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Jason Theodore Kerwin

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First Name:Jason
Middle Name:Theodore
Last Name:Kerwin
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RePEc Short-ID:pke327
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http://www.jasonkerwin.com
Twitter: @jt_kerwin
Terminal Degree:2015 Economics Department; University of Michigan (from RePEc Genealogy)

Affiliation

(33%) Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)
http://www.povertyactionlab.org/
RePEc:edi:jpmitus (more details at EDIRC)

(33%) Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Bonn, Germany
http://www.iza.org/
RePEc:edi:izaaade (more details at EDIRC)

(34%) Department of Economics
University of Washington

Seattle, Washington (United States)
http://www.econ.washington.edu/
RePEc:edi:deuwaus (more details at EDIRC)

Research output

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Working papers

  1. Kerwin, Jason & Rostom, Nada & Sterck, Olivier, 2024. "Striking the Right Balance: Why Standard Balance Tests Over-Reject the Null, and How to Fix It," IZA Discussion Papers 17217, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
  2. Derksen, Laura & Kerwin, Jason & Reynoso, Natalia Ordaz & Sterck, Olivier, 2024. "Healthcare Appointments as Commitment Devices," IZA Discussion Papers 17070, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
  3. Kerwin, Jason & Pandey, Divya, 2023. "Navigating Ambiguity: Imprecise Probabilities and the Updating of Disease Risk Beliefs," IZA Discussion Papers 16478, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
  4. Julie Buhl-Wiggers & Jason Kerwin & Juan Muñoz-Morales & Jeffrey Smith & Rebecca Thornton, 2022. "Some children left behind: Variation in the effects of an educational intervention," Post-Print hal-03972201, HAL.
  5. Anne E. Fitzpatrick & Sabrin A. Beg & Laura C. Derksen & Anne Karing & Jason T. Kerwin & Adrienne Lucas & Natalia Ordaz Reynoso & Munir Squires, 2021. "Health Knowledge and Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Africa," NBER Working Papers 28316, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  6. Laura Derksen & Jason Kerwin & Natalia Ordaz Reynoso & Olivier Sterck, 2021. "Appointments: A More Effective Commitment Device for Health Behaviors," Papers 2110.06876, arXiv.org.
  7. Lasse Brune & Eric Chyn & Jason T. Kerwin, 2021. "Pay Me Later: Savings Constraints and the Demand for Deferred Payments," NBER Working Papers 28611, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  8. Kerwin, Jason Theodore & Thornton, Rebecca, 2020. "Making the Grade: The Sensitivity of Education Program Effectiveness to Input Choices and Outcome Measures," SocArXiv ct9sj, Center for Open Science.
  9. Brune, Lasse & Chyn, Eric T. & Kerwin, Jason Theodore, 2020. "Peers and Motivation at Work: Evidence from a Firm Experiment in Malawi," SocArXiv axbth, Center for Open Science.

Articles

  1. Buhl-Wiggers, Julie & Kerwin, Jason T. & Muñoz-Morales, Juan & Smith, Jeffrey & Thornton, Rebecca, 2024. "Some children left behind: Variation in the effects of an educational intervention," Journal of Econometrics, Elsevier, vol. 243(1).
  2. Lasse Brune & Eric Chyn & Jason Kerwin, 2022. "Peers and Motivation at Work: Evidence from a Firm Experiment in Malawi," Journal of Human Resources, University of Wisconsin Press, vol. 57(4), pages 1147-1177.
  3. Lasse Brune & Jason T Kerwin & Qingxiao Li, 2022. "How Important Is Temptation Spending? Maybe Less than We Thought," The World Bank Economic Review, World Bank, vol. 36(2), pages 433-454.
  4. Lasse Brune & Eric Chyn & Jason Kerwin, 2021. "Pay Me Later: Savings Constraints and the Demand for Deferred Payments," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 111(7), pages 2179-2212, July.
  5. Jason T. Kerwin & Rebecca L. Thornton, 2021. "Making the Grade: The Sensitivity of Education Program Effectiveness to Input Choices and Outcome Measures," The Review of Economics and Statistics, MIT Press, vol. 103(2), pages 251-264, May.
  6. Fitzpatrick, Anne & Beg, Sabrin & Derksen, Laura & Karing, Anne & Kerwin, Jason & Lucas, Adrienne M. & Ordaz Reynoso, Natalia & Squires, Munir, 2021. "Health knowledge and non-pharmaceutical interventions during the Covid-19 pandemic in Africa," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 190(C), pages 33-53.
  7. Brune, Lasse & Kerwin, Jason T., 2019. "Income timing and liquidity constraints: Evidence from a randomized field experiment," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 138(C), pages 294-308.

