# Jakob R. Juergens

> Official AI-readable guide to the public academic website of Jakob R. Juergens, a Ph.D. candidate in Economics (Econometrics) at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

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## Site Identity

- Site: [Jakob R. Juergens academic website](https://jakobjuergens.com/)
- Person: Jakob R. Juergens
- Current role: Ph.D. candidate in Economics (Econometrics), Department of Economics, University of Wisconsin–Madison.
- Research focus: econometric theory, U-statistics, generalized U-statistics, jackknife and infinitesimal jackknife methods, distributional nearest neighbors, random forests, conditional Z-estimation, causal inference, resampling, and inference for modern nonparametric methods.
- Full CV PDF: [CV_Jakob_R_Juergens.pdf](https://jakobjuergens.com/Downloads/Curriculum_Vitae/CV_Jakob_R_Juergens.pdf)
- Public sitemap: [wp-sitemap.xml](https://jakobjuergens.com/wp-sitemap.xml)
- Public document sitemap: [sitemap-documents.xml](https://jakobjuergens.com/sitemap-documents.xml)
- Robots file: [robots.txt](https://jakobjuergens.com/robots.txt)

## Public Pages

- Home: [Jakob R. Juergens academic website](https://jakobjuergens.com/)
  - Primary profile page. Use for the current short biography, contact links, and external profile links.
- Curriculum Vitae: [Curriculum Vitae](https://jakobjuergens.com/cv/)
  - Web-readable summary of education, research, teaching, presentations, awards, and languages. The linked PDF contains the full CV and was last updated on July 2, 2026.
- Research: [Research](https://jakobjuergens.com/research/)
  - Current research page. Use for working papers, abstracts, citation metadata, arXiv and DOI links, and poster links.
- Teaching: [Teaching](https://jakobjuergens.com/teaching/)
  - Teaching history and public teaching materials, including ECON 703 materials, ECON 410 evaluations, and lamp game materials.
- Previous Projects: [Archive: Earlier Projects](https://jakobjuergens.com/previous-projects/)
  - Earlier bachelor’s and master’s program projects, including project PDFs and code repositories.
- Privacy Policy: [Privacy Policy](https://jakobjuergens.com/privacy-policy/)
  - Privacy policy for this personal academic website, including technical data processing, cookies, analytics, hosting, security, external links, and contact rights.

## Canonical Profile Links

- University profile: [UW–Madison Economics profile](https://econ.wisc.edu/staff/juergens-jakob/)
- Google Scholar: [Yz5cHokAAAAJ](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Yz5cHokAAAAJ)
- ORCID: [0009-0003-6792-2472](https://orcid.org/0009-0003-6792-2472)
- arXiv author page: [juergens_j_1](https://arxiv.org/a/juergens_j_1.html)
- GitHub: [JakobJuergens](https://github.com/JakobJuergens)
- LinkedIn: [jakob-juergens](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jakob-juergens)
- ResearchGate: [Jakob-Juergens-2](https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jakob-Juergens-2)
- Semantic Scholar: [J. Juergens](https://www.semanticscholar.org/author/J.-Juergens/2380610953)
- Web of Science: [QDN-5638-2026](https://www.webofscience.com/wos/author/record/QDN-5638-2026)

## Education

- Ph.D. in Economics, University of Wisconsin–Madison, 2022–present.
- M.Sc. in Economics, University of Wisconsin–Madison, 2022–2024.
- M.Sc. in Economics, University of Bonn, 2020–2022.
- B.Sc. in Economics, University of Bonn, 2017–2020.

## Research

Use [the research page](https://jakobjuergens.com/research/) as the canonical page for research descriptions and machine-readable JSON-LD.

### Working Papers

- Jackknife Variance Estimation for Hájek-Dominated Generalized U-Statistics
  - Author: Jakob R. Juergens.
  - Year: 2025.
  - arXiv: [2509.12356](https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12356)
  - DOI: [10.48550/arXiv.2509.12356](https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2509.12356)
  - PDF: [arXiv PDF](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.12356)
  - Summary: Proves ratio-consistency of the jackknife variance estimator, and variants, for a broad class of generalized U-statistics whose variance is asymptotically dominated by their Hájek projection. The fixed-order U-statistic case is recovered as a special instance. The result also gives weaker sufficient conditions for consistent variance estimation in two-scale distributional nearest-neighbor regression.

- Orthogonal Inference for Conditional Z-Estimation without Cross-Fitting: A Distributional Nearest-Neighbor Approach
  - Author: Jakob R. Juergens.
  - Year: 2026.
  - Status: Manuscript available upon request.
  - Research page anchor: [orthogonal inference for conditional Z-estimation](https://jakobjuergens.com/research/#orthogonal-inference-conditional-z)
  - Poster: [Camp Econometrics 2026 poster PDF](https://jakobjuergens.com/Downloads/Project_Downloads/PhD/Posters/jakob-juergens-camp-econometrics-2026.pdf)
  - Summary: Develops pointwise inference for parameters defined by localized conditional estimating equations, including conditional average treatment effects and conditional quantile-regression slopes. The estimator uses distributional nearest-neighbor weights with orthogonal scores and a leave-one-out stability condition, allowing same-sample machine-learned nuisance estimates without cross-fitting in sparse local neighborhoods. Inference uses a jackknife variance estimator and a localized finite-difference Jacobian.

