About me

My name is Martin Devaux and I am a fifth-year PhD candidate in Political Science at Columbia University. I study comparative politics and political methodology.

Substantively, I study immigration politics in developed democracies. My dissertation work is on the local impact of immigrant-owned businesses on community attitudes toward immigration, with a focus on France. I also care about the housing affordability crisis and the persistence of concentrated poverty in cities. In another project, I study how the interaction of local politicians and residents shapes the production of public housing.

My current methodological interests revolve around the external validity of experiments. You can find here the working paper I co-authored with Naoki Egami on Robustness to External Validity Bias, and here the associated R package. I am separately working on the decomposition of systematic treatment effect heterogeneity in multisite experiments and meta-analyses.

Prior to my PhD, I was an Associate at IDinsight in Rabat, Morocco. I hold an MPA from the London School of Economics and an MPP from Sciences Po Paris. I graduated in 2016 with a BA in Economics from Keio University, Tokyo and a BA from Sciences Po Paris.