Matthew Blackwell
A Photo of me with Oliver

Hello, I am a fourth-year PhD candidate in the Department of Government at Harvard University. I am also an associate of the Institute for Quantitative Social Science. In the 2009-2010 academic year I will be the coordinator for the Applied Statistics Workshop at IQSS. I am also a contributor to the Social Science Statistics blog on occasion.

My research focuses on political methodology and formal theory. In methods, I work on missing data, causal inference, panel data and social network analysis. In formal theory, I am interested in models of belief formation and diffusion.