Ernest Sergenti

Graduate Student, Wilf Family Department of Politics, New York University

	Contact Info: Ernest Sergenti Department of Politics New York University 19 West 4th Street, Second Floor New York, NY 10012-1119 email: ejs210@nyu.edu
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Curriculum Vitae

Education

        Ph.D., Political Science, New York University, 2009

        M.Sc., Economics, London School of Economics, 1996

        Licence, Economics and Business, University of Geneva, 1995

        B.A., History, Cornell University, 1992

Academic Positions

Research Fellow, Institute for Quantitative Social Science, Harvard University, 2007 to 2009

Research

Interests: Comparative Politics, International Relations, Quantitative Methods, Computational Modeling

Publications and Forthcoming:

“Economic Growth and Ethnic Violence: An Empirical Investigation of Hindu-Muslim Riots in India.”
(with Anjali Thomas Bohlken) Journal of Peace Research, Forthcoming.

“Do UN Interventions Cause Peace? Using Matching to Improve Causal Inference.”
(with Michael Gilligan) Quarterly Journal of Political Science, 2008, 3(2): 89-122 [lead article].

“Political Institutions and Economic Performance: The Effects of Accountability and Obstacles to Policy Change.”
(with Allen Hicken and Shanker Satyanath) American Journal of Political Science, 2005, 49(4): 897–907.

“Economic Shocks and Civil Conflict: An Instrumental Variables Approach.”
(with Edward Miguel and Shanker Satyanath) Journal of Political Economy, 2004, 112(4): 725–753 [lead article].

Book Manuscript:
Party Competition: An Agent-Based Model
(with Michael Laver) Under contract with Princeton University Press.
Working Papers:

“Computational Modeling Output Data Analysis: Mean Estimation Strategies and Sample Size Determination.”

Teaching

Teaching Assistantships:

Introduction to International Relations. New York University.
Professor Shanker Satyanath. Fall 2002 and Spring 2007.

Political Perspectives on Rationality and Politics. New York University.
Professor Dimitri Landa. Spring 2003.

International Relations Senior Honors. New York University.
Professors Neal Beck, Michael Gilligan, Fiona McGillivary, Peter Rosendorf, and Alastair Smith.
Fall 2004, Spring 2005, Fall 2005, and Fall 2006.
[Nominated for Distinguished Teaching Award]

Politics Senior Honors. New York University.
Professors Neal Beck, Eric Dickson, Russell Hardin, and Anna Harvey.
Fall 2004, Spring 2005, Fall 2005, and Fall 2006.

Summer School Instructor:
          Summer Masters Course in Statistics.
        Institute for Empirical Research in Political Economy (IREEP), Cotonou, BENIN
        Professor Leonard Wantchekon. July, 2004.