Upcoming Events
UPDATE: CEGA and the World Bank have decided to move our March 31st conference, “Measuring Development: Data Integration and Data Fusion” online, with an abbreviated agenda. We are eager to maintain opportunities for learning and engagement in the midst of the ongoing COVID-19 crisis. We hope...
As part of O-Lab's Labor Science Initiative, focused on opening new datasets and applying new computer science tools to the study of labor markets and social inequality, O-Lab will be hosting an afternoon of faculty and graduate student presentations of work operating through this initiative. The...
CEGA’s Psychology and Economics of Poverty (PEP) Initiative will host its third annual convening on May 1st, 2020 at UC Berkeley. In recent years, this event has brought together faculty and graduate students from the disciplines of psychology and economics to share research advancing our...
On May 29th, O-Lab will host a full-day conference featuring leading researchers in urban economics and place-based policy. This event, part of O-Lab's Initiative on Inequality and Place, will present a range of new papers on topics such as urban migration patterns, foreclosures, state and local...
On June 24th, 2020, CEGA and New Light Technologies Inc. will host a one-day Geospatial Analysis for Development (Geo4Dev) Summer Workshop on the sidelines of CEGA’s 9th Annual East Africa Social Science Translation (EASST) Summit in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. The workshop is designed to equip...
The East Africa Social Science Translation (EASST) Collaborative, managed by the Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA) at UC Berkeley, is holding its 9th Annual EASST Summit in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Over the past nine years, EASST has built a robust network of 34 talented East African...
The Working Group in African Political Economy (WGAPE) brings together faculty and advanced graduate students in Economics and Political Science who combine field research experience in Africa with training in political economy methods. The group has met semi-annually to discuss the in-progress...
Past Events
NOTICE: We take the health and safety of our colleagues very seriously and want to do all that we can to minimize transmission of COVID-19. In light of the rapidly evolving situation, we have decided to move the Pacific Conference for Development Economics (PacDev) fully online. See the complete...
BITSS will hold its eighth Annual Meeting on December 13, 2019, at the Wells Fargo Room, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley. The event brings together stakeholders from academia, scholarly publishing, and policy to share knowledge and discuss the evolving movement toward research transparency...
BITSS and the Stanford Immigration Policy Lab (IPL) will host a one-day ideation workshop titled “Unlocking the File Drawer” at UC Berkeley on December 12. The workshop will convene an interdisciplinary group of researchers, funders, journal editors, design specialists, and research...
BITSS and the Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS) will host a panel on journal reproducibility policies and practices 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm on Dec. 11 at the BIDS office space at Doe Library, UC Berkeley. The panel will discuss perspectives and experiences at journals in economics,...
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...
Health is a stepping stone to achieving virtually all other human development goals. Yet we continue to face major obstacles in ensuring accessible, affordable, and high-quality health care, especially for people living in poverty. Thankfully, breakthroughs in the types of health data available,...
BITSS will hold its next Research Transparency and Reproducibility Training (RT2) in Washington DC, September 11-13, 2019. This RT2 is organized in partnership with the World Bank’s Development Impact Evaluation (DIME) group. RT2 provides participants with an overview of tools and best...
The 8th Annual EASST Summit was held at Sarova Panafric in Nairobi, Kenya on July 22-23, 2019. This years event brought together over 200 diverse participants, who discussed the latest research on economic development, health, agriculture, financial inclusion, and labour markets in East Africa....
The Working Group in African Political Economy (WGAPE) brings together faculty and advanced graduate students in Economics and Political Science who combine field research experience in Africa with training in political economy methods. The group has met semi-annually to discuss the in-progress...
On Thursday, June 27th, CEGA’s Digital Credit Observatory (DCO) hosted a research convening on digital credit and women’s economic empowerment at UC Berkeley. We invited researchers, thought partners, and practitioners to share work that advances our understanding of the relationship between...
