Overview
Robert Garlick joined the economics department as an assistant professor in 2014. He previously worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the World Bank's Development Research Group and holds a PhD in economics and public policy from the University of Michigan. Garlick was born and raised in South Africa, where he studied economics, mathematics and philosophy at the University of Cape Town and managed a small education nonprofit.
Garlick studies education and labor economics in developing countries. He is currently working on peer and network effects in education, determinants of education investments by households, and transitions between education and the labor market. This work spans empirical and methodological topics, and includes primary data collection in and analysis of secondary data from Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa.
Garlick studies education and labor economics in developing countries. He is currently working on peer and network effects in education, determinants of education investments by households, and transitions between education and the labor market. This work spans empirical and methodological topics, and includes primary data collection in and analysis of secondary data from Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa.
Office Hours
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Current Appointments & Affiliations
Research Associate
Economics,
Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
Recent Publications
Call Me Maybe: Experimental Evidence on Using Mobile Phones to Survey Microenterprises
Journal Article Economic Research Initiatives at Duke (ERID) · July 27, 2016 High-frequency data is useful to measure volatility, reduce recall bias, and measure dynamic treatment effects. We conduct the first experimental evaluation of high-frequency phone surveys in a developing country or with microenterprises. We randomly assig ... Open Access CiteData vs. Methods: Quasi-Experimental Evaluation of Alternative Sample Selection Corrections for Missing College Entrance Exam Score Data
Journal Article Economic Research Initiatives at Duke (ERID) · June 7, 2016 In 2007, Michigan began requiring all high school students to take the ACT college entrance exam. This natural experiment allows us to evaluate the performance of several parametric and semiparametric sample selection correction models. We apply each model ... Open Access CiteAcademic Peer Effects with Different Group Assignment Policies: Residential Tracking versus Random Assignment
Journal Article Economic Research Initiatives at Duke (ERID) · March 3, 2016 I study the relative academic performance of students tracked or randomly assigned to South African university dormitories. Tracking reduces low-scoring students' GPAs but has little effect on high-scoring students. This lowers mean GPA and raises GPA disp ... Open Access CiteRecent Grants
Misreported Applicant Qualifications: Implications for Gendered Job Search and Hiring
ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by The London School of Economics and Political Science · 2024 - 2026Matching Digital Service Export Jobs In Kenya
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by The London School of Economics and Political Science · 2023 - 2025Doctoral Dissertation Research in Economics: : Investigating the Impact of the 'Norm to Work' on Worker Power and Labor Market Outcomes
Inst. Training Prgm or CMEPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2023 - 2025View All Grants
Education, Training & Certifications
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor ·
2013
Ph.D.