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Danila Serra
Associate Professor of Economics
Texas A&M University
Current PhD Students
· Daniel
Gomez-Vasquez (Chair). Expected graduation: 2025.
· Andre’nay Harris (Committee member). Expected graduation:
2025.
· Miranda Lambert (Co-Chair). Expected graduation: 2026.
· Zackary Pierce (Committee member). Expected
graduation: 2026.
· Kennedy Johnston (Chair). Expected graduation: 2027.
Past PhD Students
At Texas A&M University
·
Andy
Cao (Chair)
o Graduated
in 2023. Placement: Research Analyst, Centre for Naval Analyses (CNA).
· Nanyin Yang (Committee member).
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Graduated in 2024. Placement: Postdoctoral
fellow, University of Sydney.
At Southern Methodist University
· Priyanka Chakraborty
(Committee Member)
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Graduated in 2020. First placement: Allegheny College.
·
Kuangli Xie
(Committee Member)
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Graduated in
2019. Placement: Square.
Courses I
have taught:
· Economics of Corruption
· Behavioral and Experimental
Economics
· Analysis of Economic Data
· Intermediate Microeconomics
· Experimental Economics (PhD)
· Behavioral Development Economics
(PhD)
· Development Economics
· Policy Economics
USEFUL VIDEOS
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METHODS
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World Bank video: What is impact evaluation? |
JPAL video: Why Randomize? |
World Bank video: How can you randomize? |
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EDUCATION
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Susan Dynarski on Free
tuition and university enrollment |
Improving college instruction through incentives |
Female role models and choice
of university major |
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Brownback and Sadoff (2020) {From econimate} |
Porter&Serra (2020) |
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HEALTH
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Does Diversity Matter for
Health? Alsan, Garrik and Graziani (2019) {From econimate}
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To mask or not to mask Gillespie, Jones and Linardi (2020)
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Treatment of maternal
depression Baranov et al. (2020) {From econimate}
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Rebecca Dizon-Ross on Motivating Lifestyle Changes |
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LABOR
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Market Incentives
and Labor Market Investments |
Stigma
and take-up of labor market assistance |
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Burstzyn, Fujiwara and Pallais (2017) {From econimate} |
Osman and Speer (2020) |
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GENDER, RACE, DISCRIMINATION
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Cecilia
Rouse on Gender Discrimination in the Labor Market
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Gender
Gap in Career Advice Gallen and Wasserman (2020)
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VOTING, POLITICS AND POLARIZATION
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Canvassing and electoral outcomes Pons (2018) {From econimate}
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DEVELOPMENT
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Esther
Duflo on Social Experiments to Fight Poverty |
Parents’ beliefs about their
children’s academic abilities |
Reshaping adolescents’ gender attitudes in India |
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Dizon-Ross
(2019) {From econimate} |
Dahr, Jain and Jayachandran (2020) |
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Oriana
Bandiera on “Motivating Bureaucrats” |
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Anne Karing on Social Signaling and Child
Immunization in Sierra Leone {From econimate} |
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