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Introducing CEGA’s Geo4Dev Tutorials

Introducing CEGA’s Geo4Dev Tutorials

CEGA’s Geo4Dev Initiative is building a new suite of tutorials to make novel geospatial datasets and analytical tools accessible to all.
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What’s the Best Way to Support Youth Skills?

What’s the Best Way to Support Youth Skills?

For World Youth Skills Day, we round up recent CEGA-supported research on how to best support youth skills and promote economic stability.
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“EASST Opened Countless Doors:” How CEGA Impacted A Fellow’s Career

“EASST Opened Countless Doors:” How CEGA Impacted A Fellow’s Career

“EASST contributed significantly in terms of exposing me to the world, and giving me a platform where I connected with so many…
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Stories of Impact: a Research Program’s Policy Influence 5 Years Later

Stories of Impact: a Research Program’s Policy Influence 5 Years Later

Leah Bridle and Anya Marchenko highlight policy impacts from a set of RCTs and reflect on why most studies succeeded in informing policy.
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Emerging benefits and insights from a year of forecasting on the Social Science Prediction Platform

Emerging benefits and insights from a year of forecasting on the Social Science Prediction Platform

The Social Science Prediction Platform (SSPP), managed by BITSS and CEGA, allows researchers to systematically collect predictions.
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As the second wave of COVID-19 ravages in India, concerns are high for urban migrants

As the second wave of COVID-19 ravages in India, concerns are high for urban migrants

This post written by Supraja Parthasarathy (IFMR), Vasanthi Subramonia Pillai (IFMR), and Luisa Cefala (UC Berkeley) shares how the results…
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Barriers to Mobile Money Adoption among Tea Farmers in Rwanda

Barriers to Mobile Money Adoption among Tea Farmers in Rwanda

Findings from a qualitative study of mobile money usage among Savings and Credit Co-Operatives (SACCOs) sheds light on the potential…
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Using Open Policy Analysis to Fight Alternative Facts

Using Open Policy Analysis to Fight Alternative Facts

Why accelerating the adoption of open science practices can reduce political polarization around policy debates
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2021 Africa Evidence Summit: Beyond Borders

2021 Africa Evidence Summit: Beyond Borders

CEGA Senior Program Associate Chelsea Downs and the Network of Impact Evaluation Researchers in Africa (NIERA) Program Manager Jennifer…
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Lending her name, but not having a say? Gender norms and credit for agriculture in Odisha

Lending her name, but not having a say? Gender norms and credit for agriculture in Odisha

Berber Kramer (Senior Research Fellow, IFPRI), Patrick Ward (Assistant Professor, Duke Kunshan University), and Subhransu Pattnaik…
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CEGA’s Psychology and Economics of Poverty Initiative funds nine new studies

CEGA’s Psychology and Economics of Poverty Initiative funds nine new studies

Researchers are applying insights from psychology and economics to address important questions related to global poverty
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Valuing the Mortality risks of Climate Change

Valuing the Mortality risks of Climate Change

An interview with CEGA affiliated faculty Tamma Carleton
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What We Can Learn through Replication in Qualitative Research

What We Can Learn through Replication in Qualitative Research

An interview with Megan Becker, University of Southern California
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Study from Tanzania offers lessons on how to improve the health of adolescent girls worldwide

Study from Tanzania offers lessons on how to improve the health of adolescent girls worldwide

This post, written by CEGA Affiliate and Professor of Public Policy at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, Manisha Shah, was…
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How “MobileAid” and machine learning-based targeting can complement existing social protection…

How “MobileAid” and machine learning-based targeting can complement existing social protection…

We propose a new paradigm for aid delivery, combining 1) ML targeting with 2) recipient self-enrollment, and 3) mobile money payments
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Data-Driven Global Health Research in the Time of COVID

Data-Driven Global Health Research in the Time of COVID

The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the value of innovative, real-time data and analysis when it comes to making fast, consequential…
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The Evidence to Policy Pipeline: How Open Policy Analysis Can Transform Deworming Policy

The Evidence to Policy Pipeline: How Open Policy Analysis Can Transform Deworming Policy

An open, innovative approach to the challenge of connecting policymakers to the evidence they need for decision making: the case of…
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An Open Policy Analysis for Deworming Interventions

An Open Policy Analysis for Deworming Interventions

How the policymaking community can use Open Policy Analysis for better deworming policy
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Bringing Open Science to (Deworming) Policy

Bringing Open Science to (Deworming) Policy

A brief overview of the results of 20 years of deworming research and how our new deworming open policy analysis can bolster transparent…
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Racial Equity in the Labor Market — A New Initiative at the Opportunity Lab

Racial Equity in the Labor Market — A New Initiative at the Opportunity Lab

A new research agenda will explore how US wage and employment policies have impacted Black-White income inequality
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Harnessing Big Data To Solve Big Problems

Harnessing Big Data To Solve Big Problems

CEGA Doubles Down on Data Science for Development
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Reflections on the 9th BITSS Annual Meeting

Reflections on the 9th BITSS Annual Meeting

Toward a more Open and Inclusive Scientific Ecosystem
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Targeting Aid Better: Introducing our First Round of Funded Studies

Targeting Aid Better: Introducing our First Round of Funded Studies

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Millions of Indian Farmers are Protesting Authoritarianism Disguised as Capitalism

Millions of Indian Farmers are Protesting Authoritarianism Disguised as Capitalism

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COVID-19-Induced Crises of Hunger and Poverty Require Bold, Effective International Response

COVID-19-Induced Crises of Hunger and Poverty Require Bold, Effective International Response

In conjunction with the study: “Falling living standards during the COVID-19 crisis: Quantitative evidence from nine developing countries”…
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Pandemic caused ‘staggering’ economic, human impact in developing counties, research says

Pandemic caused ‘staggering’ economic, human impact in developing counties, research says

This post, written by Edward Lempinen (Media Relations Specialist, UC Berkeley), was originally published on Berkeley News.
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EASST’s Meaningful Mentorship has Far-Reaching Effects

EASST’s Meaningful Mentorship has Far-Reaching Effects

How CEGA’s Global Networks programs has impacted fellows’ research and career trajectories
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Algorithms and impact: early CEGA evidence on digital credit featured at the ASSA

Algorithms and impact: early CEGA evidence on digital credit featured at the ASSA

This post summarizes algorithm development and digital credit impact insights from a digital credit-focused panel at the Annual Social…
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CEGA’s 2021 New Year’s Resolutions

CEGA’s 2021 New Year’s Resolutions

Shaping the future of CEGA and how we plan to drive inclusion and impact in 2021.
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Using AI to Target Emergency COVID-19 Assistance in Togo

Using AI to Target Emergency COVID-19 Assistance in Togo

This post, written by Program Associate Anya Marchenko, describes an AI-based approach to targeting cash transfers that is currently being…
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