MARGARET A - Harvard University



Margaret Anne McConnell

Assistant Professor of Global Health Economics

Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

677 Huntington Ave Room 1-1217

Boston, MA 02115

(203)745-8321

mmcconne@hsph.harvard.edu

Education

California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA

MS in Social Sciences 2007

PhD in Social Sciences 2010

Yale University, New Haven, CT: Visiting Assistant in Research, 2007-2008

Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT: BA 2003, Major: College of Social Studies

Experience

Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Assistant Professor of Global Health Economics, Global Health and Population Department, 2011-current

Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Population and Development Studies, 2009-2011

Innovations for Poverty Action, Project Coordinator, Lima, Peru, 2004 – 2005

Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Research Associate, New York, NY, 2003- 2004

Professional Affiliations

Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab, Research Affiliate, 2013 – current

Ideas 42, Research Affiliate, 2011 - current

Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, 2011 - current

Innovations for Poverty Action, Research Affiliate, 2009 – current

Research and Teaching Fields

Applied Microeconomics, Behavioral Economics, Health Economics, Development Economics, Experimental Economics, Global Health

Publications

McConnell, M., Ettenger, A., Rothschild, C., Muigai, F. and Cohen, J. (2016) Can a

Community Health Worker Administered Postpartum Checklist Increase Health-Seeking

Behaviors and Knowledge?: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial in Nairobi,

Kenya. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 16: 136.

Karlan, D., McConnell, M., Mullainathan, S. and Zinman, J. (2016). Getting to the Top of

Mind: How Reminders Increase Saving. Management Science, forthcoming.

Kusuma, D., Cohen, J., McConnell, M., and Berman, P. (2016). Can cash transfers improve

determinants of maternal mortality? Evidence from household and community programs in Indonesia. Social Science and Medicine, forthcoming.

Girardi, D., McConnell, M., Romero, J. and Yariv, L. (2016). Get Out the (Costly) Vote:

Institutional Design for Greater Participation. Economic Inquiry, forthcoming.

Celum, C., Delany-Moretlwe, S., McConnell, M., van Rooyen, H., Bekker, L., Kurth, A.,

Bukusi, E., Desmond, C., Morton, J. and Baeten, J. (2015). Rethinking HIV prevention to prepare for oral PrEP implementation for young African women. Journal of the International AIDS Society, 18(3): 20227.

Karlan, D. and McConnell, M. (2014). Hey Look at Me: The Effect of Giving Circles on

Giving. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 106: 402-412.

Fink, G., McConnell, M. and Vollmer, S. (2014). Testing for Heterogeneous Treatment Effects in Experimental Data: False Discovery Risks and Correction Procedures. Journal of Development Effectiveness, 6(1): 44-57.

McConnell, M. Behavioral Economics and Aging. (2013). Journal of the Economics of Ageing, 1-2: 83-89.

Sinclair, B., & McConnell, M. and Green, D. (2012). Detecting Spillover Effects: Design

and Analysis of Multilevel Experiments. American Journal of Political Science, 56(4): 1055-1069.

Linardi, S., & McConnell, M. (2011). No Excuses for Good Behavior: Volunteering and the Social Environment. Journal of Public Economics, 95(5-6): 445-454.

Goeree, J. K., McConnell, M., Mitchell, T. Tromp, T., & Yariv, L. (2010). The 1/d Law of

Giving. American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 2(1): 183–203.

Chou, E., McConnell, M., Nagel, R., & Plott, C. (2009). The control of game form recognition in experiments: understanding dominant strategy failures in a simple two person ‘guessing game’. Experimental Economics, 12(2), 159-179.

Manuscripts under review

Cohen, J., Golub, G., Kruk, M. and McConnell, M. (2016) Do Active Patients Seek Higher

Quality Prenatal Care?: A Panel Data Analysis from Nairobi, Kenya. Revise and resubmit. Preventative Medicine.

Li, M. and McConnell, M. (2016) Can Peer Monitoring Reduce Overtreatment? Evidence

from a Laboratory Experiment with Medical Framing. Under review. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization.