Citations

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Working papers

  1. Julie Buhl-Wiggers & Jason Kerwin & Juan Muñoz-Morales & Jeffrey Smith & Rebecca Thornton, 2022. "Some children left behind: Variation in the effects of an educational intervention," Post-Print hal-03972201, HAL.

    Cited by:

    1. Li, Yanan & Sunder, Naveen, 2024. "Distributional effects of education on mental health," Labour Economics, Elsevier, vol. 88(C).
    2. Marianne Simonsen & Lars Skipper, 2024. "Healthy at Work? Evidence from a Social Experimental Evaluation of a Firm-Based Wellness Program," CESifo Working Paper Series 11209, CESifo.
    3. Muhammad Meki & Simon Quinn, 2024. "Microfinance: an overview," Oxford Review of Economic Policy, Oxford University Press and Oxford Review of Economic Policy Limited, vol. 40(1), pages 1-7.

  2. Anne E. Fitzpatrick & Sabrin A. Beg & Laura C. Derksen & Anne Karing & Jason T. Kerwin & Adrienne Lucas & Natalia Ordaz Reynoso & Munir Squires, 2021. "Health Knowledge and Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Africa," NBER Working Papers 28316, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.

    Cited by:

    1. Khan, Adnan & Nasim, Sanval & Shaukat, Mahvish & Stegmann, Andreas, 2021. "Building trust in the state with information: Evidence from urban Punjab," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 202(C).
    2. Archibong, Belinda & Annan, Francis & Ekhator-Mobayode, Uche, 2023. "The epidemic effect: Epidemics, institutions and human capital development," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 211(C), pages 549-566.
    3. Derksen, Laura & Kerwin, Jason Theodore & Reynoso, Natalia Ordaz & Sterck, Olivier, 2021. "Appointments: A More Effective Commitment Device for Health Behaviors," SocArXiv y8gh7, Center for Open Science.
    4. Miguel, Edward & Mobarak, Ahmed Mushfiq, 2022. "The Economics of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Poor Countries," Department of Economics, Working Paper Series qt0191q2qs, Department of Economics, Institute for Business and Economic Research, UC Berkeley.
    5. Kohler, Iliana V. & Kämpfen, Fabrice & Ciancio, Alberto & Mwera, James & Mwapasa, Victor & Kohler, Hans-Peter, 2022. "Curtailing Covid-19 on a dollar-a-day in Malawi: Role of community leadership for shaping public health and economic responses to the pandemic," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 151(C).

  3. Laura Derksen & Jason Kerwin & Natalia Ordaz Reynoso & Olivier Sterck, 2021. "Appointments: A More Effective Commitment Device for Health Behaviors," Papers 2110.06876, arXiv.org.

    Cited by:

    1. Gazeaud, Jules & Khan, Nausheen & Mvukiyehe, Eric & Sterck, Olivier, 2023. "With or without him? Experimental evidence on cash grants and gender-sensitive trainings in Tunisia," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 165(C).
    2. Betts, Alexander & Flinder Stierna, Maria & Omata, Naohiko & Sterck, Olivier, 2023. "Refugees welcome? Inter-group interaction and host community attitude formation," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 161(C).

  4. Lasse Brune & Eric Chyn & Jason T. Kerwin, 2021. "Pay Me Later: Savings Constraints and the Demand for Deferred Payments," NBER Working Papers 28611, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.

    Cited by:

