EGAP 1: New Haven, April 2009

Dates: April 24 – 25, 2009
Host: Yale University
Location: New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Themes: Plenary Meeting

Papers & Research Designs
Thad Dunning: Cross-Cutting Cleavages and Ethnic Voting: An Experimental Study of Cousinage in Mali

Leonard Wantchekon: Randomized Evaluation of Institutions: Theory with Applications to Voting and Deliberation Experiments

Catherine Eckel and Rick Wilson: Measuring Risk Orientations toward Natural Disasters by Citizens and Public Officials

Pedro Vicente: Social Networks in Nigeria: Evidence from a Field Experiment on Electoral Violence

Betsy Levy Paluck: Entertainment, Information, and Discussion: Experimenting with media techniques for civic engagement in Southern Sudan

Macartan Humphreys and Jeremy Weinstein: Can Development Aid Contribute to Social Cohesion After Civil War?

Alan Gerber: Reporting Standards for Experiments

Peter John: Reporting Methodological Items in Randomized Experiments in Political Science

Participants

Klaus Abbink, University of Amsterdam
Kevin Arceneaux,Temple University
Sheree Bennett, Yale University
Chris Blattman, Yale University
Jake Bowers, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
John Bullock, Yale University
Daniel Butler, Yale University
Ana De La O, Yale University
Thad Dunning, Yale University
Catherine Eckel, University of Texas, Dallas
Alan Gerber, Yale University
Donald Green, Yale University
Jennifer Green, Yale University
Shang Ha, Yale University
Macartan Humphreys, Columbia University
Susan Hyde, Yale University
Kosuke Imai, Princeton University
Peter John, University of Manchester
Holger Kern, Yale University
Stuti Khemani, World Bank
Paul Lagunes, Yale University
Arianna Legovini, World Bank
Craig McIntosh, University of California, San Diego
Jennifer Merrolla, Claremont Graduate University
Devra Moehler, Cornell / University of Pennsylvania
Ryan Moore, Washington University, St. Louis
David Nickerson, University of Notre Dame
Elizabeth Levy Paluck, Harvard Academy / Princeton University
Anu Rangarajan, Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.
Vijayendra Rao, World Bank
Daniel Rubenson, Ryerson University
Ryan Sheely, Yale University
Smita Singh, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
David Torgerson, University of York
Pedro Vicente, University of Oxford
Leonard Wantchekon, New York University
Rick Wilson, Rice University
Liz Zechmeister, Vanderbilt University