Goldberg, J., Moscoe, E., Austin, B. and McConnell, M. (2016) State Marriage Equality and

Suicide Attempts. Under review. PLOS Medicine.

Fischer, G., Karlan, D., McConnell, M. and Raffler, P. (2015) To Charge or Not to Charge:

Evidence from a Health Products Experiment in Uganda. Under review. Journal of the European Economic Association.

Fink, G., and McConnell, M. (2015) A Spoonful of Luck Makes the Medicine Look Good:

Experimental Evidence on Adoption of Preventive Technologies with Stochastic Health Outcomes. Under review. Health Economics.

Teaching Experience

Instructor, Behavioral Economics and Global Health, Harvard School of Public Health,

Spring 2 2014, Spring 2 2015, Spring 2 2016

Instructor, Economics of Global Health, Harvard University, Spring 2014, 2015

Instructor, Introduction to Economics with Applications to Global Health, Harvard School of

Public Health, Spring 2 2012, Fall 2 2012, Fall 2 2013, Fall 1 2014, Fall 1 2015, Fall 1 2016

Instructor, Quantitative Methods for Impact Evaluation, Harvard School of Public Health,

Spring 2013 (taught jointly with Jessica Cohen)

Teaching Assistant, Quantitative Methods for Impact Evaluation, Professor Jessica Cohen,

Harvard School of Public Health, 2010

College of Social Studies External Examiner, Wesleyan University, 2008

Teaching Assistant, Introduction to Economics, Professor Charles Plott, California Institute

of Technology, 2006, 2008

Teaching Assistant, Organization Design, Professor Colin Camerer, California Institute of

Technology, 2007

Awarded Grants

Healthcare Delivery Initiative: JPAL-MIT Amount: $50,000

Title: “Overcoming Financial Barriers to Caring for Pre-term Infants”

PI: Margaret McConnell

Dates 1/1/2016-12/31/2016

Description: This project conducts a pilot randomized experiment to evaluate the impact of unconditional cash transfers on skin-to-skin care and breastfeeding of pre-term infants at Tufts Medical Center.

Urban Services Initiative: JPAL-MIT Amount: $50,000

Title: “Waiting Time, Wasting Time: A Randomized Control Trial to Evaluate the Impact of Reducing Waiting Time for ANC in Mozambique”

PI: Margaret McConnell

Dates 1/1/2016-12/31/2016

Description: This project conducts a pilot randomized experiment to evaluate the impact of a scheduling system for ANC designed to reduce waiting times on utilization of ante-natal, delivery and post-natal care in urban clinics in Mozambique.

National Institute of Health/National Institute of Mental Health Amount: $113,970

Title: “Design and delivery of combination HIV prevention in young South African women”

Subcontract PI: Margaret McConnell

Dates: 04/01/2015 - 03/31/2019

M.McConnell: 8.5% effort (2 years)

Description: This project conducts a randomized experiment to evaluate the impact of incentives for adherence to PrEP among young women.

Agricultural Technology Adoption Initiative: JPAL-MIT Amount: $113,970

Title: “Translating Adoption of Improved Varieties into Nutritional Impact for Young Children: Proposal for an RCT Exploring Strategies to Increase Consumption of Quality Protein Maize in Ethiopia”

PI: Jessica Cohen

Dates: 8/1/2014-10/31/2016

M.McConnell: 15% effort (2 years)

Description: This project conducts a randomized experiment to evaluate the impact of quality improved maize and behavioral nudges to improve targeted of improved maize to children on nutritional outcomes including anthropometrics and biomarkers.

William and Flora Hewlett Foundation Amount: $112,000

Title: “Nudging Timely Family Planning Action: A Pilot Randomized Experiment in Nairobi”

PI: David Canning

Dates: 7/1/2014-6/30/2016

M.McConnell: 10% effort (2 years)

Description: This project conducts a randomized experiment to evaluate the impact of vouchers incorporating design from behavioral economics on take-up of post-partum family planning.

