Status: Completed
General Objective: Strengthen the methodological capacities of academics, researchers, technicians and those responsible for public policy aimed at combating poverty and improving education, through knowledge of the methodology of randomized controlled trials. In addition to this general objective, some specific objectives are:
- Familiarize participants with behavioral aspects that must be considered when designing experiments and, therefore, when designing public policy.
- Provide alternatives to participants for the analysis of data generated from experiments.
- Promote the creation of networks between the different actors involved in the studies and generation of poverty and education policies to promote the articulation between academia and action.
- Promote the design of social public policy based on scientific evidence in Ecuador, taking into account the specificities of the territory.
Participants:
Eric P. Bettinger, Ph.D.
Ph.D.Economics 2000 Massachusetts Institute of Technology United States
B.A Economics.
Magna cum Laude, Honors 1996 Brigham Young University United States Eric Bettinger is a professor in the Stanford University School of Education. He is a research expert in the economics of education and the use of randomized controlled trials for educational policy making and the fight against poverty. His research interests include student success and completion in college; the characteristics of the teachers; the effects of voucher programs on academic and non-academic outcomes. Eric's work aims to provide an understanding of these cause-effect relationships in the educational field.
Organizers:
- ONE AND
- UCUENCA
- UCACUE
Research areas:
- Poverty, Education
- Public politics
- Social and educational innovation
- Territorial development
