Jens Hainmueller
Professor of Political Science
Professor of Political Economy, Graduate School of Business
Stanford University
Email: jhain@stanford.edu
About
Jens Hainmueller is the Kimberly Glenn Professor in Political Science and Director of Graduate Studies of the Department of Political Science at Stanford University. He is the Faculty Co-Director of the Stanford Immigration Policy Lab that is focused on the design and evaluation of immigration and integration policies and programs. His research interests include statistical methods, causal inference, immigration, and political economy. He has published over 65 articles that have been cited more than 27,000 times, many of them in top general science journals and top field journals in political science, statistics, economics, and business. His statistical methods are used by organizations to conduct causal inferences in various settings. He has also published multiple open source software packages. His research has received funding from organizations such as Schmidt Futures, the Robin Hood Foundation, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the National Science Foundation, the National Institute of Health, and the National Bureau of Economic Research. His research has won various awards including the Gosnell Prize for Excellence in Political Methodology, the Warren Miller Prize, the Robert H. Durr award, and the Emerging Scholar award by the Society of Political Methodology. He was selected as an Andrew Carnegie Fellow and inducted as a Fellow of the Society of Political Methodology. He has received an honorary degree from the European University Institute (EUI).
Hainmueller received his PhD from Harvard University and also studied at the London School of Economics, Brown University, and the University of Tuebingen. Before joining Stanford, he served on the faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Experience
Hainmueller has worked with governments and NGOs around the world to design and evaluate policies involving immigrants and refugees. He received his PhD from Harvard University and also studied at the London School of Economics, Brown University, and the University of Tübingen. Before joining Stanford, he served on the faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