Gates Grand Challenges Amount: $100,000

Title: “Can a Decision-Making Nudge Improve Birth Outcomes”

Co-PIs: Jessica Cohen and Margaret McConnell

Dates: 5/31/2014-12/31/2015

M.McConnell: 15% effort (2 years)

Description: This project conducts a randomized experiment to evaluate the impact of pre-commitment vouchers on the quality of maternity care experienced by pregnant women in Nairobi Kenya.

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Amount: $200,000

Title: “Decision Fatigue in the Emergency Department and the Use of Hospital Services”

Co-PIs: Margaret McConnell and Jeremiah Schuur (Brigham and Women’s)

Dates: 11/1/2013-10/31/2015

M.McConnell: 10% effort (2 years)

Description: This project evaluates whether physicians tend to increase their likelihood of admitting patients over the course of a shift as they become cognitively fatigued.

National Institutes of Health Amount: $1,249,785

Title: “Nudging Doctors to Collaborate with Pharmacists to Improve Medication Adherence” PI: Ira Wilson (Brown University)

Dates: 9/1/2010-8/31/2013

M. McConnell: 10% effort

Description: This project evaluates the impact of changes in the choice architecture of physicians on adherence to medications for chronic illness.

Lab for Economic Applications and Policy Amount: $10,000

Title: “Negotiating Delivery: Can Spousal Involvement Improve Maternal Health?”

PI: Jessica Cohen and Margaret McConnell

Dates: 9/2010-9/2012

Yale Savings and Payments Research Fund Amount: $150,000

Title: “Incentives and Habit Formation”

Co-PIs: Gharad Bryan (LSE) and Margaret McConnell

Dates: 1/2012-12/2013

Program on the Global Demography of Aging

Title: “Pilot for an intervention to measure and correct visual acuity among older people in India and to measure the effects on social and economic wellbeing”

Co-PIs: David Bloom and Margaret McConnell

Dates: 8/2014-7/2015

Harvard Sustainability Science Program Amount: $10,000

Title: “Identifying Barriers to Investments in Health: Making the transition from biofuel to gas cooking in Ghana”

PI: Margaret McConnell

Dates: 1/2012-12/2013

Russell Sage Foundation Amount: $5,000

Title: “Encouraging Investments in Health Technology”

PI: Margaret McConnell

Dates: 7/31/2009-7/31-2011

Selected Conference and Seminar Presentations

Behavioral Insights Group, Harvard University, February 2016

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Applying Behavioral Economics to Perplexing Problems

in Health and Health Care Conference, Philadelphia, PA 2013; 2015

American Economic Association, Boston MA, January 2015

Brown University Population Studies and Training Center, Providence RI, October 2014

Rethinking HIV Prevention in Young African Women, Washington DC, July 2014

Behavioral Economics for Innovations in Family Planning and Reproductive Health,

Keynote Speaker, Washington DC, March 2014

New York University Economics Department Seminar, New York, NY, April 2014

Global Health and Innovation Conference, New Haven, CT, April 2014

Wharton Business School Seminar, Philadelphia, PA, February 2014

Harvard Business School Seminar, Cambridge, MA, October 2013

IZA/WZB Workshop: Field Days 2013: Experiments Outside the Lab, Berlin Germany,

August 2013

Microsoft Research, Cambridge, MA, May 2013

Evidence on Innovation in Financial Capability, Innovations for Poverty Action, Lima, Peru

May 2013

Princeton Conference on Foreign Aid, Princeton, NJ, April 2013

Social Dilemmas, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA February 2013

Reviewing Activities

Econometrica, American Economic Review, Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Public Economics, Experimental Economics, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, American Economic Journal – Applied Economics, Economic Development and Cultural Change, Management Science, Malaria Journal,

American Journal of Political Science, Labour Economics, Journal of Human Resources, Economic Inquiry, American Political Science Review, Social Networks, The Berkeley Economic Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy, Games and Economic Behavior, Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Economic History, Review of Economic Design

Media

Interview, El Mercurio, Santiago, Chile, January 27, 2013

Interview on Consumer Talk with Michael Finney on KGO San Francisco, February 2010

“A Jewish Mother in Your Cell Phone: How Nagging Text Messages Can Make You Healthier and Richer,’ Daniel Gross, Slate Online Magazine, November 10, 2009

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