Kosuke Imai's Curriculum Vitae

Ph.D. in Political Science, Harvard University (1999 - 2003).

A.M. in Statistics, Harvard University (2000 - 2002).

B.A. in Liberal Arts, The University of Tokyo (1994 - 1998).

Assistant Professor, Department of Politics, Princeton University (2004 - present).

Instructor, Department of Politics, Princeton University (2003 - 2004).

Horiuchi, Yusaku, Kosuke Imai, and Naoko Taniguchi. ``Designing and Analyzing Randomized Experiments.''

Ho, Daniel E., Kosuke Imai, Gary King, and Elizabeth A. Stuart. ``Matching as Nonparametric Preprocessing for Reducing Model Dependence in Parametric Causal Inference.''

Imai, Kosuke, and Ying Lu. ``Parametric and Nonparametric Bayesian Models for Ecological Inference in 2 x 2 Tables.''

Ho, Daniel E., and Kosuke Imai. ``The Impact of Partisan Electoral Regulation: Ballot Effects from the California Alphabet Lottery, 1978-2002.''

Ho, Daniel E., and Kosuke Imai. ``Randomization Inference with Natural Experiments: An Analysis of Ballot Effects in the 2003 California Recall Election .'' Revise and resubmit at Journal of the American Statistical Association, Applications and Case Studies.

Imai, Kosuke, Gary King, and Olivia Lau. ``Zelig: Everyone's Statistical Software.''

Imai, Kosuke, and David A. van Dyk. (2005). ``MNP: R Package for Fitting the Multinomial Probit Model.'' Journal of Statistical Software, Vol. 14, No. 3 (May), pp. 1-32. abstract reprinted in Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics.

Imai, Kosuke. (2005). ``Do Get-Out-The-Vote Calls Reduce Turnout? The Importance of Statistical Methods for Field Experiments,'' American Political Science Review, Vol. 99, No. 2 (May), pp. 283-300.

Imai, Kosuke, and David A. van Dyk. (2005). ``A Bayesian Analysis of the Multinomial Probit Model Using Marginal Data Augmentation,'' Journal of Econometrics, Vol. 124, No. 2 (February), pp. 311-334.

Imai, Kosuke, and David A. van Dyk. (2004). ``Causal Inference With General Treatment Regimes: Generalizing the Propensity Score,'' Journal of the American Statistical Association, Theory and Methods, Vol. 99, No. 467 (September), pp. 854-866.

Imai, Kosuke, and Gary King. (2004). ``Did Illegal Overseas Absentee Ballots Decide the 2000 U.S. Presidential Election?'' Perspectives on Politics, Vol. 2, No. 3 (September), pp. 537-549. Our analysis is a part of The New York Times article, ``How Bush Took Florida: Mining the Overseas Absentee Vote'' By David Barstow and Don van Natta Jr. July 15, 2001, Page 1, Column 1.

Imai, Kosuke. (2003) ``Essays on Political Methodology,'' Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Government, Harvard University. Winner of the Harvard University Toppan Prize for Best Dissertation in Political Science. Nominated for American Political Science Association E.E. Schattschneider Award for the best doctoral dissertation in the field of American government and politics.

Imai, Kosuke. (2003) ``Review of Jeff Gill's Bayesian Methods: A Social and Behavioral Sciences Approach,'' The Political Methodologist, Vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 9-10.

Imai, Kosuke, and Jeremy Weinstein. (2000) ``Measuring the Economic Impact of Civil War,'' Harvard University Center for International Development, Working Paper Series, No. 51.

Imai, Kosuke, and Ying Lu. ``eco: R Package for Fitting Bayesian Models of Ecological Inference in 2 x 2 Tables.'' available through The Comprehensive R Archive Network.

Ho, Daniel E., Kosuke Imai, Gary King, and Elizabeth Stuart. ``MatchIt: Nonparametric Preprocessing for Parametric Causal Inference.'' available through The Comprehensive R Archive Network.

Imai, Kosuke, and David A. van Dyk. ``MNP: R Package for Fitting the Multinomial Probit Model.'' available through The Comprehensive R Archive Network.

Imai, Kosuke, Gary King, and Olivia Lau. ``Zelig: Everyone's Statistical Software.'' available through The Comprehensive R Archive Network.

Toppan Prize for Best Dissertation in Political Science, Department of Government, Harvard University (2004).

The Clifford C. Clogg Scholarship Award, the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), The University of Michigan (2000).

Harvard University Grant (1999 - 2003).

AT&T Asia/Pacific Leadership Award (1999).

Princeton University Committee on Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences, ``New Statistical Methods for the Ecological Inference Problem,'' 2004 - 2005 ($3,250).

The Telecommunications Advancement Foundation, ``Analyzing the Effects of Party Webpages on Political Opinions and Voting Behavior,'' with Naoko Taniguchi and Yusaku Horiuchi. 2004 (approx. $12,000).

Princeton University Committee on Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences, ``Estimating the Ballot Order Effects Using the California Alphabet Lottery,'' 2003 - 2004 ($6,000).

The Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association (2002, 2003, 2004, 2005).

The Joint Statistical Meetings (2002, 2003, 2004, 2005).

The Annual Summer Political Methodology Meetings (2002, 2003, 2004, 2005).

The Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association (2004, 2005).

The Cape Cod Workshop on Monte Carlo Methods (poster presentation; 2002, 2004).

Columbia University (Department of Political Science, 2004; Department of Statistics, 2005); Harvard University (Department of Economics, 2003; Department of Government, 2005); Ohio State University (Department of Political Science, 2002); Princeton University (Department of Economics, 2004; Department of Politics, 2002); Stanford University (Department of Political Science, 2002); University of California, Berkeley (Department of Political Science, 2002); University of California, Davis (Department of Political Science, 2002); University of Michigan (Department of Political Science, 2005); University of Washington (Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences, 2005; Department of Political Science, 2002; Department of Statistics, 2002); Waseda University (School of Political Science and Economics, 2005); Washington University in St. Louis (Department of Political Science, 2002).

POL 502 Mathematics for Political Sicnece  (2003, 2005): real analysis, linear algebra, probability.

POL 571 Quantitative Analysis I  (2006): probability theory, statistical theory, linear models.

POL 572 Quantitative Analysis II  (2005): intermediate applied statistics.

POL 573/SOC 576 Quantitative Analysis III: Applied Bayesian Data Analysis  (2004, 2005, 2006): applied Bayesian statistics, statistical methods for causal inference.

POL 451 Statistical Methods in Political Science  (2005): basic probability and statistical theory, their applications in the social sciences.

Ying Lu, Ph.D. in 2005. Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science and Sociology, University of Colorado at Boulder.

American Political Science Association;  American Statistical Association;  Midwest Political Science Association;  The Society of Political Methodology;  International Society for Bayesian Analysis.