IQSS affiliates Adam Glynn and Konstantin Kashin have been awarded the 2013 Gosnell Prize for Excellence in Political Methodology.
The Gosnell Prize is awarded annually by the Society for Political Methodology "for the best work in political methodology presented at any political science conference during the preceding year." Glynn and Kashin have received the prize for their paper, "Front-door Versus Back-door Adjustment with Unmeasured Confounding: Bias Formulas for Front-door and Hybrid Adjustments," which they presented at the 2013 meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association. The prize announcement explains that their paper "contributes to the literature on causal inference by analyzing the properties of Pearl's (1995) front-door estimator when the assumptions required for that estimator fail to hold and contrasting the front-door estimator with more widely used estimators in an application."
Glynn, Associate Professor of Government, and Kashin, Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Government, will be formally awarded the Gosnell prize during the Society for Political Methodology's 2013 Business Meeting at the American Political Science Association's (APSA's) annual conference in September. Details on the prize are available on the Society's website, and the paper can be downloaded here.
