Past Events
The Berkeley-IDB Impact Evaluation Collaborative (BIC) was originally developed with the aim of institutionalizing impact evaluations of IDB-funded projects. The program will wrap up its second year by conducting a follow-up training July 27-31, 2015 on UC Berkeley's campus. In July of 2014, 12...
Learning about impact is critical to wise stewardship of resources as well as to making progress on reducing poverty. However, accurate measurement of impact is not always appropriate or possible. The Goldilocks Project is an initiative from CEGA and Innovations for Poverty Action...
Agriculture in Africa: Translating Evidence from RCTs into Policy to Benefit Smallholders
The past decade has witnessed a dramatic increase in the use of randomized trials in agricultural program evaluations, particularly in East Africa. However, the “last mile” of transforming the results into evidence-based policy remains in order to achieve widespread impact. How can researchers...
4th Annual EASST Summit
The Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA) and the East Africa Social Science Translation (EASST) Collaborative are partnering with the African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC), the World Bank, Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) and The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab...
Please join us for a discussion of remote sensing and monitoring technologies for crisis response and community resilience. The workshop will discuss measurement of environmental and settlement changes during shocks, leveraging new technologies like micro-satellites, sensor networks, and mobile...
EASST Research Symposium
The 2015 Research Symposium featured an overview of the EASST network and the latest rigorous research undertaken in East Africa by EASST fellows and CEGA affiliates. With presentations ranging across a wide array of topics, the Symposium offered researchers an opportunity to obtain feedback...
Research norms are changing faster than ever before. Repeated cases of scientific dishonesty, mistakes in data analysis, irreproducible findings, and publication bias in the literature, have prompted an impressive number of methodological, statistical, and technological innovations. There is a...
The second Annual Bank Conference on Africa (ABCA) will be held in Berkeley, California, on June 8-9, 2015. It will cover various topics pertinent to the causes, solutions, and understanding of conflict and fragility in sub-Saharan Africa. It is being organized jointly by the Center for Effective...
Working Group in African Political Economy (WGAPE) Spring 2015
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. Since 2002, the group has met semi-annually to discuss the...
Technology plays an essential role in accelerating development in the poorest countries. But technology is not a black-box solution for poverty. Pro-poor technologies must be designed and delivered in the context of weak governance, failed markets, and complex social and behavioral norms. The...
Shang-Jin Wei, the Chief Economist at the Asian Development Bank, will be visiting UC Berkeley as a speaker in the Dean's Speaker Series. More information can be...
On March 31, Makhtar will give a public lecture titled "Policymaking in Africa: Reflections from Decades of Experience". Makhtar Diop has served as the World Bank's Vice President for Africa since May 2012. Under his leadership, the World Bank Group committed a record-breaking $15.3 billion to...
The 2015 Pacific Conference on Development Economics (PacDev) will be held on March 21, 2015 at UC San Diego. It is designed to bring together graduate students, faculty and practitioners to present and discuss various issues facing developing economies. For more information click here. Keynote...
2014 Research Transparency Forum
The movement towards more reproducibility and openness has gained a lot momentum in the social sciences. Yet, the norms and institutions that govern academic research do not reflect this culture shift. Problems remain, including professional incentives that reward striking and statistically...
The aim of the conference is to bring together the community of scholars who employ laboratory experimental economics methods for research in developing countries. Keynote speakers are Oriana Bandiera (London School of Economics) and Gary Charness (University of California, Santa Barbara). The...
Recent technology breakthroughs are offering unique opportunities to collect data with greater accuracy, reliability, and frequency than ever before. Research in global development and poverty alleviation – which too often relies on cumbersome, expensive, and unreliable data collection...
In collaboration with the Behavior Change Research Network (BCRN), the Berkeley Population Center, the Initiative for Behavioral Economics and Finance, and the Center on the Economics and Demographics of Aging (CEDA), CEGA hosted a full day conference on Behavioral Health Economics on Friday,...
CEGA will host a seminar by Anna Fruttero, one of the authors of World Development Report 2015, Mind, Society and Behavior, in conjunction with the Behavioral Health Economics Conference held on Friday. The talk will highlight key findings. This year's Report, set to launch in...
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...
Technologies for measuring the adoption and impact of development interventions have seen substantial innovation over the past several years—examples include the use of microsatellite data for mapping weather patterns and agricultural yields, sensors for tracking behavior change, smart meters for...
