Jonathan Abbamonte is a Senior Research Associate for the Center for Data Analysis at The Heritage Foundation. He supports the work of the Center for Data Analysis by performing data analysis, research, coding, and statistical modeling.
His areas of research include abortion statistics, family policy, demography, population dynamics, sex-selective abortion, the Mexico City Policy, U.S. foreign assistance in the area of family planning and reproductive health, China’s one-child policy, population control in India, and efforts by United Nations treaty bodies to create soft-law international norms on abortion. In the field of statistics, his research interests include panel and longitudinal methods of data analysis, interrupted time series, efficient and low-bias estimators for treatment effects in panel models, population projection models, and machine learning.
Before joining Heritage, Jonathan was a research analyst at the Population Research Institute (PRI) conducting research on right to life issues, pro-family issues, population control, financial flows for international abortion NGOs, and human rights in foreign assistance programming. Before then, he had interned for the Family Research Council (FRC) and the Center for Family and Human Rights (C-FAM).
His articles have appeared in The Hill, The Washington Examiner, The Epoch Times, The Deccan Herald, LifeSiteNews, LifeNews, Townhall, Christian Post, Scroll.in, The American Thinker, Crisis Magazine, and others. He has done interviews for The Washington Times, AFA Radio, World Radio, Victory News, and the China Daily USA.
Jonathan has a master's degree in statistical science from George Mason University and a bachelor's degree in philosophy from The Catholic University of America.
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