{"id":5253,"date":"2026-05-13T15:01:52","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T19:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oge.mit.edu\/msrp\/?post_type=profiles&#038;p=5253"},"modified":"2026-08-12T08:05:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T12:05:00","slug":"andrea-asmat-caro","status":"publish","type":"profiles","link":"https:\/\/oge.mit.edu\/msrp\/profiles\/andrea-asmat-caro\/","title":{"rendered":"Andrea Asmat Caro"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"599\" src=\"https:\/\/oge.mit.edu\/msrp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/05\/Asmat-Andrea-.jpg\" alt=\"by Corban Swain\" class=\"wp-image-5571\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1;object-fit:cover;width:200px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oge.mit.edu\/msrp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/05\/Asmat-Andrea-.jpg 400w, https:\/\/oge.mit.edu\/msrp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/05\/Asmat-Andrea--200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Purdue University<\/strong><br>Faculty Advisor: Prof. Daniel Hidalgo<br>Department: Political Science<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:0px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Biography<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Andrea Asmat is a rising junior at Purdue University studying Economics and Political<br>Science, with interests in political economy, behavioral economics and finance. Growing up in<br>Peru has influenced how she sees the impact of institutions, markets, and social conditions on<br>daily life, especially in Latin America. As an MSRP intern in Political Science at MIT, Andrea<br>is conducting research on survey methodology, political behavior, and urban accessibility,<br>including projects that use digital tools such as WhatsApp-based surveys to enable more<br>precise microtargeting in Peru and Brazil. Her past experience in financial operations, research,<br>and student leadership has sparked her interest in linking quantitative analysis to real policy<br>issues. Andrea wants to keep developing as a researcher and use evidence-based approaches to<br>better understand social and economic problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><br><strong>Recruitment Through Social Media<br>Andrea Asmat1, Daniel Hidalgo2<\/strong><br>1Department of Economics &amp; Political Science, Purdue University<br>2Department of Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><br>Understanding public opinion and people&#8217;s experiences in specific local contexts can be<br>difficult when traditional surveys lack geographic precision needed to reach a small or hardto-<br>reach population. This MIT Summer Research project focuses on whether using WhatsApplinked<br>social media ads can help recruit local respondents more quickly and accurately. For this<br>stage, we selected geographically targeted areas in Peru and Brazil, and used Meta ads to target<br>participants and invite them to take surveys. The project also involved developing recruitment<br>plans for each geographic area, setting up automated survey flows, as well as testing different<br>experimental treatments and survey format, including audio responses, image questions and<br>location sharing prompts. Preliminary results suggest that Meta ads can recruit respondents<br>from narrowly defined geographic areas within relatively short periods, although response<br>volume and recruitment costs vary across locations. Geographic validation also indicates<br>that ad targeting alone does not perfectly identify residents of the intended area, emphasizing<br>the value of combining targeting with residence, local-knowledge, and location-verification<br>questions. Respondents also engaged with multiple WhatsApp-based formats. Overall, the<br>findings highlight that Social Media recruitment can be a flexible method for collecting<br>localized data in contexts where traditional approaches may be less precise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":5571,"template":"","profile_category":[25],"class_list":["post-5253","profiles","type-profiles","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","profile_category-2026-interns"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oge.mit.edu\/msrp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profiles\/5253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oge.mit.edu\/msrp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profiles"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oge.mit.edu\/msrp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profiles"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/oge.mit.edu\/msrp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profiles\/5253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5790,"href":"https:\/\/oge.mit.edu\/msrp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profiles\/5253\/revisions\/5790"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oge.mit.edu\/msrp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oge.mit.edu\/msrp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"profile_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oge.mit.edu\/msrp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile_category?post=5253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}