PI: Joseph Price Overview The purpose of this project was to use linked census records to evaluate the long-run effects of access to clean water. By linking individuals across census years we can specifically determine where they lived during their childhood and also have information about their educational attainment and earnings later in life (using […]
Assessing the Effects of Common Social Identity on Individual Effort and Cooperation in Cross-gender Teams.
Joseph Price, Economics Evaluation of academic objectives The academic objectives of this projects included introducing mentored students to experimental methods in economics and providing them with a unique experience working with the tools of this new field. This was particularly important for our students preparing to attend graduate school and likely to work for companies […]
Gender and Political Ambition
Jessica Preece, Political Science, and Olga Bogach Stoddard, Economics Evaluation of how well the academic objectives of the proposal were met The purpose of this proposal was to fund a field experiment that examined the ways in which political parties could increase women’s desire to run for office (their “political ambition”). Specifically, we worked with […]