Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard University

Clayton Nall

Department of Government, Department of Government

Clayton Nall is a second-year Ph.D. student in the Harvard University Department of Government. Since 2006, he has worked with Gary King, Kosuke Imai, and Nirmala Ravishankar on an experimental evaluation of Seguro Popular, Mexico's new health program. His research interests include American political development and quantitative methods, with a particular interest in the relationship between the state and interest groups since the New Deal. His major working paper in this area examines the incorporation of public sector workers into the American labor movement during the 1960s and 1970s. On another project, he is applying quasi-experimental methods to a recently unearthed World War II veterans survey to measure the effect of the GI Bill on subsequent political attitudes and participation.

Clayton is a Truman Scholar and a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison (B.S., 2001). From 2003 to 2005, he was a strategic campaign researcher in the nursing home worker organizing program at the Service Employees International Union.