Graeme Blair, assistant professor of political science, has received a 2016 Leamer-Rosenthal Prize for Open Social Science from the Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences at the UC Berkeley Center for Effective Global Action.
The award, which includes $10,000, recognizes Blair for his work developing DeclareDesign — statistical software to aid researchers in characterizing and diagnosing research designs, including experiments, quasi-experiments, and observational studies — and for his dedication to and advocacy of open science and reproducibility. He is one of 10 recipients of the 2016 award.
Blair studies comparative politics with a focus on West Africa as well as experimental methodology. He has conducted survey research in Afghanistan, Mexico, Nigeria and Pakistan, and developed new experimental methods for sensitive survey questions. His work has appeared in the American Political Science Review, the American Journal of Political Science, the Journal of the American Statistical Association, and Political Analysis. He won the 2013 Pi Sigma Alpha Award for best paper at the Midwest Political Science Association. His work has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the International Growth Centre, and the Laura and John Arnold Foundation.
