At this event hosted by the King Center on Global Development, Andres F. Rodriguez, PhD ‘24, will explain the nuts and bolts of managing survey research in the field. Rodriguez, the Impact and Learning Manager at Stanford Impact Labs and a recipient of King Center graduate student funding, will cover best practices for conducting fieldwork in low-income countries, including topics like hiring enumerators and how to do high-frequency data checks. Rodriguez will draw on his own research which relies on primary data collection and experimental methods, both for large-scale policy evaluation and field experiments, based in Sierra Leone and Zambia.

King Center Faculty Director Katherine Casey will moderate a Q&A session with the audience. Lunch will be served.

About the Speaker

Andres F. Rodriguez is part of the Investments and Accountability team at the Stanford Impact Labs where he works on using data and evidence to measure the impact of their diverse portfolio of investments aiming to generate social change at scale through partnership-based research. Rodriguez received his PhD in Economics from Stanford and his research broadly studies the challenges faced by low-income countries to develop state capacity.  He received research funding from the King Center in the 2020–21 and 2021–22 academic years.

About the Moderator

Katherine Casey is a professor of political economy at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and the Faculty Director of the King Center on Global Development. Her research explores interactions between economic and political forces in low-income countries, with particular interest in strategies to improve governance and spur local economic development. Her work has appeared in the American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, Quarterly Journal of Economics, and Science, among others.