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Nancy F. Hite
Yale University Department of Political Science
Rosenkranz Hall 115 Prospect st. • New Haven, CT 06511
Ph.D. Candidate in Political Science May 2012
Yale University
• Dissertation: “Economic Modernization and the Disruption of Patronage Politics: Experimental Evidence from the Philippines.”
• Advisers: Susan Rose-Ackerman (Chair), Donald Green, Susan Stokes
• Research Interests: Comparative Political Economy of Development, Clientelism and Corruption, Political Participation in Democracies, Political Psychology, Behavioral Economics, Experimental Methods and Spatial Econometrics
Areas Studied: Southeast Asia; the Philippines, Mexico and India
MPhil in Political Science Feb. 2008
Yale University
• Qualifying Fields: Political Economy, Comparative Politics, International Relations, and Empirical Methods.
• Field Papers: “Has Interjurisdictional Solidarity Gone too Far? Analyzing the Impact of Germany’s Cooperative Fiscal Federalism on Accountability in Public Spending.” & “Measuring Regional Variation of Corruption Induced Inefficiency in Public Roads Construction, using German Data.”
LL.M. in Law and Economics ` Oct. 2004
University of Hamburg, Germany
• Research assistant for Prof. Hans Bernd Schaefer, Director of the Institute for Law and Economics
B.A. in Economics, Minor in German May. 2003
University of Texas
• Phi Beta Kappa, degree conferred with Honors and Distinction.
• Thesis advised by Professor Brian Roberts.
GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS
• Charles Kao Fund Summer Research Grant (2010)
• Yale University Dissertation Fellowship (2008-2009)
• Dissertation Research Grant, Institute for Social and Policy Studies and MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies, Yale University (2008 & 2009)
• Yale University Doctoral Fellowship (2004-2007)
• George Walter Leitner Program in International and Comparative Political Economy Research Grant (Summer 2007) • Fulbright Student Grant, awarded by United States Department of State and Fulbright Commission in Germany (2003-2004) • Federation of German-American Clubs Grant for Study Abroad (2003, declined) • Glady Watford Endowed Scholarship, University of Texas at Austin (2002-03) • Golden Key International Research Travel Grant, for Travel to 8th International Conference of the Society for Computational Economics in Aix-en-Provence France (2002) • Scholarship Recipient. Checkpoint Charlie Foundation. Berlin, Germany (2001)
TEACHING
Workshop on Introduction to GIS for Social Sciences, Yale Statistics Lab. Fall 2011
Workshops on STATA and Survey Design for Yale Statistics Lab. Spring 2011
Introduction to International Relations, Prof. Jolyon Howorth, Fall 2010
Workshop on Intermediate/Advanced STATA for Yale Statistics Lab. Fall 2010
Capitalism: Success Crisis and Reform, Prof. Douglas Rae, Fall 2009
Inequality and American Democracy, Prof. Jacob Hacker, Spring 2008
The New Europe, Prof. David Cameron, Fall 2007
Politics and Markets, Prof. Peter Swenson, Spring 2007. Guest Lecturer: Corruption and Development
Graduate Statistics, Prof. Donald Green, Fall 2006. Guest Lecture: Intro Bayesian Statistics
Co-taught Workshop on STATA for Yale Statistics Lab. Fall 2008
Statistics Tutor to Yale Undergraduates. Summer 2007
EXPERIENCE
Field Work:
• West Bank, Palestine – July 2011
• Manila, Philippines —December 2007-January 2008, May- June 2009 and July – August 2009, March- May 2010
• India - March - April 2009
Brooks World Poverty Institute at Manchester University, and Initiative for Policy Dialogue at Columbia University: Advanced Graduate Workshop on Poverty, Development and Globalization in Manchester, UK. June 15th to July 3rd, 2009
Middlebury College Language School: Spanish, Summer 2008
Yale Statistics Lab Consultant, Fall 2007 - present
Graduate Student Co-coordinator for Leitner Program’s Election & Distribution Conference, October 26th- 27th, 2007
Research Assistant for Prof. Jacob Hacker, Yale University Political Science Dept: statistics and programming (2007) for book project - Jacob Hacker. “The Great Risk Shift: The New Economic Insecurity and the Decline of the American Dream” Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2008
Coordinator for International Relations Workshop, Yale University Political Science Dept. 2006-07
ICPSR Summer Program Workshop on Spatial Regression. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor MI. June 2006.
Research Assistant for Prof. Hans B. Schaefer, University Hamburg: statistics and computing 2004 Translator and Editor for Law Faculty at University Hamburg, Germany. 2003-04
Teacher for the Summerbridge Program at the Hopkins School. 2003
Research Assistant for Prof. Alfred Norman, University of Texas at Austin. 2001- 03
Policy Intern at Texas Governor Rick Perry’s Office. 2002
Liberal Arts Council and Golden Key Honor Society, Vice President-elect. 2001-03
PRESENTATIONS
APSA and ISPP Presentations: “A Checkpoint Effect? Evidence from a Natural Experiment on Travel Restrictions in the West Bank” with Matthew Longo and Daphna Canetti. September 2, 2011. Annual Convention of the American Political Science Association. Seattle, Washington.
AND
July 11, 2011. 34th Annual Scientific Meeting of the International Society of Political Psychology. Istanbul, Turkey.
MPSA Presentation: “Political Engagement, Social Change and the Political Economy of Financial Modernization: Experimental Evidence from the Philippines.” March 31, 2011 Midwest Political Science Association Annual Conference, Chicago, Illinois
Field-experiments Workshop: “Political Disengagement and Financial Modernization: Auxiliary Spatial and Qualitative Analysis ” December 10, 2010. The Institute for Social and Policy Studies, Yale University.
