Scarcity is thought to create a tunneling effect, focusing attention on managing scarce resources to the neglect of other useful information. Here the authors reanalyse and report a conceptual replica...

Description The Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA) is pleased to announce our Fall 2026 Development Economics Challenge Grants. While past rounds of the Development Economics Challenge have...

Togo AI Lab held a public testing session for its Voix du Togo platform in Lomé on September 28, 2026. The platform is designed to give users access t...

CEGA’s Global Networks program invites joint proposals from CEGA Fellows and CEGA Affiliates.

Join one of Africa's most ambitious public artificial intelligence initiatives. We are currently looking for a Senior AI & Data Technical Lead capable of providing technical vision, leading...

The 15th BITSS Annual Meeting will take place on Friday, February 26, 2027 at UC Berkeley. The Annual Meeting brings together actors from academia, scholarly publishing, and policy to share novel...

Brad Sagara (Research Project Manager, Data Privacy Lab, CEGA) summarizes key takeaways from Ben Jacobsen (Department of Computer Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison) and Nitin Kohli’s...

Release date: September 9, 2026 Submission deadline: October 8, 2026 Notification date: October 15, 2026 (Approx) Meeting dates: December 10-11, 2026, University of Southern...

On July 23-24, 2026, the Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA) and the Network of Impact Evaluation Researchers in Africa (NIERA), in partnership with the Policy Studies Institute (PSI), and...

The ability to run “mental marathons” is a skill children can learn through simple, but dedicated, practice

CARE's evidence strategy uses real-time data and rigorous research to maximize cost-effective impact at scale.

CARE and CEGA propose a new approach to global development: continuously testing programs against evidence, cost, local priorities, and real-world results.

From 17 Rooms, this memo presents a case for action to end extreme poverty and outlines next steps for targeted cash transfers.

What is "fieldwork"? Development economists often talk about “going to the field”— but what does that actually mean? Why is it important to do fieldwork? And what does a day in the field...

Togo has launched the inaugural Togo AI Summer School (TAISS 2026), a government program designed to build domestic expertise in artificial intelligen...

Afrobarometer highlighted the value of citizen-generated data for policy making through a  hands-on technical workshop at the 2026 Africa Evidence Summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on 23-24 July...

Join us August 1–2, 2026 on the UC Berkeley campus for the largest summit dedicated to Agentic AI — 5,000+ attendees, world-class speakers, and a global livestream.

About the Conference The Pacific Conference for Development Economics (PacDev) is the West Coast's largest annual conference on development. The event brings together researchers and...

Evidence from 100 Social Science Prediction Platform projects shows that research forecasts are too optimistic on average, but still predictive enough to improve study design when they are combined, s...

The development community treats war as inevitable. We’re learning how to pay to prevent it.

Addis Ababa, July 23, 2026 (ENA) —Addressing Africa's challenges require policymakers to make informed choices on where to invest limited resources and which programs deliver effective results based o...

UC Berkeley Professor Joshua Blumenstock uses machine learning and AI to solve the world's biggest global development challenges.

Author(s): Banerjee, Abhijit; Fischer, Greg; Karlan, Dean; Lowe, Matt; Roth, Benjamin N. | Abstract: We ran a nonrandomized, market-level experiment in Kolkata vegetable markets in which we subsidized...

CEGA and NIERA will co-host the 14th annual Africa Evidence Summit on July 23-24, 2026.

The Cost-Effectiveness Lab improves and scales the use of high-quality cost evidence in impact evaluation and for decision-making.

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Samarth Bordia, Finance and Reporting Manager and the Program Manager for CEGA's Catalytic Research Portfolio, speaks with recent UC Berkeley graduate students about how early-stage funding from...

Evidence from Afghanistan, Côte d’Ivoire, Malawi, and Togo shows how mobile phone data can help identify poverty and vulnerability, offering new opportunities for social protection and targeting in da...

IDEA is a global professional association advancing inclusive, rigorous research in development economics.