{"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":"2026-10-08T11:33:49","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T15:33:49","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":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:100%\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/oge.mit.edu\/msrp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/05\/Asmat-Andrea--e1791473594387.jpg\" alt=\"Asmat, Andrea\" class=\"wp-image-5571\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oge.mit.edu\/msrp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/05\/Asmat-Andrea--e1791473594387.jpg 400w, https:\/\/oge.mit.edu\/msrp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/05\/Asmat-Andrea--e1791473594387-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/oge.mit.edu\/msrp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/05\/Asmat-Andrea--e1791473594387-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-container-content-69bc4bdf wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>MIT Department: <\/strong><br>Political Science<br><br><strong>Faculty Mentor<\/strong>: <br>Daniel Hidalgo<br><br><strong>Undergraduate Institution:<\/strong><br>Purdue University<strong><br><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/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 Science, with interests in political economy, behavioral economics and finance. Growing up in Peru has influenced how she sees the impact of institutions, markets, and social conditions on daily life, especially in Latin America. As an MSRP intern in Political Science at MIT, Andrea is conducting research on survey methodology, political behavior, and urban accessibility, including projects that use digital tools such as WhatsApp-based surveys to enable more precise microtargeting in Peru and Brazil. Her past experience in financial operations, research, and student leadership has sparked her interest in linking quantitative analysis to real policy issues. Andrea wants to keep developing as a researcher and use evidence-based approaches to 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><\/strong>Andrea Asmat<sup>1<\/sup>, Daniel Hidalgo<sup>2<\/sup><br><sup>1<\/sup>Department of Economics &amp; Political Science, Purdue University<br><sup>2<\/sup>Department of Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left 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":4,"href":"https:\/\/oge.mit.edu\/msrp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profiles\/5253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5905,"href":"https:\/\/oge.mit.edu\/msrp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profiles\/5253\/revisions\/5905"}],"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}]}}