EGAP 25: Washington DC, February 2019
Date: Februrary 21 – February 23, 2019
Host: Eric Kramon, George Washington University
Location: Washington DC, United States
Themes: Poverty & Inequality; Elections, Representation, & Participation
Academic Practitioner Event
Thursday, February 21
8:30 -9:30 AM: OES & EGAP: Best Practices in Research, Reanalysis and Transparency Meeting at the GSA Office of Evaluation Sciences.
2:00 – 5:00 PM: Academic Practitioner Event in the Abramson Family Auditorium at NYU Washington, DC
5:00 – 7:00 PM: EGAP 25 Welcome Reception in the main lobby outside the Abramson Family Auditorium
Poverty & Inequality Working Group: Papers & Research Designs
Rob Blair: Restoring the Rule of Law After Civil War: A Field Experiment in Security and Justice Provision in Rural Colombia (Research Design)
Natalia Bueno: Do Governments Make Dreams Come True? An Analysis of a Brazilian Housing Program (Research Design)
Ariel BenYishay: The Economic Efficiency of Aid Targeting (Paper)
Leopoldo Fergusson: Social Norms and the Collapse of Cooperative Behavior (Research Design)
Pia Raffler: Overseeing Bureaucrats from Above and Below: Facility Incentives and Social Accountability in Uganda (Research Design)
Dan Posner: Using RFID Technology (Specifically, iBeacons) to Track the Leakage of Development Goods (Research Design)
Bilal Murtaza Siddiqi: Making Information Actionable: Experimental Evidence from Kenyan Courts (Research Design)
Godber Tumushabe: The impact of service delivery provision and governance data on campaign messages from parliamentary and district candidates in Uganda (Research Design)
Elections, Representation, & Participation Working Group: Papers & Research Designs
David Broockman: The Impact of Partisan Media on American politics (Research Design)
José-Alberto Guerra: I bet you’ll vote next time: prize-linked incentive schemes and voter turnout (Research Design)
Don Green: Election Day Festivals and Voter Turnout: Results from Field Experiments in a Federal Midterm Election (Paper)
Eric Kramon: Field Experiment on Presidential Debates in Malawi (Research Design)
John Marshall: Information and coordination: An informational experiment to improve electoral accountability in Mexico (Paper)
Ghazala Mansuri: Incentivizing Local Governance: Public Grants and Information Campaigns as Performance Based Rewards for Elected Politicians (Paper)
Umberto Mignozzetti: Balancing Public and Elite Preferences: Foreign Policy Evidence from Brazil (Research Design)
Victoria Shineman: What Really Happens When Non-US Citizens Vote in American Elections? A Field Experiment Mobilizing Noncitizen Residents to Legally Vote in American Local Elections (Research Design)
Joint Sessions:
Methodology Talk by Teppei Yamamoto: Incorporating Subjects’ Preferences over Treatment Conditions in Experimental Designs: Patient Preference Trials.
Discussion Activity: Field Experiments: Ethics in Practice
Participants
Elections, Representation, & Participation Working Group
Miriam Golden
Saad Gulzar
Cyrus Samii
David Broockman
John Marshall
Linda Stern
Umberto Mignozzeti
Horacio Larreguy
Bret Barrowman
Ken Opalo
José-Alberto Guerra
Don Green
Daniel Butler
Ghazala Mansuri
Natasha Greenberg
Jonas Claes
Alexander Coppock
Florian Foos
Rosario Aguilar
Eric Kramon
Giovanni Dazzo
Gareth Nellis
Morgan Holmes
Kim Dionne
Mathias Poertner
Eric Arias
Graeme Blair
Peter van der Windt
Teppei Yamamoto
Esther Forgan
Jennifer Pan
Victoria Shineman
Poverty and Inequality Working Group
Johannes Urpelainen
Elizabeth (Liz) Carlson
Pia Raffler
Godber Tumushabe
Daniel Hidalgo
Leopoldo Fergusson
Jake Bowers
Pablo Querubín
Lauren Prather
Annette Brown
Doug Parkerson
Daniel Posner
Kelly Bidwell
Amaney Jamal
Carmen Ponce San Román
Robert Blair
Luis Maldonado
Armin von Schiller
Andrés Moya
Varun Gauri
Lucy Martin
Raymond Duch
Ariel BenYishay
Ana De La O
Chad Hazlett
Peter Aronow
Ragan Petrie
Laura Paler
Cesi Cruz
Bilal Siddiqi
Rachel Anderson
Julien Labonne
Carlos Scartascini
Natalia Bueno