Andrew Dustan, Associate Professor of Economics, William & Mary

Published Papers

"Preferences, access, and the STEM gender gap in centralized high school assignment" with Diana K. L. Ngo. American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 16(4): 257–287, 2024.
Online appendix
"Motivating bureaucrats with behavioral insights when state capacity is weak: Evidence from large-scale field experiments in Peru" with Juan Manuel Hernández-Agramonte and Stanislao Maldonado. Journal of Development Economics 160, 2023.
Working paper version, Online appendix, Cobertura en español, IPA brief
"Second-order beliefs and gender" with Kristine Koutout and Greg Leo. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 200: 752-781, 2022.
Working paper version
"Mechanism performance under strategy advice and sub-optimal play: A school choice experiment" with Kristine Koutout, Martin Van der Linden, and Myrna Wooders. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics 94, 2021.
Working paper version
"Can large, untargeted conditional cash transfers increase urban high school graduation rates? Evidence from Mexico City's Prepa Sí." Journal of Development Economics 143, 2020.
Working paper version, Online appendix, Cobertura en español
"Family networks and school choice." Journal of Development Economics 134: 372-391, 2018.
Working paper version, Online appendix
"Commuting to educational opportunity? School choice effects of mass transit expansion in Mexico City" with Diana K. L. Ngo. Economics of Education Review 63: 116-133, 2018.
"Flourish or Fail? The Risky Reward of Elite High School Admission in Mexico City" with Alain de Janvry and Elisabeth Sadoulet. Journal of Human Resources 52(3): 756-799, 2017.

Working Papers

"Marginal admission to elite high schools: Long-run effects on labor market outcomes" with Francisco Cabrera-Hernández, Daniel Osuna-Gómez, and María Padilla-Romo.
"Gendered beliefs among peers" with Luis C. Carvajal-Osorio and Kristine Koutout.
IPA brief
"Reduction in belief elicitation" with Kristine Koutout and Greg Leo.
"Public-private partnerships in education: Experimental evidence from Colombia" with Felipe Barrera-Osorio and Luis C. Carvajal-Osorio.
"The limitations of place-based policy in centralized school choice" with Diana K. L. Ngo.

Other Work

Book review of Productivity in Higher Education by Caroline M. Hoxby and Kevin Stange, eds. Journal of Economic Literature 57(4): 798-799. 2020.
"Recent Advances in Impact Analysis Methods for Ex-post Impact Assessments of Agricultural Technology: Options for the CGIAR" with Alain de Janvry and Elisabeth Sadoulet. 2011.

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Contact

Email: addustan@wm.edu
Phone: 757.221.4778
Mail: Department of Economics, William & Mary, P.O. Box 8795, Williamsburg, VA 23187-8795
Office: Chancellors 248

Andrew Dustan

Associate Professor
Department of Economics
William & Mary

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Published Papers

Working Papers

Other Work

DevSouth

Contact

Andrew Dustan

Associate Professor Department of Economics William & Mary

CV

Published Papers

Working Papers

Other Work

DevSouth

Contact

Associate Professor
Department of Economics
William & Mary