Staff profile

Samuel Arispe is a Ph.D. student at Centre for Behaviour, Markets, and Policy (BeMAP)(Durham University), and external consultant at Ministry of Household, Bulding and Sanitation (Peru). He holds a MA in Economics from Universidad de San Andres (Argentina). He is also an affiliate fellow at the IDRC Chair on Migration and Displacement at the Universidad del Pacifico, Peru.

Samuel's current research relies on a large-scale randomized experiment to identify the best-performing policy out of many candidate treatments, using a treatment variant aggregation method that avoids the bias standard multiple-comparison corrections introduce when treatments are numerous and correlated. He also converts intent-to-treat effects into local average treatment effects through score matching and an instrumental-variables design, an approach that extends beyond behavioral nudges to any setting where researchers must choose among several candidate interventions.

In more recent projects he is working with Peru's Ministry of Housing on the design and targeting of subsidies in water tariffs, and, with Prima AFP, studying how early withdrawals from private pension funds affect households' financial behavior.

• Applied Economics
• Behavioural Economics
• Development Economics