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Felix Elwert is the Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, with a joint appointment in Biostatistics. He specializes in causal inference methodologies and investigates social inequality, demography, and health disparities through large-scale experiments, population registers, and survey analyses. His work bridges sociology, statistics, and public health, with notable contributions to understanding peer effects, neighborhood effects, and methodological innovations in causal analysis.
Elwert holds a Ph.D. in Sociology (2007) and M.A. in Statistics (2006) from Harvard University. Before his current position, he served as Karl W. Deutsch Professor and Acting Director of Social Inequality and Social Policy at the WZB Berlin Social Center (2014–2016). He currently leads the Sociological Methods & Research journal as Editor-in-Chief.
His research focuses on:
- Contextual drivers of inequality in income, education, and health
- Causal mediation analysis
- Experimental designs for estimating peer effects
- Bias detection in statistical models
Elwert has received prestigious awards including the ASA's Causality in Statistics Education Award (first recipient) and the ASA's Leo Goodman Award. His collaborations span institutions globally, emphasizing interdisciplinary approaches to causal questions.
He teaches advanced causal inference courses at UW-Madison and international universities, covering topics like graphical models, mediation analysis, and experimental design. His campus affiliations include the Center for Demography and Ecology, Center for Demography of Health and Aging, and Institute for Diversity Science.
