Hi everyone! For our last UW CHANGE Seminar talk for the quarter (December 6th) will be hearing from Leah Rosenzweig <https://leahrrosenzweig.com/>and Molly Offer-Westort <https://mollyow.github.io/> from the University of Chicago. Leah and Molly's talk is titled "Designing adaptive experiments for policy learning and inference".
*Description* In this talk we will first provide an overview of adaptive experiments and discuss their utility for policy learning and evaluation in social science research. The second half of the talk will present results from two adaptive experiments focused on countering COVID-19 misinformation and increasing vaccine acceptance among social media users in Kenya and Nigeria. *Seminar Details* *Location*: Tuesdays from 12-1pm in 271 CSE2 (The Bill and Melinda Gates Center) *Zoom:* https://washington.zoom.us/j/95324763742 *Presenter Bio* Leah Rosenzweig is Director and Lead Researcher at the Development Innovation Lab <https://bfi.uchicago.edu/development-innovation-lab/> at the University of Chicago. Her research focuses on the micro-foundations of political and social behavior to gain leverage on macro policy-relevant questions. Her current work in the political economy of development explores the existence and consequences of social norms of voting <https://leahrrosenzweig.com/#/socialnorms/> in semi-authoritarian states, government accountability <https://leahrrosenzweig.com/#/government-accountability/> in low- and middle-income countries, and inter-group relations <https://leahrrosenzweig.com/#/grouprelations/>. She also works on designing and evaluating optimal policies to combat the spread of online misinformation <https://leahrrosenzweig.com/#/online-misinformation/> and increase vaccination <https://leahrrosenzweig.com/#/covid19-research/>, as well as applied research methods <https://leahrrosenzweig.com/#/research-methods/>. Prior to joining DIL, Leah held positions at Stanford University, the Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse, and was a consultant for the Nigerian government. Leah received her PhD in Political Science from MIT. Molly Offer-Westort is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science with an affiliation in the Department of Statistics at the University of Chicago. Molly works on quantitative methodology for social science research, with a focus on causal inference, machine learning, and experimental design–particularly for adaptive experiments. She earned her PhD from Yale, joint in Political Science and Statistics & Data Science. Previously, Molly was a postdoctoral fellow in Susan Athey’s Golub Capital Social Impact Lab at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. In addition to the PhD, Molly holds a Masters in Statistics, also from Yale, and a Masters in Public Affairs, from the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs. Best, UW Change Organizers
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