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).

Visiting Researcher, Faculty of Economics, The University of Tokyo (August, 2006).

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

National Science Foundation, (2008-2009). ``New Statistical Methods for Randomized Experiments in Political Science and Public Policy,'' (Political Science Program; SES-0752050) Principal Investigator. $52,565.

National Science Foundation, (2006-2009). ``Collaborative Research: Generalized Propensity Score Methods,'' (Methodology, Measurement and Statistics Program; SES-0550873) Principal Investigator (with Donald B. Rubin and David A. van Dyk). $460,000.

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

The Mamdouha S. Bobst Center for Peace and Justice research grant, (2007). ``Racial Gaps in the Responses to Hurricane Katrina,'' Principal Investigator (with Melissa Harris-Lacewell). $4,000.

Princeton University Committee on Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences, (2003 - 2008). Principal Investigator. $24,250.

Imai, Kosuke. ``Variance Identification and Efficiency Analysis in Randomized Experiments under the Matched-Pair Design.'' Statistics in Medicine, Forthcoming.

Imai, Kosuke, Gary King, and Olivia Lau. ``Toward A Common Framework of Statistical Analysis and Development.'' Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, Forthcoming.

Ho, Daniel E., Kosuke Imai, Gary King, and Elizabeth Stuart. ``MatchIt: Nonparametric Preprocessing for Parametric Causal Inference.'' Journal of Statistical Software, Forthcoming.

Imai, Kosuke, Ying Lu, and Aaron Strauss. ``eco: R Package for Ecological Inference in 2 x 2 Tables.'' Journal of Statistical Software, Forthcoming.

Ho, Daniel E., and Kosuke Imai. (2008). ``Estimating Causal Effects of Ballot Order from a Randomized Natural Experiment: California Alphabet Lottery, 1978-2002.'' Public Opinion Quarterly, Vol. 72, No. 2 (Summer), pp. 216-240.

Imai, Kosuke, Gary King, and Elizabeth A. Stuart. (2008). ``Misunderstandings among Experimentalists and Observationalists about Causal Inference.'' Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A, Vol. 171, No. 2 (April), pp. 481-502.

Imai, Kosuke, Ying Lu, and Aaron Strauss. (2008). ``Bayesian and Likelihood Inference for 2 x 2 Ecological Tables: An Incomplete Data Approach.'' Political Analysis, Vol. 16, No. 1 (Winter), pp. 41-69.

Imai, Kosuke. (2008). ``Sharp Bounds on the Causal Effects in Randomized Experiments with ``Truncation-by-Death''.'' Statistics & Probability Letters, Vol. 78, No. 2 (February), pp. 144-149.

Imai, Kosuke, and Samir Soneji. (2007). ``On the Estimation of Disability-Free Life Expectancy: Sullivan's Method and Its Extension.'' Journal of the American Statistical Association, Vol. 102, No. 480 (December), pp. 1199-1211.

Horiuchi, Yusaku, Kosuke Imai, and Naoko Taniguchi. (2007). ``Designing and Analyzing Randomized Experiments: Application to a Japanese Election Survey Experiment.'' American Journal of Political Science, Vol. 51, No. 3 (July), pp. 669-687.

Ho, Daniel E., Kosuke Imai, Gary King, and Elizabeth A. Stuart. (2007). ``Matching as Nonparametric Preprocessing for Reducing Model Dependence in Parametric Causal Inference.'' Political Analysis, Vol. 15, No. 3 (Summer), pp. 199-236. Winner of Warren Miller Prize.

Ho, Daniel E., and Kosuke Imai. (2006). ``Randomization Inference With Natural Experiments: An Analysis of Ballot Effects in the 2003 California Recall Election.'' Journal of the American Statistical Association, Vol. 101, No. 475 (September), pp. 888-900.

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, (2005) Vol. 14, No. 3 (September), p. 747

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

Ho, Daniel E. and Kosuke Imai. (2004). ``The Impact of Partisan Electoral Regulation: Ballot Effects from the California Alphabet Lottery, 1978-2002,'' Princeton Law & Public Affairs Paper No. 04-001: Harvard Public Law Working Paper No. 89.

Imai, Kosuke. (2003) ``Essays on Political Methodology,'' Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Government, Harvard University.

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. (2007). ``Keiryo Seijigaku niokeru Ingateki Suiron (Causal Inference in Quantitative Political Science).'' Leviathan, Vol. 40, pp. 224-233.

Horiuchi, Yusaku, Kosuke Imai, and Naoko Taniguchi. (2005). ``Seisaku Jyoho to Tohyo Sanka: Field Jikken ni yoru Kensyo (Policy Information and Voter Participation: A Field Experiment).'' Nenpo Seijigaku (The Annals of the Japanese Political Science Association), 2005-I, pp. 161-180.

Taniguchi, Naoko, Yusaku Horiuchi, and Kosuke Imai. (2004). ``Seito Saito no Etsuran ha Tohyo Kodo ni Eikyo Suruka? (Does Visiting Political Pary Websites Influence Voting Behavior?).'' Nikkei Research Report, Vol. IV, pp. 16-19.

Imai, Kosuke. ``experiment: R Package for Designing and Analyzing Randomized Experiments.'' available through The Comprehensive R Archive Network. 2007.

