Jake Bowers (http://jakebowers.org) is an associate professor of political science and statistics University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Senior Scientist with The Policy Lab (http://thepolicylab.brown.edu), and Research Affiliate at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford (http://casbs.stanford.edu). He is Methods Director for the Evidence in Government and Politics network (http://egap.org) and co-founder of Research4Impact (http://r4impact.org) and the Causal Inference for Social Impact Lab (https://casbs.stanford.edu/programs/causal-inference-social-impact-lab). He was a Fellow on the White House Social and Behavioral Sciences Team (http://sbst.gov) and Office of Evaluation Sciences (http://oes.gsa.gov). His research in applied statistics and political methodology focuses on questions about statistical inference for causal effects in randomized experiments and observational studies.
