This assignment is about the idea for the Experiment/Intervention – This step is to get prof's approval.
What I need is a straight forward but a policy-relevant question. For e.g., imagine you are the Governor of
the State, and you are being asked to address the issue of poverty in a specific area. What will you do? In
this case, evidence from past policy experiments shows that “Cash Transfer” intervention helps address
this problem. For e.g., https://econweb.ucsd.edu/~pniehaus/papers/cash_transfers_ge.pdf. In this paper,
the authors examine “how does an inflow of ~15% of GDP affect a poor rural economy?” Prepare a
research proposal and design aimed at a relevant policy problem (e.g. reduce the gender gap in
education). It better includes all these following points: 1. Background 2. Simply introduce the intervention
(this cannot be multiple interventions, but one precise, well-defined intervention) 3. Why this intervention
(or motivation behind the intervention)? 4. Why this context?
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