Margaret Anne McConnell

Contact Information

Email:mmcconne at hsph dot harvard dot edu
Office Phone:(203) 745-8321
Address:Building 1, Room 1217
Harvard School of Public Health
665 Huntington Ave
Boston, MA 02115
Margaret McConnell

Margaret McConnell is Assistant Professor of Global Health Economics at the Harvard School of Public Health. Her current research combines behavioral economics with field and laboratory experiments to understand and evaluate policies designed to change health and savings behavior. She is currently working on a number of field trials in Africa and Latin America related to messaging and behavior change, the formation of price expectations for health goods and the design of savings products and their impacts on health and health spending.
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Working Papers

"Between Intention and Action: An Experiment on Individual Savings"

"Hey Look at Me: The Effect of Giving Circles on Giving" with Dean Karlan

"Getting to the Top of Mind: How Reminders Increase Savings" with Dean Karlan, Sendhil Mullainathan and Jonathan Zinman

"Heterogeneous Treatment Effects and Multiple Hypothesis Testing in Field Experiments" with Gunther Fink and Sebastian Vollmer