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Song Kim is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He completed his Ph.D. in Politics at Princeton University. His research focuses on political economy, lobbying, and campaign donations, with an emphasis on causal inference and panel data analysis. He has received notable awards for his dissertation and published articles in leading academic journals, including the American Political Science Review and International Organization. Professor Kim conducts big data analyses in international trade and is developing methods for dimension reduction and visualization to investigate the structure of international trade over time. His recent publications examine firm-level lobbying, trade policies, and the trade preferences of firms, in collaboration with other scholars. He is also involved in creating a large-scale database on lobbying, supported by the National Science Foundation. Professor Kim teaches courses on political methodology and quantitative research methods, employing advanced statistical techniques to explore pressing political questions.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology • Cambridge, MA
Conducts research and teaches courses in the Department of Political Science.