Ben Hansen

Funded Research:

Collaborative Research: Propensity Scores and Randomization-Based Inference, or Modeling Assigned to Treatment Conditions as Manifestly or Latently Random (NSF)

Confidence Intervals for the Attributable Effect in Experiment and Observational Studies: Developing Theory to Support Effective Algorithms (Department of Defense, National Security Agency)

Human Subjects Protection and Disclosure Risk Analysis (NICHD)

Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley

Ben Hansen's research interests include optimal matching, propensity-score adjustments for observational studies, quasiexperimental methods, and program assessment. In recent work, he investigates informed consent and perception of risk in survey participation; how to reduce disclosure risk; and how to increase security in the dissemination of human subjects data.

Recent Publications

Journal Articles

Hansen, Ben. 2008. "The prognostic analogue of the propensity score." Biometrika, 95(2): 481-488. DOI:10.1093/biomet/asn004. Licensed Access. Worldcat.

Hansen, Ben, and Bowers, J. 2008. "Covariate balance in simple, stratified and clustered comparative studies." Statistical Science, 23(2): 219-236. DOI:10.1214/08-sts254. Licensed Access. Worldcat.

Morenoff, Jeffrey, James S. House, Ben Hansen, David R. Williams, George A. Kaplan, and Haslyn E. Hunte. 2007. "Understanding Social Disparities in Hypertension Prevalence, Awareness, Treatment, and Control: The Role of Neighborhood Context." Social Science and Medicine, 65(9): 1853-1866. PMCID:PMC2705439. DOI:10.1016/j.socscimed.2007.05.038. Licensed Access.

Hansen, Ben, and S.O. Klopfer . 2006. "Optimal full matching and related designs via network flows." Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, 15(3): 609-627. DOI:10.1198/106186006X137047. Licensed Access.

Evans, S.E., Ben Hansen, and P.B. Stark. 2005. "Minimax expected measure confidence sets for restricted location parameters." Bernoulli, 11:571-590. DOI:10.3150/bj/1126126761. Licensed Access.

Hansen, Ben. 2004. "Full Matching in an Observational Study of Coaching for the SAT." Journal of the American Statistical Association, 99:609-618.

Chapters

Morenoff, Jeffrey, Ana Diez Roux, Theresa Osypuk, and Ben Hansen. 2008. "Residential Environments and Obesity: How Can Observational Studies Inform Policy Interventions?" In The Health Effects of Social and Economic Policy edited by Robert Schoeni, James House, George Kaplan, and Harold Pollock. New York : Russell Sage.

PSC Reports

Morenoff, Jeffrey, Ben Hansen, James S. House, David R. Williams, George A. Kaplan, and Haslyn E. Hunte. 2007. "Understanding Social Disparities in Hypertension Prevalence, Awareness, Treatment, and Control: The Role of Neighborhood Context." PSC Research Report No. 07-614. January 2007. Abstract. PDF.

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Bingenheimer & Geronimus, "Behavior & HIV"

Wildeman, "Imprisonment & Infant Mortality," PSC Research Report

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