Andrew Dustan, Assistant Professor of Economics, Vanderbilt University

Publications

"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

"Motivating Bureaucrats with Non-monetary Incentives when State Capacity is Weak: Evidence from Large Field Experiments in Peru" with Stanislao Maldonado and Juan Manuel Hernández-Agramonte. Submitted.
Online appendix, Cobertura en español
"Closing the STEM gender gap: Choice, access, and policies in Mexico City high schools" with Diana Ngo. Submitted.
"Mechanism Performance under Strategy Advice and Sub-Optimal Play: A School Choice Experiment" with Kristine Koutout, Martin Van der Linden, and Myrna Wooders. Submitted.
"Beliefs about Beliefs about Gender" with Kristine Koutout and Greg Leo. Submitted.
"High School Value-Added and its Spillovers in Mexico City." Draft available upon request.

Other Work

"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.

Contact

Email: andrew.dustan@vanderbilt.edu
Phone: 615.322.1990
Mail: Vanderbilt University, PMB 351819, 2301 Vanderbilt Place, Nashville, TN 37235-1819