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Please note that this a closed event for CEGA affiliates and their graduate students and CEGA’s Global Networks partners. The CEGA Global Workshop is a bi-weekly virtual forum that brings together researchers from the CEGA affiliate network, as well as our partner networks throughout Africa...

On February 1st, CEGA’s Digital Credit Observatory (DCO) hosted Digital Credit Speed and Repayment Rates in Mexico as part of the DCO Webinar Series. Alfredo Burlando (University of Oregon)and Silvia Prina (Northeastern) presented preliminary results from the DCO-funded project, Slowing Down...

The Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences (BITSS) will hold its 9th Annual Meeting on January 7-8, 2021. In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, this will be a fully virtual event and the program will run between 8 am and 12 pm PT. The BITSS Annual Meeting brings together actors...

On December 10th-11th, CEGA's Geospatial Analysis for Development (Geo4Dev) Initiative hosted an online symposium to showcase cutting-edge tools, datasets, and applications of geospatial data for global development research, followed by a hands-on workshop for those interested in building or...

This event is part of CEGA's 2020 Evidence to Action (E2A) Series, which showcases research on climate change, the environment, and global poverty. The event is co-hosted with the Berkeley Interdisciplinary Migration Initiative, and the Human Rights Center as part of  UC Berkeley's Social...

Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA), the Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA), and the Joint Data Center on Forced Displacement (JDC) co-organized the second webinar in a mini-series focused on the impacts of COVID-19 on forcibly displaced people in the Global South, and efforts by NGOs and...

Understanding the costs of a program or policy–in addition to its impacts–is critical to making informed decisions about how limited development resources are spent. Yet the supply of cost evidence in international development is low, of inferior quality, and lacking in transparency. In...

This event was part of CEGA's 2020 Evidence to Action (E2A) Series, showcasing research on climate change, the environment, and global poverty.  Jointly organized by the World Bank’s Infrastructure Vice Presidency and the University of California, Berkeley, the second annual #Infra4Dev...

This year, CEGA's annual Evidence to Action (E2A) symposium included three webinars featuring research on climate change, the environment, and global poverty.  Climate change is affecting every country on every continent. It is disrupting national economies, and affecting lives,...

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...

Join CEGA, Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA), and the Joint Data Center on Forced Displacement (JDC) for the first in a webinar mini-series focused on the impacts of COVID-19 on forcibly displaced people in the Global South, and efforts by NGOs and governments to support them.  As the...

Artificial intelligence, machine learning, and new data systems are continuing to revolutionize nearly every sector of the economy. The use of new algorithms and access to large granular datasets have led to new exciting research across different economic applications. With generous support from...

On September 23, 2020 at 8:30AM PT/11:30 AM ET, CEGA and BRAC hosted a webinar with Manisha Shah on Goal-setting and Male Inclusion: Improving Sexual and Reproductive Health for Female Adolescents, a Behavioral Economics in Reproductive Health Initiative (BERI) funded study. Manisha Shah will...

BITSS will hold its next Research Transparency and Reproducibility Training (RT2) online Sep. 21-25, 2020. Sessions will take place 8–11:30 am PT (GMT-7) daily. RT2 provides participants with an overview of tools and practices for transparent and reproducible social science research. The...

On September 18th, CEGA's Digital Credit Observatory (DCO), as part of the DCO Webinar Series, hosted "Digital Credit: Filling a hole, or digging a hole? Evidence from Malawi." Jonathan Robinson (University of California, Santa Cruz; DCO Scientific Director), Pascaline Dupas (Stanford), and...

Please note that this a closed event for CEGA affiliates and their graduate students and CEGA's Global Networks partners. The CEGA Summer Seminar series will bring together researchers from the CEGA network, as well as our partner networks in East and West Africa (the East Africa Social Science...

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...

Since March, governments and NGOs across the world have been working to provide cash support to the individuals and households most severely impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Still, ensuring this support reaches the right people quickly, especially in countries where data is unreliable or...

The COVID-19 pandemic has led to unprecedented levels of unemployment and economic uncertainty. Support systems designed to help working people during moments of temporary instability are proving insufficient when work has dried up and the long-term picture is so uncertain. Is it...

On June 27th, BITSS hosted two virtual sessions on research reproducibility at the 95th Annual Conference of the Western Economic Association International (WEAI). The sessions presented resources and lessons learned from the Accelerating Computation Reproducibility in Economics (ACRE) project led...