advisory Group (2013ndash2018)
Member Task Force on Statistics and Machine Learning (2014ndash2015)
Department of Politics
Chair Department Committee on Research and Computing (2012ndash2018)
Chair Formal and Quantitative Methods Junior Search Committee (2012ndash20132014ndash2015 2016ndash2017)
Chair Reappointment Committee (2015ndash2016)
Member Diversity Initiative Committee (2014ndash2015)
Member American Politics Junior Search Committee (2012ndash2014)
Member Department Chairrsquos Advisory Committee (2010ndash2013 2015ndash2016)
Member Department Priority Committee (2012ndash2013 2014ndash2015 2016ndash2017)
Member Formal and Quantitative Methods Curriculum Committee (2005ndash2006)
Member Formal and Quantitative Methods Junior Search Committee (2009ndash20102015ndash2016)
Member Formal and Quantitative Methods Postdoc Search Committee (2009ndash2018)
Member Graduate Admissions Committee (2012ndash2013)
Member Reappointment Committee (2014ndash2016)
21 January 2020
Kosuke Imai
Member Space Committee (2014ndash2016)
Member Undergraduate Curriculum Committee (2014ndash2015)
Member Undergraduate Exam Committee (2007ndash2008)
Member Undergraduate Thesis Prize Committee (2005ndash2006 2008ndash2011)
Center for Statistics and Machine Learning
Executive Committee Member (2016ndash2018)
Member Search Committee (2015ndash2017)
Services to the Profession
National Academies of Sciences Engineering and Medicine
Committee on National Statistics Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences andEducation Panel on the Review and Evaluation of the 2014 Survey of Income andProgram Participation Content and Design (2014ndash2017)
The Society for Political Methodology
President (2017ndash2019)
Vice President and President Elect (2015ndash2017)
Annual Meeting Committee Chair (2011)
Career Award Committee (2015ndash2017)
Program Committee for Annual Meeting (2012) Chair (2011)
Graduate Student Selection Committee for the Annual Meeting (2005) Chair (2011)
Miller Prize Selection Committee (2010ndash2011)
Statistical Software Award Committee (2009ndash2010)
Emerging Scholar Award Committee (2013)
American Statistical Association
Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics Management Committee (2016 ndashpresent)
Others
External Expert Department of Methodology London School of Economics andPolitical Science (2017 ndash present)
Memberships
American Political Science Association American Statistical Association Midwest Polit-ical Science Association The Society for Political Methodology
22 January 2020
- Contact Information
- Education
- Positions
- Honors and Awards
- Selected Manuscripts
- Publications in English
-
- Book
- Refereed Journal Articles
- Invited Contributions
- Refereed Conference Proceedings
- Other Publications and Manuscripts
-
- Publications in Japanese
- Statistical Software
- External Research Grants
-
- Principal Investigator
- Adviser and Statistical Consultant
-
- Invited Short Courses
- Selected Presentations
- Conferences Organized
- Teaching
-
- Courses Taught at Harvard
- Courses Taught at Princeton
-
- Advising
-
- Current Students
- Former Students
- Former Predocs and Postdocs
-
- Editorial and Referee Service
- University and Departmental Committees
- Services to the Profession
- Memberships
-
Kosuke Imai
Statistical Software
1 Kim In Song Erik Wang Adam Rauh and Kosuke Imai ldquoPanelMatch MatchingMethods for Causal Inference with Time-Series Cross-Section Datardquo available throughGitHub 2018
2 Olivella Santiago Adeline Lo Tyler Pratt and Kosuke Imai ldquoNetMix Mixed-membershipRegression Stochastic Blockmodel for Networksrdquo available through CRAN and Github2019
3 Egami Naoki Brandon de la Cuesta and Kosuke Imai ldquofactorEx Design and Analysisfor Factorial Experimentsrdquo available through The Comprehensive R Archive Networkand GitHub 2019
4 Enamorado Ted Benjamin Fifield and Kosuke Imai ldquofastLink Fast ProbabilisticRecord Linkagerdquo available through The Comprehensive R Archive Network and GitHub2017
5 Khanna Kabir and Kosuke Imai ldquowru Who Are You Bayesian Predictions of RacialCategory Using Surname and Geolocationrdquo available through The Comprehensive RArchive Network and GitHub 2015
6 Fifield Benjamin Alexander Tarr Michael Higgins and Kosuke Imai ldquoredist MarkovChain Monte Carlo Methods for Redistricting Simulationrdquo available through The Com-prehensive R Archive Network and GitHub 2015
7 Imai Kosuke James Lo and Jonathan Olmsted ldquoemIRT EM Algorithms for Estimat-ing Item Response Theory Modelsrdquo available through The Comprehensive R ArchiveNetwork 2015
8 Blair Graeme Yang-Yang Zhou and Kosuke Imai ldquorr Statistical Methods for theRandomized Response Techniquerdquo available through The Comprehensive R ArchiveNetwork and GitHub 2015
9 Fong Christian Marc Ratkovic and Kosuke Imai ldquoCBPS R Package for CovariateBalancing Propensity Scorerdquo available through The Comprehensive R Archive Networkand GitHub 2012
10 Egami Naoki Marc Ratkovic and Kosuke Imai ldquoFindIt R Package for Finding Hetero-geneous Treatment Effectsrdquo available through The Comprehensive R Archive Networkand GitHub 2012
11 Kim In Song and Kosuke Imai ldquowfe Weighted Linear Fixed Effects Regression Modelsfor Causal Inferencerdquo available through The Comprehensive R Archive Network 2011
12 Shiraito Yuki and Kosuke Imai ldquoendorse R Package for Analyzing Endorsement Ex-perimentsrdquo available through The Comprehensive R Archive Network and GitHub 2012
13 Blair Graeme and Kosuke Imai ldquolist Statistical Methods for the Item Count Techniqueand List Experimentsrdquo available through The Comprehensive R Archive Network andGitHub 2011
11 January 2020
Kosuke Imai
14 Tingley Dustin Teppei Yamamoto Kentaro Hirose Luke Keele and Kosuke Imai ldquome-diation R Package for Causal Mediation Analysisrdquo available through The Comprehen-sive R Archive Network and GitHub 2009 Winner of the Statistical Software AwardReviewed in Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics
15 Imai Kosuke ldquoexperiment R Package for Designing and Analyzing Randomized Exper-imentsrdquo available through The Comprehensive R Archive Network 2007
16 Ho Daniel E Kosuke Imai Gary King and Elizabeth Stuart ldquoMatchIt NonparametricPreprocessing for Parametric Causal Inferencerdquo available through The ComprehensiveR Archive Network and GitHub 2005
17 Imai Kosuke Ying Lu and Aaron Strauss ldquoeco Ecological Inference in 2 times 2 Tablesrdquoavailable through The Comprehensive R Archive Network and GitHub 2004
18 Imai Kosuke and David A van Dyk ldquoMNP R Package for Fitting the MultinomialProbit Modelrdquo available through The Comprehensive R Archive Network and GitHub2004
19 Imai Kosuke Gary King and Olivia Lau ldquoZelig Everyonersquos Statistical Softwarerdquoavailable through The Comprehensive R Archive Network 2004
External Research Grants
Principal Investigator
1 Facebook Research Grant (2018) $20000
2 National Science Foundation (2016ndash2019) ldquoCollaborative Conference Proposal Sup-port for Conferences and Mentoring of Women and Underrepresented Groups in PoliticalMethodologyrdquo (Methodology Measurement and Statistics and Political Science Pro-grams SESndash1628102) Principal Investigator (with Jeffrey Lewis) $312322 Supplement(SESndash1831370) $60000
3 The United States Agency for International Development (2015ndash2017) ldquoUnemploymentand Insurgent Violence in Afghanistan Evidence from the Community DevelopmentProgramrdquo (AIDndashOAAndashAndash12ndash00096) Principal Investigator (with Jason Lyall) $188037
4 The United States Institute of Peace (2015ndash2016) ldquoAssessing the Links between Eco-nomic Interventions and Stability An impact evaluation of vocational and skills trainingin Kandahar Afghanistanrdquo Principal Investigator (with David Haines Jon Kurtz andJason Lyall) $144494
5 Amazon Web Services in Education Research Grant (2014) Principal Investigator (withGraeme Blair and Carlos Velasco Rivera) $3000
6 Development Bank of Latin America (CAF) (2013) ldquoThe Origins of Citizen Support forNarcos An Empirical Investigationrdquo Principal Investigator (with Graeme Blair FabianaMachado and Carlos Velasco Rivera) $15000
12 January 2020
Kosuke Imai
7 The International Growth Centre (2011ndash2013) ldquoPoverty Militancy and Citizen Demandsin Natural Resource-Rich Regions Randomized Evaluation of the Oil Profits DividendPlan for the Niger Deltardquo (RA-2010-12-013) Principal Investigator (with Graeme Blair)$117116
8 National Science Foundation (2009ndash2012) ldquoStatistical Analysis of Causal MechanismsIdentification Inference and Sensitivity Analysisrdquo (Methodology Measurement andStatistics Program and Political Science Program SESndash0918968) Principal Investigator$97574
9 National Science Foundation (2009ndash2011) ldquoCollaborative Research The Measurementand Identification of Media Priming Effects in Political Sciencerdquo (Methodology Measure-ment and Statistics Program and Political Science Program SESndash0849715) PrincipalInvestigator (with Nicholas Valentino) $317126
10 National Science Foundation (2008ndash2009) ldquoNew Statistical Methods for RandomizedExperiments in Political Science and Public Policyrdquo (Political Science Program SESndash0752050) Principal Investigator $52565
11 National Science Foundation (2006ndash2009) ldquoCollaborative Research Generalized Propen-sity Score Methodsrdquo (Methodology Measurement and Statistics Program SESndash0550873)Principal Investigator (with Donald B Rubin and David A van Dyk) $460000
12 The Telecommunications Advancement Foundation (2004) ldquoAnalyzing the Effects ofParty Webpages on Political Opinions and Voting Behaviorrdquo Principal Investigator (withNaoko Taniguchi and Yusaku Horiuchi) $12000
Adviser and Statistical Consultant
1 National Science Foundation (2016ndash2017) ldquoDoctoral Dissertation Research CrossingAfricarsquos Arbitrary Borders How Refugees Shape National Boundaries by ChallengingThemrdquo (Political Science Program SESndash1560636) Principal Investigator and Adviserfor Co-PI Yang-Yang Zhoursquos Dissertation Research $18900
2 Institute of Education Sciences (2012ndash2014) ldquoAcademic and Behavioral Consequencesof Visible Security Measures in Schoolsrdquo (R305A120181) Statistical Consultant (EmilyTanner-Smith Principal Investigator) $351228
3 National Science Foundation (2013ndash2014) ldquoDoctoral Dissertation Research Open Tradefor Sale Lobbying by Productive Exporting Firmrdquo (Political Science Program SESndash1264090) Principal Investigator and Adviser for Co-PI In Song Kimrsquos Dissertation Re-search $22540
4 National Science Foundation (2012ndash2013) ldquoDoctoral Dissertation Research The Poli-tics of Location in Resource Rent Distribution and the Projection of Power in Africardquo(Political Science Program SESndash1260754) Principal Investigator and Adviser for Co-PIGraeme Blairrsquos Dissertation Research $17640
13 January 2020
Kosuke Imai
Invited Short Courses and Outreach Lectures
1 Short Course on Causal Inference and Statistics ndash Department of Political Science RiceUniversity 2009 Institute of Political Science Academia Sinica 2014
2 Short Course on Causal Inference and Identification The Empirical Implications of The-oretical Models (EITM) Summer Institute ndash Harris School of Public Policy University ofChicago 2011 Department of Politics Princeton University 2012
3 Short Course on Causal Mediation Analysis ndash Summer Graduate Seminar Institute ofStatistical Mathematics Tokyo Japan 2010 Society for Research on Educational Effec-tiveness Conference Washington DC Fall 2011 Spring 2012 Spring 2015 Inter-AmericanDevelopment Bank 2012 Center for Education Research University of Wisconsin Madi-son 2012 Bobst Center for Peace and Justice Princeton University 2014 GraduateSchool of Education University of Pennsylvania 2014 EITM Summer Institute DukeUniversity 2014 Center for Lifespan Psychology Max Planck Institute for Human De-velopment 2015 School of Communication Research University of Amsterdam 2015Uppsala University 2016
4 Short Course on Covariate Balancing Propensity Score ndash Society for Research on Ed-ucational Effectiveness Conference Washington DC Spring 2013 Uppsala University2016
5 Short Course on Matching Methods for Causal Inference ndash Institute of Behavioral ScienceUniversity of Colorado Boulder 2009 Department of Political Science Duke University2013
6 Lecture on Statistics and Social Sciences ndash New Jersey Japanese School 2011 2016Kaisei Academy 2012 2014 Princeton University Wilson College 2012 University ofTokyo 2014
Selected Presentations
1 Keynote speaker Special Workshop on Evidence-based Policy Making World EconomicForum Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution Japan 2020
2 Distinguished speaker seminar Institute for Data Systems and Society MassachusettsInstitute of Technology 2019
3 Keynote speaker The Harvard Experimental Political Science Graduate Student Confer-ence Harvard University 2019
4 Invited speaker Beyond Curve Fitting Causation Counterfactuals and Imagination-based AI Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Spring SymposiumStanford University 2019
5 Inaugural speaker Causal Inference Seminar Departments of Biostatistics and StatisticsBoston University 2019
6 Keynote speaker The Second Latin American Political Methodology Meeting Universi-dad de los Andes (Department of Political Science) 2018
14 January 2020
Kosuke Imai
7 Keynote speaker The First Latin American Political Methodology Meeting PontificalCatholic University of Chile (Department of Political Science) 2017
8 Keynote speaker Workshop on Uncovering Causal Mechanisms University of Munich(Department of Economics) 2016
9 Keynote speaker The National Quality Registry Research Conference Stockholm 2016
10 Keynote speaker The UK-Causal Inference Meeting University of Bristol (School ofMathematics) 2015
11 Keynote speaker The UP-STAT Conference the Upstate Chapters of the American Sta-tistical Association 2015
12 Keynote speaker The Winter Conference in Statistics Swedish Statistical Society andUmea University (Department of Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics) 2015
13 Inaugural invited speaker The International Methods Colloquium Rice University 2015
14 Invited speaker The International Meeting on Experimental and Behavioral Social Sci-ences University of Oxford (Nuffield College) 2014
15 Keynote speaker The Annual Conference of Australian Society for Quantitative PoliticalScience University of Sydney 2013
16 Keynote speaker The Graduate Student Conference on Experiments in Interactive Deci-sion Making Princeton University 2008
Conferences Organized
1 The Asian Political Methodology Meetings (January 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 co-organizer)
2 The Experimental Research Workshop (September 2012 co-organizer)
3 The 12th World Meeting of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis (June 2012a member of the organizing committee)
4 Conference on Causal Inference and the Study of Conflict and State Building (May 2012organizer)
5 The 28th Annual Society for Political Methodology Summer Meeting (July 2011 host)
6 Conference on New Methodologies and their Applications in Comparative Politics andInternational Relations (February 2011 co-organizer)
15 January 2020
Kosuke Imai
Teaching
Courses Taught at Harvard
1 STAT 186GOV 2002 Causal Inference introduction to causal inference
2 GOV 2003 Topics in Quantitative Methodology causal inference applied Bayesian statis-tics machine learning
Courses Taught at Princeton
1 POL 245 Visualizing Data exploratory data analysis graphical statistics data visual-ization
2 POL 345 Quantitative Analysis and Politics a first course in quantitative social science
3 POL 451 Statistical Methods in Political Science basic probability and statistical theorytheir applications in the social sciences
4 POL 502 Mathematics for Political Science real analysis linear algebra calculus
5 POL 571 Quantitative Analysis I probability theory statistical theory linear models
6 POL 572 Quantitative Analysis II intermediate applied statistics
7 POL 573 Quantitative Analysis III advanced applied statistics
8 POL 574 Quantitative Analysis IV advanced applied statistics with various topics in-cluding Bayesian statistics and causal inference
9 Reading Courses basic mathematical probability and statistics applied bayesian statis-tics spatial statistics
Advising
Current Students
1 Soubhik Barari
2 Naoki Egami (Primary adviser) To be Assistant Professor Department of PoliticalScience Columbia University
3 Shusei Eshima (Primary adviser)
4 Max Goplerud To be Assistant Professor Department of Political Science University ofPittsburgh
5 June Hwang (Primary adviser)
6 Connor Jerzak
7 Shiro Kuriwaki
16 January 2020
Kosuke Imai
8 Asya Magazinnik To be Assistant Professor Department of Political Science Mas-sachusetts Institute of Technology
9 Sun Young Park
10 Nicole Pashley
11 Casey Petroff
12 Averell Schmidt
13 Diana Stanescu
14 Sooahn Shin
15 Tyler Simko
16 Alex Tarr (Primary adviser)
17 Soichiro Yamauchi (Primary adviser)
18 Erik Wang To be Assistant Professor Department of Political and Social Change Aus-tralian National University
Former Students
1 Brandon de la Cuesta (PhD in 2019 Department of Politics Princeton University)Postdoctoral Fellow Center on Global Poverty and Development Stanford University
2 Yang-Yang Zhou (PhD in 2019 Department of Politics Princeton University) Assis-tant Professor Department of Political Science University of British Columbia
3 Winston Chou (PhD in 2019 Department of Politics Princeton University) ResearchScientist at Facebook
4 Ted Enamorado (PhD in 2019 Department of Politics Princeton University Disserta-tion Committee Chair) Assistant Professor Department of Political Science Universityof North Carolina at Chapel Hill
5 Benjamin Fifield (PhD in 2018 Department of Politics Princeton University Disserta-tion Committee Chair) Research Scientist Facebook
6 Tyler Pratt (PhD in 2018 Department of Politics Princeton University) AssistantProfessor Department of Political Science Yale University
7 Romain Ferrali (PhD in 2018 Department of Politics Princeton University) Postdoc-toral Fellow New York University Abu Dhabi
8 Julia Morse (PhD in 2017 Woodrow Wilson School Princeton University) AssistantProfessor Department of Political Science University of California Santa Barbara
9 Yuki Shiraito (PhD in 2017 Department of Politics Princeton University DissertationCommittee Chair) Assistant Professor Department of Political Science University ofMichigan
17 January 2020
Kosuke Imai
10 Carlos Velasco Rivera (PhD in 2016 Department of Politics Princeton University)Research Scientist Facebook
11 Gabriel Lopez Moctezuma (PhD in 2016 Department of Politics Princeton University)Assistant Professor Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences California Instituteof Technology
12 Graeme Blair (PhD in 2016 Department of Politics Princeton University) AssistantProfessor University of California Los Angeles
13 Jaquilyn R Waddell Boie (PhD in 2015 Department of Politics Princeton University)Private consultant
14 Scott Abramson (PhD in 2014 Department of Politics Princeton University) AssistantProfessor Department of Political Science University of Rochester
15 Michael Barber (PhD in 2014 Department of Politics Princeton University) AssistantProfessor Department of Political Science Brigham Young University
16 In Song Kim (PhD in 2014 Department of Politics Princeton University) AssociateProfessor Department of Political Science Massachusetts Institute of Technology
17 Alex Ruder (PhD in 2014 Department of Politics Princeton University) Senior Com-munity Economic Development Advisor Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
18 Meredith Wilf (PhD in 2014 Department of Politics Princeton University) AssistantProfessor Graduate School of Public and International Affairs University of Pittsburgh
19 Will Bullock (PhD candidate Department of Politics Princeton University) SeniorResearcher Facebook
20 Teppei Yamamoto (PhD in 2011 Department of Politics Princeton University Dis-sertation Committee Chair) Associate Professor Department of Political Science Mas-sachusetts Institute of Technology
21 Dustin Tingley (PhD in 2010 Department of Politics Princeton University) ProfessorDepartment of Government Harvard University
22 Aaron Strauss (PhD in 2009 Department of Politics Princeton University) ExecutiveDirector Analyst Institute
23 Samir Soneji (PhD in 2008 Office of Population Research Princeton University Dis-sertation Committee Chair) Associate Professor Dartmouth Institute for Health Policyamp Clinical Practice Geisel School of Medicine Dartmouth College
24 Ying Lu (PhD in 2005 Woodrow Wilson School Princeton University DissertationCommittee Chair) Associate Professor Steinhardt School of Culture Education andHuman Development New York University
18 January 2020
Kosuke Imai
Former Predocs and Postdocs
1 Zhichao Jiang (Postdoctoral Fellow 2016ndash2019) Assistant Professor Department ofBiostatistics and Epidemiology School of Public Health and Health Sciences Universityof Massachusetts Amherst
2 Adeline Lo (Postdoctoral Fellow 2016ndash2019) Assistant Professor Department of Politi-cal Science University of Wisconsin Madison
3 Yunkyu Sohn (Postdoctoral Fellow 2016ndash2018) Assistant Professor School of PoliticalScience and Economics Waseda University
4 Xiaolin Yang (Postdoctoral Fellow 2015ndash2017) Research Scientist Amazon
5 Santiago Olivella (Postdoctoral Fellow 2015ndash2016) Assistant Professor Department ofPolitical Science University of North Carolina
6 Drew Dimmery (Predoctoral Fellow 2015ndash2016) Research Scientist Facebook
7 James Lo (Postdoctoral Fellow 2014ndash2016) Assistant Professor Department of PoliticalScience University of Southern California
8 Steven Liao (Predoctoral Fellow 2014ndash2015) Assistant Professor Department of Politi-cal Science University of California Riverside
9 Michael Higgins (Postdoctoral Fellow 2013ndash2015) Assistant Professor Department ofStatistics Kansas State University
10 Kentaro Hirose (Postdoctoral Fellow 2012ndash2015) Assistant Professor Waseda Institutefor Advanced Studies
11 Chad Hazlett (Predoctoral Fellow 2013ndash2014) Assistant Professor Departments of Po-litical Science and Statistics University of California Los Angeles
12 Florian Hollenbach (Predoctoral Fellow 2013ndash2014) Assistant Professor Department ofPolitical Science Texas AampM University
13 Marc Ratkovic (Predoctoral and Postdoctoral Fellow 2010ndash2012) Assistant ProfessorDepartment of Politics Princeton University
Editorial and Referee Service
Co-editor for Journal of Causal Inference (2014 ndash present)
Associate editor for American Journal of Political Science (2014 ndash 2019) Journal ofBusiness amp Economic Statistics (2015 ndash 2021) Journal of Causal Inference (2011 ndash 2014)Journal of Experimental Political Science (2013 ndash 2017) Observational Studies (2014 ndashpresent) Political Analysis (2014 ndash 2017)
