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Jacob Jaffe
Ph.D., MIT
jacobjaf@mit.edu

I study American politics, focusing on American elections. My research uses novel experimental and computational techniques to study understudied topics in the administration of American elections.

Interests

  • Election Administration
  • Computational Methods
  • Field Experiments
  • Voter Information
  • Administrative Date

Academia

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2017 - 2023
Ph.D. Political Science
Rice University
2013 - 2017
B.A. Political Science, Statistics, Policy Studies

News

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  • MIT News, Making Each Vote Count , Jacob Jaffe uses data science to identify and solve problems in election administration.

Recent Publications

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How Accurate is Vote Tabulation, 2022, ESRA Conference Poster
Jacob Jaffe
Analyzing Time to Vote Using a 2-Phase Coxian Distribution, 2022, Polmeth Conference Poster
Jacob Jaffe
Converting Voters to Mail with Email , 2022, MPSA Conference Paper
Jacob Jaffe
Modeling Voting Service Times with Machine Logs, 2018, ESRA Conference Paper
Jacob Jaffe , Charles Stewart III , Jacob Coblentz
A Direct Test for Consistency of Random Effects Models that Outperforms the Hausman Test , 2017, Houston Methods Meeting Conference Paper
Justin Esarey , Jacob Jaffe

Projects

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MIT Election and Data Science Lab, Data and Projects
Converting Voters to Mail with Email
recent working paper version
How Accurate is Vote Tabulation
recent working paper version