Ho, Daniel E., Kosuke Imai, Gary King, and Elizabeth Stuart. ``MatchIt: Nonparametric Preprocessing for Parametric Causal Inference.'' available through The Comprehensive R Archive Network. 2005-2008.

Imai, Kosuke, Ying Lu, and Aaron Strauss. ``eco: R Package for Ecological Inference in 2 x 2 Tables.'' available through The Comprehensive R Archive Network. 2004-2007.

Imai, Kosuke, and David A. van Dyk. ``MNP: R Package for Fitting the Multinomial Probit Model.'' available through The Comprehensive R Archive Network. 2004-2008.

Imai, Kosuke, Gary King, and Olivia Lau. ``Zelig: Everyone's Statistical Software.'' available through The Comprehensive R Archive Network. 2004-2008.

Imai, Kosuke, and Teppei Yamamoto. ``Causal Inference with Measurement Error: Nonparametric Identification and Sensitivity Analyses of a Field Experiment on Democratic Deliberations.''

Imai, Kosuke, Gary King, and Clayton Nall. ``The Essential Role of Pair Matching in Cluster-Randomized Experiments, with Application to the Mexican Universal Health Insurance Evaluation.''

Harris-Lacewell, Melissa, Kosuke Imai, and Teppei Yamamoto. ``Racial Gaps in the Responses to Hurricane Katrina: An Experimental Study.''

Goldstein, Daniel, Kosuke Imai, and Anja S. Goritz. ``The Subtle Psychology of Voter Turnout.''

Imai, Kosuke. ``Identification Analysis for Randomized Experiments with Noncompliance and ``Truncation-by-Death''.''

Imai, Kosuke. ``Statistical Analysis of Randomized Experiments with Nonignorable Binary Missing Outcomes: An Application to a Voting Experiment.''

Warren Miller Prize for the article published in Political Analysis, for ``Matching as Nonparametric Preprocessing for Reducing Model Dependence in Parametric Causal Inference,'' awarded by the Society of Political Methodology and Oxford University Press (2008).

Miyake Award for the best political science article published in 2005, for ``Do Get-Out-The-Vote Calls Reduce Turnout? The Importance of Statistical Methods for Field Experiments,'' awarded by the Japanese Political Science Association (2006).

Toppan Prize for the best dissertation in political science, for Essays on Political Methodology, awarded by Harvard University (2004). Also, nominated for American Political Science Association E.E. Schattschneider Award for the best doctoral dissertation in the field of American government and politics.

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).

The Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association (2002 - 2007).

The Joint Statistical Meetings (2002 - 2007).

The Annual Summer Political Methodology Meetings (2002 - 2005, 2007).

The Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association (2004 - 2007).

Columbia University (Department of Political Science, 2004, 2005; Department of Statistics, 2005; School of International and Public Affairs, 2007); Georgetown University (Public Policy Institute, 2008); Harvard University (Department of Economics, 2003; Department of Government, 2005; Institute for Quantitative Social Science, scheduled); Johns Hopkins University (Bloomberg School of Public Health, 2008); Kobe University (Department of Economics, 2006); New York University (Department of Politics, 2006, 2007); Northwestern University (Department of Political Science, 2008); Ohio State University (Department of Political Science, 2002); Princeton University (Department of Economics, 2004; Department of Politics, 2002; The Graduate School, scheduled); Queen's University (Department of Economics and School of Policy Studies, 2006); Rutgers (Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science, 2007); 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 Chicago (Department of Political Science, 2006); University of Michigan (Department of Political Science, 2005); University of Pennsylvania (Department of Statistics, 2006); University of Rochester (Department of Political Science, 2008); University of Tokyo (College of Arts and Sciences, 2005; Faculty of Economics, 2006); 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 Science: real analysis, linear algebra, calculus.

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

POL 572 Quantitative Analysis II: intermediate applied statistics.

POL 573 - SOC 595 Quantitative Analysis III: applied Bayesian statistics, statistical methods for causal inference.

POL 722 Basic Principles of Mathematical Probability and Statistics: intermediate mathematical probability and statistics.

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

Teppei Yamamoto (Collaborator). Ph.D. student, Department of Politics, Princeton University.

Aaron Strauss (Collaborator). Ph.D. student, Department of Politics, Princeton University.

Samir Soneji (Ph.D. in 2008, Office of Population Research, Princeton University; Dissertation Committee Chair, Collaborator). Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Pennsylvania.

Ying Lu (Ph.D. in 2005, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University; Dissertation Committee Chair, Collaborator). Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science and Sociology, University of Colorado at Boulder.

Editorial board member, Journal of Politics, 2007-2009.

Referee for American Journal of Political Science, American Political Science Review, American Politics Research, Applied Statistics, Biometrics, BMC Medical Research Methodology, Chapman & Hall/CRC Press, Electoral Studies, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Journal of Peace Research, Journal of Politics, Journal of the American Statistical Association, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society (Series A), National Science Foundation (Economics, Political Science), Pharmaceutical Statistics, Political Analysis, Political Research Quarterly, Population Health Metrics, Princeton University Press, Public Opinion Quarterly, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Quarterly Journal of Political Science, Sage Publications, Springer, Statistical Methodology, Systems Biology.

American Political Science Association;  American Statistical Association;  Midwest Political Science Association;  The Society of Political Methodology.