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Kelly Zhang

Research Affiliate

email kwzhang@mit.edu

Kelly is a Research Scientist at the Busara Center for Behavioral Economics and a Research Affiliate at MIT GOV/LAB. She is working with Busara and MIT GOV/LAB to build out an online experiments research agenda for the Global South. Her research focuses on the impact of information on voter attitudes and behavior. This includes working with partners to design and implement projects that examined how information and technology can shape political discourse and civic engagement. At MIT GOV/LAB, she worked with Busara to co-launch the Behavioral Science in the Field Course in Nairobi, Kenya. Previously, Kelly was a computational social scientist for ACRONYM and data scientist at Social Capital and Crowdpac. During her graduate studies, she worked with various civil society and international organizations including Twaweza, the National Taxpayers Association, USAID, and the World Bank on initiatives aimed at improving governance. She earned her BA/BS in Political Science/Biology from University of California, San Diego and her PhD/MA in Political Science/Economics from Stanford University.

Projects

  • Resources October 2022

    Crowdsourcing Content to Improve Vaccine Confidence and Uptake in the Global South

    Busara-MIT GOV/LAB case study assessing what types of messaging and messengers are the most effective in increasing Covid-19 vaccine confidence and uptake.

  • News September 2022

    A Partnership to Teach: Training the Next Generation of Behavioral Scientists with Busara and MIT GOV/LAB

    MIT GOV/LAB and Busara's work training the next generation of behavioral scientists.

  • Resources September 2022

    Busara-MIT GOV/LAB Blog Book

    A compilation of twelve original lab in the field research designs summaries and bios from the inaugural Busara - MIT Behavioral Science in the Field course.

  • News September 2020

    [WZB Magazine] Taking Behavioral Science to the Field in Kenya

    Training the next generation of scholars in behavioral science from a Global South perspective.

  • Research February 2020

    A Novel Approach to Civic Pedagogy: Training Grassroots Organizers on WhatsApp

    Research results from a collaborative project with Grassroot, a civic technology organization based in South Africa.

  • News April 2019

    Designing Social Impact Metrics for Civic Technology

    Bringing together partners from the US (POPVOX) and South Africa (Grassroot), we tested a new format to co-develop metrics and civic technology in an iterative design process.

  • Projects May 2020

    Data to Inform the Pandemic Response (Covid-19)

    How can social science research provide rapid inputs to public health crises? Our team is working with partners to produce data and evidence to inform pandemic responses.

  • Resources January 2020

    Behavioral Science in the Field Course

    A novel graduate course in Kenya providing an interdisciplinary approach to Behavioral Science, with three tracks in economics, political science, and social psychology, and training in the full cycle of lab-in-the-field research.

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