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Clint Harris
Scientist II | Lecturer
Wisconsin Institute for Discovery | Wisconsin School of Business
University of Wisconsin-Madison
I am an applied econometrician with interests in labor economics and economics of education.
I apply, adapt, and develop econometric methods to overcome challenges in inferring effects of existing treatments from data and effects of counterfactual treatments from effects of existing treatments. Examples of my ongoing work include:
Estimating effects of peer and dorm assignments in university residence halls when quasi-random room assignment procedures used by administrators are unknown to the researcher and unknown subsets of students are not assigned randomly
Estimating returns to college using instrumental variables when instruments shift individuals into multiple unobserved versions of college that each have distinct treatment effects
Predicting responses to counterfactual college financial aid changes, allowing for systematic misperceptions regarding college costs
Developing a correction for survey nonresponse (including experiment follow-up attrition) due to unobservable factors that relies on reminder timing and subject response timing (rather than randomized incentives), applied to a survey regarding entrepreneurial intentions