Bio
Dino Pinterpe Christenson is the Senior Fellow at the Program for Statistics and Methodology
(PRISM) in the Department of Political
Science at Ohio State University. He received his BA from the
University of Michigan and is currently ABD at
Ohio State University; he does not have a preferred
"football" team. He consistently beats his brother and father in the annual Thanksgiving Day Beard
Growing Contest.
Dino studies voting behavior and survey research methodology, with subsequent concentrations in bureaucracies
and interest groups. Methodologically, he focuses on random, mixed effects and bayesian models. He has a budding interest
in propensity score matching and is trained in formal theory. Prior to graduate school, he spent three years working in politics;
he has held professional positions as a policy advisor and public relations consultant. Dino is currently the
Graduate Student Representative to the Political Research Lab, so all graduate students are encouraged to come to
him with any concerns pertaining to the PRL.
He is working on several papers and a dissertation relating to electoral heterogeneity, particularly:
the role of information in presidential voting behavior. His recent substantive projects include a study of
the effect of absentee voting on turnout,
another examines heterogeneity
in economic voting, a third looks at the determinants of state contracts. Current
methods projects involve interaction terms in probit and logit models and
non-bipartite matching. He is also the Co-founder of
the Visible Primary Project.
This site includes information on Dino's research, data, classes as well as various materials useful to students of
political science. Please feel free to browse the site.