Margaret Anne McConnell

I am a PhD candidate in Economics. My research focuses on designing laboratory and field experiments to better understand social networks and pro-social behavior.

Contact Information

Email:	mmcconnell at hss dot caltech dot edu
Office:	Baxter 231
Office Phone:	(626) 395-4448
Address:	Mail Code 228-77 California Institute of Technology Pasadena, CA 91125

Published and Forthcoming Papers

The 1/d Law of Giving, with Jacob K. Goeree, Tiffany Mitchell, Tracey Tromp and Leeat Yariv, forthcoming American Economic Journal - Microeconomics

The Control of Game Form Recognition in Experiments: Understanding Dominant Strategy Failures in a Simple Two Person "Guessing Game" with Eileen Chou, Rosemarie Nagel and Charles R. Plott, forthcoming Journal of Experimental Economics

Heeding the Call: The Effect of Targeted Phonebanks on Voter Turnout, with Melissa R. Michelson and Lisa García Bedolla, forthcoming Journal of Politics

Working Papers

No Excuses for Good Behavior, with Sera Linardi

Getting Out the (Costly) Vote: Institutional Design for Greater Participation, with Dino Gerardi, Julian Romero and Leeat Yariv

Hey Look at Me: The Effect of Giving Circles on Giving, with Dean Karlan

There's Something About Ambiguity, with Santosh Anagol, Sheree Bennett, Gharad Bryan, Tiffany Davenport, Nancy Hite, Dean Karlan and Paul Lagunes, revise and resubmit Economic Inquiry

Strangers vs. Neighbors: The Efficacy of Grassroots Voter Mobilization, with Betsy Sinclair and Melissa R. Michelson

Ongoing Projects

Feeling (Public) Good with Jacob Goeree and Antonio Rangel

Detecting Spillovers in Social Networks: Design and Analysis of Multilevel Experiments with Betsy Sinclair and Donald Green

Conference and Seminar Presentations

North American Meetings of the Economic Science Association 2007, Tucson, Arizona, 2006, 2007 and 2008
College of Social Studies Monday Lunch Seminar, Middletown, Connecticut, November 2007
Yale University Labor-Public Finance Lunch Seminar, New Haven, Connecticut, September 2007
Asia-Pacific Regional Meeting of the Economic Science Association, Shanghai, China, August 2007
London Conference on Laboratory Experiments and the Field, London, England, June 2007
Caltech Brownbag Series, Pasadena, California, June 2007
Caltech Mini-Conference on Social Networks, Pasadena, California, May 2007

Conference and Workshop Attendance

Discussant, ASSA, New Orleans, LA, January 2008 and San Francisco, CA, January 2008
Innovations for Poverty Action Microfinance Conference, New Haven, CT, October 2008
Russell Sage Foundation Summer Institute in Behavioral Economics, Trento, Italy, Summer 2008

Reviewer Activities

Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Economic History, Experimental Economics, Review of Economic Design, Games and Economic Behavior

Teaching Assistant Work

EC11: Introduction to Economics, Professor Charles Plott
BEM146: Organization Design, Professor Colin Camerer

Graduate Research Assistant Work

Visiting Assistant in Research at Yale University, 2007-2008
Research Assistant for John Ledyard, Summer 2007
Research Assistant for Leeat Yariv, Summer 2008