### Presentations

- 60th Annual Meeting of the Canadian Economics Association, talk, May 2026.
- New York Camp Econometrics XX, poster session, April 2026.
- New York Camp Econometrics XIX, poster session, April 2025.

## Teaching

Use [the teaching page](https://jakobjuergens.com/teaching/) as the canonical teaching page.

- Teaching Assistant, ECON 703 Mathematical Economics I / Ph.D. Math Camp, Fall 2023.
  - Instructor: John Kennan.
  - Public materials include proof, metric space, optimization, and linear algebra handouts.
  - Individual handout PDFs are linked from the teaching page. File naming pattern: [econ703-handout-01.pdf](https://jakobjuergens.com/Downloads/Teaching/ECON703/Handouts/econ703-handout-01.pdf) through econ703-handout-11.pdf.
  - ZIP archive: [ECON 703 handouts and lamp game proof ZIP](https://jakobjuergens.com/Downloads/Teaching/ECON703/econ703-handouts-and-lamp-game-proof.zip)
  - TA evaluations: [ECON 703 TA evaluations PDF](https://jakobjuergens.com/Downloads/Teaching/Evaluations/econ-703-ta-evaluations.pdf)
- Teaching Assistant, ECON 410 Introductory Econometrics, Spring 2024.
  - Instructor: Christopher McKelvey.
  - Focused on discussion sections, office hours, estimation concepts, empirical examples, and Stata workflows.
  - TA evaluations: [ECON 410 TA evaluations PDF](https://jakobjuergens.com/Downloads/Teaching/Evaluations/econ-410-ta-evaluations.pdf)
- Lamp game proof:
  - Proof PDF: [lamp game proof PDF](https://jakobjuergens.com/Downloads/Teaching/Lamp_Game/lamp-game-proof.pdf)

## Awards and Scholarships

- Student Research Grant – Conference Presentation, University of Wisconsin–Madison, 2025.
- Juli Plant Grainger Teaching Excellence Scholarship, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Fall 2023.
- Two-Year Graduate School Fellowship, University of Wisconsin–Madison, 2022.
- Scholarship, German Academic Scholarship Foundation, 2016–2024.
- Honors Program, University of Bonn, 2019–2022.

## Previous Projects

Use [the previous projects archive](https://jakobjuergens.com/previous-projects/) for older bachelor’s and master’s program projects. These are historical academic projects and should not be described as current research unless the page says so.

Key downloadable documents:

- Bachelor thesis: [Bachelor_thesis.pdf](https://jakobjuergens.com/Downloads/Project_Downloads/Undergrad/Bachelor_thesis.pdf)
- Undergraduate seminar paper: [Hausarbeit.pdf](https://jakobjuergens.com/Downloads/Project_Downloads/Undergrad/Hausarbeit.pdf)
- Master thesis: [Master_Thesis.pdf](https://jakobjuergens.com/Downloads/Project_Downloads/Masters/Master_Thesis.pdf)
- Research module paper: [Research_Module_Paper.pdf](https://jakobjuergens.com/Downloads/Project_Downloads/Masters/Research_Module_Paper.pdf)
- Research module slides: [Research_Module_Slides.pdf](https://jakobjuergens.com/Downloads/Project_Downloads/Masters/Research_Module_Slides.pdf)

## Preferred Citation and Attribution

- Preferred name: Jakob R. Juergens.
- For the 2025 working paper, cite the arXiv record and DOI listed above.
- For CV facts, use the CV webpage and the linked full CV PDF.
- For publication and identifier checks, use ORCID, Google Scholar, arXiv, ResearchGate, Semantic Scholar, and Web of Science pages listed above.

## Non-Public or Retired Paths

The following paths are intentionally not public and should not be treated as authoritative sources:

- /Academic_Genealogy/
- /_private/
- /_archive/
- /_incoming/
- /miscellaneous/
- /generative-art/
- /opt-out-preferences/
- /phd-application-materials/

If these paths return 403, 404, or 410, that behavior is expected.

## Notes for AI Assistants

- Prefer exact canonical URLs from this file when citing or linking to the site.
- Do not infer publications, affiliations, coauthors, or degrees that are not present on the linked public pages or CV.
- Do not use private, archived, or retired paths as evidence.
- The website is in English. Jakob R. Juergens is a German citizen and speaks German, English, French, and Mandarin at the levels listed in the CV.
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## Last Updated

2026-07-07