Editorial board member for Asian Journal of Comparative Politics (2014 ndash present) Jour-nal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics (2011 ndash present) Journal of Politics (2007ndash 2008 2019ndash2020) Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness (2014 ndash present)Political Analysis (2010 ndash 2013) Political Science Research and Methods (2019 ndash present)
19 January 2020
Kosuke Imai
Guest editor for Political Analysis virtual issue on causal inference (2011)
Referee for ACM Computing Surveys American Economic Journal Applied EconomicsAmerican Economic Review Insights American Journal of Epidemiology AmericanJournal of Evaluation American Journal of Political Science American Political ScienceReview American Politics Research Annals of Applied Statistics Annals of StatisticsAnnals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics Biometrics Biometrika BiostatisticsBMC Medical Research Methodology British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psy-chology British Journal of Political Science Canadian Journal of Statistics Chapmanamp HallCRC Press Child Development Communications for Statistical Applications andMethods Computational Statistics and Data Analysis Electoral Studies EconometricaEconometrics Empirical Economics Environmental Management Epidemiology Euro-pean Union Politics IEEE Transactions on Information Theory International Journalof Biostatistics International Journal of Epidemiology International Journal of PublicOpinion Research International Migration Review John Wiley amp Sons Journal of Ap-plied Econometrics Journal of Applied Statistics Journal of Biopharmaceutical Statis-tics Journal of Business and Economic Statistics Journal of Causal Inference Journalof Computational and Graphical Statistics Journal of Conflict Resolution Journal ofConsulting and Clinical Psychology Journal of Econometrics Journal of Educationaland Behavioral Statistics Journal of Empirical Legal Studies Journal of MultivariateAnalysis Journal of Official Statistics Journal of Peace Research Journal of PoliticsJournal of Research on Educational EffectivenessJournal of Statistical Planning and In-ference Journal of Statistical Software Journal of the American Statistical Association(Case Studies and Applications Theory and Methods) Journal of the Japanese and In-ternational Economies Journal of the Japan Statistical Society Journal of the RoyalStatistical Society (Series A Series B Series C) Law amp Social Inquiry Legislative Stud-ies Quarterly Management Science Multivariate Behavioral Research National ScienceFoundation (Economics Methodology Measurement and Statistics Political Science)Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada NeuroImage Osteoporo-sis International Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics Pharmaceutical StatisticsPharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety PLOS One Policy and Internet Political Anal-ysis Political Behavior Political Communication Political Research Quarterly PoliticalScience Research and Methods Population Health Metrics Population Studies PreventionScience Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Princeton University PressPsychological Methods Psychometrika Public Opinion Quarterly Quarterly Journal ofEconomics Quarterly Journal of Political Science Review of Economics and StatisticsRoutledge Sage Publications Scandinavian Journal of Statistics Science Sloan Foun-dation Springer Sociological Methodology Sociological Methods amp Research StatisticalMethodology Statistical Methods and Applications Statistical Methods in Medical Re-search Statistical Science Statistica Sinica Statistics amp Probability Letters Statistics inMedicine Systems Biology US-Israel Binational Science Foundation Value in HealthWorld Politics
University and Departmental Committees
Harvard University
Department of Government
20 January 2020
Kosuke Imai
Member Second-year Progress Committee (2019ndash2020)
Member Placement Committee (2019ndash2020)
Member Graduate Admissions Committee (2018ndash2019)
Member Graduate Poster Session Committee (2018ndash2019)
Department of Statistics
Member Junior Faculty Search Committee (2018ndash2019)
Member Second-year Progress Committee (2018ndash2019)
Princeton University
University
Executive Committee Member Program in Statistics and Machine Learning (2013ndash2018)
Executive Committee Member Committee for Statistical Studies (2011-2018)
Member Organizing Committee Retreat on Data and Information Science at Prince-ton (2016)
Member Council of the Princeton University Community (2015)
Member Search Committee for the Dean of College (2015)
Member Committee on the Library and Computing (2013ndash2016)
Member Committee on the Fund for Experimental Social Science (2013ndash2018)
Member Personally Identifiable Research Data Group (2012ndash2018)
Member Research Computing Advisory Group (2013ndash2018)
Member Task Force on Statistics and Machine Learning (2014ndash2015)
Department of Politics
Chair Department Committee on Research and Computing (2012ndash2018)
Chair Formal and Quantitative Methods Junior Search Committee (2012ndash20132014ndash2015 2016ndash2017)
Chair Reappointment Committee (2015ndash2016)
Member Diversity Initiative Committee (2014ndash2015)
Member American Politics Junior Search Committee (2012ndash2014)
Member Department Chairrsquos Advisory Committee (2010ndash2013 2015ndash2016)
Member Department Priority Committee (2012ndash2013 2014ndash2015 2016ndash2017)
Member Formal and Quantitative Methods Curriculum Committee (2005ndash2006)
Member Formal and Quantitative Methods Junior Search Committee (2009ndash20102015ndash2016)
Member Formal and Quantitative Methods Postdoc Search Committee (2009ndash2018)
Member Graduate Admissions Committee (2012ndash2013)
Member Reappointment Committee (2014ndash2016)
21 January 2020
Kosuke Imai
Member Space Committee (2014ndash2016)
Member Undergraduate Curriculum Committee (2014ndash2015)
Member Undergraduate Exam Committee (2007ndash2008)
Member Undergraduate Thesis Prize Committee (2005ndash2006 2008ndash2011)
Center for Statistics and Machine Learning
Executive Committee Member (2016ndash2018)
Member Search Committee (2015ndash2017)
Services to the Profession
National Academies of Sciences Engineering and Medicine
Committee on National Statistics Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences andEducation Panel on the Review and Evaluation of the 2014 Survey of Income andProgram Participation Content and Design (2014ndash2017)
The Society for Political Methodology
President (2017ndash2019)
Vice President and President Elect (2015ndash2017)
Annual Meeting Committee Chair (2011)
Career Award Committee (2015ndash2017)
Program Committee for Annual Meeting (2012) Chair (2011)
Graduate Student Selection Committee for the Annual Meeting (2005) Chair (2011)
Miller Prize Selection Committee (2010ndash2011)
Statistical Software Award Committee (2009ndash2010)
Emerging Scholar Award Committee (2013)
American Statistical Association
Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics Management Committee (2016 ndashpresent)
Others
External Expert Department of Methodology London School of Economics andPolitical Science (2017 ndash present)
Memberships
American Political Science Association American Statistical Association Midwest Polit-ical Science Association The Society for Political Methodology
22 January 2020
- Contact Information
- Education
- Positions
- Honors and Awards
- Selected Manuscripts
- Publications in English
-
- Book
- Refereed Journal Articles
- Invited Contributions
- Refereed Conference Proceedings
- Other Publications and Manuscripts
-
- Publications in Japanese
- Statistical Software
- External Research Grants
-
- Principal Investigator
- Adviser and Statistical Consultant
-
- Invited Short Courses
- Selected Presentations
- Conferences Organized
- Teaching
-
- Courses Taught at Harvard
- Courses Taught at Princeton
-
- Advising
-
- Current Students
- Former Students
- Former Predocs and Postdocs
-
- Editorial and Referee Service
- University and Departmental Committees
- Services to the Profession
- Memberships
-
Kosuke Imai
14 Tingley Dustin Teppei Yamamoto Kentaro Hirose Luke Keele and Kosuke Imai ldquome-diation R Package for Causal Mediation Analysisrdquo available through The Comprehen-sive R Archive Network and GitHub 2009 Winner of the Statistical Software AwardReviewed in Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics
15 Imai Kosuke ldquoexperiment R Package for Designing and Analyzing Randomized Exper-imentsrdquo available through The Comprehensive R Archive Network 2007
16 Ho Daniel E Kosuke Imai Gary King and Elizabeth Stuart ldquoMatchIt NonparametricPreprocessing for Parametric Causal Inferencerdquo available through The ComprehensiveR Archive Network and GitHub 2005
17 Imai Kosuke Ying Lu and Aaron Strauss ldquoeco Ecological Inference in 2 times 2 Tablesrdquoavailable through The Comprehensive R Archive Network and GitHub 2004
18 Imai Kosuke and David A van Dyk ldquoMNP R Package for Fitting the MultinomialProbit Modelrdquo available through The Comprehensive R Archive Network and GitHub2004
19 Imai Kosuke Gary King and Olivia Lau ldquoZelig Everyonersquos Statistical Softwarerdquoavailable through The Comprehensive R Archive Network 2004
External Research Grants
Principal Investigator
1 Facebook Research Grant (2018) $20000
2 National Science Foundation (2016ndash2019) ldquoCollaborative Conference Proposal Sup-port for Conferences and Mentoring of Women and Underrepresented Groups in PoliticalMethodologyrdquo (Methodology Measurement and Statistics and Political Science Pro-grams SESndash1628102) Principal Investigator (with Jeffrey Lewis) $312322 Supplement(SESndash1831370) $60000
3 The United States Agency for International Development (2015ndash2017) ldquoUnemploymentand Insurgent Violence in Afghanistan Evidence from the Community DevelopmentProgramrdquo (AIDndashOAAndashAndash12ndash00096) Principal Investigator (with Jason Lyall) $188037
4 The United States Institute of Peace (2015ndash2016) ldquoAssessing the Links between Eco-nomic Interventions and Stability An impact evaluation of vocational and skills trainingin Kandahar Afghanistanrdquo Principal Investigator (with David Haines Jon Kurtz andJason Lyall) $144494
5 Amazon Web Services in Education Research Grant (2014) Principal Investigator (withGraeme Blair and Carlos Velasco Rivera) $3000
6 Development Bank of Latin America (CAF) (2013) ldquoThe Origins of Citizen Support forNarcos An Empirical Investigationrdquo Principal Investigator (with Graeme Blair FabianaMachado and Carlos Velasco Rivera) $15000
12 January 2020
Kosuke Imai
7 The International Growth Centre (2011ndash2013) ldquoPoverty Militancy and Citizen Demandsin Natural Resource-Rich Regions Randomized Evaluation of the Oil Profits DividendPlan for the Niger Deltardquo (RA-2010-12-013) Principal Investigator (with Graeme Blair)$117116
8 National Science Foundation (2009ndash2012) ldquoStatistical Analysis of Causal MechanismsIdentification Inference and Sensitivity Analysisrdquo (Methodology Measurement andStatistics Program and Political Science Program SESndash0918968) Principal Investigator$97574
9 National Science Foundation (2009ndash2011) ldquoCollaborative Research The Measurementand Identification of Media Priming Effects in Political Sciencerdquo (Methodology Measure-ment and Statistics Program and Political Science Program SESndash0849715) PrincipalInvestigator (with Nicholas Valentino) $317126
10 National Science Foundation (2008ndash2009) ldquoNew Statistical Methods for RandomizedExperiments in Political Science and Public Policyrdquo (Political Science Program SESndash0752050) Principal Investigator $52565
11 National Science Foundation (2006ndash2009) ldquoCollaborative Research Generalized Propen-sity Score Methodsrdquo (Methodology Measurement and Statistics Program SESndash0550873)Principal Investigator (with Donald B Rubin and David A van Dyk) $460000
12 The Telecommunications Advancement Foundation (2004) ldquoAnalyzing the Effects ofParty Webpages on Political Opinions and Voting Behaviorrdquo Principal Investigator (withNaoko Taniguchi and Yusaku Horiuchi) $12000
Adviser and Statistical Consultant
1 National Science Foundation (2016ndash2017) ldquoDoctoral Dissertation Research CrossingAfricarsquos Arbitrary Borders How Refugees Shape National Boundaries by ChallengingThemrdquo (Political Science Program SESndash1560636) Principal Investigator and Adviserfor Co-PI Yang-Yang Zhoursquos Dissertation Research $18900
2 Institute of Education Sciences (2012ndash2014) ldquoAcademic and Behavioral Consequencesof Visible Security Measures in Schoolsrdquo (R305A120181) Statistical Consultant (EmilyTanner-Smith Principal Investigator) $351228
3 National Science Foundation (2013ndash2014) ldquoDoctoral Dissertation Research Open Tradefor Sale Lobbying by Productive Exporting Firmrdquo (Political Science Program SESndash1264090) Principal Investigator and Adviser for Co-PI In Song Kimrsquos Dissertation Re-search $22540
4 National Science Foundation (2012ndash2013) ldquoDoctoral Dissertation Research The Poli-tics of Location in Resource Rent Distribution and the Projection of Power in Africardquo(Political Science Program SESndash1260754) Principal Investigator and Adviser for Co-PIGraeme Blairrsquos Dissertation Research $17640
13 January 2020
Kosuke Imai
Invited Short Courses and Outreach Lectures
1 Short Course on Causal Inference and Statistics ndash Department of Political Science RiceUniversity 2009 Institute of Political Science Academia Sinica 2014
2 Short Course on Causal Inference and Identification The Empirical Implications of The-oretical Models (EITM) Summer Institute ndash Harris School of Public Policy University ofChicago 2011 Department of Politics Princeton University 2012
3 Short Course on Causal Mediation Analysis ndash Summer Graduate Seminar Institute ofStatistical Mathematics Tokyo Japan 2010 Society for Research on Educational Effec-tiveness Conference Washington DC Fall 2011 Spring 2012 Spring 2015 Inter-AmericanDevelopment Bank 2012 Center for Education Research University of Wisconsin Madi-son 2012 Bobst Center for Peace and Justice Princeton University 2014 GraduateSchool of Education University of Pennsylvania 2014 EITM Summer Institute DukeUniversity 2014 Center for Lifespan Psychology Max Planck Institute for Human De-velopment 2015 School of Communication Research University of Amsterdam 2015Uppsala University 2016
4 Short Course on Covariate Balancing Propensity Score ndash Society for Research on Ed-ucational Effectiveness Conference Washington DC Spring 2013 Uppsala University2016
5 Short Course on Matching Methods for Causal Inference ndash Institute of Behavioral ScienceUniversity of Colorado Boulder 2009 Department of Political Science Duke University2013
6 Lecture on Statistics and Social Sciences ndash New Jersey Japanese School 2011 2016Kaisei Academy 2012 2014 Princeton University Wilson College 2012 University ofTokyo 2014
Selected Presentations
1 Keynote speaker Special Workshop on Evidence-based Policy Making World EconomicForum Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution Japan 2020
2 Distinguished speaker seminar Institute for Data Systems and Society MassachusettsInstitute of Technology 2019
3 Keynote speaker The Harvard Experimental Political Science Graduate Student Confer-ence Harvard University 2019
4 Invited speaker Beyond Curve Fitting Causation Counterfactuals and Imagination-based AI Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Spring SymposiumStanford University 2019
5 Inaugural speaker Causal Inference Seminar Departments of Biostatistics and StatisticsBoston University 2019
6 Keynote speaker The Second Latin American Political Methodology Meeting Universi-dad de los Andes (Department of Political Science) 2018
14 January 2020
Kosuke Imai
7 Keynote speaker The First Latin American Political Methodology Meeting PontificalCatholic University of Chile (Department of Political Science) 2017
8 Keynote speaker Workshop on Uncovering Causal Mechanisms University of Munich(Department of Economics) 2016
9 Keynote speaker The National Quality Registry Research Conference Stockholm 2016
10 Keynote speaker The UK-Causal Inference Meeting University of Bristol (School ofMathematics) 2015
11 Keynote speaker The UP-STAT Conference the Upstate Chapters of the American Sta-tistical Association 2015
12 Keynote speaker The Winter Conference in Statistics Swedish Statistical Society andUmea University (Department of Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics) 2015
13 Inaugural invited speaker The International Methods Colloquium Rice University 2015
14 Invited speaker The International Meeting on Experimental and Behavioral Social Sci-ences University of Oxford (Nuffield College) 2014
15 Keynote speaker The Annual Conference of Australian Society for Quantitative PoliticalScience University of Sydney 2013
16 Keynote speaker The Graduate Student Conference on Experiments in Interactive Deci-sion Making Princeton University 2008
Conferences Organized
1 The Asian Political Methodology Meetings (January 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 co-organizer)
2 The Experimental Research Workshop (September 2012 co-organizer)
3 The 12th World Meeting of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis (June 2012a member of the organizing committee)
4 Conference on Causal Inference and the Study of Conflict and State Building (May 2012organizer)
5 The 28th Annual Society for Political Methodology Summer Meeting (July 2011 host)
6 Conference on New Methodologies and their Applications in Comparative Politics andInternational Relations (February 2011 co-organizer)
15 January 2020
Kosuke Imai
Teaching
Courses Taught at Harvard
1 STAT 186GOV 2002 Causal Inference introduction to causal inference
2 GOV 2003 Topics in Quantitative Methodology causal inference applied Bayesian statis-tics machine learning
Courses Taught at Princeton
1 POL 245 Visualizing Data exploratory data analysis graphical statistics data visual-ization
2 POL 345 Quantitative Analysis and Politics a first course in quantitative social science
3 POL 451 Statistical Methods in Political Science basic probability and statistical theorytheir applications in the social sciences
4 POL 502 Mathematics for Political Science real analysis linear algebra calculus
5 POL 571 Quantitative Analysis I probability theory statistical theory linear models
6 POL 572 Quantitative Analysis II intermediate applied statistics
7 POL 573 Quantitative Analysis III advanced applied statistics
8 POL 574 Quantitative Analysis IV advanced applied statistics with various topics in-cluding Bayesian statistics and causal inference
9 Reading Courses basic mathematical probability and statistics applied bayesian statis-tics spatial statistics
Advising
Current Students
1 Soubhik Barari
2 Naoki Egami (Primary adviser) To be Assistant Professor Department of PoliticalScience Columbia University
3 Shusei Eshima (Primary adviser)
4 Max Goplerud To be Assistant Professor Department of Political Science University ofPittsburgh
5 June Hwang (Primary adviser)
6 Connor Jerzak
7 Shiro Kuriwaki
16 January 2020
Kosuke Imai
8 Asya Magazinnik To be Assistant Professor Department of Political Science Mas-sachusetts Institute of Technology
9 Sun Young Park
10 Nicole Pashley
11 Casey Petroff
12 Averell Schmidt
13 Diana Stanescu
14 Sooahn Shin
15 Tyler Simko
16 Alex Tarr (Primary adviser)
17 Soichiro Yamauchi (Primary adviser)
18 Erik Wang To be Assistant Professor Department of Political and Social Change Aus-tralian National University
Former Students
1 Brandon de la Cuesta (PhD in 2019 Department of Politics Princeton University)Postdoctoral Fellow Center on Global Poverty and Development Stanford University
2 Yang-Yang Zhou (PhD in 2019 Department of Politics Princeton University) Assis-tant Professor Department of Political Science University of British Columbia
3 Winston Chou (PhD in 2019 Department of Politics Princeton University) ResearchScientist at Facebook
4 Ted Enamorado (PhD in 2019 Department of Politics Princeton University Disserta-tion Committee Chair) Assistant Professor Department of Political Science Universityof North Carolina at Chapel Hill
5 Benjamin Fifield (PhD in 2018 Department of Politics Princeton University Disserta-tion Committee Chair) Research Scientist Facebook
6 Tyler Pratt (PhD in 2018 Department of Politics Princeton University) AssistantProfessor Department of Political Science Yale University
7 Romain Ferrali (PhD in 2018 Department of Politics Princeton University) Postdoc-toral Fellow New York University Abu Dhabi
8 Julia Morse (PhD in 2017 Woodrow Wilson School Princeton University) AssistantProfessor Department of Political Science University of California Santa Barbara
9 Yuki Shiraito (PhD in 2017 Department of Politics Princeton University DissertationCommittee Chair) Assistant Professor Department of Political Science University ofMichigan
17 January 2020
Kosuke Imai
10 Carlos Velasco Rivera (PhD in 2016 Department of Politics Princeton University)Research Scientist Facebook
11 Gabriel Lopez Moctezuma (PhD in 2016 Department of Politics Princeton University)Assistant Professor Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences California Instituteof Technology
12 Graeme Blair (PhD in 2016 Department of Politics Princeton University) AssistantProfessor University of California Los Angeles
13 Jaquilyn R Waddell Boie (PhD in 2015 Department of Politics Princeton University)Private consultant
14 Scott Abramson (PhD in 2014 Department of Politics Princeton University) AssistantProfessor Department of Political Science University of Rochester
15 Michael Barber (PhD in 2014 Department of Politics Princeton University) AssistantProfessor Department of Political Science Brigham Young University
16 In Song Kim (PhD in 2014 Department of Politics Princeton University) AssociateProfessor Department of Political Science Massachusetts Institute of Technology
17 Alex Ruder (PhD in 2014 Department of Politics Princeton University) Senior Com-munity Economic Development Advisor Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
18 Meredith Wilf (PhD in 2014 Department of Politics Princeton University) AssistantProfessor Graduate School of Public and International Affairs University of Pittsburgh
19 Will Bullock (PhD candidate Department of Politics Princeton University) SeniorResearcher Facebook
20 Teppei Yamamoto (PhD in 2011 Department of Politics Princeton University Dis-sertation Committee Chair) Associate Professor Department of Political Science Mas-sachusetts Institute of Technology
21 Dustin Tingley (PhD in 2010 Department of Politics Princeton University) ProfessorDepartment of Government Harvard University
22 Aaron Strauss (PhD in 2009 Department of Politics Princeton University) ExecutiveDirector Analyst Institute
23 Samir Soneji (PhD in 2008 Office of Population Research Princeton University Dis-sertation Committee Chair) Associate Professor Dartmouth Institute for Health Policyamp Clinical Practice Geisel School of Medicine Dartmouth College
24 Ying Lu (PhD in 2005 Woodrow Wilson School Princeton University DissertationCommittee Chair) Associate Professor Steinhardt School of Culture Education andHuman Development New York University
