Prof Paul Clarke Director of the Institute for Social and Economic Research - Professor, University of Essex
- pclarke@essex.ac.uk
- Office
- 2N2.45B.14
- Paul is a professor of social statistics and ISER’s director (head of department).
ESRC Research Centre on Micro-Social Change (MiSoC)
- Paul is convenor of MiSoC‘s cross-cutting strand of methodological work on the use of machine learning in the social sciences together with with Spyros Samothrakis, British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow Annalivia Polselli, Binzhi Chen and Damian Machlanski. We have developed machine learning for causal inference of conditional average causal effects, explored the importance of hyperparameter selection for both causal effect and structure/causal discovery methods; and are developing double machine learning estimation for causal panel data analysis.
- Preview our latest work on double machine learning for static panels with instrumental variables and interactive fixed effects for high-dimensional data.
- See here for more details about the project.
Understanding Society
- Paul is a co-investigator and Statistical Methods Topic Champion on Understanding Society. He has collaborated with Yanchun Bao on methods for estimating different kinds of mode effect from Understanding Society and other surveys, and is currently working with Jamie Moore developing novel weighting schemes for the Covid-19 Survey. Additionally, he develops advanced longitudinal methods for the analysis of Understanding Society and other complex longitudinal household surveys, such as longitudinal multilevel models with changing household structures.
Summary of Research Interests
- Methods for causal analysis
- Methods for longitudinal data analysis
- Statistical modelling of incomplete data
- Applications of statistical methods in social and health research
Full Publication List
- Paul’s publications are listed in his CV (above).