05/07/2017 Bayesian Statistics at CCCP I gave short course on Bayesian statistics at the Cologne Center for Comparative Politics. Cool photo and thanks for a fun time!
01/06/2017 Visiting Professorship at the University of Mannheim As of today, I am a Visiting Professor of Quantitative Methods in the Social and Behavioral Sciences in the CDSS at the University of Mannheim.
01/06/2017 Honorable Mention APSA Best Paper Award Our CPS paper “How State Support of Religion Shapes Attitudes Toward Muslim Immigrants” has been awarded an “honorable mention” in the Best Paper Award of the APSA Section on Migration and Citizenship!
17/05/2017 Talk on Religious Diversity and Social Cohesion Today, I will give a talk on the impact of religious diversity on social cohesion at the Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz: http://www.studgen.uni-mainz.de/3009.php
23/03/2017 New working paper on SSRN In this working paper we report the result of a list experiment on wartime sexual violence in Sri Lanka (together with S. Kijewski and M. Freitag): https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2937943
03/02/2017 MRP for Religious Demography! A new paper on validating estimates of religious demography using Bayesian multilevel modeling with poststratification (together with Chris Claassen) is now available on SSRN: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2909796
27/01/2017 Survey Experiments on Attitudes toward Muslim Immigrants Two new papers using survey experiments to better understand citizens’ attitudes toward Muslim immgrants (together with Marc Helbling) are now available on SSRN! https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers2.cfm?abstract_id=2906365 https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers2.cfm?abstract_id=2906451
15/12/2016 Data Visualization at the Social Science Data Lab I am giving a one-day workshop on data visualization at the Social Science Data Lab series hosted by the Mannheim Center for European Social Research (MZES). Thanks for the invitation, Simon! When? December 16th, 9.00-17.00. Where? University of Mannheim, Room A231.
17/10/2016 Invited Talk: Microfoundations of Politics Lecture Series Next week, I will give an invited talk on “Muslim Demonstrations, Policy Decisions and Citizens’ Response: Evidence from a Survey Experiment” at the Microfoundations of Politics Lecture Series hosted by the Cologne Center for Comparative Politics.
10/10/2016 Update on past events I missed to post these two things: Paper presentation “MRP for Religious Minorities” (joint work with Chris Claassen) at APSA 2016 in Philadelphia. Teaching “Theory Building and Causal Inference” at the University of Mannheim/CDSS, October 5th-7th.