EGAP 4: New York City, October 2010

Date: October 8-9, 2010
Host: New York University
Location: New York City, New York, USA
Theme: Plenary Meeting

Plenary Meeting: Papers & Research Designs
Friday, October 8
Macartan Humphreys (with Jiehua Chen and Vijay Modi): Technology Diffusion and Social Networks: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Uganda

Pedro Vicente (with Jenny C. Aker and Paul Collier): Is Information Power? Using Cell Phones during an Election in Mozambique

Kosuke Imai (with Graeme Blair): Statistical Analysis of List Experiments

Brian Scholl: Experiences in Democracy and Governance Field Experiments at USAID

Saturday, October 9
Simon Chauchard: Can the Experience of Political Power by a Member of a Stigmatized Group Change the Nature of Day-to-day Interpersonal Relations? Evidence from Rural India

Sophia Sahaf and Anu Rangarajan (with Matt Sloan and Ira Nichols-Barrer): Rwanda Threshold Program Evaluation: Strengthening Civic Participation, RNP Inspectorate Services, and Media

Catherine Kell and Rakesh Rajani: Challenges of Designing Evaluative Research in an ‘Open Architecture’ Development Initiative: Twaweza East Africa

Participants:

Kevin Arceneaux
Graeme Blair (guest)
Jake Bowers
Simon Chauchard (guest)
Fotini Christia
Eric Coleman
Ana De La O
Eric Dickson
Macartan Humphreys
Susan Hyde
Kosuke Imai
Catherine Kell (guest)
Stuti Khemani
Elizabeth Levy Paluck
Devra Moehler
Rakesh Rajani (guest)
Anu Rangarajan
Daniel Rubenson
Sophia Sahaf
Brian Scholl
Linda Stern
Lynn Vavreck
Pedro Vicente