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.
2
Experiments
2011–2020
Year span
2 / 2
Positive findings
0
Null findings
Top policy areas
- Public Health · 1
- Voter Engagement · 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
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