18 January 2020
Kosuke Imai
Former Predocs and Postdocs
1 Zhichao Jiang (Postdoctoral Fellow 2016ndash2019) Assistant Professor Department ofBiostatistics and Epidemiology School of Public Health and Health Sciences Universityof Massachusetts Amherst
2 Adeline Lo (Postdoctoral Fellow 2016ndash2019) Assistant Professor Department of Politi-cal Science University of Wisconsin Madison
3 Yunkyu Sohn (Postdoctoral Fellow 2016ndash2018) Assistant Professor School of PoliticalScience and Economics Waseda University
4 Xiaolin Yang (Postdoctoral Fellow 2015ndash2017) Research Scientist Amazon
5 Santiago Olivella (Postdoctoral Fellow 2015ndash2016) Assistant Professor Department ofPolitical Science University of North Carolina
6 Drew Dimmery (Predoctoral Fellow 2015ndash2016) Research Scientist Facebook
7 James Lo (Postdoctoral Fellow 2014ndash2016) Assistant Professor Department of PoliticalScience University of Southern California
8 Steven Liao (Predoctoral Fellow 2014ndash2015) Assistant Professor Department of Politi-cal Science University of California Riverside
9 Michael Higgins (Postdoctoral Fellow 2013ndash2015) Assistant Professor Department ofStatistics Kansas State University
10 Kentaro Hirose (Postdoctoral Fellow 2012ndash2015) Assistant Professor Waseda Institutefor Advanced Studies
11 Chad Hazlett (Predoctoral Fellow 2013ndash2014) Assistant Professor Departments of Po-litical Science and Statistics University of California Los Angeles
12 Florian Hollenbach (Predoctoral Fellow 2013ndash2014) Assistant Professor Department ofPolitical Science Texas AampM University
13 Marc Ratkovic (Predoctoral and Postdoctoral Fellow 2010ndash2012) Assistant ProfessorDepartment of Politics Princeton University
Editorial and Referee Service
Co-editor for Journal of Causal Inference (2014 ndash present)
Associate editor for American Journal of Political Science (2014 ndash 2019) Journal ofBusiness amp Economic Statistics (2015 ndash 2021) Journal of Causal Inference (2011 ndash 2014)Journal of Experimental Political Science (2013 ndash 2017) Observational Studies (2014 ndashpresent) Political Analysis (2014 ndash 2017)
Editorial board member for Asian Journal of Comparative Politics (2014 ndash present) Jour-nal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics (2011 ndash present) Journal of Politics (2007ndash 2008 2019ndash2020) Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness (2014 ndash present)Political Analysis (2010 ndash 2013) Political Science Research and Methods (2019 ndash present)
19 January 2020
Kosuke Imai
Guest editor for Political Analysis virtual issue on causal inference (2011)
Referee for ACM Computing Surveys American Economic Journal Applied EconomicsAmerican Economic Review Insights American Journal of Epidemiology AmericanJournal of Evaluation American Journal of Political Science American Political ScienceReview American Politics Research Annals of Applied Statistics Annals of StatisticsAnnals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics Biometrics Biometrika BiostatisticsBMC Medical Research Methodology British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psy-chology British Journal of Political Science Canadian Journal of Statistics Chapmanamp HallCRC Press Child Development Communications for Statistical Applications andMethods Computational Statistics and Data Analysis Electoral Studies EconometricaEconometrics Empirical Economics Environmental Management Epidemiology Euro-pean Union Politics IEEE Transactions on Information Theory International Journalof Biostatistics International Journal of Epidemiology International Journal of PublicOpinion Research International Migration Review John Wiley amp Sons Journal of Ap-plied Econometrics Journal of Applied Statistics Journal of Biopharmaceutical Statis-tics Journal of Business and Economic Statistics Journal of Causal Inference Journalof Computational and Graphical Statistics Journal of Conflict Resolution Journal ofConsulting and Clinical Psychology Journal of Econometrics Journal of Educationaland Behavioral Statistics Journal of Empirical Legal Studies Journal of MultivariateAnalysis Journal of Official Statistics Journal of Peace Research Journal of PoliticsJournal of Research on Educational EffectivenessJournal of Statistical Planning and In-ference Journal of Statistical Software Journal of the American Statistical Association(Case Studies and Applications Theory and Methods) Journal of the Japanese and In-ternational Economies Journal of the Japan Statistical Society Journal of the RoyalStatistical Society (Series A Series B Series C) Law amp Social Inquiry Legislative Stud-ies Quarterly Management Science Multivariate Behavioral Research National ScienceFoundation (Economics Methodology Measurement and Statistics Political Science)Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada NeuroImage Osteoporo-sis International Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics Pharmaceutical StatisticsPharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety PLOS One Policy and Internet Political Anal-ysis Political Behavior Political Communication Political Research Quarterly PoliticalScience Research and Methods Population Health Metrics Population Studies PreventionScience Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Princeton University PressPsychological Methods Psychometrika Public Opinion Quarterly Quarterly Journal ofEconomics Quarterly Journal of Political Science Review of Economics and StatisticsRoutledge Sage Publications Scandinavian Journal of Statistics Science Sloan Foun-dation Springer Sociological Methodology Sociological Methods amp Research StatisticalMethodology Statistical Methods and Applications Statistical Methods in Medical Re-search Statistical Science Statistica Sinica Statistics amp Probability Letters Statistics inMedicine Systems Biology US-Israel Binational Science Foundation Value in HealthWorld Politics
University and Departmental Committees
Harvard University
Department of Government
20 January 2020
Kosuke Imai
Member Second-year Progress Committee (2019ndash2020)
Member Placement Committee (2019ndash2020)
Member Graduate Admissions Committee (2018ndash2019)
Member Graduate Poster Session Committee (2018ndash2019)
Department of Statistics
Member Junior Faculty Search Committee (2018ndash2019)
Member Second-year Progress Committee (2018ndash2019)
Princeton University
University
Executive Committee Member Program in Statistics and Machine Learning (2013ndash2018)
Executive Committee Member Committee for Statistical Studies (2011-2018)
Member Organizing Committee Retreat on Data and Information Science at Prince-ton (2016)
Member Council of the Princeton University Community (2015)
Member Search Committee for the Dean of College (2015)
Member Committee on the Library and Computing (2013ndash2016)
Member Committee on the Fund for Experimental Social Science (2013ndash2018)
Member Personally Identifiable Research Data Group (2012ndash2018)
Member Research Computing Advisory Group (2013ndash2018)
Member Task Force on Statistics and Machine Learning (2014ndash2015)
Department of Politics
Chair Department Committee on Research and Computing (2012ndash2018)
Chair Formal and Quantitative Methods Junior Search Committee (2012ndash20132014ndash2015 2016ndash2017)
Chair Reappointment Committee (2015ndash2016)
Member Diversity Initiative Committee (2014ndash2015)
Member American Politics Junior Search Committee (2012ndash2014)
Member Department Chairrsquos Advisory Committee (2010ndash2013 2015ndash2016)
Member Department Priority Committee (2012ndash2013 2014ndash2015 2016ndash2017)
Member Formal and Quantitative Methods Curriculum Committee (2005ndash2006)
Member Formal and Quantitative Methods Junior Search Committee (2009ndash20102015ndash2016)
Member Formal and Quantitative Methods Postdoc Search Committee (2009ndash2018)
Member Graduate Admissions Committee (2012ndash2013)
Member Reappointment Committee (2014ndash2016)
21 January 2020
Kosuke Imai
Member Space Committee (2014ndash2016)
Member Undergraduate Curriculum Committee (2014ndash2015)
Member Undergraduate Exam Committee (2007ndash2008)
Member Undergraduate Thesis Prize Committee (2005ndash2006 2008ndash2011)
Center for Statistics and Machine Learning
Executive Committee Member (2016ndash2018)
Member Search Committee (2015ndash2017)
Services to the Profession
National Academies of Sciences Engineering and Medicine
Committee on National Statistics Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences andEducation Panel on the Review and Evaluation of the 2014 Survey of Income andProgram Participation Content and Design (2014ndash2017)
The Society for Political Methodology
President (2017ndash2019)
Vice President and President Elect (2015ndash2017)
Annual Meeting Committee Chair (2011)
Career Award Committee (2015ndash2017)
Program Committee for Annual Meeting (2012) Chair (2011)
Graduate Student Selection Committee for the Annual Meeting (2005) Chair (2011)
Miller Prize Selection Committee (2010ndash2011)
Statistical Software Award Committee (2009ndash2010)
Emerging Scholar Award Committee (2013)
American Statistical Association
Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics Management Committee (2016 ndashpresent)
Others
External Expert Department of Methodology London School of Economics andPolitical Science (2017 ndash present)
Memberships
American Political Science Association American Statistical Association Midwest Polit-ical Science Association The Society for Political Methodology
22 January 2020
- Contact Information
- Education
- Positions
- Honors and Awards
- Selected Manuscripts
- Publications in English
-
- Book
- Refereed Journal Articles
- Invited Contributions
- Refereed Conference Proceedings
- Other Publications and Manuscripts
-
- Publications in Japanese
- Statistical Software
- External Research Grants
-
- Principal Investigator
- Adviser and Statistical Consultant
-
- Invited Short Courses
- Selected Presentations
- Conferences Organized
- Teaching
-
- Courses Taught at Harvard
- Courses Taught at Princeton
-
- Advising
-
- Current Students
- Former Students
- Former Predocs and Postdocs
-
- Editorial and Referee Service
- University and Departmental Committees
- Services to the Profession
- Memberships
-
Kosuke Imai
7 The International Growth Centre (2011ndash2013) ldquoPoverty Militancy and Citizen Demandsin Natural Resource-Rich Regions Randomized Evaluation of the Oil Profits DividendPlan for the Niger Deltardquo (RA-2010-12-013) Principal Investigator (with Graeme Blair)$117116
8 National Science Foundation (2009ndash2012) ldquoStatistical Analysis of Causal MechanismsIdentification Inference and Sensitivity Analysisrdquo (Methodology Measurement andStatistics Program and Political Science Program SESndash0918968) Principal Investigator$97574
9 National Science Foundation (2009ndash2011) ldquoCollaborative Research The Measurementand Identification of Media Priming Effects in Political Sciencerdquo (Methodology Measure-ment and Statistics Program and Political Science Program SESndash0849715) PrincipalInvestigator (with Nicholas Valentino) $317126
10 National Science Foundation (2008ndash2009) ldquoNew Statistical Methods for RandomizedExperiments in Political Science and Public Policyrdquo (Political Science Program SESndash0752050) Principal Investigator $52565
11 National Science Foundation (2006ndash2009) ldquoCollaborative Research Generalized Propen-sity Score Methodsrdquo (Methodology Measurement and Statistics Program SESndash0550873)Principal Investigator (with Donald B Rubin and David A van Dyk) $460000
12 The Telecommunications Advancement Foundation (2004) ldquoAnalyzing the Effects ofParty Webpages on Political Opinions and Voting Behaviorrdquo Principal Investigator (withNaoko Taniguchi and Yusaku Horiuchi) $12000
Adviser and Statistical Consultant
1 National Science Foundation (2016ndash2017) ldquoDoctoral Dissertation Research CrossingAfricarsquos Arbitrary Borders How Refugees Shape National Boundaries by ChallengingThemrdquo (Political Science Program SESndash1560636) Principal Investigator and Adviserfor Co-PI Yang-Yang Zhoursquos Dissertation Research $18900
2 Institute of Education Sciences (2012ndash2014) ldquoAcademic and Behavioral Consequencesof Visible Security Measures in Schoolsrdquo (R305A120181) Statistical Consultant (EmilyTanner-Smith Principal Investigator) $351228
3 National Science Foundation (2013ndash2014) ldquoDoctoral Dissertation Research Open Tradefor Sale Lobbying by Productive Exporting Firmrdquo (Political Science Program SESndash1264090) Principal Investigator and Adviser for Co-PI In Song Kimrsquos Dissertation Re-search $22540
4 National Science Foundation (2012ndash2013) ldquoDoctoral Dissertation Research The Poli-tics of Location in Resource Rent Distribution and the Projection of Power in Africardquo(Political Science Program SESndash1260754) Principal Investigator and Adviser for Co-PIGraeme Blairrsquos Dissertation Research $17640
13 January 2020
Kosuke Imai
Invited Short Courses and Outreach Lectures
1 Short Course on Causal Inference and Statistics ndash Department of Political Science RiceUniversity 2009 Institute of Political Science Academia Sinica 2014
2 Short Course on Causal Inference and Identification The Empirical Implications of The-oretical Models (EITM) Summer Institute ndash Harris School of Public Policy University ofChicago 2011 Department of Politics Princeton University 2012
3 Short Course on Causal Mediation Analysis ndash Summer Graduate Seminar Institute ofStatistical Mathematics Tokyo Japan 2010 Society for Research on Educational Effec-tiveness Conference Washington DC Fall 2011 Spring 2012 Spring 2015 Inter-AmericanDevelopment Bank 2012 Center for Education Research University of Wisconsin Madi-son 2012 Bobst Center for Peace and Justice Princeton University 2014 GraduateSchool of Education University of Pennsylvania 2014 EITM Summer Institute DukeUniversity 2014 Center for Lifespan Psychology Max Planck Institute for Human De-velopment 2015 School of Communication Research University of Amsterdam 2015Uppsala University 2016
4 Short Course on Covariate Balancing Propensity Score ndash Society for Research on Ed-ucational Effectiveness Conference Washington DC Spring 2013 Uppsala University2016
5 Short Course on Matching Methods for Causal Inference ndash Institute of Behavioral ScienceUniversity of Colorado Boulder 2009 Department of Political Science Duke University2013
6 Lecture on Statistics and Social Sciences ndash New Jersey Japanese School 2011 2016Kaisei Academy 2012 2014 Princeton University Wilson College 2012 University ofTokyo 2014
Selected Presentations
1 Keynote speaker Special Workshop on Evidence-based Policy Making World EconomicForum Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution Japan 2020
2 Distinguished speaker seminar Institute for Data Systems and Society MassachusettsInstitute of Technology 2019
3 Keynote speaker The Harvard Experimental Political Science Graduate Student Confer-ence Harvard University 2019
4 Invited speaker Beyond Curve Fitting Causation Counterfactuals and Imagination-based AI Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Spring SymposiumStanford University 2019
5 Inaugural speaker Causal Inference Seminar Departments of Biostatistics and StatisticsBoston University 2019
6 Keynote speaker The Second Latin American Political Methodology Meeting Universi-dad de los Andes (Department of Political Science) 2018
14 January 2020
Kosuke Imai
7 Keynote speaker The First Latin American Political Methodology Meeting PontificalCatholic University of Chile (Department of Political Science) 2017
8 Keynote speaker Workshop on Uncovering Causal Mechanisms University of Munich(Department of Economics) 2016
9 Keynote speaker The National Quality Registry Research Conference Stockholm 2016
10 Keynote speaker The UK-Causal Inference Meeting University of Bristol (School ofMathematics) 2015
11 Keynote speaker The UP-STAT Conference the Upstate Chapters of the American Sta-tistical Association 2015
12 Keynote speaker The Winter Conference in Statistics Swedish Statistical Society andUmea University (Department of Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics) 2015
13 Inaugural invited speaker The International Methods Colloquium Rice University 2015
14 Invited speaker The International Meeting on Experimental and Behavioral Social Sci-ences University of Oxford (Nuffield College) 2014
15 Keynote speaker The Annual Conference of Australian Society for Quantitative PoliticalScience University of Sydney 2013
16 Keynote speaker The Graduate Student Conference on Experiments in Interactive Deci-sion Making Princeton University 2008
Conferences Organized
1 The Asian Political Methodology Meetings (January 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 co-organizer)
2 The Experimental Research Workshop (September 2012 co-organizer)
3 The 12th World Meeting of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis (June 2012a member of the organizing committee)
4 Conference on Causal Inference and the Study of Conflict and State Building (May 2012organizer)
5 The 28th Annual Society for Political Methodology Summer Meeting (July 2011 host)
6 Conference on New Methodologies and their Applications in Comparative Politics andInternational Relations (February 2011 co-organizer)
15 January 2020
Kosuke Imai
Teaching
Courses Taught at Harvard
1 STAT 186GOV 2002 Causal Inference introduction to causal inference
2 GOV 2003 Topics in Quantitative Methodology causal inference applied Bayesian statis-tics machine learning
Courses Taught at Princeton
1 POL 245 Visualizing Data exploratory data analysis graphical statistics data visual-ization
2 POL 345 Quantitative Analysis and Politics a first course in quantitative social science
3 POL 451 Statistical Methods in Political Science basic probability and statistical theorytheir applications in the social sciences
4 POL 502 Mathematics for Political Science real analysis linear algebra calculus
5 POL 571 Quantitative Analysis I probability theory statistical theory linear models
6 POL 572 Quantitative Analysis II intermediate applied statistics
7 POL 573 Quantitative Analysis III advanced applied statistics
8 POL 574 Quantitative Analysis IV advanced applied statistics with various topics in-cluding Bayesian statistics and causal inference
9 Reading Courses basic mathematical probability and statistics applied bayesian statis-tics spatial statistics
Advising
Current Students
1 Soubhik Barari
2 Naoki Egami (Primary adviser) To be Assistant Professor Department of PoliticalScience Columbia University
3 Shusei Eshima (Primary adviser)
4 Max Goplerud To be Assistant Professor Department of Political Science University ofPittsburgh
5 June Hwang (Primary adviser)
6 Connor Jerzak
7 Shiro Kuriwaki
16 January 2020
Kosuke Imai
8 Asya Magazinnik To be Assistant Professor Department of Political Science Mas-sachusetts Institute of Technology
9 Sun Young Park
10 Nicole Pashley
11 Casey Petroff
12 Averell Schmidt
13 Diana Stanescu
14 Sooahn Shin
15 Tyler Simko
16 Alex Tarr (Primary adviser)
17 Soichiro Yamauchi (Primary adviser)
18 Erik Wang To be Assistant Professor Department of Political and Social Change Aus-tralian National University
Former Students
1 Brandon de la Cuesta (PhD in 2019 Department of Politics Princeton University)Postdoctoral Fellow Center on Global Poverty and Development Stanford University
2 Yang-Yang Zhou (PhD in 2019 Department of Politics Princeton University) Assis-tant Professor Department of Political Science University of British Columbia
3 Winston Chou (PhD in 2019 Department of Politics Princeton University) ResearchScientist at Facebook
4 Ted Enamorado (PhD in 2019 Department of Politics Princeton University Disserta-tion Committee Chair) Assistant Professor Department of Political Science Universityof North Carolina at Chapel Hill
5 Benjamin Fifield (PhD in 2018 Department of Politics Princeton University Disserta-tion Committee Chair) Research Scientist Facebook
6 Tyler Pratt (PhD in 2018 Department of Politics Princeton University) AssistantProfessor Department of Political Science Yale University
7 Romain Ferrali (PhD in 2018 Department of Politics Princeton University) Postdoc-toral Fellow New York University Abu Dhabi
8 Julia Morse (PhD in 2017 Woodrow Wilson School Princeton University) AssistantProfessor Department of Political Science University of California Santa Barbara
9 Yuki Shiraito (PhD in 2017 Department of Politics Princeton University DissertationCommittee Chair) Assistant Professor Department of Political Science University ofMichigan
17 January 2020
Kosuke Imai
10 Carlos Velasco Rivera (PhD in 2016 Department of Politics Princeton University)Research Scientist Facebook
11 Gabriel Lopez Moctezuma (PhD in 2016 Department of Politics Princeton University)Assistant Professor Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences California Instituteof Technology
12 Graeme Blair (PhD in 2016 Department of Politics Princeton University) AssistantProfessor University of California Los Angeles
13 Jaquilyn R Waddell Boie (PhD in 2015 Department of Politics Princeton University)Private consultant
14 Scott Abramson (PhD in 2014 Department of Politics Princeton University) AssistantProfessor Department of Political Science University of Rochester
15 Michael Barber (PhD in 2014 Department of Politics Princeton University) AssistantProfessor Department of Political Science Brigham Young University
16 In Song Kim (PhD in 2014 Department of Politics Princeton University) AssociateProfessor Department of Political Science Massachusetts Institute of Technology
17 Alex Ruder (PhD in 2014 Department of Politics Princeton University) Senior Com-munity Economic Development Advisor Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
18 Meredith Wilf (PhD in 2014 Department of Politics Princeton University) AssistantProfessor Graduate School of Public and International Affairs University of Pittsburgh
19 Will Bullock (PhD candidate Department of Politics Princeton University) SeniorResearcher Facebook
20 Teppei Yamamoto (PhD in 2011 Department of Politics Princeton University Dis-sertation Committee Chair) Associate Professor Department of Political Science Mas-sachusetts Institute of Technology
21 Dustin Tingley (PhD in 2010 Department of Politics Princeton University) ProfessorDepartment of Government Harvard University
22 Aaron Strauss (PhD in 2009 Department of Politics Princeton University) ExecutiveDirector Analyst Institute
23 Samir Soneji (PhD in 2008 Office of Population Research Princeton University Dis-sertation Committee Chair) Associate Professor Dartmouth Institute for Health Policyamp Clinical Practice Geisel School of Medicine Dartmouth College
24 Ying Lu (PhD in 2005 Woodrow Wilson School Princeton University DissertationCommittee Chair) Associate Professor Steinhardt School of Culture Education andHuman Development New York University
18 January 2020
Kosuke Imai
Former Predocs and Postdocs
1 Zhichao Jiang (Postdoctoral Fellow 2016ndash2019) Assistant Professor Department ofBiostatistics and Epidemiology School of Public Health and Health Sciences Universityof Massachusetts Amherst
