Jake Bowers is a Professor of Political Science and Statistics at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He is a Fellow in the Office of Evaluation Sciences in the General Services Administration of the US Federal Government, and has worked with The Policy Lab @ Brown University, the White House Social and Behavioral Sciences Team. He has been on the Board of EGAP twice, was EGAP Methods director for two terms, co-authored the EGAP Learning Days textbook, and has taught in most of the EGAP Learning Days held in Latin America. He co-founded the Causal Inference for Social Impact Lab at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. And he co-founded the Research 4 Impact network to connect academics with non-profit policy experts. His research on human behavior has focused on understanding COVID hesitancy in the USA, tax compliance in Malawi, reactions to legalization of Marijuana in Uruguay, social cohesion in Canada, attitudes about immigration in the UK, and attitudes about extremism in Nigeria. His research in statistical methodology focuses on questions about statistical inference for causal effects in both randomized field experiments and observational studies.
Jake Bowers is a Professor of Political Science and Statistics at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He is a Fellow in the Office of Evaluation Sciences in the General Services Administration of the US Federal Government, and has worked with The Policy Lab @ Brown University, the White House Social and Behavioral Sciences Team. He has been on the Board of EGAP twice, was EGAP Methods director for two terms, co-authored the EGAP Learning Days textbook, and has taught in most of the EGAP Learning Days held in Latin America. He co-founded the Causal Inference for Social Impact Lab at…