EGAP 23: Nairobi, June 2018

Date: June 8 – 9, 2018
Host: Rebecca Wolfe, Mercy Corps
Location: Nairobi, Kenya
Theme: General Plenary Meeting

Papers, Research Designs, and Presentations
Dan Posner: The Weakness of Bottom-Up Accountability: Experimental Evidence from the Ugandan Health Sector (Paper)

Alex Scacco: Can the Provision of Information or Economic Benefits Prevent Irregular Migration? A Field Experiment in Nigeria (Research Design)

Simon McNorton, Yolanda Chakava, Stella Muthuri, and James Kimani: Turning Research into Practice: Research Uptake at DFID (Presentations)

Umberto Mignozetti: Pre-Analysis Plan: Incentives in Preventive Health Care Provision  (Research Design)

Don Green: Changing Social Norms via Local Radio: A Field Experiment and Natural Experiment in Tanzania (Research Design)

Julian Jameson: Empirical Inputs for Normative Policy Decisions (Brainstorming Session)

Maarten Voors: Healthcare Delivery during Crises: Experimental Evidence from Sierra

Leone’s Ebola Outbreak (Paper)

Laura Paler: Can Discussion Across Ethnic Divides Reduce Support for Ethnic Politics? Evidence from an Experiment in Lebanon (Paper)

Dan Nielson: Mobile-Phone Ownership Increases Poor Women’s Household Consumption: A Field Experiment in Tanzania (Paper)

Florian Foos: Mobilizing Activism Through the Formation of Social Ties (Research Design)

Participants:
Victoria Shineman
Susan Hyde
Don Green
Dan Posner
Peter John
Rebecca Wolfe
Andres Zambrano
Nahomi Ichino
Annette Brown
Maarten Voors
Gwyneth McClendon
Laura Paler
Eric Dickson
Julian Jamison
Rosario Aguilar
Daniel Nielson
Alex Scacco
Melina Raquel Platas
Umberto Mignozzetti
Andrew Greer
Evan Lieberman
Florian Foos
Godber Tumushabe
Lucy Martin
Peter Loewen
Sarah Bush
Tom Wein
Nicholas Owsley
Louis Graham
Daniel Mellow
Moritz Poll
Zilper Audi
Simon McNorton 
Victor Reteng
Abla Safir
Omondi (Fred) Otieno