Naoki Egami
Contact
Information
001 Fisher Hall
Phone: (609) 647-6582
Department of Politics
E-mail:
negami@princeton.edu
Princeton University
URL:
http://scholar.princeton.edu/negami
Princeton, NJ 08544 USA
Areas of
Research
Political Methodology, Causal Inference, Machine Learning
Comparative Political Behavior, Immigration and Refugees
Education
Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey
Ph.D. in Politics, 2015 – present
Committee: Kosuke Imai (chair), Rafaela Dancygier, Brandon Stewart
John T. Williams Dissertation Prize awarded by the Society for Political Methodology
Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Pre-doctoral Fellow, 2018 – present
University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
B.A. in Liberal Arts, 2011 – 2015
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Visiting Undergraduate Student, 2013–2014
Publications
1. Egami, Naoki and Kosuke Imai. “
Causal Interaction in Factorial Experiments: Application to
Conjoint Analysis.
” Journal of the American Statistical Association, Forthcoming.
Working Papers
6. Egami, Naoki. “
Identification of Causal Diffusion Effects Using Stationary Causal Directed
Acyclic Graphs
.”
5. Egami, Naoki. “
Unbiased Estimation and Sensitivity Analysis for Network-Specific Spillover
Effects: Application to An Online Network Experiment
.”
4. Egami, Naoki, Christian J. Fong, Justin Grimmer, Margaret E. Roberts, and Brandon M.
Stewart. “
How to Make Causal Inferences Using Texts
.”
3. Chou, Winston, Rafaela Dancygier, Naoki Egami, and Amaney Jamal. “
The Illusion of Far-
Right Partisan Stability: How Party Positioning Affects Far-Right Voting in Germany
.”
2. Egami, Naoki and Erin Hartman. “
Covariate Selection for Generalizing Experimental Results
.”
1. Mebane, Walter R. Jr., Naoki Egami, Joseph Klaver, and Jonathan Wall. “
Positive Empirical
Models of Election Fraud (that May Also Measure Voters Strategic Behavior)
.”
Statistical
Software
1. Egami, Naoki, Marc Ratkovic, and Kosuke Imai. “FindIt: R Package for Finding Heteroge-
neous Treatment Effects.” The Comprehensive R Archive Network. 2012-present.
Honors and
Awards
5. George Kateb Preceptor Award (“for one of the best preceptors (teaching assistants) in the
Department of Politics”), Princeton University, 2018.
4. Winner of John T. Williams Dissertation Prize (“for the best dissertation proposal in the area
of political methodology”), the Society for Political Methodology, 2017.
3. Program for Quantitative and Analytical Political Science (Q-APS) Fellowship, Princeton
University, 2015–2018.
2. Kenneth W. Gemmill Prize Fellowship in Politics (“an honorary fellowship in the Department
of Politics”), Princeton University, 2015.
1. Graduate Student Fellowship, Princeton University, 2015-2020.
Invited Talks
2. Political Methodology Seminar, New York University, September 2017.
“Unbiased Estimation and Sensitivity Analysis for Network-Specific Spillover Effects: Appli-
cation to An Online Network Experiment”.
1. Causal Inference Group, Yale University, August 2017.
“Unbiased Estimation and Sensitivity Analysis for Network-Specific Spillover Effects: Appli-
cation to An Online Network Experiment”.
Conference
Presentations
12. “Identification of Causal Diffusion Effects Using Stationary Causal Directed Acyclic Graphs”,
Poster presentation at the 2018 Summer Meeting of the Political Methodology Society, Brigham
Young University, July 18–21, 2018.
11. “Unbiased Estimation and Sensitivity Analysis for Network-Specific Spillover Effects: Appli-
cation to An Online Network Experiment”, Paper presentation at the 2018 Atlantic Causal
Inference Conference, Carnegie Mellon University, May 22, 2018.
10. “The Illusion of Far-Right Partisan Stability in Germany”, Paper presentation at the Center
for Study of Democratic Politics Seminar, Princeton University, April 12, 2018.
9. “Covariate Selection for Generalizing Experimental Results”, Paper presentation at the 2018
Midwest Political Science Association Annual Conference, Chicago, April 8, 2018.
8. “Unbiased Estimation and Sensitivity Analysis for Network-Specific Spillover Effects: Appli-
cation to An Online Network Experiment”, Paper presentation at the 2018 Midwest Political
Science Association Annual Conference, Chicago, April 7, 2018.
7. “Causal Interaction in Factorial Experiments: Application to Conjoint Analysis”, Paper pre-
sentation at the 2017 American Political Science Association Annual Conference, San Fran-
cisco, August 31 - September 3, 2017.
6. “A Placebo Test for Causal Diffusion Analysis”, Poster presentation at the 2017 Summer
Meeting of the Political Methodology Society, University of Wisconsin-Madison, July 13–15,
2017.
5. “Causal Interaction in Factorial Experiments: Application to Conjoint Analysis”, NYU CESS
10th Annual Experimental Political Science Conference, February 24, 2017.
4. “Causal Inference with Multilevel Interference”, Poster presentation at the 2016 Summer Meet-
ing of the Political Methodology Society, University of Rochester, July 22, 2016.
3. “An Experimental Evaluation of Multi-Armed Bandit Algorithms”, Paper presentation at the
2016 Midwest Political Science Association Annual Conference, Chicago, April 7, 2016.
2. “Causal Interaction in High-Dimension”, Paper presentation at the 2015 Summer Meeting of
the Political Methodology Society, University of Rochester, July 23, 2015.
1. “Positive Empirical Models of Election Fraud (that May Also Measure Voters Strategic Behav-
ior)”, Paper presentation at the 2014 Summer Meeting of the Political Methodology Society,
University of Georgia, July 26, 2014.
Teaching
Princeton University:
• Quantitative Analysis II (Graduate), Spring 2018, Teaching Assistant.
− Winner of the George Kateb Preceptor Award.
• Statistical R camp (Graduate), Winter 2018, Instructor.
• Introduction to Quantitative Social Sciences (Undergraduate), Fall 2017, Teaching Assistant.
University of Tokyo:
• Quantitative Analysis II (Graduate), Summer 2016, Teaching Assistant.
Referee Service
American Political Science Review, Journal of Politics, Political Analysis
Skills
Languages: Japanese (native)
Programming: R, Python, Matlab, Stan, WinBUGS
References
Kosuke Imai (Dissertation committee chair)
Professor of Government and of Statistics
Harvard University, Institute for Quantitative Social Science
1737 Cambridge Street, Knafel Building 306, Cambridge, MA 02138
imai@harvard.edu
Rafaela M. Dancygier (Dissertation committee member)
Associate Professor of Politics and Public Affairs
Princeton University, Department of Politics
Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs
245 Corwin Hall, Princeton, NJ 08544
rdancygi@princeton.edu
Brandon M. Stewart (Dissertation committee member)
Assistant Professor
Princeton University, Department of Sociology
149 Wallace Hall, Princeton, NJ 08544
bms4@princeton.edu
Last Updated in August, 2018