CEGA Research Retreat (R^2) 2025
Carson Christiano, CEGA Executive Director, speaks at a CEGA conference in 2023
Matt Krupoff
The CEGA Research Retreat (R^2) is an annual gathering of invited faculty, staff, postdocs and graduate students from multiple CEGA campuses with a shared interest in impact evaluation for social and economic development. R^2 is designed to generate feedback and discussion around presentations of newly completed, unpublished work by CEGA affiliated faculty and their colleagues.
This is a closed event.
Agenda
This year, we hosted six, 45-minute, seminar-style talks, along with coffee breaks and updates from Center leadership. Research talks listed below:
- Andreas de Barros | UC Irvine: The best buy? Prospective evidence on successful remediation in Morocco’s public primary schools
- Guilherme Lichand | Stanford University: The Educational Impacts of Phone Restrictions in Schools: Evidence from Brazil
- Sara Lowes | UC San Diego: Age Sets, Accountability, and the Balance of Power: Evidence from Villages in Rural Congo
- Joshua Blumenstock | UC Berkeley: Scalable Targeting of Social Protection: When Do Algorithms Out-Perform Surveys and Community Knowledge?
- Ajay Shenoy | UC Santa Cruz: Misperceptions and Product Choice: Evidence from a Randomized Trial in Zambia
- Meera Mahadevan | UC San Diego: On the Back Burner: Experimental Evidence For Energy Transitions
Nominations
If you are a CEGA affiliated faculty member and would like to nominate a job market candidate or graduate student to attend, please email us.
