Academic Appointments

  • Hoover Research Fellow, Hoover Institution

Contact

  • Academic
    dmistree@stanford.edu
    University - Academic staff Department: HOOVER RESEARCH Position: Hoover Institution Research Fellow

Additional Info

2023-24 Courses

Stanford Advisees

  • Master's Program Advisor
    Anjali Kumar, Sakeena Razick

All Publications

  • The Bribery Double Standard: Leveraging the Foreign-Domestic Divide STANFORD LAW REVIEW Mance, A. A., Mistree, D. 2022; 74 (1): 163-222

    View details for Web of Science ID 000755207700003

  • Instructional interventions for improving COVID-19 knowledge, attitudes, behaviors: Evidence from a large-scale RCT in India. Social science & medicine (1982) Mistree, D. n., Loyalka, P. n., Fairlie, R. n., Bhuradia, A. n., Angrish, M. n., Lin, J. n., Karoshi, A. n., Yen, S. J., Mistri, J. n., Bayat, V. n. 2021; 276: 113846

    Abstract

    Seeking ways to encourage broad compliance with health guidelines during the pandemic, especially among youth, we test two hypotheses pertaining to the optimal design of instructional interventions for improving COVID-19-related knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors. We randomly assigned 8376 lower-middle income youth in urban India to three treatments: a concentrated and targeted fact-based, instructional intervention; a longer instructional intervention that provided the same facts along with underlying scientific concepts; and a control. Relative to existing efforts, we find that both instructional interventions increased COVID-19-related knowledge immediately after intervention. Relative to the shorter fact-based intervention, the longer intervention resulted in sustained improvements in knowledge, attitudes, and self-reported behavior. Instead of reducing attention and comprehension by youth, the longer scientific based treatment appears to have increased understanding and retention of the material. The findings are instrumental to understanding the design of instruction and communication in affecting compliance during this and future pandemics.

    View details for DOI 10.1016/j.socscimed.2021.113846

    View details for PubMedID 33773476

  • Responding to COVID-19 Through Surveys of Public Servants. Public administration review Schuster, C. n., Weitzman, L. n., Sass Mikkelsen, K. n., Meyer-Sahling, J. n., Bersch, K. n., Fukuyama, F. n., Paskov, P. n., Rogger, D. n., Mistree, D. n., Kay, K. n. 2020

    Abstract

    Responding to COVID-19 presents unprecedented challenges for public sector practitioners and addressing those challenges requires knowledge about the problems public sector workers face. This Viewpoint essay argues that timely, up-to-date surveys of public sector workers are an essential tool for identifying problems, resolving bottlenecks and enabling public sector workers to operate effectively during and in response to the challenges posed by the global pandemic. This article presents the COVID-19 Survey of Public Servants, which is currently rolled out in several countries by the Global Survey of Public Servants Consortium to assist governments in strategically compiling evidence to operate effectively during the COVID-19 pandemic. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.

    View details for DOI 10.1111/puar.13246

    View details for PubMedID 32836447

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