2 Adeline Lo (Postdoctoral Fellow 2016ndash2019) Assistant Professor Department of Politi-cal Science University of Wisconsin Madison
3 Yunkyu Sohn (Postdoctoral Fellow 2016ndash2018) Assistant Professor School of PoliticalScience and Economics Waseda University
4 Xiaolin Yang (Postdoctoral Fellow 2015ndash2017) Research Scientist Amazon
5 Santiago Olivella (Postdoctoral Fellow 2015ndash2016) Assistant Professor Department ofPolitical Science University of North Carolina
6 Drew Dimmery (Predoctoral Fellow 2015ndash2016) Research Scientist Facebook
7 James Lo (Postdoctoral Fellow 2014ndash2016) Assistant Professor Department of PoliticalScience University of Southern California
8 Steven Liao (Predoctoral Fellow 2014ndash2015) Assistant Professor Department of Politi-cal Science University of California Riverside
9 Michael Higgins (Postdoctoral Fellow 2013ndash2015) Assistant Professor Department ofStatistics Kansas State University
10 Kentaro Hirose (Postdoctoral Fellow 2012ndash2015) Assistant Professor Waseda Institutefor Advanced Studies
11 Chad Hazlett (Predoctoral Fellow 2013ndash2014) Assistant Professor Departments of Po-litical Science and Statistics University of California Los Angeles
12 Florian Hollenbach (Predoctoral Fellow 2013ndash2014) Assistant Professor Department ofPolitical Science Texas AampM University
13 Marc Ratkovic (Predoctoral and Postdoctoral Fellow 2010ndash2012) Assistant ProfessorDepartment of Politics Princeton University
Editorial and Referee Service
Co-editor for Journal of Causal Inference (2014 ndash present)
Associate editor for American Journal of Political Science (2014 ndash 2019) Journal ofBusiness amp Economic Statistics (2015 ndash 2021) Journal of Causal Inference (2011 ndash 2014)Journal of Experimental Political Science (2013 ndash 2017) Observational Studies (2014 ndashpresent) Political Analysis (2014 ndash 2017)
Editorial board member for Asian Journal of Comparative Politics (2014 ndash present) Jour-nal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics (2011 ndash present) Journal of Politics (2007ndash 2008 2019ndash2020) Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness (2014 ndash present)Political Analysis (2010 ndash 2013) Political Science Research and Methods (2019 ndash present)
19 January 2020
Kosuke Imai
Guest editor for Political Analysis virtual issue on causal inference (2011)
Referee for ACM Computing Surveys American Economic Journal Applied EconomicsAmerican Economic Review Insights American Journal of Epidemiology AmericanJournal of Evaluation American Journal of Political Science American Political ScienceReview American Politics Research Annals of Applied Statistics Annals of StatisticsAnnals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics Biometrics Biometrika BiostatisticsBMC Medical Research Methodology British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psy-chology British Journal of Political Science Canadian Journal of Statistics Chapmanamp HallCRC Press Child Development Communications for Statistical Applications andMethods Computational Statistics and Data Analysis Electoral Studies EconometricaEconometrics Empirical Economics Environmental Management Epidemiology Euro-pean Union Politics IEEE Transactions on Information Theory International Journalof Biostatistics International Journal of Epidemiology International Journal of PublicOpinion Research International Migration Review John Wiley amp Sons Journal of Ap-plied Econometrics Journal of Applied Statistics Journal of Biopharmaceutical Statis-tics Journal of Business and Economic Statistics Journal of Causal Inference Journalof Computational and Graphical Statistics Journal of Conflict Resolution Journal ofConsulting and Clinical Psychology Journal of Econometrics Journal of Educationaland Behavioral Statistics Journal of Empirical Legal Studies Journal of MultivariateAnalysis Journal of Official Statistics Journal of Peace Research Journal of PoliticsJournal of Research on Educational EffectivenessJournal of Statistical Planning and In-ference Journal of Statistical Software Journal of the American Statistical Association(Case Studies and Applications Theory and Methods) Journal of the Japanese and In-ternational Economies Journal of the Japan Statistical Society Journal of the RoyalStatistical Society (Series A Series B Series C) Law amp Social Inquiry Legislative Stud-ies Quarterly Management Science Multivariate Behavioral Research National ScienceFoundation (Economics Methodology Measurement and Statistics Political Science)Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada NeuroImage Osteoporo-sis International Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics Pharmaceutical StatisticsPharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety PLOS One Policy and Internet Political Anal-ysis Political Behavior Political Communication Political Research Quarterly PoliticalScience Research and Methods Population Health Metrics Population Studies PreventionScience Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Princeton University PressPsychological Methods Psychometrika Public Opinion Quarterly Quarterly Journal ofEconomics Quarterly Journal of Political Science Review of Economics and StatisticsRoutledge Sage Publications Scandinavian Journal of Statistics Science Sloan Foun-dation Springer Sociological Methodology Sociological Methods amp Research StatisticalMethodology Statistical Methods and Applications Statistical Methods in Medical Re-search Statistical Science Statistica Sinica Statistics amp Probability Letters Statistics inMedicine Systems Biology US-Israel Binational Science Foundation Value in HealthWorld Politics
University and Departmental Committees
Harvard University
Department of Government
20 January 2020
Kosuke Imai
Member Second-year Progress Committee (2019ndash2020)
Member Placement Committee (2019ndash2020)
Member Graduate Admissions Committee (2018ndash2019)
Member Graduate Poster Session Committee (2018ndash2019)
Department of Statistics
Member Junior Faculty Search Committee (2018ndash2019)
Member Second-year Progress Committee (2018ndash2019)
Princeton University
University
Executive Committee Member Program in Statistics and Machine Learning (2013ndash2018)
Executive Committee Member Committee for Statistical Studies (2011-2018)
Member Organizing Committee Retreat on Data and Information Science at Prince-ton (2016)
Member Council of the Princeton University Community (2015)
Member Search Committee for the Dean of College (2015)
Member Committee on the Library and Computing (2013ndash2016)
Member Committee on the Fund for Experimental Social Science (2013ndash2018)
Member Personally Identifiable Research Data Group (2012ndash2018)
Member Research Computing Advisory Group (2013ndash2018)
Member Task Force on Statistics and Machine Learning (2014ndash2015)
Department of Politics
Chair Department Committee on Research and Computing (2012ndash2018)
Chair Formal and Quantitative Methods Junior Search Committee (2012ndash20132014ndash2015 2016ndash2017)
Chair Reappointment Committee (2015ndash2016)
Member Diversity Initiative Committee (2014ndash2015)
Member American Politics Junior Search Committee (2012ndash2014)
Member Department Chairrsquos Advisory Committee (2010ndash2013 2015ndash2016)
Member Department Priority Committee (2012ndash2013 2014ndash2015 2016ndash2017)
Member Formal and Quantitative Methods Curriculum Committee (2005ndash2006)
Member Formal and Quantitative Methods Junior Search Committee (2009ndash20102015ndash2016)
Member Formal and Quantitative Methods Postdoc Search Committee (2009ndash2018)
Member Graduate Admissions Committee (2012ndash2013)
Member Reappointment Committee (2014ndash2016)
21 January 2020
Kosuke Imai
Member Space Committee (2014ndash2016)
Member Undergraduate Curriculum Committee (2014ndash2015)
Member Undergraduate Exam Committee (2007ndash2008)
Member Undergraduate Thesis Prize Committee (2005ndash2006 2008ndash2011)
Center for Statistics and Machine Learning
Executive Committee Member (2016ndash2018)
Member Search Committee (2015ndash2017)
Services to the Profession
National Academies of Sciences Engineering and Medicine
Committee on National Statistics Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences andEducation Panel on the Review and Evaluation of the 2014 Survey of Income andProgram Participation Content and Design (2014ndash2017)
The Society for Political Methodology
President (2017ndash2019)
Vice President and President Elect (2015ndash2017)
Annual Meeting Committee Chair (2011)
Career Award Committee (2015ndash2017)
Program Committee for Annual Meeting (2012) Chair (2011)
Graduate Student Selection Committee for the Annual Meeting (2005) Chair (2011)
Miller Prize Selection Committee (2010ndash2011)
Statistical Software Award Committee (2009ndash2010)
Emerging Scholar Award Committee (2013)
American Statistical Association
Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics Management Committee (2016 ndashpresent)
Others
External Expert Department of Methodology London School of Economics andPolitical Science (2017 ndash present)
Memberships
American Political Science Association American Statistical Association Midwest Polit-ical Science Association The Society for Political Methodology
22 January 2020
- Contact Information
- Education
- Positions
- Honors and Awards
- Selected Manuscripts
- Publications in English
-
- Book
- Refereed Journal Articles
- Invited Contributions
- Refereed Conference Proceedings
- Other Publications and Manuscripts
-
- Publications in Japanese
- Statistical Software
- External Research Grants
-
- Principal Investigator
- Adviser and Statistical Consultant
-
- Invited Short Courses
- Selected Presentations
- Conferences Organized
- Teaching
-
- Courses Taught at Harvard
- Courses Taught at Princeton
-
- Advising
-
- Current Students
- Former Students
- Former Predocs and Postdocs
-
- Editorial and Referee Service
- University and Departmental Committees
- Services to the Profession
- Memberships
-
Kosuke Imai
Invited Short Courses and Outreach Lectures
1 Short Course on Causal Inference and Statistics ndash Department of Political Science RiceUniversity 2009 Institute of Political Science Academia Sinica 2014
2 Short Course on Causal Inference and Identification The Empirical Implications of The-oretical Models (EITM) Summer Institute ndash Harris School of Public Policy University ofChicago 2011 Department of Politics Princeton University 2012
3 Short Course on Causal Mediation Analysis ndash Summer Graduate Seminar Institute ofStatistical Mathematics Tokyo Japan 2010 Society for Research on Educational Effec-tiveness Conference Washington DC Fall 2011 Spring 2012 Spring 2015 Inter-AmericanDevelopment Bank 2012 Center for Education Research University of Wisconsin Madi-son 2012 Bobst Center for Peace and Justice Princeton University 2014 GraduateSchool of Education University of Pennsylvania 2014 EITM Summer Institute DukeUniversity 2014 Center for Lifespan Psychology Max Planck Institute for Human De-velopment 2015 School of Communication Research University of Amsterdam 2015Uppsala University 2016
4 Short Course on Covariate Balancing Propensity Score ndash Society for Research on Ed-ucational Effectiveness Conference Washington DC Spring 2013 Uppsala University2016
5 Short Course on Matching Methods for Causal Inference ndash Institute of Behavioral ScienceUniversity of Colorado Boulder 2009 Department of Political Science Duke University2013
6 Lecture on Statistics and Social Sciences ndash New Jersey Japanese School 2011 2016Kaisei Academy 2012 2014 Princeton University Wilson College 2012 University ofTokyo 2014
Selected Presentations
1 Keynote speaker Special Workshop on Evidence-based Policy Making World EconomicForum Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution Japan 2020
2 Distinguished speaker seminar Institute for Data Systems and Society MassachusettsInstitute of Technology 2019
3 Keynote speaker The Harvard Experimental Political Science Graduate Student Confer-ence Harvard University 2019
4 Invited speaker Beyond Curve Fitting Causation Counterfactuals and Imagination-based AI Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Spring SymposiumStanford University 2019
5 Inaugural speaker Causal Inference Seminar Departments of Biostatistics and StatisticsBoston University 2019
6 Keynote speaker The Second Latin American Political Methodology Meeting Universi-dad de los Andes (Department of Political Science) 2018
14 January 2020
Kosuke Imai
7 Keynote speaker The First Latin American Political Methodology Meeting PontificalCatholic University of Chile (Department of Political Science) 2017
8 Keynote speaker Workshop on Uncovering Causal Mechanisms University of Munich(Department of Economics) 2016
9 Keynote speaker The National Quality Registry Research Conference Stockholm 2016
10 Keynote speaker The UK-Causal Inference Meeting University of Bristol (School ofMathematics) 2015
11 Keynote speaker The UP-STAT Conference the Upstate Chapters of the American Sta-tistical Association 2015
12 Keynote speaker The Winter Conference in Statistics Swedish Statistical Society andUmea University (Department of Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics) 2015
13 Inaugural invited speaker The International Methods Colloquium Rice University 2015
14 Invited speaker The International Meeting on Experimental and Behavioral Social Sci-ences University of Oxford (Nuffield College) 2014
15 Keynote speaker The Annual Conference of Australian Society for Quantitative PoliticalScience University of Sydney 2013
16 Keynote speaker The Graduate Student Conference on Experiments in Interactive Deci-sion Making Princeton University 2008
Conferences Organized
1 The Asian Political Methodology Meetings (January 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 co-organizer)
2 The Experimental Research Workshop (September 2012 co-organizer)
3 The 12th World Meeting of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis (June 2012a member of the organizing committee)
4 Conference on Causal Inference and the Study of Conflict and State Building (May 2012organizer)
5 The 28th Annual Society for Political Methodology Summer Meeting (July 2011 host)
6 Conference on New Methodologies and their Applications in Comparative Politics andInternational Relations (February 2011 co-organizer)
15 January 2020
Kosuke Imai
Teaching
Courses Taught at Harvard
1 STAT 186GOV 2002 Causal Inference introduction to causal inference
2 GOV 2003 Topics in Quantitative Methodology causal inference applied Bayesian statis-tics machine learning
Courses Taught at Princeton
1 POL 245 Visualizing Data exploratory data analysis graphical statistics data visual-ization
2 POL 345 Quantitative Analysis and Politics a first course in quantitative social science
3 POL 451 Statistical Methods in Political Science basic probability and statistical theorytheir applications in the social sciences
4 POL 502 Mathematics for Political Science real analysis linear algebra calculus
5 POL 571 Quantitative Analysis I probability theory statistical theory linear models
6 POL 572 Quantitative Analysis II intermediate applied statistics
7 POL 573 Quantitative Analysis III advanced applied statistics
8 POL 574 Quantitative Analysis IV advanced applied statistics with various topics in-cluding Bayesian statistics and causal inference
9 Reading Courses basic mathematical probability and statistics applied bayesian statis-tics spatial statistics
Advising
Current Students
1 Soubhik Barari
2 Naoki Egami (Primary adviser) To be Assistant Professor Department of PoliticalScience Columbia University
3 Shusei Eshima (Primary adviser)
4 Max Goplerud To be Assistant Professor Department of Political Science University ofPittsburgh
5 June Hwang (Primary adviser)
6 Connor Jerzak
7 Shiro Kuriwaki
16 January 2020
Kosuke Imai
8 Asya Magazinnik To be Assistant Professor Department of Political Science Mas-sachusetts Institute of Technology
9 Sun Young Park
10 Nicole Pashley
11 Casey Petroff
12 Averell Schmidt
13 Diana Stanescu
14 Sooahn Shin
15 Tyler Simko
16 Alex Tarr (Primary adviser)
17 Soichiro Yamauchi (Primary adviser)
18 Erik Wang To be Assistant Professor Department of Political and Social Change Aus-tralian National University
Former Students
1 Brandon de la Cuesta (PhD in 2019 Department of Politics Princeton University)Postdoctoral Fellow Center on Global Poverty and Development Stanford University
2 Yang-Yang Zhou (PhD in 2019 Department of Politics Princeton University) Assis-tant Professor Department of Political Science University of British Columbia
3 Winston Chou (PhD in 2019 Department of Politics Princeton University) ResearchScientist at Facebook
4 Ted Enamorado (PhD in 2019 Department of Politics Princeton University Disserta-tion Committee Chair) Assistant Professor Department of Political Science Universityof North Carolina at Chapel Hill
5 Benjamin Fifield (PhD in 2018 Department of Politics Princeton University Disserta-tion Committee Chair) Research Scientist Facebook
6 Tyler Pratt (PhD in 2018 Department of Politics Princeton University) AssistantProfessor Department of Political Science Yale University
7 Romain Ferrali (PhD in 2018 Department of Politics Princeton University) Postdoc-toral Fellow New York University Abu Dhabi
8 Julia Morse (PhD in 2017 Woodrow Wilson School Princeton University) AssistantProfessor Department of Political Science University of California Santa Barbara
9 Yuki Shiraito (PhD in 2017 Department of Politics Princeton University DissertationCommittee Chair) Assistant Professor Department of Political Science University ofMichigan
17 January 2020
Kosuke Imai
10 Carlos Velasco Rivera (PhD in 2016 Department of Politics Princeton University)Research Scientist Facebook
11 Gabriel Lopez Moctezuma (PhD in 2016 Department of Politics Princeton University)Assistant Professor Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences California Instituteof Technology
12 Graeme Blair (PhD in 2016 Department of Politics Princeton University) AssistantProfessor University of California Los Angeles
13 Jaquilyn R Waddell Boie (PhD in 2015 Department of Politics Princeton University)Private consultant
14 Scott Abramson (PhD in 2014 Department of Politics Princeton University) AssistantProfessor Department of Political Science University of Rochester
15 Michael Barber (PhD in 2014 Department of Politics Princeton University) AssistantProfessor Department of Political Science Brigham Young University
16 In Song Kim (PhD in 2014 Department of Politics Princeton University) AssociateProfessor Department of Political Science Massachusetts Institute of Technology
17 Alex Ruder (PhD in 2014 Department of Politics Princeton University) Senior Com-munity Economic Development Advisor Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
18 Meredith Wilf (PhD in 2014 Department of Politics Princeton University) AssistantProfessor Graduate School of Public and International Affairs University of Pittsburgh
19 Will Bullock (PhD candidate Department of Politics Princeton University) SeniorResearcher Facebook
20 Teppei Yamamoto (PhD in 2011 Department of Politics Princeton University Dis-sertation Committee Chair) Associate Professor Department of Political Science Mas-sachusetts Institute of Technology
21 Dustin Tingley (PhD in 2010 Department of Politics Princeton University) ProfessorDepartment of Government Harvard University
22 Aaron Strauss (PhD in 2009 Department of Politics Princeton University) ExecutiveDirector Analyst Institute
23 Samir Soneji (PhD in 2008 Office of Population Research Princeton University Dis-sertation Committee Chair) Associate Professor Dartmouth Institute for Health Policyamp Clinical Practice Geisel School of Medicine Dartmouth College
24 Ying Lu (PhD in 2005 Woodrow Wilson School Princeton University DissertationCommittee Chair) Associate Professor Steinhardt School of Culture Education andHuman Development New York University
18 January 2020
Kosuke Imai
Former Predocs and Postdocs
1 Zhichao Jiang (Postdoctoral Fellow 2016ndash2019) Assistant Professor Department ofBiostatistics and Epidemiology School of Public Health and Health Sciences Universityof Massachusetts Amherst
2 Adeline Lo (Postdoctoral Fellow 2016ndash2019) Assistant Professor Department of Politi-cal Science University of Wisconsin Madison
3 Yunkyu Sohn (Postdoctoral Fellow 2016ndash2018) Assistant Professor School of PoliticalScience and Economics Waseda University
4 Xiaolin Yang (Postdoctoral Fellow 2015ndash2017) Research Scientist Amazon
5 Santiago Olivella (Postdoctoral Fellow 2015ndash2016) Assistant Professor Department ofPolitical Science University of North Carolina
6 Drew Dimmery (Predoctoral Fellow 2015ndash2016) Research Scientist Facebook
7 James Lo (Postdoctoral Fellow 2014ndash2016) Assistant Professor Department of PoliticalScience University of Southern California
8 Steven Liao (Predoctoral Fellow 2014ndash2015) Assistant Professor Department of Politi-cal Science University of California Riverside
9 Michael Higgins (Postdoctoral Fellow 2013ndash2015) Assistant Professor Department ofStatistics Kansas State University
10 Kentaro Hirose (Postdoctoral Fellow 2012ndash2015) Assistant Professor Waseda Institutefor Advanced Studies
11 Chad Hazlett (Predoctoral Fellow 2013ndash2014) Assistant Professor Departments of Po-litical Science and Statistics University of California Los Angeles
12 Florian Hollenbach (Predoctoral Fellow 2013ndash2014) Assistant Professor Department ofPolitical Science Texas AampM University
13 Marc Ratkovic (Predoctoral and Postdoctoral Fellow 2010ndash2012) Assistant ProfessorDepartment of Politics Princeton University
Editorial and Referee Service
Co-editor for Journal of Causal Inference (2014 ndash present)
Associate editor for American Journal of Political Science (2014 ndash 2019) Journal ofBusiness amp Economic Statistics (2015 ndash 2021) Journal of Causal Inference (2011 ndash 2014)Journal of Experimental Political Science (2013 ndash 2017) Observational Studies (2014 ndashpresent) Political Analysis (2014 ndash 2017)
Editorial board member for Asian Journal of Comparative Politics (2014 ndash present) Jour-nal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics (2011 ndash present) Journal of Politics (2007ndash 2008 2019ndash2020) Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness (2014 ndash present)Political Analysis (2010 ndash 2013) Political Science Research and Methods (2019 ndash present)
19 January 2020
Kosuke Imai
Guest editor for Political Analysis virtual issue on causal inference (2011)