    1. Galdo, Jose C., 2021. "Using Bank Savings Product Design for Empowering Women and Agricultural Development," IZA Discussion Papers 14523, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
    2. Bertoletti, Lucía & Borraz, Fernando & Sanroman, Graciela, 2024. "Consumer Debt and Poverty: the Default Risk Gap," GLO Discussion Paper Series 1439, Global Labor Organization (GLO).
    3. Laamanen, Jani-Petri & Matikka, Tuomas & Paukkeri, Tuuli, 2022. "Once or Twice a Month? The Impact of Payment Frequency on Spending Behavior," Working Papers 147, VATT Institute for Economic Research.
    4. Vincent Somville & Lore Vandewalle, 2019. "Access to Banking, Savings and Consumption Smoothing in Rural India," IHEID Working Papers 09-2019, Economics Section, The Graduate Institute of International Studies.
    5. Derksen, Laura & Kerwin, Jason & Reynoso, Natalia Ordaz & Sterck, Olivier, 2024. "Healthcare Appointments as Commitment Devices," IZA Discussion Papers 17070, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
    6. Derksen, Laura & Kerwin, Jason Theodore & Reynoso, Natalia Ordaz & Sterck, Olivier, 2021. "Appointments: A More Effective Commitment Device for Health Behaviors," SocArXiv y8gh7, Center for Open Science.
    7. Carranza,Eliana & Donald,Aletheia Amalia & Grosset,Florian & Kaur,Supreet, 2022. "The Social Tax : Redistributive Pressure and Labor Supply," Policy Research Working Paper Series 10155, The World Bank.
    8. Hisaki KONO & Abu SHONCHOY & Kazushi TAKAHASHI, 2023. "At the Right Time:Eliminating Mismatch between Cash Flow and Credit Flow in Microcredit," Discussion papers e-22-013, Graduate School of Economics , Kyoto University.

  5. Kerwin, Jason Theodore & Thornton, Rebecca, 2020. "Making the Grade: The Sensitivity of Education Program Effectiveness to Input Choices and Outcome Measures," SocArXiv ct9sj, Center for Open Science.

    Cited by:

    1. Pritchett, Lant, 2023. "Rely (only) on the rigorous evidence” is bad advice," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 119818, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
    2. Crawfurd, Lee, 2024. "Feasibility first: Expanding access before fixing learning," International Journal of Educational Development, Elsevier, vol. 104(C).
    3. Aymo Brunetti & Konstantin Büchel & Martina Jakob & Ben Jann & Daniel Steffen, 2021. "Inadequate Teacher Content Knowledge and What to Do About It: Evidence from El Salvador," University of Bern Social Sciences Working Papers 41, University of Bern, Department of Social Sciences.
    4. Cilliers, Jacobus & Fleisch, Brahm & Kotze, Janeli & Mohohlwane, Nompumelelo & Taylor, Stephen & Thulare, Tsegofatso, 2022. "Can virtual replace in-person coaching? Experimental evidence on teacher professional development and student learning," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 155(C).
    5. Annie Duflo & Jessica Kiessel & Adrienne Lucas, 2020. "Experimental Evidence on Alternative Policies to Increase Learning at Scale," NBER Working Papers 27298, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    6. Omar Al-Ubaydli & John List & Claire Mackevicius & Min Sok Lee & Dana Suskind, 2019. "How Can Experiments Play a Greater Role in Public Policy? 12 Proposals from an Economic Model of Scaling," Artefactual Field Experiments 00679, The Field Experiments Website.
    7. Buhl-Wiggers, Julie & Kerwin, Jason & Muñoz-Morales, Juan S. & Smith, Jeffrey A. & Thornton, Rebecca L., 2020. "Some Children Left Behind: Variation in the Effects of an Educational Intervention," IZA Discussion Papers 13598, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
    8. Derksen, Laura & Leclerc, Catherine Michaud & Souza, Pedro CL, 2019. "Searching for Answers: The Impact of Student Access to Wikipedia," CAGE Online Working Paper Series 450, Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy (CAGE).
    9. Derksen, Laura & Michaud-Leclerc, Catherine & Souza, Pedro C.L., 2022. "Restricted access: How the internet can be used to promote reading and learning," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 155(C).