Field-experiments Workshop: “Political Disengagement & Public Service Delivery: Evidence from an Experiment on Mailing Packages to the Philippines” November 5,2010. The Institute for Social and Policy Studies, Yale University.
APSA Panel Chair: “Political Participation and Clientelism in Changing Economic Circumstances: Comparative Case Studies within Developing Democracies.”
Paper Presentation “Local Political Engagement and Clientelism in Light of Modernizing Financial Practices: Experimental and Survey-based Evidence from Manila, Philippines.” September 3rd 2010, Annual Convention of the American Political Science Association. Washington D.C.
Field Experiments Workshop: “The Implications for India’s Rural Bank Expansion Program on Local Governance, Political Engagement and Collective Action Potential: A Village Level Regression Discontinuity Study.” October 16th 2009. The Institute for Social and Policy Studies, Yale University.
APSA Panel Chair: “Political Engagement and Governance in Developing Democracies: New Experimental Evidence.”
Paper Presentation “Political Engagement, Social Change and the Political Economy of Financial Modernization: Experimental Evidence from the Philippines.” September 4th, 2009 Annual Convention of the American Political Science Association. Toronto, CA.
Advanced Graduate Workshop on Poverty, Development and Globalization: “Implications of Modernizing Financial Markets for Local Political Engagement and Governance: Experimental Evidence from the Philippines.” July 29th, 2009. Brooks World Poverty Institute at Manchester University and the Initiative for Policy Dialogue at Columbia University. Manchester, UK.
ISPS Experiments Workshop: “Measuring Corruption by sending Filipinos Cross-stitch Materials: Field Experiment Testing Framing Upon Law Compliance.” April 10th 2009.
ISPS @ 40 Celebration and Conference. Poster Presentation. "Political Engagement, Social Change and the Political Economy of Microfinance Expansion: Experimental Evidence from the Philippines." November 15th 2008. The Institute for Social and Policy Studies, Yale University.
University of Hamburg Institute for Law and Economics Seminar Series - presented two related papers: “Has Interjurisdictional Solidarity Gone too Far? Analyzing the Impact of Germany’s Cooperative Fiscal Federalism on Accountability in Public Spending.” And “Measuring Regional Variation of Corruption Induced Inefficiency in Public Roads Construction, using German Data.” Seminar, October 29th-30th 2008. Hamburg. Germany.
ISPS Experiments Workshop: "Clientelism in Modernizing Financial Markets: Brainstorming New Evidence from the Philippines." 12:00- 1:30 p.m. Oct. 17th. 2008 AND Political Economy Reading Group: "Political Engagement, Social Change and the Political Economy of Microfinance Expansion: Experimental Evidence from the Philippines." 3:30- 5 p.m. Oct. 17th. 2008.
Graduate Experiments Workshop: “Political Engagement, Social Change and Microfinance Expansion: Experimental Evidence from the Philippines.” May 9th 2008. The Institute for Social and Policy Studies. Yale University.
Graduate Experiments Workshop: “Dissertation Prospectus: Income Dynamics and Political Psychology among Filipino Working Poor: An Experimental Approach.” October 12th 2007. The Institute for Social and Policy Studies. Yale University.
George Walter Leitner Political Economy Seminar Series – “Micro-finance and Civil Trust: An Experimental Approach.” – Brainstorming Session, March 4, 2007 Yale University.
8th International Conference of the Society for Computational Economics – “A Theory of Innovation.” co-authored with Prof. Alfred Norman et al. – held in Aix-en-Provence, France June 27-29, 2002.
RESEARCH IN PROGRESS & ONLINE REFERENCES
“A Checkpoint Effect? Evidence from a Natural Experiment on Travel Restrictions in the West Bank” (2011) with Matthew Longo and Daphna Canetti. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1899931
“For Law, God or Country – A Field Experiment on Normative and Legal Pressure as a Tool for Improving Public Service Delivery in the Philippines”
“Political Engagement, Social Change and the Political Economy of Financial Modernization: Experimental Evidence from the Philippines” (August 1, 2010). Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1674102
“Guns, Goons, Gold and Election Technology” and unpublished news article on Philippines May 2010 Election and introduction of electronic voting, May 2010
"There's Something about Ambiguity" 2007, with Santosh Anagol, Sheree Bennett, Gharad Bryan, Tiffany Davenport, Nancy Hite, Dean Karlan, Paul Lagunes and Margaret McConnell. revise and resubmit Economic Inquiry. And. Boston Globe (October 28, 2008)
“Measuring Regional Variation of Corruption Induced Inefficiency in Public Roads Construction, using German Data”
http://www.golden.polisci.ucla.edu/recent_papers/nancygermanyreplication.pdf
“Has Interjurisdictional Solidarity Gone too Far? Analyzing the Impact of Germany’s Cooperative Fiscal Federalism on Accountability in Public Spending.”
http://www.ile-hamburg.de/_data/0809.pdf
“Socio-political Implications of India’s State-led Rural Banking Expansion Program: A Village Level Regression Discontinuity Study.”
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
American Political Science Association
Midwest Political Science Association
LANGUAGES AND RESEARCH SKILLS
English, German (fluent), Spanish and Tagalog (beginner)
STATA, ArcGIS, R
REFERENCES
Susan Rose-Ackerman (chair)
Henry R. Luce Prof of Jurisprudence, Law School and Dept. of Political Science
P.O. Box 208215
New Haven, CT 06520
Email: [email protected]
Susan Stokes
John S. Saden Professor of Political Science
Yale University
115 Prospect St., Rosenkranz Hall, Rm. 327
New Haven, CT 06520
Email: [email protected]
Donald P. Green
Columbia University
710 IAB, Mail Code 3320
420 West 118th Street
New York, NY 10027
Email: [email protected]