Advancement to Candidacy Presentation: "The Gryffindor Effect: Estimating the Effects of Randomly Assigned Identity on Student-Level Outcomes," Allegra Cockburn

Date and Time
Location
Zoom

Speaker

Allegra Cockburn, University of California, Santa Barbara

Biography

Allegra is pursuing a PhD in Economics at UCSB. Her research focuses on the role of identity in education, and assessing barriers to take-up, implementation and generalizability. Before coming to UCSB she worked for two years as a Research Associate at J-PAL Africa, where she was part of a team evaluating an intervention to overcome limited information in the labor market. She has a Master’s in Economics from the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg.

Event Details

Allegra will be presenting her Advancement to Candidacy paper, “The Gryffindor Effect: Estimating the Effects of Randomly Assigned Identity on Student-Level Outcomes”. To access the Advancement paper, you must have an active UCSB NetID and password.

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