    10. Masselus, Lise & Petrik, Christina & Ankel-Peters, Jörg, 2024. "Lost in the Design Space? Construct Validity in the Microfinance Literature," OSF Preprints nwp8k, Center for Open Science.
    11. Gilligan, Daniel O. & Karachiwalla, Naureen & Kasirye, Ibrahim & Lucas, Adrienne & Neal, Derek, 2018. "Educator Incentives and Educational Triage in Rural Primary Schools," IZA Discussion Papers 11516, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
    12. Chicoine, Luke, 2019. "Schooling with learning: The effect of free primary education and mother tongue instruction reforms in Ethiopia," Economics of Education Review, Elsevier, vol. 69(C), pages 94-107.
    13. Derksen, Laura & Leclerc, Catherine Michaud & Souza, Pedro CL, 2019. "Searching for Answers : The Impact of Student Access to Wikipedia," The Warwick Economics Research Paper Series (TWERPS) 1236, University of Warwick, Department of Economics.
    14. Pritchett, Lant, 2024. "Investing in human capital in Africa: a framework for research," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 123655, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
    15. Gazeaud, Jules & Ricard, Claire, 2024. "Learning effects of conditional cash transfers: The role of class size and composition," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 166(C).
    16. Maruyama, Takao & Kurosaki, Takashi, 2021. "Do remedial activities using math workbooks improve student learning? Empirical evidence from scaled-up interventions in Niger," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 148(C).
    17. Pooja Nakamura & Adria Molotsky & Rosa Castro Zarzur & Varsha Ranjit & Yasmina Haddad & Thomas De Hoop, 2023. "Language of instruction in schools in low‐ and middle‐income countries: A systematic review," Campbell Systematic Reviews, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 19(4), December.
    18. Hakiman, Kamran & Sheely, Ryan, 2023. "Unlocking the Potential of Participatory Planning: How Flexible and Adaptive Governance Interventions Can Work in Practice," OSF Preprints kucjs, Center for Open Science.
    19. Leighton, Margaret, 2022. "Mother tongue reading materials as a bridge to literacy," Economics of Education Review, Elsevier, vol. 91(C).
    20. Rodriguez-Segura, Daniel, 2022. "A closer look at reading comprehension: Experimental evidence from Guatemala," International Journal of Educational Development, Elsevier, vol. 93(C).
    21. Raphaël Martin & Thomas Renault & Baptiste Roux, 2022. "Baisse de la productivité en France : échec en « maths » ?," Université Paris1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (Post-Print and Working Papers) hal-04084079, HAL.
    22. Padilla-Romo, María, 2022. "Full-time schools, policy-induced school switching, and academic performance," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 196(C), pages 79-103.
    23. Lee Crawfurd & David K. Evans & Susannah Hares & Justin Sandefur, 2021. "Live Tutoring Calls Did Not Improve Learning during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Sierra Leone," Working Papers 591, Center for Global Development, revised 01 Jun 2023.
    24. Suzanne Bellue & Adrien Bouguen & Marc Gurand & Valerie Munier & André Tricot, 2023. "When Effective Teacher Training Falls Short in the Classroom: Evidence from an Experiment in Primary Schools," CRC TR 224 Discussion Paper Series crctr224_2023_455, University of Bonn and University of Mannheim, Germany.
    25. Adelaide Baronchelli & Alessandra Foresta & Roberto Ricciuti, 2020. "The Words That Keep People Apart. Official Language, Accountability and Fiscal Capacity," CESifo Working Paper Series 8437, CESifo.
    26. Wesley Burnett, J. & Mothorpe, Christopher, 2021. "Human-induced earthquakes, risk salience, and housing values," Resource and Energy Economics, Elsevier, vol. 63(C).
    27. Joana Cardim & Teresa Molina-Millán & Pedro C. Vicente, 2021. "Can technology improve the classroom experience in primary education? An African experiment on a worldwide program," NOVAFRICA Working Paper Series wp2101, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Nova School of Business and Economics, NOVAFRICA.