Referee for ACM Computing Surveys American Economic Journal Applied EconomicsAmerican Economic Review Insights American Journal of Epidemiology AmericanJournal of Evaluation American Journal of Political Science American Political ScienceReview American Politics Research Annals of Applied Statistics Annals of StatisticsAnnals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics Biometrics Biometrika BiostatisticsBMC Medical Research Methodology British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psy-chology British Journal of Political Science Canadian Journal of Statistics Chapmanamp HallCRC Press Child Development Communications for Statistical Applications andMethods Computational Statistics and Data Analysis Electoral Studies EconometricaEconometrics Empirical Economics Environmental Management Epidemiology Euro-pean Union Politics IEEE Transactions on Information Theory International Journalof Biostatistics International Journal of Epidemiology International Journal of PublicOpinion Research International Migration Review John Wiley amp Sons Journal of Ap-plied Econometrics Journal of Applied Statistics Journal of Biopharmaceutical Statis-tics Journal of Business and Economic Statistics Journal of Causal Inference Journalof Computational and Graphical Statistics Journal of Conflict Resolution Journal ofConsulting and Clinical Psychology Journal of Econometrics Journal of Educationaland Behavioral Statistics Journal of Empirical Legal Studies Journal of MultivariateAnalysis Journal of Official Statistics Journal of Peace Research Journal of PoliticsJournal of Research on Educational EffectivenessJournal of Statistical Planning and In-ference Journal of Statistical Software Journal of the American Statistical Association(Case Studies and Applications Theory and Methods) Journal of the Japanese and In-ternational Economies Journal of the Japan Statistical Society Journal of the RoyalStatistical Society (Series A Series B Series C) Law amp Social Inquiry Legislative Stud-ies Quarterly Management Science Multivariate Behavioral Research National ScienceFoundation (Economics Methodology Measurement and Statistics Political Science)Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada NeuroImage Osteoporo-sis International Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics Pharmaceutical StatisticsPharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety PLOS One Policy and Internet Political Anal-ysis Political Behavior Political Communication Political Research Quarterly PoliticalScience Research and Methods Population Health Metrics Population Studies PreventionScience Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Princeton University PressPsychological Methods Psychometrika Public Opinion Quarterly Quarterly Journal ofEconomics Quarterly Journal of Political Science Review of Economics and StatisticsRoutledge Sage Publications Scandinavian Journal of Statistics Science Sloan Foun-dation Springer Sociological Methodology Sociological Methods amp Research StatisticalMethodology Statistical Methods and Applications Statistical Methods in Medical Re-search Statistical Science Statistica Sinica Statistics amp Probability Letters Statistics inMedicine Systems Biology US-Israel Binational Science Foundation Value in HealthWorld Politics
University and Departmental Committees
Harvard University
Department of Government
20 January 2020
Kosuke Imai
Member Second-year Progress Committee (2019ndash2020)
Member Placement Committee (2019ndash2020)
Member Graduate Admissions Committee (2018ndash2019)
Member Graduate Poster Session Committee (2018ndash2019)
Department of Statistics
Member Junior Faculty Search Committee (2018ndash2019)
Member Second-year Progress Committee (2018ndash2019)
Princeton University
University
Executive Committee Member Program in Statistics and Machine Learning (2013ndash2018)
Executive Committee Member Committee for Statistical Studies (2011-2018)
Member Organizing Committee Retreat on Data and Information Science at Prince-ton (2016)
Member Council of the Princeton University Community (2015)
Member Search Committee for the Dean of College (2015)
Member Committee on the Library and Computing (2013ndash2016)
Member Committee on the Fund for Experimental Social Science (2013ndash2018)
Member Personally Identifiable Research Data Group (2012ndash2018)
Member Research Computing Advisory Group (2013ndash2018)
Member Task Force on Statistics and Machine Learning (2014ndash2015)
Department of Politics
Chair Department Committee on Research and Computing (2012ndash2018)
Chair Formal and Quantitative Methods Junior Search Committee (2012ndash20132014ndash2015 2016ndash2017)
Chair Reappointment Committee (2015ndash2016)
Member Diversity Initiative Committee (2014ndash2015)
Member American Politics Junior Search Committee (2012ndash2014)
Member Department Chairrsquos Advisory Committee (2010ndash2013 2015ndash2016)
Member Department Priority Committee (2012ndash2013 2014ndash2015 2016ndash2017)
Member Formal and Quantitative Methods Curriculum Committee (2005ndash2006)
Member Formal and Quantitative Methods Junior Search Committee (2009ndash20102015ndash2016)
Member Formal and Quantitative Methods Postdoc Search Committee (2009ndash2018)
Member Graduate Admissions Committee (2012ndash2013)
Member Reappointment Committee (2014ndash2016)
21 January 2020
Kosuke Imai
Member Space Committee (2014ndash2016)
Member Undergraduate Curriculum Committee (2014ndash2015)
Member Undergraduate Exam Committee (2007ndash2008)
Member Undergraduate Thesis Prize Committee (2005ndash2006 2008ndash2011)
Center for Statistics and Machine Learning
Executive Committee Member (2016ndash2018)
Member Search Committee (2015ndash2017)
Services to the Profession
National Academies of Sciences Engineering and Medicine
Committee on National Statistics Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences andEducation Panel on the Review and Evaluation of the 2014 Survey of Income andProgram Participation Content and Design (2014ndash2017)
The Society for Political Methodology
President (2017ndash2019)
Vice President and President Elect (2015ndash2017)
Annual Meeting Committee Chair (2011)
Career Award Committee (2015ndash2017)
Program Committee for Annual Meeting (2012) Chair (2011)
Graduate Student Selection Committee for the Annual Meeting (2005) Chair (2011)
Miller Prize Selection Committee (2010ndash2011)
Statistical Software Award Committee (2009ndash2010)
Emerging Scholar Award Committee (2013)
American Statistical Association
Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics Management Committee (2016 ndashpresent)
Others
External Expert Department of Methodology London School of Economics andPolitical Science (2017 ndash present)
Memberships
American Political Science Association American Statistical Association Midwest Polit-ical Science Association The Society for Political Methodology
22 January 2020
- Contact Information
- Education
- Positions
- Honors and Awards
- Selected Manuscripts
- Publications in English
-
- Book
- Refereed Journal Articles
- Invited Contributions
- Refereed Conference Proceedings
- Other Publications and Manuscripts
-
- Publications in Japanese
- Statistical Software
- External Research Grants
-
- Principal Investigator
- Adviser and Statistical Consultant
-
- Invited Short Courses
- Selected Presentations
- Conferences Organized
- Teaching
-
- Courses Taught at Harvard
- Courses Taught at Princeton
-
- Advising
-
- Current Students
- Former Students
- Former Predocs and Postdocs
-
- Editorial and Referee Service
- University and Departmental Committees
- Services to the Profession
- Memberships
-
Kosuke Imai
7 Keynote speaker The First Latin American Political Methodology Meeting PontificalCatholic University of Chile (Department of Political Science) 2017
8 Keynote speaker Workshop on Uncovering Causal Mechanisms University of Munich(Department of Economics) 2016
9 Keynote speaker The National Quality Registry Research Conference Stockholm 2016
10 Keynote speaker The UK-Causal Inference Meeting University of Bristol (School ofMathematics) 2015
11 Keynote speaker The UP-STAT Conference the Upstate Chapters of the American Sta-tistical Association 2015
12 Keynote speaker The Winter Conference in Statistics Swedish Statistical Society andUmea University (Department of Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics) 2015
13 Inaugural invited speaker The International Methods Colloquium Rice University 2015
14 Invited speaker The International Meeting on Experimental and Behavioral Social Sci-ences University of Oxford (Nuffield College) 2014
15 Keynote speaker The Annual Conference of Australian Society for Quantitative PoliticalScience University of Sydney 2013
16 Keynote speaker The Graduate Student Conference on Experiments in Interactive Deci-sion Making Princeton University 2008
Conferences Organized
1 The Asian Political Methodology Meetings (January 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 co-organizer)
2 The Experimental Research Workshop (September 2012 co-organizer)
3 The 12th World Meeting of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis (June 2012a member of the organizing committee)
4 Conference on Causal Inference and the Study of Conflict and State Building (May 2012organizer)
5 The 28th Annual Society for Political Methodology Summer Meeting (July 2011 host)
6 Conference on New Methodologies and their Applications in Comparative Politics andInternational Relations (February 2011 co-organizer)
15 January 2020
Kosuke Imai
Teaching
Courses Taught at Harvard
1 STAT 186GOV 2002 Causal Inference introduction to causal inference
2 GOV 2003 Topics in Quantitative Methodology causal inference applied Bayesian statis-tics machine learning
Courses Taught at Princeton
1 POL 245 Visualizing Data exploratory data analysis graphical statistics data visual-ization
2 POL 345 Quantitative Analysis and Politics a first course in quantitative social science
3 POL 451 Statistical Methods in Political Science basic probability and statistical theorytheir applications in the social sciences
4 POL 502 Mathematics for Political Science real analysis linear algebra calculus
5 POL 571 Quantitative Analysis I probability theory statistical theory linear models
6 POL 572 Quantitative Analysis II intermediate applied statistics
7 POL 573 Quantitative Analysis III advanced applied statistics
8 POL 574 Quantitative Analysis IV advanced applied statistics with various topics in-cluding Bayesian statistics and causal inference
9 Reading Courses basic mathematical probability and statistics applied bayesian statis-tics spatial statistics
Advising
Current Students
1 Soubhik Barari
2 Naoki Egami (Primary adviser) To be Assistant Professor Department of PoliticalScience Columbia University
3 Shusei Eshima (Primary adviser)
4 Max Goplerud To be Assistant Professor Department of Political Science University ofPittsburgh
5 June Hwang (Primary adviser)
6 Connor Jerzak
7 Shiro Kuriwaki
16 January 2020
Kosuke Imai
8 Asya Magazinnik To be Assistant Professor Department of Political Science Mas-sachusetts Institute of Technology
9 Sun Young Park
10 Nicole Pashley
11 Casey Petroff
12 Averell Schmidt
13 Diana Stanescu
14 Sooahn Shin
15 Tyler Simko
16 Alex Tarr (Primary adviser)
17 Soichiro Yamauchi (Primary adviser)
18 Erik Wang To be Assistant Professor Department of Political and Social Change Aus-tralian National University
Former Students
1 Brandon de la Cuesta (PhD in 2019 Department of Politics Princeton University)Postdoctoral Fellow Center on Global Poverty and Development Stanford University
2 Yang-Yang Zhou (PhD in 2019 Department of Politics Princeton University) Assis-tant Professor Department of Political Science University of British Columbia
3 Winston Chou (PhD in 2019 Department of Politics Princeton University) ResearchScientist at Facebook
4 Ted Enamorado (PhD in 2019 Department of Politics Princeton University Disserta-tion Committee Chair) Assistant Professor Department of Political Science Universityof North Carolina at Chapel Hill
5 Benjamin Fifield (PhD in 2018 Department of Politics Princeton University Disserta-tion Committee Chair) Research Scientist Facebook
6 Tyler Pratt (PhD in 2018 Department of Politics Princeton University) AssistantProfessor Department of Political Science Yale University
7 Romain Ferrali (PhD in 2018 Department of Politics Princeton University) Postdoc-toral Fellow New York University Abu Dhabi
8 Julia Morse (PhD in 2017 Woodrow Wilson School Princeton University) AssistantProfessor Department of Political Science University of California Santa Barbara
9 Yuki Shiraito (PhD in 2017 Department of Politics Princeton University DissertationCommittee Chair) Assistant Professor Department of Political Science University ofMichigan
17 January 2020
Kosuke Imai
10 Carlos Velasco Rivera (PhD in 2016 Department of Politics Princeton University)Research Scientist Facebook
11 Gabriel Lopez Moctezuma (PhD in 2016 Department of Politics Princeton University)Assistant Professor Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences California Instituteof Technology
12 Graeme Blair (PhD in 2016 Department of Politics Princeton University) AssistantProfessor University of California Los Angeles
13 Jaquilyn R Waddell Boie (PhD in 2015 Department of Politics Princeton University)Private consultant
14 Scott Abramson (PhD in 2014 Department of Politics Princeton University) AssistantProfessor Department of Political Science University of Rochester
15 Michael Barber (PhD in 2014 Department of Politics Princeton University) AssistantProfessor Department of Political Science Brigham Young University
16 In Song Kim (PhD in 2014 Department of Politics Princeton University) AssociateProfessor Department of Political Science Massachusetts Institute of Technology
17 Alex Ruder (PhD in 2014 Department of Politics Princeton University) Senior Com-munity Economic Development Advisor Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
18 Meredith Wilf (PhD in 2014 Department of Politics Princeton University) AssistantProfessor Graduate School of Public and International Affairs University of Pittsburgh
19 Will Bullock (PhD candidate Department of Politics Princeton University) SeniorResearcher Facebook
20 Teppei Yamamoto (PhD in 2011 Department of Politics Princeton University Dis-sertation Committee Chair) Associate Professor Department of Political Science Mas-sachusetts Institute of Technology
21 Dustin Tingley (PhD in 2010 Department of Politics Princeton University) ProfessorDepartment of Government Harvard University
22 Aaron Strauss (PhD in 2009 Department of Politics Princeton University) ExecutiveDirector Analyst Institute
23 Samir Soneji (PhD in 2008 Office of Population Research Princeton University Dis-sertation Committee Chair) Associate Professor Dartmouth Institute for Health Policyamp Clinical Practice Geisel School of Medicine Dartmouth College
24 Ying Lu (PhD in 2005 Woodrow Wilson School Princeton University DissertationCommittee Chair) Associate Professor Steinhardt School of Culture Education andHuman Development New York University
18 January 2020
Kosuke Imai
Former Predocs and Postdocs
1 Zhichao Jiang (Postdoctoral Fellow 2016ndash2019) Assistant Professor Department ofBiostatistics and Epidemiology School of Public Health and Health Sciences Universityof Massachusetts Amherst
2 Adeline Lo (Postdoctoral Fellow 2016ndash2019) Assistant Professor Department of Politi-cal Science University of Wisconsin Madison
3 Yunkyu Sohn (Postdoctoral Fellow 2016ndash2018) Assistant Professor School of PoliticalScience and Economics Waseda University
4 Xiaolin Yang (Postdoctoral Fellow 2015ndash2017) Research Scientist Amazon
5 Santiago Olivella (Postdoctoral Fellow 2015ndash2016) Assistant Professor Department ofPolitical Science University of North Carolina
6 Drew Dimmery (Predoctoral Fellow 2015ndash2016) Research Scientist Facebook
7 James Lo (Postdoctoral Fellow 2014ndash2016) Assistant Professor Department of PoliticalScience University of Southern California
8 Steven Liao (Predoctoral Fellow 2014ndash2015) Assistant Professor Department of Politi-cal Science University of California Riverside
9 Michael Higgins (Postdoctoral Fellow 2013ndash2015) Assistant Professor Department ofStatistics Kansas State University
10 Kentaro Hirose (Postdoctoral Fellow 2012ndash2015) Assistant Professor Waseda Institutefor Advanced Studies
11 Chad Hazlett (Predoctoral Fellow 2013ndash2014) Assistant Professor Departments of Po-litical Science and Statistics University of California Los Angeles
12 Florian Hollenbach (Predoctoral Fellow 2013ndash2014) Assistant Professor Department ofPolitical Science Texas AampM University
13 Marc Ratkovic (Predoctoral and Postdoctoral Fellow 2010ndash2012) Assistant ProfessorDepartment of Politics Princeton University
Editorial and Referee Service
Co-editor for Journal of Causal Inference (2014 ndash present)
Associate editor for American Journal of Political Science (2014 ndash 2019) Journal ofBusiness amp Economic Statistics (2015 ndash 2021) Journal of Causal Inference (2011 ndash 2014)Journal of Experimental Political Science (2013 ndash 2017) Observational Studies (2014 ndashpresent) Political Analysis (2014 ndash 2017)
Editorial board member for Asian Journal of Comparative Politics (2014 ndash present) Jour-nal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics (2011 ndash present) Journal of Politics (2007ndash 2008 2019ndash2020) Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness (2014 ndash present)Political Analysis (2010 ndash 2013) Political Science Research and Methods (2019 ndash present)
19 January 2020
Kosuke Imai
Guest editor for Political Analysis virtual issue on causal inference (2011)
Referee for ACM Computing Surveys American Economic Journal Applied EconomicsAmerican Economic Review Insights American Journal of Epidemiology AmericanJournal of Evaluation American Journal of Political Science American Political ScienceReview American Politics Research Annals of Applied Statistics Annals of StatisticsAnnals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics Biometrics Biometrika BiostatisticsBMC Medical Research Methodology British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psy-chology British Journal of Political Science Canadian Journal of Statistics Chapmanamp HallCRC Press Child Development Communications for Statistical Applications andMethods Computational Statistics and Data Analysis Electoral Studies EconometricaEconometrics Empirical Economics Environmental Management Epidemiology Euro-pean Union Politics IEEE Transactions on Information Theory International Journalof Biostatistics International Journal of Epidemiology International Journal of PublicOpinion Research International Migration Review John Wiley amp Sons Journal of Ap-plied Econometrics Journal of Applied Statistics Journal of Biopharmaceutical Statis-tics Journal of Business and Economic Statistics Journal of Causal Inference Journalof Computational and Graphical Statistics Journal of Conflict Resolution Journal ofConsulting and Clinical Psychology Journal of Econometrics Journal of Educationaland Behavioral Statistics Journal of Empirical Legal Studies Journal of MultivariateAnalysis Journal of Official Statistics Journal of Peace Research Journal of PoliticsJournal of Research on Educational EffectivenessJournal of Statistical Planning and In-ference Journal of Statistical Software Journal of the American Statistical Association(Case Studies and Applications Theory and Methods) Journal of the Japanese and In-ternational Economies Journal of the Japan Statistical Society Journal of the RoyalStatistical Society (Series A Series B Series C) Law amp Social Inquiry Legislative Stud-ies Quarterly Management Science Multivariate Behavioral Research National ScienceFoundation (Economics Methodology Measurement and Statistics Political Science)Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada NeuroImage Osteoporo-sis International Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics Pharmaceutical StatisticsPharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety PLOS One Policy and Internet Political Anal-ysis Political Behavior Political Communication Political Research Quarterly PoliticalScience Research and Methods Population Health Metrics Population Studies PreventionScience Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Princeton University PressPsychological Methods Psychometrika Public Opinion Quarterly Quarterly Journal ofEconomics Quarterly Journal of Political Science Review of Economics and StatisticsRoutledge Sage Publications Scandinavian Journal of Statistics Science Sloan Foun-dation Springer Sociological Methodology Sociological Methods amp Research StatisticalMethodology Statistical Methods and Applications Statistical Methods in Medical Re-search Statistical Science Statistica Sinica Statistics amp Probability Letters Statistics inMedicine Systems Biology US-Israel Binational Science Foundation Value in HealthWorld Politics
University and Departmental Committees
Harvard University
Department of Government
20 January 2020
Kosuke Imai
Member Second-year Progress Committee (2019ndash2020)
Member Placement Committee (2019ndash2020)
Member Graduate Admissions Committee (2018ndash2019)
Member Graduate Poster Session Committee (2018ndash2019)
Department of Statistics
Member Junior Faculty Search Committee (2018ndash2019)
Member Second-year Progress Committee (2018ndash2019)
Princeton University
University
Executive Committee Member Program in Statistics and Machine Learning (2013ndash2018)
Executive Committee Member Committee for Statistical Studies (2011-2018)
Member Organizing Committee Retreat on Data and Information Science at Prince-ton (2016)
Member Council of the Princeton University Community (2015)
Member Search Committee for the Dean of College (2015)
Member Committee on the Library and Computing (2013ndash2016)
Member Committee on the Fund for Experimental Social Science (2013ndash2018)
Member Personally Identifiable Research Data Group (2012ndash2018)
Member Research Computing Advisory Group (2013ndash2018)
Member Task Force on Statistics and Machine Learning (2014ndash2015)
Department of Politics
Chair Department Committee on Research and Computing (2012ndash2018)
Chair Formal and Quantitative Methods Junior Search Committee (2012ndash20132014ndash2015 2016ndash2017)
Chair Reappointment Committee (2015ndash2016)
Member Diversity Initiative Committee (2014ndash2015)
Member American Politics Junior Search Committee (2012ndash2014)
Member Department Chairrsquos Advisory Committee (2010ndash2013 2015ndash2016)
Member Department Priority Committee (2012ndash2013 2014ndash2015 2016ndash2017)
Member Formal and Quantitative Methods Curriculum Committee (2005ndash2006)
Member Formal and Quantitative Methods Junior Search Committee (2009ndash20102015ndash2016)
Member Formal and Quantitative Methods Postdoc Search Committee (2009ndash2018)
Member Graduate Admissions Committee (2012ndash2013)
Member Reappointment Committee (2014ndash2016)
21 January 2020
Kosuke Imai
Member Space Committee (2014ndash2016)
Member Undergraduate Curriculum Committee (2014ndash2015)
Member Undergraduate Exam Committee (2007ndash2008)
Member Undergraduate Thesis Prize Committee (2005ndash2006 2008ndash2011)
Center for Statistics and Machine Learning
Executive Committee Member (2016ndash2018)
Member Search Committee (2015ndash2017)
Services to the Profession
National Academies of Sciences Engineering and Medicine
Committee on National Statistics Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences andEducation Panel on the Review and Evaluation of the 2014 Survey of Income andProgram Participation Content and Design (2014ndash2017)
