EGAP 6: Cambridge, November 2011
Date: November 4 – 5, 2011
Host: MIT Faculty Club
Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Theme: Plenary Meeting
Plenary Meeting: Papers & Research Designs
Friday, November 4
Leonard Wantchekon: Deliberative Campaign Strategies and Transition from Clientelism, Experimental Evidence from Benin
Rohini Pande (with Esther Duflo, Michael Greenstone and Nicholas Ryan): Can Improved Economic Incentives Fix a Failed Third-Party Audit Market?
Ben Olken (with Junko Onishi and Susan Wong): Should Aid Reward Performance? Evidence from a Field Experiment on Health and Education in Indonesia
Danila Serra (with Abigail Barr and Truman Packard): Is turning out to vote a public good contribution? Evidence from Albania
Saturday, November 5
Jake Bowers: Reasoning about Interference Between Units: Statistical Inference for Spillover and Interference in Randomized Experiments
Kosuke Imai: Understanding and Improving Fixed Effects Regression Models for Causal Inference
Ryan Moore: Blocking for Sequential Political Experiments
Devra C Moehler (with Jeffrey Conroy-Kurtz and Rosario Aguilar): Parties on the Ballot: Visual Cues and Voting Behavior in Uganda
Participants:
Adam Berinsky (guest)
Alyoscia D’onofrio
Ana De La O
Arianna Legovini
Ben Olken (guest)
Brian Scholl
Chris Blattman
Dan Posner (guest)
Daniel Rubenson
Danila Serra
David Nickerson
Devra Moehler
Elizabeth Levy Paluck
Fotini Christia
Ghazala Mansuri
Jake Bowers
Jasjeet Sekhon
Jennifer Merrolla
Jens Hainmueller (guest)
Jeremy Weinstein
Klaus Abbink
Kosuke Imai
Leonard Wantchekon
Macartan Humphreys
Nahomi Ichino
Pedro Vicente
Peter John
Rohini Pande (guest)
Ryan Moore
Song Kim (guest)
Susan Hyde
Teppei Yamamoto (guest)
Thad Dunning