Rate My Professor Andrew Dustan

Dustan's scholarship has been published in prominent journals including the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Journal of Human Resources, and Economics of Education Review. Key publications include "Preferences, access, and the STEM gender gap in centralized high school assignment" with Diana K. L. Ngo (2024), "Motivating bureaucrats with behavioral insights when state capacity is weak: Evidence from large-scale field experiments in Peru" with Juan Manuel Hernández-Agramonte and Stanislao Maldonado (2023), "Second-order beliefs and gender" with Kristine Koutout and Greg Leo (2022), "Can large, untargeted conditional cash transfers decrease high school dropout? Evidence from Mexico City’s Prepa Sí" (2020), "Family networks and school choice" (2018), "Commuting to educational opportunity? School choice effects of mass transit expansion in Mexico City" with Diana K. L. Ngo (2018), and "Flourish or fail? The risky reward of elite high school admission in Mexico City" with Alain de Janvry and Elisabeth Sadoulet (2017). He has obtained significant research funding as Co-PI on grants from the National Science Foundation (SES-2214992, $414,029, 2022-2024), J-PAL Learning for All Initiative ($153,377, 2025), Spencer Foundation ($37,119, 2016), and others including Vanderbilt University and UC Berkeley awards. Dustan contributes to academic discourse through service on the program committee for the Development Economics in the South Workshop (2024, 2025), as co-organizer (2023), and on the Academic Committee of the Impact Evaluation Network, LACEA (2023).