The Society for Political Methodology
President (2017ndash2019)
Vice President and President Elect (2015ndash2017)
Annual Meeting Committee Chair (2011)
Career Award Committee (2015ndash2017)
Program Committee for Annual Meeting (2012) Chair (2011)
Graduate Student Selection Committee for the Annual Meeting (2005) Chair (2011)
Miller Prize Selection Committee (2010ndash2011)
Statistical Software Award Committee (2009ndash2010)
Emerging Scholar Award Committee (2013)
American Statistical Association
Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics Management Committee (2016 ndashpresent)
Others
External Expert Department of Methodology London School of Economics andPolitical Science (2017 ndash present)
Memberships
American Political Science Association American Statistical Association Midwest Polit-ical Science Association The Society for Political Methodology
22 January 2020
- Contact Information
- Education
- Positions
- Honors and Awards
- Selected Manuscripts
- Publications in English
-
- Book
- Refereed Journal Articles
- Invited Contributions
- Refereed Conference Proceedings
- Other Publications and Manuscripts
-
- Publications in Japanese
- Statistical Software
- External Research Grants
-
- Principal Investigator
- Adviser and Statistical Consultant
-
- Invited Short Courses
- Selected Presentations
- Conferences Organized
- Teaching
-
- Courses Taught at Harvard
- Courses Taught at Princeton
-
- Advising
-
- Current Students
- Former Students
- Former Predocs and Postdocs
-
- Editorial and Referee Service
- University and Departmental Committees
- Services to the Profession
- Memberships
-
Kosuke Imai
Teaching
Courses Taught at Harvard
1 STAT 186GOV 2002 Causal Inference introduction to causal inference
2 GOV 2003 Topics in Quantitative Methodology causal inference applied Bayesian statis-tics machine learning
Courses Taught at Princeton
1 POL 245 Visualizing Data exploratory data analysis graphical statistics data visual-ization
2 POL 345 Quantitative Analysis and Politics a first course in quantitative social science
3 POL 451 Statistical Methods in Political Science basic probability and statistical theorytheir applications in the social sciences
4 POL 502 Mathematics for Political Science real analysis linear algebra calculus
5 POL 571 Quantitative Analysis I probability theory statistical theory linear models
6 POL 572 Quantitative Analysis II intermediate applied statistics
7 POL 573 Quantitative Analysis III advanced applied statistics
8 POL 574 Quantitative Analysis IV advanced applied statistics with various topics in-cluding Bayesian statistics and causal inference
9 Reading Courses basic mathematical probability and statistics applied bayesian statis-tics spatial statistics
Advising
Current Students
1 Soubhik Barari
2 Naoki Egami (Primary adviser) To be Assistant Professor Department of PoliticalScience Columbia University
3 Shusei Eshima (Primary adviser)
4 Max Goplerud To be Assistant Professor Department of Political Science University ofPittsburgh
5 June Hwang (Primary adviser)
6 Connor Jerzak
7 Shiro Kuriwaki
16 January 2020
Kosuke Imai
8 Asya Magazinnik To be Assistant Professor Department of Political Science Mas-sachusetts Institute of Technology
9 Sun Young Park
10 Nicole Pashley
11 Casey Petroff
12 Averell Schmidt
13 Diana Stanescu
14 Sooahn Shin
15 Tyler Simko
16 Alex Tarr (Primary adviser)
17 Soichiro Yamauchi (Primary adviser)
18 Erik Wang To be Assistant Professor Department of Political and Social Change Aus-tralian National University
Former Students
1 Brandon de la Cuesta (PhD in 2019 Department of Politics Princeton University)Postdoctoral Fellow Center on Global Poverty and Development Stanford University
2 Yang-Yang Zhou (PhD in 2019 Department of Politics Princeton University) Assis-tant Professor Department of Political Science University of British Columbia
3 Winston Chou (PhD in 2019 Department of Politics Princeton University) ResearchScientist at Facebook
4 Ted Enamorado (PhD in 2019 Department of Politics Princeton University Disserta-tion Committee Chair) Assistant Professor Department of Political Science Universityof North Carolina at Chapel Hill
5 Benjamin Fifield (PhD in 2018 Department of Politics Princeton University Disserta-tion Committee Chair) Research Scientist Facebook
6 Tyler Pratt (PhD in 2018 Department of Politics Princeton University) AssistantProfessor Department of Political Science Yale University
7 Romain Ferrali (PhD in 2018 Department of Politics Princeton University) Postdoc-toral Fellow New York University Abu Dhabi
8 Julia Morse (PhD in 2017 Woodrow Wilson School Princeton University) AssistantProfessor Department of Political Science University of California Santa Barbara
9 Yuki Shiraito (PhD in 2017 Department of Politics Princeton University DissertationCommittee Chair) Assistant Professor Department of Political Science University ofMichigan
17 January 2020
Kosuke Imai
10 Carlos Velasco Rivera (PhD in 2016 Department of Politics Princeton University)Research Scientist Facebook
11 Gabriel Lopez Moctezuma (PhD in 2016 Department of Politics Princeton University)Assistant Professor Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences California Instituteof Technology
12 Graeme Blair (PhD in 2016 Department of Politics Princeton University) AssistantProfessor University of California Los Angeles
13 Jaquilyn R Waddell Boie (PhD in 2015 Department of Politics Princeton University)Private consultant
14 Scott Abramson (PhD in 2014 Department of Politics Princeton University) AssistantProfessor Department of Political Science University of Rochester
15 Michael Barber (PhD in 2014 Department of Politics Princeton University) AssistantProfessor Department of Political Science Brigham Young University
16 In Song Kim (PhD in 2014 Department of Politics Princeton University) AssociateProfessor Department of Political Science Massachusetts Institute of Technology
17 Alex Ruder (PhD in 2014 Department of Politics Princeton University) Senior Com-munity Economic Development Advisor Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
18 Meredith Wilf (PhD in 2014 Department of Politics Princeton University) AssistantProfessor Graduate School of Public and International Affairs University of Pittsburgh
19 Will Bullock (PhD candidate Department of Politics Princeton University) SeniorResearcher Facebook
20 Teppei Yamamoto (PhD in 2011 Department of Politics Princeton University Dis-sertation Committee Chair) Associate Professor Department of Political Science Mas-sachusetts Institute of Technology
21 Dustin Tingley (PhD in 2010 Department of Politics Princeton University) ProfessorDepartment of Government Harvard University
22 Aaron Strauss (PhD in 2009 Department of Politics Princeton University) ExecutiveDirector Analyst Institute
23 Samir Soneji (PhD in 2008 Office of Population Research Princeton University Dis-sertation Committee Chair) Associate Professor Dartmouth Institute for Health Policyamp Clinical Practice Geisel School of Medicine Dartmouth College
24 Ying Lu (PhD in 2005 Woodrow Wilson School Princeton University DissertationCommittee Chair) Associate Professor Steinhardt School of Culture Education andHuman Development New York University
18 January 2020
Kosuke Imai
Former Predocs and Postdocs
1 Zhichao Jiang (Postdoctoral Fellow 2016ndash2019) Assistant Professor Department ofBiostatistics and Epidemiology School of Public Health and Health Sciences Universityof Massachusetts Amherst
2 Adeline Lo (Postdoctoral Fellow 2016ndash2019) Assistant Professor Department of Politi-cal Science University of Wisconsin Madison
3 Yunkyu Sohn (Postdoctoral Fellow 2016ndash2018) Assistant Professor School of PoliticalScience and Economics Waseda University
4 Xiaolin Yang (Postdoctoral Fellow 2015ndash2017) Research Scientist Amazon
5 Santiago Olivella (Postdoctoral Fellow 2015ndash2016) Assistant Professor Department ofPolitical Science University of North Carolina
6 Drew Dimmery (Predoctoral Fellow 2015ndash2016) Research Scientist Facebook
7 James Lo (Postdoctoral Fellow 2014ndash2016) Assistant Professor Department of PoliticalScience University of Southern California
8 Steven Liao (Predoctoral Fellow 2014ndash2015) Assistant Professor Department of Politi-cal Science University of California Riverside
9 Michael Higgins (Postdoctoral Fellow 2013ndash2015) Assistant Professor Department ofStatistics Kansas State University
10 Kentaro Hirose (Postdoctoral Fellow 2012ndash2015) Assistant Professor Waseda Institutefor Advanced Studies
11 Chad Hazlett (Predoctoral Fellow 2013ndash2014) Assistant Professor Departments of Po-litical Science and Statistics University of California Los Angeles
12 Florian Hollenbach (Predoctoral Fellow 2013ndash2014) Assistant Professor Department ofPolitical Science Texas AampM University
13 Marc Ratkovic (Predoctoral and Postdoctoral Fellow 2010ndash2012) Assistant ProfessorDepartment of Politics Princeton University
Editorial and Referee Service
Co-editor for Journal of Causal Inference (2014 ndash present)
Associate editor for American Journal of Political Science (2014 ndash 2019) Journal ofBusiness amp Economic Statistics (2015 ndash 2021) Journal of Causal Inference (2011 ndash 2014)Journal of Experimental Political Science (2013 ndash 2017) Observational Studies (2014 ndashpresent) Political Analysis (2014 ndash 2017)
Editorial board member for Asian Journal of Comparative Politics (2014 ndash present) Jour-nal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics (2011 ndash present) Journal of Politics (2007ndash 2008 2019ndash2020) Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness (2014 ndash present)Political Analysis (2010 ndash 2013) Political Science Research and Methods (2019 ndash present)
19 January 2020
Kosuke Imai
Guest editor for Political Analysis virtual issue on causal inference (2011)
Referee for ACM Computing Surveys American Economic Journal Applied EconomicsAmerican Economic Review Insights American Journal of Epidemiology AmericanJournal of Evaluation American Journal of Political Science American Political ScienceReview American Politics Research Annals of Applied Statistics Annals of StatisticsAnnals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics Biometrics Biometrika BiostatisticsBMC Medical Research Methodology British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psy-chology British Journal of Political Science Canadian Journal of Statistics Chapmanamp HallCRC Press Child Development Communications for Statistical Applications andMethods Computational Statistics and Data Analysis Electoral Studies EconometricaEconometrics Empirical Economics Environmental Management Epidemiology Euro-pean Union Politics IEEE Transactions on Information Theory International Journalof Biostatistics International Journal of Epidemiology International Journal of PublicOpinion Research International Migration Review John Wiley amp Sons Journal of Ap-plied Econometrics Journal of Applied Statistics Journal of Biopharmaceutical Statis-tics Journal of Business and Economic Statistics Journal of Causal Inference Journalof Computational and Graphical Statistics Journal of Conflict Resolution Journal ofConsulting and Clinical Psychology Journal of Econometrics Journal of Educationaland Behavioral Statistics Journal of Empirical Legal Studies Journal of MultivariateAnalysis Journal of Official Statistics Journal of Peace Research Journal of PoliticsJournal of Research on Educational EffectivenessJournal of Statistical Planning and In-ference Journal of Statistical Software Journal of the American Statistical Association(Case Studies and Applications Theory and Methods) Journal of the Japanese and In-ternational Economies Journal of the Japan Statistical Society Journal of the RoyalStatistical Society (Series A Series B Series C) Law amp Social Inquiry Legislative Stud-ies Quarterly Management Science Multivariate Behavioral Research National ScienceFoundation (Economics Methodology Measurement and Statistics Political Science)Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada NeuroImage Osteoporo-sis International Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics Pharmaceutical StatisticsPharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety PLOS One Policy and Internet Political Anal-ysis Political Behavior Political Communication Political Research Quarterly PoliticalScience Research and Methods Population Health Metrics Population Studies PreventionScience Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Princeton University PressPsychological Methods Psychometrika Public Opinion Quarterly Quarterly Journal ofEconomics Quarterly Journal of Political Science Review of Economics and StatisticsRoutledge Sage Publications Scandinavian Journal of Statistics Science Sloan Foun-dation Springer Sociological Methodology Sociological Methods amp Research StatisticalMethodology Statistical Methods and Applications Statistical Methods in Medical Re-search Statistical Science Statistica Sinica Statistics amp Probability Letters Statistics inMedicine Systems Biology US-Israel Binational Science Foundation Value in HealthWorld Politics
University and Departmental Committees
Harvard University
Department of Government
20 January 2020
Kosuke Imai
Member Second-year Progress Committee (2019ndash2020)
Member Placement Committee (2019ndash2020)
Member Graduate Admissions Committee (2018ndash2019)
Member Graduate Poster Session Committee (2018ndash2019)
Department of Statistics
Member Junior Faculty Search Committee (2018ndash2019)
Member Second-year Progress Committee (2018ndash2019)
Princeton University
University
Executive Committee Member Program in Statistics and Machine Learning (2013ndash2018)
Executive Committee Member Committee for Statistical Studies (2011-2018)
Member Organizing Committee Retreat on Data and Information Science at Prince-ton (2016)
Member Council of the Princeton University Community (2015)
Member Search Committee for the Dean of College (2015)
Member Committee on the Library and Computing (2013ndash2016)
Member Committee on the Fund for Experimental Social Science (2013ndash2018)
Member Personally Identifiable Research Data Group (2012ndash2018)
Member Research Computing Advisory Group (2013ndash2018)
Member Task Force on Statistics and Machine Learning (2014ndash2015)
Department of Politics
Chair Department Committee on Research and Computing (2012ndash2018)
Chair Formal and Quantitative Methods Junior Search Committee (2012ndash20132014ndash2015 2016ndash2017)
Chair Reappointment Committee (2015ndash2016)
Member Diversity Initiative Committee (2014ndash2015)
Member American Politics Junior Search Committee (2012ndash2014)
Member Department Chairrsquos Advisory Committee (2010ndash2013 2015ndash2016)
Member Department Priority Committee (2012ndash2013 2014ndash2015 2016ndash2017)
Member Formal and Quantitative Methods Curriculum Committee (2005ndash2006)
Member Formal and Quantitative Methods Junior Search Committee (2009ndash20102015ndash2016)
Member Formal and Quantitative Methods Postdoc Search Committee (2009ndash2018)
Member Graduate Admissions Committee (2012ndash2013)
Member Reappointment Committee (2014ndash2016)
21 January 2020
Kosuke Imai
Member Space Committee (2014ndash2016)
Member Undergraduate Curriculum Committee (2014ndash2015)
Member Undergraduate Exam Committee (2007ndash2008)
Member Undergraduate Thesis Prize Committee (2005ndash2006 2008ndash2011)
Center for Statistics and Machine Learning
Executive Committee Member (2016ndash2018)
Member Search Committee (2015ndash2017)
Services to the Profession
National Academies of Sciences Engineering and Medicine
Committee on National Statistics Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences andEducation Panel on the Review and Evaluation of the 2014 Survey of Income andProgram Participation Content and Design (2014ndash2017)
The Society for Political Methodology
President (2017ndash2019)
Vice President and President Elect (2015ndash2017)
Annual Meeting Committee Chair (2011)
Career Award Committee (2015ndash2017)
Program Committee for Annual Meeting (2012) Chair (2011)
Graduate Student Selection Committee for the Annual Meeting (2005) Chair (2011)
Miller Prize Selection Committee (2010ndash2011)
Statistical Software Award Committee (2009ndash2010)
Emerging Scholar Award Committee (2013)
American Statistical Association
Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics Management Committee (2016 ndashpresent)
Others
External Expert Department of Methodology London School of Economics andPolitical Science (2017 ndash present)
Memberships
American Political Science Association American Statistical Association Midwest Polit-ical Science Association The Society for Political Methodology
22 January 2020
- Contact Information
- Education
- Positions
- Honors and Awards
- Selected Manuscripts
- Publications in English
-
- Book
- Refereed Journal Articles
- Invited Contributions
- Refereed Conference Proceedings
- Other Publications and Manuscripts
-
- Publications in Japanese
- Statistical Software
- External Research Grants
-
- Principal Investigator
- Adviser and Statistical Consultant
-
- Invited Short Courses
- Selected Presentations
- Conferences Organized
- Teaching
-
- Courses Taught at Harvard
- Courses Taught at Princeton
-
- Advising
-
- Current Students
- Former Students
- Former Predocs and Postdocs
-
- Editorial and Referee Service
- University and Departmental Committees
- Services to the Profession
- Memberships
-
Kosuke Imai
8 Asya Magazinnik To be Assistant Professor Department of Political Science Mas-sachusetts Institute of Technology
9 Sun Young Park
10 Nicole Pashley
11 Casey Petroff
12 Averell Schmidt
13 Diana Stanescu
14 Sooahn Shin
15 Tyler Simko
16 Alex Tarr (Primary adviser)
17 Soichiro Yamauchi (Primary adviser)
18 Erik Wang To be Assistant Professor Department of Political and Social Change Aus-tralian National University
Former Students
1 Brandon de la Cuesta (PhD in 2019 Department of Politics Princeton University)Postdoctoral Fellow Center on Global Poverty and Development Stanford University
2 Yang-Yang Zhou (PhD in 2019 Department of Politics Princeton University) Assis-tant Professor Department of Political Science University of British Columbia
3 Winston Chou (PhD in 2019 Department of Politics Princeton University) ResearchScientist at Facebook
4 Ted Enamorado (PhD in 2019 Department of Politics Princeton University Disserta-tion Committee Chair) Assistant Professor Department of Political Science Universityof North Carolina at Chapel Hill
5 Benjamin Fifield (PhD in 2018 Department of Politics Princeton University Disserta-tion Committee Chair) Research Scientist Facebook
6 Tyler Pratt (PhD in 2018 Department of Politics Princeton University) AssistantProfessor Department of Political Science Yale University
7 Romain Ferrali (PhD in 2018 Department of Politics Princeton University) Postdoc-toral Fellow New York University Abu Dhabi
8 Julia Morse (PhD in 2017 Woodrow Wilson School Princeton University) AssistantProfessor Department of Political Science University of California Santa Barbara
9 Yuki Shiraito (PhD in 2017 Department of Politics Princeton University DissertationCommittee Chair) Assistant Professor Department of Political Science University ofMichigan
17 January 2020
Kosuke Imai
10 Carlos Velasco Rivera (PhD in 2016 Department of Politics Princeton University)Research Scientist Facebook
11 Gabriel Lopez Moctezuma (PhD in 2016 Department of Politics Princeton University)Assistant Professor Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences California Instituteof Technology
12 Graeme Blair (PhD in 2016 Department of Politics Princeton University) AssistantProfessor University of California Los Angeles
13 Jaquilyn R Waddell Boie (PhD in 2015 Department of Politics Princeton University)Private consultant
14 Scott Abramson (PhD in 2014 Department of Politics Princeton University) AssistantProfessor Department of Political Science University of Rochester
15 Michael Barber (PhD in 2014 Department of Politics Princeton University) AssistantProfessor Department of Political Science Brigham Young University
16 In Song Kim (PhD in 2014 Department of Politics Princeton University) AssociateProfessor Department of Political Science Massachusetts Institute of Technology
17 Alex Ruder (PhD in 2014 Department of Politics Princeton University) Senior Com-munity Economic Development Advisor Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
18 Meredith Wilf (PhD in 2014 Department of Politics Princeton University) AssistantProfessor Graduate School of Public and International Affairs University of Pittsburgh
19 Will Bullock (PhD candidate Department of Politics Princeton University) SeniorResearcher Facebook
20 Teppei Yamamoto (PhD in 2011 Department of Politics Princeton University Dis-sertation Committee Chair) Associate Professor Department of Political Science Mas-sachusetts Institute of Technology
21 Dustin Tingley (PhD in 2010 Department of Politics Princeton University) ProfessorDepartment of Government Harvard University
22 Aaron Strauss (PhD in 2009 Department of Politics Princeton University) ExecutiveDirector Analyst Institute
23 Samir Soneji (PhD in 2008 Office of Population Research Princeton University Dis-sertation Committee Chair) Associate Professor Dartmouth Institute for Health Policyamp Clinical Practice Geisel School of Medicine Dartmouth College
24 Ying Lu (PhD in 2005 Woodrow Wilson School Princeton University DissertationCommittee Chair) Associate Professor Steinhardt School of Culture Education andHuman Development New York University
18 January 2020
Kosuke Imai
Former Predocs and Postdocs
1 Zhichao Jiang (Postdoctoral Fellow 2016ndash2019) Assistant Professor Department ofBiostatistics and Epidemiology School of Public Health and Health Sciences Universityof Massachusetts Amherst
2 Adeline Lo (Postdoctoral Fellow 2016ndash2019) Assistant Professor Department of Politi-cal Science University of Wisconsin Madison
3 Yunkyu Sohn (Postdoctoral Fellow 2016ndash2018) Assistant Professor School of PoliticalScience and Economics Waseda University
4 Xiaolin Yang (Postdoctoral Fellow 2015ndash2017) Research Scientist Amazon
5 Santiago Olivella (Postdoctoral Fellow 2015ndash2016) Assistant Professor Department ofPolitical Science University of North Carolina
6 Drew Dimmery (Predoctoral Fellow 2015ndash2016) Research Scientist Facebook
7 James Lo (Postdoctoral Fellow 2014ndash2016) Assistant Professor Department of PoliticalScience University of Southern California
8 Steven Liao (Predoctoral Fellow 2014ndash2015) Assistant Professor Department of Politi-cal Science University of California Riverside
9 Michael Higgins (Postdoctoral Fellow 2013ndash2015) Assistant Professor Department ofStatistics Kansas State University
10 Kentaro Hirose (Postdoctoral Fellow 2012ndash2015) Assistant Professor Waseda Institutefor Advanced Studies
11 Chad Hazlett (Predoctoral Fellow 2013ndash2014) Assistant Professor Departments of Po-litical Science and Statistics University of California Los Angeles
