Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard University

by Sebastian Stockman, IQSS July 9, 2008

Two members of the Institute for Quantitative Social Science faculty -- IQSS Director Gary King and Faculty Associate Kevin Quinn -- received awards for papers from the Society for Political Methodology last month. Quinn, an Associate Professor of Government, received the Gosnell Prize -- for an unprecedented third time -- for his "What Can be Learned from a Simple Table? Bayesian Inference and Sensitivity Analysis for Causal Effects from 2x3 and 2x2xK Tables in the Presence of Unmeasured Cofounding." The Gosnell prize is awarded for the "best paper on political methodology given at a conference.

King -- along with co-authors Daniel E. Ho, Kosuke Imai and Elizabeth Stewart -- received the Warren Miller Prize for the best paper to appear in the journal Political Analysis in the previous year. The authors earned the prize for their paper "Matching as Nonparametric Preprocessing for Reducing Model Dependence in Parametric Causal Inference." Daniel, Kosuke, and Elizabeth are all King's former students and IQSS alumni.