CEGA Research Retreat (R^2) 2018

The CEGA Research Retreat (R^2) is an annual gathering of invited faculty, staff and students from multiple CEGA campuses with a shared interest in impact evaluation. The purpose of R^2, which features presentations by CEGA-affiliated researchers and their collaborators, is to generate feedback for new and ongoing research, and to stimulate productive discussions among participants.

Agenda

9 am          Breakfast

9:30 am     Ted Miguel and Max Auffhammer, Economic Decision-making, Judgment, and Destructive Behavior Under Thermal Stress

10:30 am   Josh Blumenstock, Migration and the Value of Social Networks

11:30 am   Coffee

12:00 pm   Supreet Kaur, Does Poverty Lower Productivity?

1:00 pm     Lunch

2:00 pm     Dan Posner, The Weakness of Bottom-Up Accountability: Experimental Evidence from the Ugandan Health Sector

3:00 pm     Ajay Shenoy, Does Insecure Land Tenure Deter Investment? Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial

4:00 pm     CEGA transitions and opportunities

4:30 pm     Happy hour