  6. Brune, Lasse & Chyn, Eric T. & Kerwin, Jason Theodore, 2020. "Peers and Motivation at Work: Evidence from a Firm Experiment in Malawi," SocArXiv axbth, Center for Open Science.

    Cited by:

    1. Maria De Paola & Roberto Nisticò & Vincenzo Scoppa, 2024. "Workplace Peer Effects in Fertility Decisions," CSEF Working Papers 714, Centre for Studies in Economics and Finance (CSEF), University of Naples, Italy.
    2. Kelly E. Carter, 2018. "The Effect of Labor-Management Complementarities on Production and Efficiency When Management Is Paid but Labor Is Not Paid," Eastern Economic Journal, Palgrave Macmillan;Eastern Economic Association, vol. 44(4), pages 535-557, September.
    3. Nix, Emily, 2020. "A researcher’s guide to the Swedish compulsory school reform," Working Paper Series 2020:14, IFAU - Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy.
    4. Alexandra E. Hill & Jesse Burkhardt, 2021. "Peers in the Field: The Role of Ability and Gender in Peer Effects among Agricultural Workers," American Journal of Agricultural Economics, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 103(3), pages 790-811, May.
    5. Matteo Pazzona, 2022. "Peer interactions and performance in a high‐skilled labour market," Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 124(4), pages 1087-1116, October.
    6. Ben Sprung-Keyser & Sonya Porter, 2023. "The Economic Geography of Lifecycle Human Capital Accumulation: The Competing Effects of Labor Markets and Childhood Environments," Working Papers 23-54, Center for Economic Studies, U.S. Census Bureau.
    7. Abi Adams-Prassl & Kristiina Huttunen & Emily Nix & Ning Zhang, 2022. "Violence against women at work," Economics Series Working Papers 979, University of Oxford, Department of Economics.
    8. Kamei, Kenju & Ashworth, John, 2021. "Peer Learning in Teams and Work Performance: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment," MPRA Paper 111157, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    9. Martin Chegere & Paolo Falco & Andreas Menzel, 2023. "Social Ties at Work and Effort Choice: Experimental Evidence from Tanzania," CERGE-EI Working Papers wp763, The Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education - Economics Institute, Prague.
    10. Ben Weidmann & David J. Deming, 2020. "Team Players: How Social Skills Improve Group Performance," NBER Working Papers 27071, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    11. Messina, Julián & Sanz-de-Galdeano, Anna & Terskaya, Anastasia, 2024. "Birds of a Feather Earn Together. Gender and Peer Effects at the Workplace," IZA Discussion Papers 16721, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
    12. Arai, Natsuki & 荒井, 夏來 & Nakazawa, Nobuhiko & 中澤, 伸彦, 2021. "Does Working with a Future Executive Make Junior Employees More Likely to Be Promoted ?," Discussion Papers 2021-01, Graduate School of Economics, Hitotsubashi University.
    13. Chesney, Alexander J., 2022. "Should I get a master’s degree?," Economics of Education Review, Elsevier, vol. 91(C).

Articles

  1. Buhl-Wiggers, Julie & Kerwin, Jason T. & Muñoz-Morales, Juan & Smith, Jeffrey & Thornton, Rebecca, 2024. "Some children left behind: Variation in the effects of an educational intervention," Journal of Econometrics, Elsevier, vol. 243(1).
    See citations under working paper version above.
  2. Lasse Brune & Eric Chyn & Jason Kerwin, 2022. "Peers and Motivation at Work: Evidence from a Firm Experiment in Malawi," Journal of Human Resources, University of Wisconsin Press, vol. 57(4), pages 1147-1177.
    See citations under working paper version above.
  3. Lasse Brune & Eric Chyn & Jason Kerwin, 2021. "Pay Me Later: Savings Constraints and the Demand for Deferred Payments," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 111(7), pages 2179-2212, July.
    See citations under working paper version above.
  4. Jason T. Kerwin & Rebecca L. Thornton, 2021. "Making the Grade: The Sensitivity of Education Program Effectiveness to Input Choices and Outcome Measures," The Review of Economics and Statistics, MIT Press, vol. 103(2), pages 251-264, May.
    See citations under working paper version above.
  5. Fitzpatrick, Anne & Beg, Sabrin & Derksen, Laura & Karing, Anne & Kerwin, Jason & Lucas, Adrienne M. & Ordaz Reynoso, Natalia & Squires, Munir, 2021. "Health knowledge and non-pharmaceutical interventions during the Covid-19 pandemic in Africa," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 190(C), pages 33-53.
    See citations under working paper version above.Sorry, no citations of articles recorded.

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NEP is an announcement service for new working papers, with a weekly report in each of many fields. This author has had 11 papers announced in NEP. These are the fields, ordered by number of announcements, along with their dates. If the author is listed in the directory of specialists for this field, a link is also provided.
  1. NEP-HEA: Health Economics (6) 2021-02-01 2021-10-18 2022-01-03 2022-03-07 2023-10-30 2024-07-22. Author is listed
  2. NEP-EXP: Experimental Economics (4) 2020-09-28 2021-11-29 2024-07-22 2024-09-23. Author is listed
  3. NEP-HRM: Human Capital and Human Resource Management (2) 2020-07-27 2021-04-12
  4. NEP-URE: Urban and Real Estate Economics (2) 2020-07-27 2021-11-29
  5. NEP-BIG: Big Data (1) 2021-11-29
  6. NEP-DEV: Development (1) 2020-09-28
  7. NEP-ECM: Econometrics (1) 2024-09-23
  8. NEP-EDU: Education (1) 2021-11-29
  9. NEP-LMA: Labor Markets - Supply, Demand, and Wages (1) 2021-04-12
  10. NEP-NET: Network Economics (1) 2020-07-27

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