Niklas Harder

Dr. Niklas Harder

Co-Head of Integration Department Integration Department

E-mail: harder(at)dezim-institut.de fon: 0049 (0) 30-200754-201 Curriculum vitae

Dr. Niklas Harder is co-head of the Department of Integration at the DeZIM Institute and an associate member of the Immigration Policy Lab at Stanford University. His research focuses on integration and political participation. He also works on the evaluation of integration policies in Europe and North America. To this end, he applies current methods of causal inference to survey data as well as process-generated and administrative data.

Dr. Niklas Harder studied political science at the University of Hamburg, the University of Konstanz, and the Georgia Institute of Technology. He then completed his doctorate as a fellow of the Graduate School of Decision Sciences at the University of Konstanz. He specialized in the areas of migration and integration as a postdoctoral fellow at the Immigration Policy Lab at Stanford University. His research was most recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).

Research focus

  • Integration
  • Political Behavior
  • Causal Inference