Simon earned their Ph.D. in Political Science with a minor in Statistics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Substantively, their research focuses on studying donor support of civil society in aid-receiving countries and the role of civil society in development and democracy assistance. Their methodological interests support their substantive focus and include the measurement of regime types and civil society, improvements of survey methodologies and analysis, external validity and generalizability, and using machine learning techniques to reinvestigate research questions in the social sciences.

Simon's teaching focuses on helping their students become better consumers of information by encouraging them to critically reflect on how we approach knowledge accumulation in the social sciences.  They emphasize active, experience-based learning to develop students' ability to ask, answer, and communicate their own research questions.  

curriculum vitae

Publications:

• Martin, Lucy, Brigitte Seim, Simon Hoellerbauer, & Luis Camacho. 2025. "Marketing Taxation? Experimental Evidence on Enforcement and Bargaining in Malawian Markets." American Political Science Review FirstView, 1-16.
• Hoellerbauer, Simon, 2024. "A Mixture Model Approach to Assessing Measurement Error in Surveys Using Reinterviews." Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology 12(4): 1035-1060.
• Hoellerbauer, Simon. 2023. "Why Join? How Civil Society Organizations' Attributes Signal Congruence and Impact Community Engagement." Journal of Experimental Political Science 10 (1): 88-99.

Presentations:

• "Finding the Win Set: Evidence on citizen tax preferences in Malawi," with Lucy Martin and Brigitte Seim. Annual Conference of the American Political Science Association, September 6, 2024.
• "Post Hoc Synthetic Purposive Sampling for Post Hoc External Validity Assessment,'' with Isabel Laterzo-Tingley. Annual Meeting of the Society for Political Methodology, July 18, 2024.
• "Enumerators as Treatment Versions: Enumerator-Induced Treatment Heterogeneity and its Consequences," with Jing Qian and Brandon de la Cuesta. Annual Conference of the Midwest Political Science Association, April 16, 2023.
• "How Many Is Too Many? Outcome Questions in Conjoint Survey Experiments." Annual Meeting of the Society for Political Methodology, July 22, 2022.