Matthew Blackwell

Matthew Blackwell

Assistant Professor of Political Science

PhD, Harvard, 2012. Political methodology, American politics, causal inference, missing data, and campaigns. Current research examines the effectiveness of negative advertising and the approach to causal inference in dynamic political situations. He is also working on methods for measurement error and missing data and maintains the R package Amelia for the multiple imputation of missing data. He teaches courses on applied data analysis and causal inference.

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