CEGA Research Retreat (R^2) 2019

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.

This was a closed event.

Agenda

9 am          Breakfast

9:30 am    Teevrat Garg, Adaptation Through Social Policy: Temperature, Violence and Cash Transfers

10:30 am  Supreet Kaur, The Poor Tax: Redistributive Pressure and Labor Supply

11:30 am   Coffee

12:00 pm  Dan Bennett, The Economic Impact of Mental Health Care in India

1:00 pm     Lunch

2:00 pm    Kate Casey, An Experiment in Candidate Selection

3:00 pm    Vittorio Bassi, Achieving Scale Collectively: Evidence from Manufacturing Firms in Urban Uganda

4:00 pm     CEGA Updates & Closing Remarks

4:30 pm     Happy hour