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Basics
| Name | Julio S. Solís Arce |
| Label | PhD Candidate in Government |
| jsolisarce@g.harvard.edu | |
| Phone | +1 617 290 8291 |
| Website | https://juliosolisar.github.io |
Education
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2021 - 2028 Cambridge, MA, USA
PhD
Harvard University
Government
- Subfields: Comparative Politics; Political Methodology; Political Economy of Development
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2018 - 2020 Cotonou, Benin
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2011 - 2018 Mexico City, Mexico
Research
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2023 Gathering, Evaluating, and Aggregating Social Scientific Models
Submitted: Perspectives on Politics
Golden, Miriam A., Tara Slough, Haoyu Zhai, Alexandra Scacco, Macartan Humphreys, Eva Vivalt, Alberto Diaz-Cayeros et al.
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2021 COVID-19 vaccine acceptance and hesitancy in low- and middle-income countries
Nature Medicine
Solís Arce, Julio S., Shana S. Warren, Niccolò F. Meriggi, Alexandra Scacco, Nina McMurry, Maarten Voors, Georgiy Syunyaev et al.
Software Development
- 2020 - Present
CausalQueries: Make, Update, and Query Binary Causal Models
Clara Bicalho [ctb], Jasper Cooper [ctb], Macartan Humphreys [aut], Till Tietz [aut, cre], Alan Jacobs [aut], Merlin Heidemanns [ctb], Lily Medina [aut], Julio S. Solís Arce [ctb], Georgiy Syunyaev [aut].
Research Experience
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2022 - 2024 Cambridge, MA, USA
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2019 - 2021 Berlin, Germany
Teaching Experience
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Spring 2025 Cambridge, MA, USA
Main Instructor, GOV 97 Comparing Societies: Cross-Cultural Approaches to Politics
Harvard University
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Fall 2024 Cambridge, MA, USA
Teaching Fellow, DEV 101 Economic Development: Theory and Evidence
Harvard Kennedy School
- Faculty: Eliana La Ferrara and Dani Rodrik
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Spring 2024 Cambridge, MA, USA
Teaching Fellow, GOV 2003 Causal Inference with Applications
Harvard University
- Faculty: Kosuke Imai
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Fall 2023 Cambridge, MA, USA
Teaching Fellow, GOV 50 Data Science for the Social Sciences
Harvard University
- Faculty: Matt Blackwell
Other Relevant Training
| Empirical Implications of Theoretical Models (EITM) Summer Institute | ||
| University of Michigan, Ann Arbor | Summer 2025 |
| Association for Comparative Economic Studies (ACES) Summer School | ||
| African School of Economics, Zanzibar, Tanzania | Summer 2025 |
| Toulouse Summer School in Quantitative Social Sciences | ||
| Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) and IAST | Summer 2022 |
| ICPSR Summer Program: Usage and Application of Meta-Analysis Techniques | ||
| University of Michigan (Remote) | Summer 2020 |
Affiliations
- 2025 - 2025
Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW Kiel)
Visiting Researcher, International Development and Global Cooperation & Social Cohesion Units
- 2025 - 2026
University of Botswana
Visiting Researcher, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Political & Administrative Studies
- 2024 - Present
Culture, Cognition, Coevolution Lab
Graduate Student Affiliate
- 2024 - Present
Center for International Development (CID)
Graduate Student Affiliate
- 2024 - 2025
Weatherhead Center for International Affairs
Graduate Student Associate
- 2022 - Present
Institute for Quantitative Social Science (IQSS)
Graduate Student Affiliate
Presentations
- 2025
Yale Identity & Conflict Lab
Delphi, Greece
- 2025
Thurgau Experimental Economics Meeting
Thurgau, Switzerland and Konstanz, Germany
- 2024
American Political Science Association Annual Conference
Philadelphia, USA
- 2023
American Political Science Association Annual Conference
Los Angeles, USA
- 2022
Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse (IAST) Political Economy Workshop
Toulouse, France
- 2021
Pan-African Scientific Research Council COVID-19 Conference
Virtual
- 2021
American Political Science Association Annual Conference
Seattle, USA / Virtual
Fellowships & Grants
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Frederick Sheldon Traveling Fellowship
Harvard University
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Weatherhead Center for International Affairs Mid-dissertation Grant
Harvard University
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Weatherhead Center for International Affairs Pre-dissertation Grant
Harvard University
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Center for African Studies Graduate Research Travel Grant
Harvard University
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APSA Advancing Research Grant for Indigenous Politics
American Political Science Association
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Philippe Wamba Summer Research Travel Grant
Harvard University
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Harvard Institute for Quantitative Social Science Research Grant
Harvard University
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Harvard GSAS Division of Social Sciences Research Fund
Harvard University
Referee
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Nature: Communications Medicine
Professional Service
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2024 - 2024 -
2023 - 2024 -
2023 - 2023 -
2022 - 2023 Coordinator
Political Economy and Rational Choice (PERC) Graduate Student Workshop, Harvard University
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2022 - 2022 Host Team Member
Boston-Area Working Group in African Political Economy (BWGAPE), Harvard University
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2020 - 2021 Predoctoral Fellow’s Representative (Nachwuchswissenschaftler*innen Speaker)
WZB Berlin Social Science Center
Skills
| R | |
| Statistical modeling | |
| Data analysis | |
| Causal inference |
| Python | |
| Data processing | |
| Machine learning | |
| NLP |
Languages
| Spanish | |
| Native |
| English | |
| Proficient |
| French | |
| B1 |
| German | |
| B1 |
References
| Macartan Humphreys | |
| WZB Berlin Social Science Center, macartan.humphreys@wzb.eu |
| Torben Iversen | |
| Harvard University, iversen@fas.harvard.edu |
| Eliana La Ferrara | |
| Harvard Kennedy School of Government, elaferrara@hks.harvard.edu |
| Pia Raffler | |
| Harvard University, praffler@gov.harvard.edu |
| Leonard Wantchekon | |
| Princeton University and African School of Economics, lwantche@princeton.edu |