Institution profile
Stanford University
Researchers at Stanford's economics, education, medicine, and graduate school of business faculties have led trials in benefits design, schooling, and behavioral interventions.
3
Experiments
2011–2020
Year span
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Positive findings
0
Null findings
Top policy areas
- Voter Engagement · 2
- Public Health · 1
Experiments from Stanford University
- Positive
Community-Level Mask Promotion — COVID-19
Yale / Stanford research partnership with Bangladeshi NGOs · Bangladesh · 2020 · Public Health
Effect: Mask-wearing increased from 13% to 42% in treatment villages; symptomatic COVID-19 reduced by ~11%; symptomatic seroprevalence reduced by ~9% (larger effects for surgical vs. cloth masks)
- Positive
Colorado Universal Vote-by-Mail
Stanford Healthy Elections Project / University of Colorado Denver · Colorado, USA · 2013 · Voter Engagement
Effect: Estimates from rigorous quasi-experimental studies (Bonica & Grumbach; Pew Charitable Trusts; Stanford's Healthy Elections Project) find approximately +2 to +3.3 percentage point increase in general-election turnout and substantially larger effects (+9 to +14 pp) in low-salience local and primary elections. Effects largest among low-propensity voters and roughly partisan-neutral.
- Positive
Text Message Get-Out-the-Vote Campaigns
Stanford / Yale / IPA (Malhotra, Michelson, Rogers, Valenzuela and others) · California and multiple US states · 2011 · Voter Engagement
Effect: Average effect: 0.3–0.9 percentage points across studies; effects are reliable but small per message; at scale (statewide campaigns reaching millions), effects translate to tens of thousands of additional votes