This assignment is about the idea for the Experiment/Intervention – This step is to get prof’s approval.What I need is a straight forward but a policy-relevant question. For e.g., imagine you are the Governor of the State, and you are being asked to address the issue of poverty in a specific area. What will you do? In this case, evidence from past policy experiments shows that “Cash Transfer” intervention helps address this problem. For e.g., https://econweb.ucsd.edu/~pniehaus/papers/cash_transfers_ge.pdf. In this paper, the authors examine “how does an inflow of ~15% of GDP affect a poor rural economy?”Prepare a research proposal and design aimed at a relevant policy problem (e.g. reduce the gender gap in education). Choose a topic from one of these topics:1. Poverty (in China)2. Education (in China)It better includes all these following points:1. Background2. Simply introduce the intervention (this cannot be multiple interventions, but one precise, well-defined intervention)3. Why this intervention (or motivation behind the intervention)?4. Why this context? BTW, the course is about Economic Development and policymaking in actionI’ll use this topic for the full proposal, so please be thoughtful while writing it, thanks!!!
