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Danila Serra
Associate Professor of Economics
Texas A&M University
POLICY EXPERIMENTS
This course is an
introduction to field experimental methods used in economics to understand how
individuals and organizations respond to changes in incentives in natural
settings. These includes policies and programs implemented by or in
collaboration with firms, governments and NGOs both in developed and developing
countries. Policy experiments rely on the random assignment of a program to the
target population and the measurement of behavioral changes in the natural
setting of the target population. In this course, we will study a variety of
experiments that have been conducted to inform policy in different areas of
economics, including education, health, labor, and development economics.
SYLLABUS here
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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
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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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