12 Florian Hollenbach (Predoctoral Fellow 2013ndash2014) Assistant Professor Department ofPolitical Science Texas AampM University
13 Marc Ratkovic (Predoctoral and Postdoctoral Fellow 2010ndash2012) Assistant ProfessorDepartment of Politics Princeton University
Editorial and Referee Service
Co-editor for Journal of Causal Inference (2014 ndash present)
Associate editor for American Journal of Political Science (2014 ndash 2019) Journal ofBusiness amp Economic Statistics (2015 ndash 2021) Journal of Causal Inference (2011 ndash 2014)Journal of Experimental Political Science (2013 ndash 2017) Observational Studies (2014 ndashpresent) Political Analysis (2014 ndash 2017)
Editorial board member for Asian Journal of Comparative Politics (2014 ndash present) Jour-nal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics (2011 ndash present) Journal of Politics (2007ndash 2008 2019ndash2020) Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness (2014 ndash present)Political Analysis (2010 ndash 2013) Political Science Research and Methods (2019 ndash present)
19 January 2020
Kosuke Imai
Guest editor for Political Analysis virtual issue on causal inference (2011)
Referee for ACM Computing Surveys American Economic Journal Applied EconomicsAmerican Economic Review Insights American Journal of Epidemiology AmericanJournal of Evaluation American Journal of Political Science American Political ScienceReview American Politics Research Annals of Applied Statistics Annals of StatisticsAnnals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics Biometrics Biometrika BiostatisticsBMC Medical Research Methodology British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psy-chology British Journal of Political Science Canadian Journal of Statistics Chapmanamp HallCRC Press Child Development Communications for Statistical Applications andMethods Computational Statistics and Data Analysis Electoral Studies EconometricaEconometrics Empirical Economics Environmental Management Epidemiology Euro-pean Union Politics IEEE Transactions on Information Theory International Journalof Biostatistics International Journal of Epidemiology International Journal of PublicOpinion Research International Migration Review John Wiley amp Sons Journal of Ap-plied Econometrics Journal of Applied Statistics Journal of Biopharmaceutical Statis-tics Journal of Business and Economic Statistics Journal of Causal Inference Journalof Computational and Graphical Statistics Journal of Conflict Resolution Journal ofConsulting and Clinical Psychology Journal of Econometrics Journal of Educationaland Behavioral Statistics Journal of Empirical Legal Studies Journal of MultivariateAnalysis Journal of Official Statistics Journal of Peace Research Journal of PoliticsJournal of Research on Educational EffectivenessJournal of Statistical Planning and In-ference Journal of Statistical Software Journal of the American Statistical Association(Case Studies and Applications Theory and Methods) Journal of the Japanese and In-ternational Economies Journal of the Japan Statistical Society Journal of the RoyalStatistical Society (Series A Series B Series C) Law amp Social Inquiry Legislative Stud-ies Quarterly Management Science Multivariate Behavioral Research National ScienceFoundation (Economics Methodology Measurement and Statistics Political Science)Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada NeuroImage Osteoporo-sis International Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics Pharmaceutical StatisticsPharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety PLOS One Policy and Internet Political Anal-ysis Political Behavior Political Communication Political Research Quarterly PoliticalScience Research and Methods Population Health Metrics Population Studies PreventionScience Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Princeton University PressPsychological Methods Psychometrika Public Opinion Quarterly Quarterly Journal ofEconomics Quarterly Journal of Political Science Review of Economics and StatisticsRoutledge Sage Publications Scandinavian Journal of Statistics Science Sloan Foun-dation Springer Sociological Methodology Sociological Methods amp Research StatisticalMethodology Statistical Methods and Applications Statistical Methods in Medical Re-search Statistical Science Statistica Sinica Statistics amp Probability Letters Statistics inMedicine Systems Biology US-Israel Binational Science Foundation Value in HealthWorld Politics
University and Departmental Committees
Harvard University
Department of Government
20 January 2020
Kosuke Imai
Member Second-year Progress Committee (2019ndash2020)
Member Placement Committee (2019ndash2020)
Member Graduate Admissions Committee (2018ndash2019)
Member Graduate Poster Session Committee (2018ndash2019)
Department of Statistics
Member Junior Faculty Search Committee (2018ndash2019)
Member Second-year Progress Committee (2018ndash2019)
Princeton University
University
Executive Committee Member Program in Statistics and Machine Learning (2013ndash2018)
Executive Committee Member Committee for Statistical Studies (2011-2018)
Member Organizing Committee Retreat on Data and Information Science at Prince-ton (2016)
Member Council of the Princeton University Community (2015)
Member Search Committee for the Dean of College (2015)
Member Committee on the Library and Computing (2013ndash2016)
Member Committee on the Fund for Experimental Social Science (2013ndash2018)
Member Personally Identifiable Research Data Group (2012ndash2018)
Member Research Computing Advisory Group (2013ndash2018)
Member Task Force on Statistics and Machine Learning (2014ndash2015)
Department of Politics
Chair Department Committee on Research and Computing (2012ndash2018)
Chair Formal and Quantitative Methods Junior Search Committee (2012ndash20132014ndash2015 2016ndash2017)
Chair Reappointment Committee (2015ndash2016)
Member Diversity Initiative Committee (2014ndash2015)
Member American Politics Junior Search Committee (2012ndash2014)
Member Department Chairrsquos Advisory Committee (2010ndash2013 2015ndash2016)
Member Department Priority Committee (2012ndash2013 2014ndash2015 2016ndash2017)
Member Formal and Quantitative Methods Curriculum Committee (2005ndash2006)
Member Formal and Quantitative Methods Junior Search Committee (2009ndash20102015ndash2016)
Member Formal and Quantitative Methods Postdoc Search Committee (2009ndash2018)
Member Graduate Admissions Committee (2012ndash2013)
Member Reappointment Committee (2014ndash2016)
21 January 2020
Kosuke Imai
Member Space Committee (2014ndash2016)
Member Undergraduate Curriculum Committee (2014ndash2015)
Member Undergraduate Exam Committee (2007ndash2008)
Member Undergraduate Thesis Prize Committee (2005ndash2006 2008ndash2011)
Center for Statistics and Machine Learning
Executive Committee Member (2016ndash2018)
Member Search Committee (2015ndash2017)
Services to the Profession
National Academies of Sciences Engineering and Medicine
Committee on National Statistics Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences andEducation Panel on the Review and Evaluation of the 2014 Survey of Income andProgram Participation Content and Design (2014ndash2017)
The Society for Political Methodology
President (2017ndash2019)
Vice President and President Elect (2015ndash2017)
Annual Meeting Committee Chair (2011)
Career Award Committee (2015ndash2017)
Program Committee for Annual Meeting (2012) Chair (2011)
Graduate Student Selection Committee for the Annual Meeting (2005) Chair (2011)
Miller Prize Selection Committee (2010ndash2011)
Statistical Software Award Committee (2009ndash2010)
Emerging Scholar Award Committee (2013)
American Statistical Association
Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics Management Committee (2016 ndashpresent)
Others
External Expert Department of Methodology London School of Economics andPolitical Science (2017 ndash present)
Memberships
American Political Science Association American Statistical Association Midwest Polit-ical Science Association The Society for Political Methodology
22 January 2020
- Contact Information
- Education
- Positions
- Honors and Awards
- Selected Manuscripts
- Publications in English
-
- Book
- Refereed Journal Articles
- Invited Contributions
- Refereed Conference Proceedings
- Other Publications and Manuscripts
-
- Publications in Japanese
- Statistical Software
- External Research Grants
-
- Principal Investigator
- Adviser and Statistical Consultant
-
- Invited Short Courses
- Selected Presentations
- Conferences Organized
- Teaching
-
- Courses Taught at Harvard
- Courses Taught at Princeton
-
- Advising
-
- Current Students
- Former Students
- Former Predocs and Postdocs
-
- Editorial and Referee Service
- University and Departmental Committees
- Services to the Profession
- Memberships
-
Kosuke Imai
10 Carlos Velasco Rivera (PhD in 2016 Department of Politics Princeton University)Research Scientist Facebook
11 Gabriel Lopez Moctezuma (PhD in 2016 Department of Politics Princeton University)Assistant Professor Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences California Instituteof Technology
12 Graeme Blair (PhD in 2016 Department of Politics Princeton University) AssistantProfessor University of California Los Angeles
13 Jaquilyn R Waddell Boie (PhD in 2015 Department of Politics Princeton University)Private consultant
14 Scott Abramson (PhD in 2014 Department of Politics Princeton University) AssistantProfessor Department of Political Science University of Rochester
15 Michael Barber (PhD in 2014 Department of Politics Princeton University) AssistantProfessor Department of Political Science Brigham Young University
16 In Song Kim (PhD in 2014 Department of Politics Princeton University) AssociateProfessor Department of Political Science Massachusetts Institute of Technology
17 Alex Ruder (PhD in 2014 Department of Politics Princeton University) Senior Com-munity Economic Development Advisor Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
18 Meredith Wilf (PhD in 2014 Department of Politics Princeton University) AssistantProfessor Graduate School of Public and International Affairs University of Pittsburgh
19 Will Bullock (PhD candidate Department of Politics Princeton University) SeniorResearcher Facebook
20 Teppei Yamamoto (PhD in 2011 Department of Politics Princeton University Dis-sertation Committee Chair) Associate Professor Department of Political Science Mas-sachusetts Institute of Technology
21 Dustin Tingley (PhD in 2010 Department of Politics Princeton University) ProfessorDepartment of Government Harvard University
22 Aaron Strauss (PhD in 2009 Department of Politics Princeton University) ExecutiveDirector Analyst Institute
23 Samir Soneji (PhD in 2008 Office of Population Research Princeton University Dis-sertation Committee Chair) Associate Professor Dartmouth Institute for Health Policyamp Clinical Practice Geisel School of Medicine Dartmouth College
24 Ying Lu (PhD in 2005 Woodrow Wilson School Princeton University DissertationCommittee Chair) Associate Professor Steinhardt School of Culture Education andHuman Development New York University
18 January 2020
Kosuke Imai
Former Predocs and Postdocs
1 Zhichao Jiang (Postdoctoral Fellow 2016ndash2019) Assistant Professor Department ofBiostatistics and Epidemiology School of Public Health and Health Sciences Universityof Massachusetts Amherst
2 Adeline Lo (Postdoctoral Fellow 2016ndash2019) Assistant Professor Department of Politi-cal Science University of Wisconsin Madison
3 Yunkyu Sohn (Postdoctoral Fellow 2016ndash2018) Assistant Professor School of PoliticalScience and Economics Waseda University
4 Xiaolin Yang (Postdoctoral Fellow 2015ndash2017) Research Scientist Amazon
5 Santiago Olivella (Postdoctoral Fellow 2015ndash2016) Assistant Professor Department ofPolitical Science University of North Carolina
6 Drew Dimmery (Predoctoral Fellow 2015ndash2016) Research Scientist Facebook
7 James Lo (Postdoctoral Fellow 2014ndash2016) Assistant Professor Department of PoliticalScience University of Southern California
8 Steven Liao (Predoctoral Fellow 2014ndash2015) Assistant Professor Department of Politi-cal Science University of California Riverside
9 Michael Higgins (Postdoctoral Fellow 2013ndash2015) Assistant Professor Department ofStatistics Kansas State University
10 Kentaro Hirose (Postdoctoral Fellow 2012ndash2015) Assistant Professor Waseda Institutefor Advanced Studies
11 Chad Hazlett (Predoctoral Fellow 2013ndash2014) Assistant Professor Departments of Po-litical Science and Statistics University of California Los Angeles
12 Florian Hollenbach (Predoctoral Fellow 2013ndash2014) Assistant Professor Department ofPolitical Science Texas AampM University
13 Marc Ratkovic (Predoctoral and Postdoctoral Fellow 2010ndash2012) Assistant ProfessorDepartment of Politics Princeton University
Editorial and Referee Service
Co-editor for Journal of Causal Inference (2014 ndash present)
Associate editor for American Journal of Political Science (2014 ndash 2019) Journal ofBusiness amp Economic Statistics (2015 ndash 2021) Journal of Causal Inference (2011 ndash 2014)Journal of Experimental Political Science (2013 ndash 2017) Observational Studies (2014 ndashpresent) Political Analysis (2014 ndash 2017)
Editorial board member for Asian Journal of Comparative Politics (2014 ndash present) Jour-nal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics (2011 ndash present) Journal of Politics (2007ndash 2008 2019ndash2020) Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness (2014 ndash present)Political Analysis (2010 ndash 2013) Political Science Research and Methods (2019 ndash present)
19 January 2020
Kosuke Imai
Guest editor for Political Analysis virtual issue on causal inference (2011)
Referee for ACM Computing Surveys American Economic Journal Applied EconomicsAmerican Economic Review Insights American Journal of Epidemiology AmericanJournal of Evaluation American Journal of Political Science American Political ScienceReview American Politics Research Annals of Applied Statistics Annals of StatisticsAnnals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics Biometrics Biometrika BiostatisticsBMC Medical Research Methodology British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psy-chology British Journal of Political Science Canadian Journal of Statistics Chapmanamp HallCRC Press Child Development Communications for Statistical Applications andMethods Computational Statistics and Data Analysis Electoral Studies EconometricaEconometrics Empirical Economics Environmental Management Epidemiology Euro-pean Union Politics IEEE Transactions on Information Theory International Journalof Biostatistics International Journal of Epidemiology International Journal of PublicOpinion Research International Migration Review John Wiley amp Sons Journal of Ap-plied Econometrics Journal of Applied Statistics Journal of Biopharmaceutical Statis-tics Journal of Business and Economic Statistics Journal of Causal Inference Journalof Computational and Graphical Statistics Journal of Conflict Resolution Journal ofConsulting and Clinical Psychology Journal of Econometrics Journal of Educationaland Behavioral Statistics Journal of Empirical Legal Studies Journal of MultivariateAnalysis Journal of Official Statistics Journal of Peace Research Journal of PoliticsJournal of Research on Educational EffectivenessJournal of Statistical Planning and In-ference Journal of Statistical Software Journal of the American Statistical Association(Case Studies and Applications Theory and Methods) Journal of the Japanese and In-ternational Economies Journal of the Japan Statistical Society Journal of the RoyalStatistical Society (Series A Series B Series C) Law amp Social Inquiry Legislative Stud-ies Quarterly Management Science Multivariate Behavioral Research National ScienceFoundation (Economics Methodology Measurement and Statistics Political Science)Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada NeuroImage Osteoporo-sis International Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics Pharmaceutical StatisticsPharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety PLOS One Policy and Internet Political Anal-ysis Political Behavior Political Communication Political Research Quarterly PoliticalScience Research and Methods Population Health Metrics Population Studies PreventionScience Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Princeton University PressPsychological Methods Psychometrika Public Opinion Quarterly Quarterly Journal ofEconomics Quarterly Journal of Political Science Review of Economics and StatisticsRoutledge Sage Publications Scandinavian Journal of Statistics Science Sloan Foun-dation Springer Sociological Methodology Sociological Methods amp Research StatisticalMethodology Statistical Methods and Applications Statistical Methods in Medical Re-search Statistical Science Statistica Sinica Statistics amp Probability Letters Statistics inMedicine Systems Biology US-Israel Binational Science Foundation Value in HealthWorld Politics
University and Departmental Committees
Harvard University
Department of Government
20 January 2020
Kosuke Imai
Member Second-year Progress Committee (2019ndash2020)
Member Placement Committee (2019ndash2020)
Member Graduate Admissions Committee (2018ndash2019)
Member Graduate Poster Session Committee (2018ndash2019)
Department of Statistics
Member Junior Faculty Search Committee (2018ndash2019)
Member Second-year Progress Committee (2018ndash2019)
Princeton University
University
Executive Committee Member Program in Statistics and Machine Learning (2013ndash2018)
Executive Committee Member Committee for Statistical Studies (2011-2018)
Member Organizing Committee Retreat on Data and Information Science at Prince-ton (2016)
Member Council of the Princeton University Community (2015)
Member Search Committee for the Dean of College (2015)
Member Committee on the Library and Computing (2013ndash2016)
Member Committee on the Fund for Experimental Social Science (2013ndash2018)
Member Personally Identifiable Research Data Group (2012ndash2018)
Member Research Computing Advisory Group (2013ndash2018)
Member Task Force on Statistics and Machine Learning (2014ndash2015)
Department of Politics
Chair Department Committee on Research and Computing (2012ndash2018)
Chair Formal and Quantitative Methods Junior Search Committee (2012ndash20132014ndash2015 2016ndash2017)
Chair Reappointment Committee (2015ndash2016)
Member Diversity Initiative Committee (2014ndash2015)
Member American Politics Junior Search Committee (2012ndash2014)
Member Department Chairrsquos Advisory Committee (2010ndash2013 2015ndash2016)
Member Department Priority Committee (2012ndash2013 2014ndash2015 2016ndash2017)
Member Formal and Quantitative Methods Curriculum Committee (2005ndash2006)
Member Formal and Quantitative Methods Junior Search Committee (2009ndash20102015ndash2016)
Member Formal and Quantitative Methods Postdoc Search Committee (2009ndash2018)
Member Graduate Admissions Committee (2012ndash2013)
Member Reappointment Committee (2014ndash2016)
21 January 2020
Kosuke Imai
Member Space Committee (2014ndash2016)
Member Undergraduate Curriculum Committee (2014ndash2015)
Member Undergraduate Exam Committee (2007ndash2008)
Member Undergraduate Thesis Prize Committee (2005ndash2006 2008ndash2011)
Center for Statistics and Machine Learning
Executive Committee Member (2016ndash2018)
Member Search Committee (2015ndash2017)
Services to the Profession
National Academies of Sciences Engineering and Medicine
Committee on National Statistics Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences andEducation Panel on the Review and Evaluation of the 2014 Survey of Income andProgram Participation Content and Design (2014ndash2017)
The Society for Political Methodology
President (2017ndash2019)
Vice President and President Elect (2015ndash2017)
Annual Meeting Committee Chair (2011)
Career Award Committee (2015ndash2017)
Program Committee for Annual Meeting (2012) Chair (2011)
Graduate Student Selection Committee for the Annual Meeting (2005) Chair (2011)
Miller Prize Selection Committee (2010ndash2011)
Statistical Software Award Committee (2009ndash2010)
Emerging Scholar Award Committee (2013)
American Statistical Association
Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics Management Committee (2016 ndashpresent)
Others
External Expert Department of Methodology London School of Economics andPolitical Science (2017 ndash present)
Memberships
American Political Science Association American Statistical Association Midwest Polit-ical Science Association The Society for Political Methodology
22 January 2020
- Contact Information
- Education
- Positions
- Honors and Awards
- Selected Manuscripts
- Publications in English
-
- Book
- Refereed Journal Articles
- Invited Contributions
- Refereed Conference Proceedings
- Other Publications and Manuscripts
-
- Publications in Japanese
- Statistical Software
- External Research Grants
-
- Principal Investigator
- Adviser and Statistical Consultant
-
- Invited Short Courses
- Selected Presentations
- Conferences Organized
- Teaching
-
- Courses Taught at Harvard
- Courses Taught at Princeton
-
- Advising
-
- Current Students
- Former Students
- Former Predocs and Postdocs
-
- Editorial and Referee Service
- University and Departmental Committees
- Services to the Profession
- Memberships
-
Kosuke Imai
Former Predocs and Postdocs
1 Zhichao Jiang (Postdoctoral Fellow 2016ndash2019) Assistant Professor Department ofBiostatistics and Epidemiology School of Public Health and Health Sciences Universityof Massachusetts Amherst
2 Adeline Lo (Postdoctoral Fellow 2016ndash2019) Assistant Professor Department of Politi-cal Science University of Wisconsin Madison
3 Yunkyu Sohn (Postdoctoral Fellow 2016ndash2018) Assistant Professor School of PoliticalScience and Economics Waseda University
4 Xiaolin Yang (Postdoctoral Fellow 2015ndash2017) Research Scientist Amazon
5 Santiago Olivella (Postdoctoral Fellow 2015ndash2016) Assistant Professor Department ofPolitical Science University of North Carolina
6 Drew Dimmery (Predoctoral Fellow 2015ndash2016) Research Scientist Facebook
7 James Lo (Postdoctoral Fellow 2014ndash2016) Assistant Professor Department of PoliticalScience University of Southern California
8 Steven Liao (Predoctoral Fellow 2014ndash2015) Assistant Professor Department of Politi-cal Science University of California Riverside
9 Michael Higgins (Postdoctoral Fellow 2013ndash2015) Assistant Professor Department ofStatistics Kansas State University
10 Kentaro Hirose (Postdoctoral Fellow 2012ndash2015) Assistant Professor Waseda Institutefor Advanced Studies
11 Chad Hazlett (Predoctoral Fellow 2013ndash2014) Assistant Professor Departments of Po-litical Science and Statistics University of California Los Angeles
12 Florian Hollenbach (Predoctoral Fellow 2013ndash2014) Assistant Professor Department ofPolitical Science Texas AampM University
13 Marc Ratkovic (Predoctoral and Postdoctoral Fellow 2010ndash2012) Assistant ProfessorDepartment of Politics Princeton University
Editorial and Referee Service
Co-editor for Journal of Causal Inference (2014 ndash present)
