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See below for information about upcoming and past CEGA events.

CEGA regularly convenes researchers, decision-makers, and implementing partners from around the world to forge new partnerships, discuss open research questions, share findings, and translate research evidence into effective policymaking.

Past Events

Global Networks

South Asia Regional Impact Evaluation Workshop

Training   |   past event  |  Apr 27 2014

Within the complex and diverse world of international development initiatives, intensive program and policy evaluation is crucial to inform policy-makers and advise development initiatives. As part of our BRAC-CEGA Learning Collaborative, we are partnering with BRAC, the World Bank's Strategic...

Join us in discussion of William Easterly’s new book, The Tyranny of Experts: Economists, Dictators, and the Forgotten Rights of the Poor, and to consider a new approach to fighting global poverty focused on freedom and individual rights. Ted Miguel will join Easterly in conversation on the...

Revealing the Demand for Pro-poor Innovations

Conference   |   past event  |  Mar 27 2014

Many barriers hinder the take-up and diffusion of promising innovations that could substantially improve the lives of the poor. New technologies are often inappropriately designed, unaffordable, or inaccessible to those they seek to serve. How can we better capture the demand from consumers at the...

The 2014 Pacific Conference on Development Economics (Pac-Dev) was held on Saturday, March 15, 2014 at the University of California, Los Angeles. The agenda featured 80 papers grouped into themed, concurrently-running sessions. Each paper was alloted 15 minutes. Photo credit: Adam...

Global Networks

Working Group in African Political Economy (WGAPE) Fall 2013

Training   |   past event  |  Dec 19 2013

The Working Group in African Political Economy (WGAPE) held a one-day workshop on December 19th, 2013 which fostered constructive dialogue on research in progress by bringing together faculty and graduate students from top institutions on the West Coast. Researchers presented five works on topics...

The annual meeting of the Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences (BITSS) featured presentations of several recent and promising efforts to increase transparency in economics, political science, psychology, and biostatistics. During this day and a half, a packed room of...

Agriculture

International Fund for Agricultural Development Evaluation Workshop

Training   |   past event  |  Dec 09 2013

CEGA faculty and staff developed a curriculum to build the capacity of IFAD’s statistics division to conduct rigorous evaluations of the Fund’s activities. The training focused heavily on identifying causality, and differentiating impact assessment from monitoring and evaluation...

Global Networks

Visiting Scholar Development Lunch 2013

Seminar   |   past event  |  Nov 26 2013

Please join CEGA for two seminars featuring our BRAC and EASST visiting scholars. Over the fall semester, the CEGA scholars have been designing impact evaluation studies alongside CEGA faculty and graduate students, and learning from the Berkeley community as a whole. We hope you will take this...

Development Engineering: Behavioral Sensing Seminar Series

Seminar   |   past event  |  Oct 24 2013

In developing countries, quantitative social science research relies heavily on infrequent surveys that capture the self-reported behavior of individuals and their families. These data can be biased and unreliable and are extremely costly to collect. Repeated surveying also has been shown to...

CEGA Research Retreat (R^2) 2013

Conference   |   past event  |  Oct 23 2013

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...

Global Networks

2nd Annual EASST Summit

Conference   |   past event  |  Oct 05 2013

The EASST Collaborative is a multi-institution research network with a mission to promote rigorous evaluation of social and economic development programs in East Africa. EASST’s annual regional conference represents a rare opportunity to bring together local and international researchers to...

Financial Inclusion

Mobile Money: Technology to Transform Transactions

Conference   |   past event  |  Sep 19 2013

What if anyone with a phone could send and receive money across the market stand, or across the world – conveniently, reliably, and securely? What if everyone in the same village or neighborhood could act as a mobile money agent? And what if every mobile phone came with a savings account and...

BERI Launch Workshop

Training   |   past event  |  Jun 05 2013

On June 5, 2013 the Behavioral Economics in Reproductive health Initiative (BERI) held a launch workshop in Washington, DC with 12 leading providers of reproductive health and family planning services throughout the world. BERI is a research program identifying novel social and economic strategies...

Global Networks

A Workshop on African Political Economy

Training   |   past event  |  May 20 2013

The Working Group in African Political Economy (WGAPE - pronounced "wah-gah-pay") 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. Since 2002, the group has met...

Agriculture

ATAI Partnership Development Conference

Conference   |   past event  |  May 09 2013

J-PAL and the Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA) hosted the second matchmaking conference for the Agricultural Technology Adoption Initiative (ATAI) In Berkeley, California May 9th and 10th, 2013. The conference brought together researchers and practitioners active in agriculture, focusing...

Global Networks

Working Group in African Political Economy (WGAPE) Spring 2013

Seminar   |   past event  |  May 03 2013

The Working Group in African Political Economy (WGAPE - pronounced "wah-gah-pay") 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. Since 2002, the group has met...

Energy & Environment

Evidence to Action 2013: Promoting Global Development in a Changing Climate

Conference   |   past event  |  Apr 25 2013

On April 25, CEGA joined its partner organizations the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab and the Energy Institute at Haas in hosting “Evidence to Action: Promoting Global Development in a Changing Climate.” The symposium highlighted new research on the impact and cost-effectiveness of...

The 2013 Pacific Conference on Development Economics (Pac-Dev) was held on Saturday, March 9, 2013 at San Francisco State University. Pac-Dev was presented by the Bay Area Development Association, with sessions chaired by faculty from UC Berkeley, Stanford University, UC Davis, UC...

DIL Launch Workshop

Conference   |   past event  |  Mar 01 2013

The Development Impact Lab (DIL) fosters sustainable, equitable growth by linking technological innovation -- like the design of solar microgrids or mobile phone apps -- with rigorous social and economic analysis. This inaugural workshop highlighted several new techniques for measuring the impact...

This one-day meeting brought together a select group of researchers from across disciplines - including Economics, Political Science, Psychology and Statistics - to discuss the use of pre-analysis plans and study registries. The goal of the meeting was to understand the promise, as well as...

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