A favorite painting—a Monet—spotted at the Yale Art Gallery during my day trip to New Haven/Yale today.

A favorite painting—a Monet—spotted at the Yale Art Gallery during my day trip to New Haven/Yale today.

Excited to share that I’m starting a new role as a Senior Data Analyst at SmarterDx, a company that builds clinical AI to help hospitals translate care into payment. I’m looking forward to contributing to research there, including the design and analysis of randomized experiments.

Grateful to everyone who offered advice and guidance during my transition from academia. I especially appreciate those who took the time to connect and share their perspectives. Looking forward to staying in touch.

Excited to share that I’m starting a new role as a Senior Data Analyst at SmarterDx, a company that builds clinical AI to help hospitals translate care into payment. I’m looking forward to contributing to research there, including the design and analysis of randomized experiments.

After years in academia, I’m exploring data science and research roles in industry. I'm a quant. social scientist (PhD Yale ’24, NYU) focused on causal inference, experiments, and large-scale data. Feel free to get in touch or share; all leads appreciated. dwstommes@gmail.com

New paper in @ajpseditor.bsky.social. Is descriptive representation good for substantive representation? Why do voters stay loyal to corrupt and poorly governing ethnic parties? I argue that we ought to focus less on patronage and more on dignity concerns. Defiant pride can come at a price. 1/🧵

In Defense of the Pre-Test: Valid Inference when Testing Violations of Parallel Trends for Difference-in-Differences (new working paper from Mikhaeil and Harshaw) arxiv.org/pdf/2510.26470

In Defense of the Pre-Test: Valid Inference when Testing Violations of Parallel Trends for Difference-in-Differences (new working paper from Mikhaeil and Harshaw) arxiv.org/pdf/2510.26470

📢 📢 Call for Papers IV Yale–UB Historical Political Economy Workshop Organized by @Didacqueralt.bsky.social & @Cescamat.bsky.social 🎤 Keynote: Lisa Blaydes (Stanford) 📍 University of Barcelona 🗓 June 29–30, 2026 Submit your papers by Jan 21, 2026: shorturl.at/oZTNy #pleaseRT

Reporting the treated group mean along with DID estimates of the ATT cyrussamii.com?p=4151

Cool new working paper worth checking out: "Cross-Validated Causal Inference: a Modern Method to Combine Experimental and Observational Data" arxiv.org/pdf/2511.00727

Cool new working paper worth checking out: "Cross-Validated Causal Inference: a Modern Method to Combine Experimental and Observational Data" arxiv.org/pdf/2511.00727

Wrote a short article for @voxdev.bsky.social using results from my primary data collection. This article is based on a forthcoming @thejop.bsky.social piece where I argue that male migration is an under-examined pathway for female political engagement. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

VoxDev@voxdev.bsky.social · 10mo ago

🆕 How men’s migration increases women’s political engagement in India Today on VoxDev, Rithika Kumar (Rice University Political Science) discusses how male internal migration impacts women's roles and political engagement in India: https://ow.ly/60WU50Xbx7L

This is an excellent review article discussing open questions/challenges in causality and causal inference. arxiv.org/pdf/2508.17099

This is an excellent review article discussing open questions/challenges in causality and causal inference. arxiv.org/pdf/2508.17099

Congrats to @daniel-a-n-goldstein.com and @drewstommes.bsky.social for showing how an information treatment that US wars are fought predominantly by the poor increases preferences for recruiting from the rich. No effect on tax policy tho! here again we see fx on "target attitudes" not "nontarget"

Daniel A. N. Goldstein@daniel-a-n-goldstein.com · 10mo ago

Do citizens want to address unfair burden-sharing in public goods? New research out in ISQ @isq-jrnl.bsky.social with @drewstommes.bsky.social addresses this question by highlighting the unequal socioeconomic costs of US wars academic.oup.com/isq/article/...

I have a new paper with Daniel Goldstein evaluating whether and how citizens want to address the differential burdens of public goods provision, focusing on the physical costs of US military conflict disproportionately borne by less affluent Americans.

Daniel A. N. Goldstein@daniel-a-n-goldstein.com · 10mo ago

Do citizens want to address unfair burden-sharing in public goods? New research out in ISQ @isq-jrnl.bsky.social with @drewstommes.bsky.social addresses this question by highlighting the unequal socioeconomic costs of US wars academic.oup.com/isq/article/...

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“Modi Wants More Indians to Speak Hindi. Some States Are Shouting ‘No.’” “States worry that the imposition of Hindi, the main language of northern India, would wipe out their cultural heritage.” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/13/w...

Modi Wants More Indians to Speak Hindi. Some States Are Shouting ‘No.’

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Really wonderful to see this. My USIP-Minerva Dissertation Fellowship was absolutely critical for helping me push my doctoral dissertation across the finish line.

U.S. Institute of Peace@usip.org · last yr.

👋 Hello, we're the United States Institute of Peace (USIP)! We are very happy to join @bsky.app, and thrilled to announce that our website, www.usip.org, is back online! We look forward connecting here and bringing you useful content, resources and opportunities for peacebuilders around the world.

I spoke with @dkthomp.bsky.social about scientific consensus on the potential harms of #socialmedia and why it's really, really hard to figure out the consensus about polarized topics based on how they are discussed on social media You can listen here: www.theringer.com/podcasts/pla...

What Experts Really Think About Smartphones and Mental Health - The Ringer

I’m very concerned about the relationship between smartphone use and America’s mental health crisis. But many researchers don’t see things my way. They insist that there is little to...

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Excited to have a new paper forthcoming @cpsjournal.bsky.social – Indigenous Community Recognition and Identity: Evidence from Peru. A first individual-level analysis of a key, widespread public policy, based on years of mapping, data & conversation with colleagues papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

“[Yunus’s] aides say he feels thwarted by an emerging alliance between the country’s largest remaining political party and the army, which have criticized his policies and say he is being too slow to plan elections.”

Drew Stommes@drewstommes.bsky.social · last yr.

Bangladesh’s Leader Threatens to Resign Over Election Pressure www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/w...

Bangladesh’s Leader Threatens to Resign Over Election Pressure www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/w...

Bangladesh’s Leader Threatens to Resign Over Election Pressure

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I’m very much looking forward to this soon-to-be-released South Asian history book—titled Apostles of Development: Six Economists and the World They Made—by Prof. David Engerman at Yale. global.oup.com/academic/pro...

I’m very much looking forward to this soon-to-be-released South Asian history book—titled Apostles of Development: Six Economists and the World They Made—by Prof. David Engerman at Yale. global.oup.com/academic/pro...