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Overview

Jens Hainmueller is affiliated with Stanford University in the United States. Their research spans several subfields, including Sociology and Political Science, Economics and Econometrics, Political Science and International Relations, Clinical Psychology, and General Decision Sciences.

The main topics of Jens Hainmueller's work include Migration and Labor Dynamics, Migration, Health and Trauma, Economic and Environmental Valuation, Migration, Refugees, and Integration, Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics, Electoral Systems and Political Participation, and Global Health Workforce Issues.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Jens Hainmueller cover a range of subjects and publication venues. Notable works include:

  • Attitudes Toward Migrants in a Highly Impacted Economy: Evidence From the Syrian Refugee Crisis in Jordan (2020, Comparative Political Studies)
  • Using Conjoint Experiments to Analyze Election Outcomes: The Essential Role of the Average Marginal Component Effect (2022, Political Analysis)
  • Using Eye-Tracking to Understand Decision-Making in Conjoint Experiments (2020, Political Analysis)
  • Europeans' support for refugees of varying background is stable over time (2023, Nature)
  • Using Conjoint Experiments to Analyze Elections: The Essential Role of the Average Marginal Component Effect (AMCE) (2020, SSRN Electronic Journal)

Jens Hainmueller frequently collaborates with several co-authors, including:

  • Kirk Bansak
  • Avidit Acharya
  • Dominik Hangartner
  • Duncan Lawrence
  • Jeremy M. Weinstein

Their publications have appeared in leading venues such as Harvard Dataverse, Political Analysis, arXiv (Cornell University), SSRN Electronic Journal, and AEA Randomized Controlled Trials.

Best Publications

  • Synthetic Control Methods for Comparative Case Studies: Estimating the Effect of California’s Tobacco Control Program

    Alberto Abadie;Alexis Diamond;Jens Hainmueller

  • Entropy Balancing for Causal Effects: A Multivariate Reweighting Method to Produce Balanced Samples in Observational Studies

    Jens Hainmueller

  • Comparative Politics and the Synthetic Control Method

    Alberto Abadie;Alexis Diamond;Jens Hainmueller

  • Public Attitudes Toward Immigration

    Jens Hainmueller;Daniel J. Hopkins

  • Causal Inference in Conjoint Analysis: Understanding Multidimensional Choices via Stated Preference Experiments

    Jens Hainmueller;Daniel J. Hopkins;Teppei Yamamoto

  • Educated Preferences: Explaining Attitudes Toward Immigration in Europe

    Jens Hainmueller;Michael J. Hiscox

  • Attitudes toward Highly Skilled and Low-skilled Immigration: Evidence from a Survey Experiment

    Jens Hainmueller;Michael J. Hiscox

  • Validating vignette and conjoint survey experiments against real-world behavior

    Jens Hainmueller;Dominik Hangartner;Dominik Hangartner;Teppei Yamamoto

  • ebalance: A Stata Package for Entropy Balancing

    Jens Hainmueller;Yiqing Xu

  • The Hidden American Immigration Consensus: A Conjoint Analysis of Attitudes toward Immigrants

    Jens Hainmueller;Daniel J. Hopkins

  • How Much Should We Trust Estimates from Multiplicative Interaction Models? Simple Tools to Improve Empirical Practice

    Jens Hainmueller;Jonathan Mummolo;Yiqing Xu

  • How economic, humanitarian, and religious concerns shape European attitudes toward asylum seekers

    Kirk Bansak;Jens Hainmueller;Dominik Hangartner

  • How economic, humanitarian, and religious concerns shape European attitudes toward asylum seekers

    Kirk Bansak;Kirk Bansak;Jens Hainmueller;Jens Hainmueller;Dominik Hangartner;Dominik Hangartner

  • Learning to Love Globalization: Education and Individual Attitudes Toward International Trade

    Jens Hainmueller;Michael J. Hiscox

  • Synth: An R Package for Synthetic Control Methods in Comparative Case Studies

    Alberto Abadie;Alexis Diamond;Jens Hainmueller

  • On the validity of the regression discontinuity design for estimating electoral effects: : new evidence from over 40,000 close races

    Andrew C. Eggers;Anthony Fowler;Jens Hainmueller;Andrew B. Hall

  • How Lasting Is Voter Gratitude? An Analysis of the Short‐ and Long‐Term Electoral Returns to Beneficial Policy

    Michael M. Bechtel;Jens Hainmueller

  • Who Gets a Swiss Passport? A Natural Experiment in Immigrant Discrimination

    Jens Hainmueller;Dominik Hangartner

  • MPs for Sale? Returns to Office in Postwar British Politics

    Andrew C. Eggers;Jens Hainmueller

  • Preferences for International Redistribution: The Divide over the Eurozone Bailouts

    Michael M. Bechtel;Jens Hainmueller;Yotam Margalit

  • Improving refugee integration through data-driven algorithmic assignment

    Kirk Bansak;Jeremy Ferwerda;Jeremy Ferwerda;Jens Hainmueller;Andrea Dillon

  • When lives are put on hold: Lengthy asylum processes decrease employment among refugees

    Jens Hainmueller;Dominik Hangartner;Duncan Lawrence

  • Kernel Regularized Least Squares: Reducing Misspecification Bias with a Flexible and Interpretable Machine Learning Approach

    Jens Hainmueller;Chad Hazlett

  • Opium for the Masses: How Foreign Media Can Stabilize Authoritarian Regimes

    Holger Lutz Kern;Jens Hainmueller

  • Incumbency as a source of spillover effects in mixed electoral systems: Evidence from a regression-discontinuity design

    Jens Hainmueller;Holger Lutz Kern

  • Protecting unauthorized immigrant mothers improves their children's mental health.

    Jens Hainmueller;Duncan Lawrence;Linna Martén;Linna Martén;Bernard Black

  • Multidimensional measure of immigrant integration.

    Niklas Harder;Lucila Figueroa;Rachel M. Gillum;Dominik Hangartner

  • The Number of Choice Tasks and Survey Satisficing in Conjoint Experiments

    Kirk Bansak;Jens Hainmueller;Daniel J. Hopkins;Teppei Yamamoto

  • Naturalization fosters the long-term political integration of immigrants

    Jens Hainmueller;Dominik Hangartner;Dominik Hangartner;Giuseppe Pietrantuono;Giuseppe Pietrantuono

  • Conjoint Survey Experiments

    Kirk Bansak;Jens Hainmueller;Daniel J. Hopkins;Teppei Yamamoto

  • Do Concerns about Labour Market Competition Shape Attitudes Toward Immigration? New Evidence

    Jens Hainmueller;Michael J. Hiscox;Yotam M. Margalit

Frequent Co-Authors

Daniel J. Hopkins
Daniel J. Hopkins University of Pennsylvania
Jeremy M. Weinstein
Jeremy M. Weinstein Harvard University
David D. Laitin
David D. Laitin Stanford University
Andrew C. Eggers
Andrew C. Eggers University of Chicago
Marc Helbling
Marc Helbling University of Mannheim
James M. Snyder
James M. Snyder Harvard University
Beth A. Simmons
Beth A. Simmons University of Pennsylvania
Eric F. Lambin
Eric F. Lambin Stanford University
Albert Heim
Albert Heim Hannover Medical School

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