Measuring Development 2026: Open Science in the Age of AI (In Person) Join us in-person on April 29 to explore data privacy and transparency in today’s evolving AI era at our 12th annual MeasureDev Conference!

Both in-person and virtual attendees are welcome. Reserve your spot today!

👉 In-person registration: go.cega.org/MeasureDev26-register
👉 Virtual registration: go.cega.org/MD26-virtualregister

Don’t forget to register for MeasureDev!

Co-hosted by CEGA, The World Bank, & @beckerfriedman.bsky.social, the 2026 MeasureDev conference will explore how technological advancements are transforming the future of research transparency and replicability.

📅 April 29 | 📍 Washington, DC

2026 Africa Evidence Summit General registration closes on May 1. Please email Amy at amyshipow@berkeley.edu or Indi at indi.cummings@berkeley.edu with any questions.

📣 Don’t miss the Africa Evidence Summit!

Join CEGA for the 2026 Africa Summit, disseminating innovative research, fostering new research collaborations, and elevating the voices of African scholars.

🔗 Reserve your spot by May 1: go.cega.org/AES26-register

More Data, More (Privacy) Problems CEGA launches the Data Privacy Lab and a new effort to enhance privacy protections and facilitate data sharing in LMICs to improve humanitarian aid.

💡 How CEGA is addressing the privacy risks arising from increasing data abundance.

A new #CEGABlog highlights CEGA’s Data Privacy Lab’s work to address real world privacy challenges in low- and middle-income countries.

📖 Learn more: go.cega.org/DPL-blog

An Underrated Development Investment That Can Double Returns: Trail Bridges A phased construction program that delivered 97 trail bridges over three years in Rwanda demonstrated an economic rate of return between 78 to 98%.

How can transportation infrastructure improve economic wellbeing?

A new #CEGABlog highlights how a footbridge construction program in Rwanda helped meaningfully improve economic wellbeing for rural households.

🔗 Learn more: go.cega.org/footbridge-blog

2026 BITSS Annual Meeting Registration The BITSS Annual Meeting brings together actors from academia, scholarly publishing, and policy to share novel research and discuss efforts to improve the credibility of social science by advancing…

Last chance to register for the BITSS Annual Meeting!

Join @@ucbitss.bsky.social on April 16 in Berkeley, CA to explore the role of academic publishing and AI technologies in improving research transparency, credibility, rigor, and ethics.

🔗 Register here: go.cega.org/BITSSAM26-register

Measuring Development 2026: Open Science in the Age of AI (In Person) Join us in-person on April 29 to explore data privacy and transparency in today’s evolving AI era at our 12th annual MeasureDev Conference!

Don’t forget to register for MeasureDev!

📊 Join CEGA and The World Bank on April 29th for the 2026 MeasureDev Conference to explore ways to promote open science in light of rapid changes in technology.

🔗 Register here: go.cega.org/MeasureDev26-register

CEGA peer organizations Evidence Action & Root Capital recently shared null results, offering lessons that can help the field make more informed decisions.

👉 See the Evidence Action study: go.cega.org/nullresults-EA
👉 See the Root Capital study: go.cega.org/nullresults-RC

Why do null results matter?

📊 Sharing results on what works is important, but sharing null results is equally important. Understanding what doesn’t work helps advance transparency and helps the field minimize ineffective spending and invest in programs that deliver real impact.

REACH January-March 2026 | Science Integrity Alliance REACH is a modern, interactive, and comprehensive digital magazine designed to meet the shared needs of all stakeholders in the research community.

CEGA’s @ucbitss.bsky.social was recently featured in @sci-integrity.com’s REACH magazine after being awarded the 2023 Einstein Foundation Award for its work to advance open science.

📖 Read the feature here: go.cega.org/REACHmag

How can school reform improve learning and well-being?

A new #CEGAWorkingPaper by faculty affiliate @andydebarros.bsky.social & colleagues finds that a government-run school reform program in Morocco reduced dropout and improved socioemotional skills.

📖 Learn more: go.cega.org/WPS-260

2026 Africa Evidence Summit General registration closes on May 1. Please email Amy at amyshipow@berkeley.edu or Indi at indi.cummings@berkeley.edu with any questions.

🚨Register for the Africa Evidence Summit!

Join researchers, policymakers, and practitioners on July 23-24 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to share innovative research, elevate African scholarship, and foster new research collaborations.

🔗Register by May 1: go.cega.org/2p9enswn

New paper: Morocco's Pioneer Middle Schools—a government-led whole-school reform—improved socioemotional skills, tripled year-on-year learning, reduced dropout ~1/3.

"Beyond Basics"

w/ Campos Quintero, El Amrani Mida, Glewwe, Kumar, and Lépine

de-barros.com/publication/...

@cega-uc.bsky.social

AI-Enabled Weather Forecasting Reaches Millions of New Farmers in India CEGA-funded research informs scaling of long-range monsoon forecasts to 38 million farmers in India by Precision Development and the Govt of India

What if farmers could reliably predict weather patterns?

A CEGA-funded study used AI-powered forecasts to predict monsoon weather in India, helping small-scale farmers make more informed decisions about land use, crop choice, and input use.

Learn more: go.cega.org/monsoon-forecasts

Does targeting foundational learning skills improve broader learning?

In a new #CEGAWorkingPaper, faculty affiliate @andydebarros.bsky.social and colleagues explore whether targeting foundational skills generates long-term human capital gains in Zambia.