Associate editor for American Journal of Political Science (2014 ndash 2019) Journal ofBusiness amp Economic Statistics (2015 ndash 2021) Journal of Causal Inference (2011 ndash 2014)Journal of Experimental Political Science (2013 ndash 2017) Observational Studies (2014 ndashpresent) Political Analysis (2014 ndash 2017)
Editorial board member for Asian Journal of Comparative Politics (2014 ndash present) Jour-nal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics (2011 ndash present) Journal of Politics (2007ndash 2008 2019ndash2020) Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness (2014 ndash present)Political Analysis (2010 ndash 2013) Political Science Research and Methods (2019 ndash present)
19 January 2020
Kosuke Imai
Guest editor for Political Analysis virtual issue on causal inference (2011)
Referee for ACM Computing Surveys American Economic Journal Applied EconomicsAmerican Economic Review Insights American Journal of Epidemiology AmericanJournal of Evaluation American Journal of Political Science American Political ScienceReview American Politics Research Annals of Applied Statistics Annals of StatisticsAnnals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics Biometrics Biometrika BiostatisticsBMC Medical Research Methodology British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psy-chology British Journal of Political Science Canadian Journal of Statistics Chapmanamp HallCRC Press Child Development Communications for Statistical Applications andMethods Computational Statistics and Data Analysis Electoral Studies EconometricaEconometrics Empirical Economics Environmental Management Epidemiology Euro-pean Union Politics IEEE Transactions on Information Theory International Journalof Biostatistics International Journal of Epidemiology International Journal of PublicOpinion Research International Migration Review John Wiley amp Sons Journal of Ap-plied Econometrics Journal of Applied Statistics Journal of Biopharmaceutical Statis-tics Journal of Business and Economic Statistics Journal of Causal Inference Journalof Computational and Graphical Statistics Journal of Conflict Resolution Journal ofConsulting and Clinical Psychology Journal of Econometrics Journal of Educationaland Behavioral Statistics Journal of Empirical Legal Studies Journal of MultivariateAnalysis Journal of Official Statistics Journal of Peace Research Journal of PoliticsJournal of Research on Educational EffectivenessJournal of Statistical Planning and In-ference Journal of Statistical Software Journal of the American Statistical Association(Case Studies and Applications Theory and Methods) Journal of the Japanese and In-ternational Economies Journal of the Japan Statistical Society Journal of the RoyalStatistical Society (Series A Series B Series C) Law amp Social Inquiry Legislative Stud-ies Quarterly Management Science Multivariate Behavioral Research National ScienceFoundation (Economics Methodology Measurement and Statistics Political Science)Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada NeuroImage Osteoporo-sis International Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics Pharmaceutical StatisticsPharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety PLOS One Policy and Internet Political Anal-ysis Political Behavior Political Communication Political Research Quarterly PoliticalScience Research and Methods Population Health Metrics Population Studies PreventionScience Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Princeton University PressPsychological Methods Psychometrika Public Opinion Quarterly Quarterly Journal ofEconomics Quarterly Journal of Political Science Review of Economics and StatisticsRoutledge Sage Publications Scandinavian Journal of Statistics Science Sloan Foun-dation Springer Sociological Methodology Sociological Methods amp Research StatisticalMethodology Statistical Methods and Applications Statistical Methods in Medical Re-search Statistical Science Statistica Sinica Statistics amp Probability Letters Statistics inMedicine Systems Biology US-Israel Binational Science Foundation Value in HealthWorld Politics
University and Departmental Committees
Harvard University
Department of Government
20 January 2020
Kosuke Imai
Member Second-year Progress Committee (2019ndash2020)
Member Placement Committee (2019ndash2020)
Member Graduate Admissions Committee (2018ndash2019)
Member Graduate Poster Session Committee (2018ndash2019)
Department of Statistics
Member Junior Faculty Search Committee (2018ndash2019)
Member Second-year Progress Committee (2018ndash2019)
Princeton University
University
Executive Committee Member Program in Statistics and Machine Learning (2013ndash2018)
Executive Committee Member Committee for Statistical Studies (2011-2018)
Member Organizing Committee Retreat on Data and Information Science at Prince-ton (2016)
Member Council of the Princeton University Community (2015)
Member Search Committee for the Dean of College (2015)
Member Committee on the Library and Computing (2013ndash2016)
Member Committee on the Fund for Experimental Social Science (2013ndash2018)
Member Personally Identifiable Research Data Group (2012ndash2018)
Member Research Computing Advisory Group (2013ndash2018)
Member Task Force on Statistics and Machine Learning (2014ndash2015)
Department of Politics
Chair Department Committee on Research and Computing (2012ndash2018)
Chair Formal and Quantitative Methods Junior Search Committee (2012ndash20132014ndash2015 2016ndash2017)
Chair Reappointment Committee (2015ndash2016)
Member Diversity Initiative Committee (2014ndash2015)
Member American Politics Junior Search Committee (2012ndash2014)
Member Department Chairrsquos Advisory Committee (2010ndash2013 2015ndash2016)
Member Department Priority Committee (2012ndash2013 2014ndash2015 2016ndash2017)
Member Formal and Quantitative Methods Curriculum Committee (2005ndash2006)
Member Formal and Quantitative Methods Junior Search Committee (2009ndash20102015ndash2016)
Member Formal and Quantitative Methods Postdoc Search Committee (2009ndash2018)
Member Graduate Admissions Committee (2012ndash2013)
Member Reappointment Committee (2014ndash2016)
21 January 2020
Kosuke Imai
Member Space Committee (2014ndash2016)
Member Undergraduate Curriculum Committee (2014ndash2015)
Member Undergraduate Exam Committee (2007ndash2008)
Member Undergraduate Thesis Prize Committee (2005ndash2006 2008ndash2011)
Center for Statistics and Machine Learning
Executive Committee Member (2016ndash2018)
Member Search Committee (2015ndash2017)
Services to the Profession
National Academies of Sciences Engineering and Medicine
Committee on National Statistics Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences andEducation Panel on the Review and Evaluation of the 2014 Survey of Income andProgram Participation Content and Design (2014ndash2017)
The Society for Political Methodology
President (2017ndash2019)
Vice President and President Elect (2015ndash2017)
Annual Meeting Committee Chair (2011)
Career Award Committee (2015ndash2017)
Program Committee for Annual Meeting (2012) Chair (2011)
Graduate Student Selection Committee for the Annual Meeting (2005) Chair (2011)
Miller Prize Selection Committee (2010ndash2011)
Statistical Software Award Committee (2009ndash2010)
Emerging Scholar Award Committee (2013)
American Statistical Association
Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics Management Committee (2016 ndashpresent)
Others
External Expert Department of Methodology London School of Economics andPolitical Science (2017 ndash present)
Memberships
American Political Science Association American Statistical Association Midwest Polit-ical Science Association The Society for Political Methodology
22 January 2020
- Contact Information
- Education
- Positions
- Honors and Awards
- Selected Manuscripts
- Publications in English
-
- Book
- Refereed Journal Articles
- Invited Contributions
- Refereed Conference Proceedings
- Other Publications and Manuscripts
-
- Publications in Japanese
- Statistical Software
- External Research Grants
-
- Principal Investigator
- Adviser and Statistical Consultant
-
- Invited Short Courses
- Selected Presentations
- Conferences Organized
- Teaching
-
- Courses Taught at Harvard
- Courses Taught at Princeton
-
- Advising
-
- Current Students
- Former Students
- Former Predocs and Postdocs
-
- Editorial and Referee Service
- University and Departmental Committees
- Services to the Profession
- Memberships
-
Kosuke Imai
Guest editor for Political Analysis virtual issue on causal inference (2011)
Referee for ACM Computing Surveys American Economic Journal Applied EconomicsAmerican Economic Review Insights American Journal of Epidemiology AmericanJournal of Evaluation American Journal of Political Science American Political ScienceReview American Politics Research Annals of Applied Statistics Annals of StatisticsAnnals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics Biometrics Biometrika BiostatisticsBMC Medical Research Methodology British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psy-chology British Journal of Political Science Canadian Journal of Statistics Chapmanamp HallCRC Press Child Development Communications for Statistical Applications andMethods Computational Statistics and Data Analysis Electoral Studies EconometricaEconometrics Empirical Economics Environmental Management Epidemiology Euro-pean Union Politics IEEE Transactions on Information Theory International Journalof Biostatistics International Journal of Epidemiology International Journal of PublicOpinion Research International Migration Review John Wiley amp Sons Journal of Ap-plied Econometrics Journal of Applied Statistics Journal of Biopharmaceutical Statis-tics Journal of Business and Economic Statistics Journal of Causal Inference Journalof Computational and Graphical Statistics Journal of Conflict Resolution Journal ofConsulting and Clinical Psychology Journal of Econometrics Journal of Educationaland Behavioral Statistics Journal of Empirical Legal Studies Journal of MultivariateAnalysis Journal of Official Statistics Journal of Peace Research Journal of PoliticsJournal of Research on Educational EffectivenessJournal of Statistical Planning and In-ference Journal of Statistical Software Journal of the American Statistical Association(Case Studies and Applications Theory and Methods) Journal of the Japanese and In-ternational Economies Journal of the Japan Statistical Society Journal of the RoyalStatistical Society (Series A Series B Series C) Law amp Social Inquiry Legislative Stud-ies Quarterly Management Science Multivariate Behavioral Research National ScienceFoundation (Economics Methodology Measurement and Statistics Political Science)Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada NeuroImage Osteoporo-sis International Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics Pharmaceutical StatisticsPharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety PLOS One Policy and Internet Political Anal-ysis Political Behavior Political Communication Political Research Quarterly PoliticalScience Research and Methods Population Health Metrics Population Studies PreventionScience Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Princeton University PressPsychological Methods Psychometrika Public Opinion Quarterly Quarterly Journal ofEconomics Quarterly Journal of Political Science Review of Economics and StatisticsRoutledge Sage Publications Scandinavian Journal of Statistics Science Sloan Foun-dation Springer Sociological Methodology Sociological Methods amp Research StatisticalMethodology Statistical Methods and Applications Statistical Methods in Medical Re-search Statistical Science Statistica Sinica Statistics amp Probability Letters Statistics inMedicine Systems Biology US-Israel Binational Science Foundation Value in HealthWorld Politics
University and Departmental Committees
Harvard University
Department of Government
20 January 2020
Kosuke Imai
Member Second-year Progress Committee (2019ndash2020)
Member Placement Committee (2019ndash2020)
Member Graduate Admissions Committee (2018ndash2019)
Member Graduate Poster Session Committee (2018ndash2019)
Department of Statistics
Member Junior Faculty Search Committee (2018ndash2019)
Member Second-year Progress Committee (2018ndash2019)
Princeton University
University
Executive Committee Member Program in Statistics and Machine Learning (2013ndash2018)
Executive Committee Member Committee for Statistical Studies (2011-2018)
Member Organizing Committee Retreat on Data and Information Science at Prince-ton (2016)
Member Council of the Princeton University Community (2015)
Member Search Committee for the Dean of College (2015)
Member Committee on the Library and Computing (2013ndash2016)
Member Committee on the Fund for Experimental Social Science (2013ndash2018)
Member Personally Identifiable Research Data Group (2012ndash2018)
Member Research Computing Advisory Group (2013ndash2018)
Member Task Force on Statistics and Machine Learning (2014ndash2015)
Department of Politics
Chair Department Committee on Research and Computing (2012ndash2018)
Chair Formal and Quantitative Methods Junior Search Committee (2012ndash20132014ndash2015 2016ndash2017)
Chair Reappointment Committee (2015ndash2016)
Member Diversity Initiative Committee (2014ndash2015)
Member American Politics Junior Search Committee (2012ndash2014)
Member Department Chairrsquos Advisory Committee (2010ndash2013 2015ndash2016)
Member Department Priority Committee (2012ndash2013 2014ndash2015 2016ndash2017)
Member Formal and Quantitative Methods Curriculum Committee (2005ndash2006)
Member Formal and Quantitative Methods Junior Search Committee (2009ndash20102015ndash2016)
Member Formal and Quantitative Methods Postdoc Search Committee (2009ndash2018)
Member Graduate Admissions Committee (2012ndash2013)
Member Reappointment Committee (2014ndash2016)
21 January 2020
Kosuke Imai
Member Space Committee (2014ndash2016)
Member Undergraduate Curriculum Committee (2014ndash2015)
Member Undergraduate Exam Committee (2007ndash2008)
Member Undergraduate Thesis Prize Committee (2005ndash2006 2008ndash2011)
Center for Statistics and Machine Learning
Executive Committee Member (2016ndash2018)
Member Search Committee (2015ndash2017)
Services to the Profession
National Academies of Sciences Engineering and Medicine
Committee on National Statistics Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences andEducation Panel on the Review and Evaluation of the 2014 Survey of Income andProgram Participation Content and Design (2014ndash2017)
The Society for Political Methodology
President (2017ndash2019)
Vice President and President Elect (2015ndash2017)
Annual Meeting Committee Chair (2011)
Career Award Committee (2015ndash2017)
Program Committee for Annual Meeting (2012) Chair (2011)
Graduate Student Selection Committee for the Annual Meeting (2005) Chair (2011)
Miller Prize Selection Committee (2010ndash2011)
Statistical Software Award Committee (2009ndash2010)
Emerging Scholar Award Committee (2013)
American Statistical Association
Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics Management Committee (2016 ndashpresent)
Others
External Expert Department of Methodology London School of Economics andPolitical Science (2017 ndash present)
Memberships
American Political Science Association American Statistical Association Midwest Polit-ical Science Association The Society for Political Methodology
22 January 2020
- Contact Information
- Education
- Positions
- Honors and Awards
- Selected Manuscripts
- Publications in English
-
- Book
- Refereed Journal Articles
- Invited Contributions
- Refereed Conference Proceedings
- Other Publications and Manuscripts
-
- Publications in Japanese
- Statistical Software
- External Research Grants
-
- Principal Investigator
- Adviser and Statistical Consultant
-
- Invited Short Courses
- Selected Presentations
- Conferences Organized
- Teaching
-
- Courses Taught at Harvard
- Courses Taught at Princeton
-
- Advising
-
- Current Students
- Former Students
- Former Predocs and Postdocs
-
- Editorial and Referee Service
- University and Departmental Committees
- Services to the Profession
- Memberships
-
Kosuke Imai
Member Second-year Progress Committee (2019ndash2020)
Member Placement Committee (2019ndash2020)
Member Graduate Admissions Committee (2018ndash2019)
Member Graduate Poster Session Committee (2018ndash2019)
Department of Statistics
Member Junior Faculty Search Committee (2018ndash2019)
Member Second-year Progress Committee (2018ndash2019)
Princeton University
University
Executive Committee Member Program in Statistics and Machine Learning (2013ndash2018)
Executive Committee Member Committee for Statistical Studies (2011-2018)
Member Organizing Committee Retreat on Data and Information Science at Prince-ton (2016)
Member Council of the Princeton University Community (2015)
Member Search Committee for the Dean of College (2015)
Member Committee on the Library and Computing (2013ndash2016)
Member Committee on the Fund for Experimental Social Science (2013ndash2018)
Member Personally Identifiable Research Data Group (2012ndash2018)
Member Research Computing Advisory Group (2013ndash2018)
Member Task Force on Statistics and Machine Learning (2014ndash2015)
Department of Politics
Chair Department Committee on Research and Computing (2012ndash2018)
Chair Formal and Quantitative Methods Junior Search Committee (2012ndash20132014ndash2015 2016ndash2017)
Chair Reappointment Committee (2015ndash2016)
Member Diversity Initiative Committee (2014ndash2015)
Member American Politics Junior Search Committee (2012ndash2014)
Member Department Chairrsquos Advisory Committee (2010ndash2013 2015ndash2016)
Member Department Priority Committee (2012ndash2013 2014ndash2015 2016ndash2017)
Member Formal and Quantitative Methods Curriculum Committee (2005ndash2006)
Member Formal and Quantitative Methods Junior Search Committee (2009ndash20102015ndash2016)
Member Formal and Quantitative Methods Postdoc Search Committee (2009ndash2018)
Member Graduate Admissions Committee (2012ndash2013)
Member Reappointment Committee (2014ndash2016)
21 January 2020
Kosuke Imai
Member Space Committee (2014ndash2016)
Member Undergraduate Curriculum Committee (2014ndash2015)
Member Undergraduate Exam Committee (2007ndash2008)
Member Undergraduate Thesis Prize Committee (2005ndash2006 2008ndash2011)
Center for Statistics and Machine Learning
Executive Committee Member (2016ndash2018)
Member Search Committee (2015ndash2017)
Services to the Profession
National Academies of Sciences Engineering and Medicine
Committee on National Statistics Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences andEducation Panel on the Review and Evaluation of the 2014 Survey of Income andProgram Participation Content and Design (2014ndash2017)
The Society for Political Methodology
President (2017ndash2019)
Vice President and President Elect (2015ndash2017)
Annual Meeting Committee Chair (2011)
Career Award Committee (2015ndash2017)
Program Committee for Annual Meeting (2012) Chair (2011)
Graduate Student Selection Committee for the Annual Meeting (2005) Chair (2011)
Miller Prize Selection Committee (2010ndash2011)
Statistical Software Award Committee (2009ndash2010)
Emerging Scholar Award Committee (2013)
American Statistical Association
Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics Management Committee (2016 ndashpresent)
Others
External Expert Department of Methodology London School of Economics andPolitical Science (2017 ndash present)
Memberships
American Political Science Association American Statistical Association Midwest Polit-ical Science Association The Society for Political Methodology
22 January 2020
- Contact Information
- Education
- Positions
- Honors and Awards
- Selected Manuscripts
- Publications in English
-
- Book
- Refereed Journal Articles
- Invited Contributions
- Refereed Conference Proceedings
- Other Publications and Manuscripts
-
- Publications in Japanese
- Statistical Software
- External Research Grants
-
- Principal Investigator
- Adviser and Statistical Consultant
-
- Invited Short Courses
- Selected Presentations
- Conferences Organized
- Teaching
-
- Courses Taught at Harvard
- Courses Taught at Princeton
-
- Advising
-
- Current Students
- Former Students
- Former Predocs and Postdocs
-
- Editorial and Referee Service
- University and Departmental Committees
- Services to the Profession
- Memberships
-
Kosuke Imai
Member Space Committee (2014ndash2016)
Member Undergraduate Curriculum Committee (2014ndash2015)
Member Undergraduate Exam Committee (2007ndash2008)
Member Undergraduate Thesis Prize Committee (2005ndash2006 2008ndash2011)
Center for Statistics and Machine Learning
Executive Committee Member (2016ndash2018)
Member Search Committee (2015ndash2017)
Services to the Profession
National Academies of Sciences Engineering and Medicine
Committee on National Statistics Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences andEducation Panel on the Review and Evaluation of the 2014 Survey of Income andProgram Participation Content and Design (2014ndash2017)
The Society for Political Methodology
President (2017ndash2019)
Vice President and President Elect (2015ndash2017)
Annual Meeting Committee Chair (2011)
Career Award Committee (2015ndash2017)
Program Committee for Annual Meeting (2012) Chair (2011)
Graduate Student Selection Committee for the Annual Meeting (2005) Chair (2011)
Miller Prize Selection Committee (2010ndash2011)
Statistical Software Award Committee (2009ndash2010)
Emerging Scholar Award Committee (2013)
American Statistical Association
Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics Management Committee (2016 ndashpresent)
Others
External Expert Department of Methodology London School of Economics andPolitical Science (2017 ndash present)
Memberships
American Political Science Association American Statistical Association Midwest Polit-ical Science Association The Society for Political Methodology
22 January 2020
- Contact Information
- Education
- Positions
- Honors and Awards
- Selected Manuscripts
- Publications in English
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- Book
- Refereed Journal Articles
- Invited Contributions
- Refereed Conference Proceedings
- Other Publications and Manuscripts
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- Publications in Japanese
- Statistical Software
- External Research Grants
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- Principal Investigator
- Adviser and Statistical Consultant
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- Invited Short Courses
- Selected Presentations
- Conferences Organized
- Teaching
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- Courses Taught at Harvard
- Courses Taught at Princeton
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- Advising
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- Current Students
- Former Students
- Former Predocs and Postdocs
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- Editorial and Referee Service
- University and Departmental Committees
- Services to the Profession
- Memberships
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