Research Roadmap: Mastering Fieldwork Essentials

Andres F. Rodriguez, PhD ‘24, explained the nuts and bolts of managing survey research in the field. Rodriguez, the Impact and Learning Manager at Stanford Impact Labs and a recipient of King Center graduate student funding, covered best practices for conducting fieldwork in low-income countries, including topics like hiring enumerators and how to do high-frequency data checks. Rodriguez drew on his own research which relies on primary data collection and experimental methods, both for large-scale policy evaluation and field experiments, based in Sierra Leone and Zambia.

King Center Faculty Director Katherine Casey moderated a Q&A session with the audience.