Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard University

Felix Elwert

Department of Sociology, Department of Sociology

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Felix Elwert is a PhD candidate in the Department of Sociology and an AM candidate in the Department of Statistics at Harvard University. His current research focuses on the causes and consequences of death and divorce for American families. His dissertation investigates the causal relationship between premarital cohabitation and divorce. Another project investigates racial and spatial heterogeneity in the interspousal transmission of mortality. His methodological interest focuses on the counterfactual approach to causal inference, particularly from complex or sequential interventions.

Previously, Felix has worked on the dynamics of mass-imprisonment and unemployment in the US and Europe and on the social mechanisms behind the rise of art music in fifteenth century Venice. Felix holds an MA degree in Sociology from the New School for Social Research and an undergraduate degree in Sociology with minors in Statistics and Economics from the Free University of Berlin (Germany).

In his spare time Felix plays the piano, crawls through caves, and indulges a serious obsession with Central Asian textile art.