Felix Elwert

Felix Elwert is a professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and is an affiliated faculty member in biostatistics and population health sciences. As an empiricist, he studies causal processes of social inequality in the United States and abroad, running randomized field experiments, analyzing population registers, and conducting observational studies. As a methodologist, he develops tools for applied causal inference. Elwert often collaborates with economists, statisticians, psychologists, and medical researchers and thrives on interdisciplinary exchange.

Elwert received a Ph.D. in sociology and an M.A. in statistics from Harvard University (2007). He spent 2014-2016 at the WZB Social Science Research Center, Berlin, as Karl W. Deutsch Visiting Professor and Acting Director of the Social Policy and Social Inequality Unit. His research has appeared in the journals of various disciplines, including the American Journal of Sociology, the American Sociological Review, Demography, Annals of Epidemiology, and Biometrics. Among other awards, Elwert has received the first Causality in Statistics Education Award from the American Statistical Association and the Leo Goodman Award from the methodology section of the American Sociological Association. He presently serves as Editor-in-Chief of Sociological Methods and Research.