Jens Hainmüller

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Jens Hainmüller (as author: Jens Hainmueller ) is a German political scientist who works in the USA as Professor of Political Science and Business at Stanford University . The focus of his research lies in the areas of statistical methods and political economy as well as immigration , attitude and election research .

Career

Hainmüller grew up in Freiburg im Breisgau in Baden-Württemberg . At the University of Tübingen he took up a degree in political science as well as the minor subjects economics and public law , where he passed his intermediate examination in 2001. As part of a DAAD scholarship program , Hainmüller then spent a year at Brown University in the USA until 2002 . He then took a master's degree in International Political Economy at the English London School of Economics in which he with the 2003 Master of Science graduated.

With a grant from the McCloy Academic Scholarship Program , he then moved to Harvard University in the USA, where he obtained a Master of Public Administration from the Kennedy School of Government in 2005 . He then took up a doctoral degree at Harvard with a focus on methodology and political economy, which he completed in 2009 and then obtained a Ph.D. got awarded.

After receiving his Ph.D. Hainmüller was offered a position at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2009 , where he worked as an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science . Harvard he stayed as a member of the local research institute for quantitative social science. In 2012 he was promoted to associate professor with tenure at MIT ("Academic tenure"). From 2013 to 2015 he was a fellow at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung and has also been a fellow at the Center for Research and Analysis of Migration at University College London since 2013 .

In 2014, Hainmüller was offered a call to Stanford University , where he worked as an associate professor in the political science department and at the local Graduate School of Business . In 2016 he was promoted to "Full Professor" there.

In 2015, together with David Laitin , Hainmüller founded the Stanford Immigration Policy Lab (IPL), an interdisciplinary research laboratory which develops and scientifically examines policy measures in the area of ​​migration in cooperation with governments and non-governmental organizations.

meaning

Hainmüller has published over 50 studies in scientific journals in the field of political science, statistics, economics, management, and general science journals such as Science and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science . According to Google Scholar (January 2018), his publications have been cited over 9800 times so far. A total of 22  publications by Hainmüller were cited at least 100 times in other works. Hainmüller's most cited publication is an article written together with Alberto Abadie and Alexis Diamond, which appeared in the Journal of the American Statistical Association in 2010 . The authors addressed a statistical method for estimating an effect in comparative case studies (synthetic control method) , which can be used, for example, to evaluate certain political measures. The article has been referred to more than 2000 times in other publications.

In a ranking of top political science researchers, Hainmüller was listed as the 16th most cited researcher among all political scientists for recent citations.

The economically oriented database Research Papers in Economics lists Hainmüller in terms of the breadth in which his work is cited across various economic sub-disciplines, among the top 2 percent of a total of more than 50,000 considered scientists (primarily economists).

Hainmüller has received numerous science prizes. Among other things, he received the Society of Political Methodology's Emerging Scholar Award in 2014 and was selected as an Andrew Carnegie Fellow in 2016.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jens Hainmueller: A 'numbers' guy takes on pressing public policy issues , Massachusetts Institute for Technology website, February 15, 2012, accessed June 2, 2017.
  2. ↑ stanford.edu (as of June 2017)
  3. ^ Googe Scholar profile of Jens Hainmüller
  4. ↑ a b Profile on Google Scholar, accessed on January 15, 2018.
  5. ↑ Alberto Abadie, Alexis Diamond, Jens Hainmueller: Synthetic control methods for comparative case studies: Estimating the effect of California's Tobacco Control Program . In: Journal of the American Statistical Association , Volume 105, Number 490, 2010, pp. 493–505.
  6. ^ "Measuring the Research Productivity of Political Science Departments Using Google Scholar"
  7. ↑ Top 5% Authors, Breadth of citations across fields, as of May 2017 , from: ideas.repec.org, accessed on June 15, 2017.
  8. ↑ 2016 Andrew Carnegie Fellows. Retrieved June 16, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Hainmüller, Jens
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hainmueller, Jens
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political scientist
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century