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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Please join CEGA on Thursday, December 6 from 12:00-2:00 pm in Evans Hall 648 for a development seminar featuring our inaugural class of BRAC and EASST visiting scholars. Over the fall semester, the CEGA scholars have been designing impact evaluation studies alongside CEGA faculty and graduate...

The Experimental Social Science Laboratory (X-lab) and the Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA) at the University of California at Berkeley, and the Choice Lab at NHH Norwegian School of Economics hosted the 2012 Symposium on Economic Experiments in Developing Countries (SEEDEC) from November...

Agenda 8:30-9:00am Breakfast 9:00-9:15am Introduction (presentation) Temina Madon, Exec. Director and Carson Christiano, Head of Research Partnerships  9:15-10:05am “Could Droughts Improve Human Capital? Evidence from India” Manisha Shah, UC...

On October 23, CEGA welcomed it's inaugural class of current visiting scholars -- Proloy Barua from BRAC in Uganda, Narayan Das from BRAC in Bangladesh, Constantine Manda with the Ifakara Health Institute in Tanzania, and  Fitsum Mulugeta from the Ethiopian Economics Association -- to the...

The East Africa Social Science Translation (EASST) Collaborative held a one-day workshop intended to foster collaboration between social scientists and journalists working in East Africa and the U.S. Journalists had the opportunity to learn more about cutting-edge research in development economics,...