Learn more: go.cega.org/WPS-259

MeasureDev 2026: Open Science in the Age of AI: Balancing Privacy and Transparency Over the past decade, social scientists and technologists have made significant advancements in transparency and reproducibility: from data and code sharing to pre-analysis plans and replication...

Join us for MeasureDev 2026!

📊 The 2026 Measuring Development Conference (MeasureDev) will chart a path forward for research transparency and reproducibility in light of recent technological advancements.

Learn more: go.cega.org/measuredev-2026

💡 A look back at this year’s PacDev.

Last weekend, the Pacific Development Conference (PacDev) at @ucdavis.bsky.social gathered researchers and practitioners to share innovative research from across disciplines, including a keynote address from CEGA Faculty Co-Director @tedmiguel.bsky.social.

Beyond Profit: Ethical Research on Consumer Data How consumer data is used by industry vs. researchers raises important ethical and practical questions.

🔍 What does ethical consumer research look like?

A new #CEGABlog highlights how CEGA, alongside the Institute for Business & Social Impact at UC Berkeley & @poverty-action.bsky.social, are promoting stronger standards for research on consumer data.

🔗 Learn more: go.cega.org/consumerdata

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

🌍 Don’t miss the Africa Evidence Summit!

The 2026 Africa Evidence Summit, co-hosted with @nieraglobal.bsky.social, will gather actors from across disciplines to showcase innovative, policy-relevant research.

Express your interest in attending by March 15: go.cega.org/AES-2026

What do parasitic worms and wages have in common? More than you think - Berkeley News Nearly 30 years of data from a landmark UC Berkeley project in Kenya show that treating children's intestinal parasites does more than improve health — it boosts adult earnings and secures the lives…

How a $1 intervention is transforming millions of lives worldwide.

A new podcast from @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social News features CEGA Faculty Co-Director @tedmiguel.bsky.social’s work on childhood deworming & its lasting impact on health and education.

Listen here: go.cega.org/deworming-podcast

BITSS Annual Meeting 2026 The BITSS Annual Meeting brings together actors from academia, scholarly publishing, and policy to share novel research and discuss efforts to improve the credibility of social science by...

Register for the BITSS Annual Meeting!

📊 Join @ucbitss.bsky.social and the Institute for Business and Social Impact on April 16 to explore how to improve the credibility of social science research by promoting transparency, rigor, and reproducibility.

Register: go.cega.org/BITSSmeeting-2026

How much peace can a dollar buy? Donors need to know how best to fund peace: Introducing CEGA's Peace Per Dollar Initiative

What would it cost to stop a war before it starts?

🔍 CEGA’s new Peace Per Dollar initiative is working to build standards, tools, and methodologies to measure the cost-effectiveness of conflict prevention intervention.

📖 Learn more in a new #CEGABlog: go.cega.org/ppd-blog

Parvaaz: When Evidence Takes Flight CEGA launches an evidence-driven initiative using behavioral science to shape policy and improve lives across India.

🪁 Introducing Parvaaz!

CEGA’s newest initiative applies behavioral science to design, test, and scale programs that advance employment, education, and well-being in India, translating evidence into solutions improving the lives of millions.

Learn more: go.cega.org/parvaaz-blog

📣 Today is the last day to register!

Join us on March 14 at @ucdavis.bsky.social for PacDev, the West Coast’s largest annual conference on development economics.

Learn more and register here: go.cega.org/pacdev-2026

Punjab rolls out drug prevention curriculum for Classes IX to XII from Aug 1 | Chandigarh News - Times of India Chandigarh: The Punjab govt is all set to roll out a drug prevention curriculum for students of Classes IX to XII in all govt schools as part of the t.

📚 An evidence-based drug prevention curriculum is combating addiction in India.

A new article by The Times of India features research by CEGA and @j-pal.bsky.social South Asia on a drug prevention program in Punjab reaching 3,000+ schools and 800,000+ students.

Learn more: go.cega.org/timesofindia

🔍 What happens when participants drop out of a study?

A new #CEGAWorkingPaper examines attrition in field experiments, finding that the most common test of attrition bias is not a test of internal validity in general.

📖 Learn more: go.cega.org/WPS-113

MeasureDev 2026: Open Science in the Age of AI: Balancing Privacy and Transparency Over the past decade, social scientists and technologists have made significant advancements in transparency and reproducibility: from data and code sharing to pre-analysis plans and replication...

Don’t miss MeasureDev 2026!

📊 Join CEGA and The World Bank for the 2026 Measuring Development Conference to explore how to advance research transparency and data privacy in light of rapid changes in technology and data access.

🔗 Learn more: go.cega.org/measuredev-2026

BITSS Annual Meeting 2026 The BITSS Annual Meeting brings together actors from academia, scholarly publishing, and policy to share novel research and discuss efforts to improve the credibility of social science by...

Register for the BITSS Annual Meeting!

Join @ucbitss.bsky.social on April 16 for the BITSS Annual Meeting, gathering actors from academia, publishing, and policy to share innovative research and explore how to improve research transparency.

🔗 Register here: go.cega.org/BITSSmeeting-2026

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

🌟 Join us for the Africa Evidence Summit!

Cohosted with @nieraglobal.bsky.social, the Summit will gather experts from around the globe to highlight innovative, policy-relevant research.

📅 Jul 23-24 | 📍Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Express your interest in attending: go.cega.org/AES-2026

Pacific Conference for Development Economics (PacDev) 2026 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...

Don’t forget to register for PacDev!

The West Coast’s largest annual development conference, the Pacific Conference for Development Economics (PacDev), will gather experts at UC Davis to share innovative research and advance policy.

Register by Feb 28: go.cega.org/pacdev-2026