This month, we are featuring EGAP research in #Europe. Up first, Ruth Ditlmann with Oguzhan Turkoglu & Berenike Firestone ask if public commemoration of victims of past atrocities reduces support for political actors that downplay or deny those atrocities.

Excited to be co-organizing the Multi-Method Conflict Consortium at Duke May 15-16 with @meganastewart.bsky.social & @dotanhaim.bsky.social! Advanced PhD candidates and postdocs are invited to apply for our funded Junior Fellowship, deadline March 10: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

I wrote about the recent killing of El Mencho, what the evidence says about decapitating the leadership of major criminal organizations, and whether things could actually be different this time. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/el-m...

10 Things Your Null Result Might Mean buff.ly/WFYKIWn #EGAPMethodsGuide

🚩 I am serving on this year's APSA Migration & Citizenship section Career Achievement award selection committee & encourage you to nominate a scholar of migration/citizenship whose career you believe has made outstanding contributions to this field. Deadline extended by a few days. 🚩

🚨 LAST DAY TO APPLY! Today is the final day to apply to the EGAP #LatAm Learning Days Workshop & PhD Lab in Santiago, Chile. If you want structured training in RCTs, hands-on work in R, & feedback on your research design, submit your application today. 🔗 buff.ly/9xgFGs2

🚨 ¡HOY CIERRA LA CONVOCATORIA! Para postular al Taller Días de Aprendizaje y al PhD Lab de EGAP #LatAm @Chile Este es el momento para asegurar tu participación en un programa intensivo sobre RCTs, R y diseño de investigación. 🔗 buff.ly/712R0Go

⏰ 1 DAY LEFT to apply! If you work on governance, politics, or development in Latin America and want to strengthen your experimental designs, don’t miss the Learning Days Workshop (Jul 27–31) & PhD Lab (Aug 1) in Santiago 🇨🇱 🗓 Deadline: tomorrow – Feb 28 🔗 buff.ly/9xgFGs2

⏰ ¡QUEDA 1 DÍA para postular! Si trabajas temas de gobernanza, política o desarrollo en América Latina y quieres fortalecer tus diseños experimentales: Taller Días de Aprendizaje (27–31 jul) & PhD Lab (1 ago) @ Santiago 🇨🇱 🗓 Cierre: mañana – 28 febrero 🔗 buff.ly/712R0Go

❗ DEADLINE TODAY❗ Join EGAP's West Africa Regional Hub at our 2026 Learning Days workshop at CERAP this June. Learn more and apply today: buff.ly/9l0bdig

Applications are open for the 2026 Chicago School in Experimental Economics (CSEE), Nov 4–8 in Buenos Aires. An intensive one-week course based on John A. List’s forthcoming textbook, covering the full spectrum of experimental design and analysis. Apply: https://ow.ly/qTi050Yljne

For our last spotlight on institutions & governance research in Asia, check out Nico Ravanilla, Renard Sexton, & Dotan Haim's research on government efforts to provide services & build trust w/ communities in rural, conflict-affected #Philippines during COVID19. buff.ly/wP6XecY

10 Things to Know About Adaptive Experimental Design buff.ly/ShJHYc7 #EGAPMethodsGuide

⏰ Final week to apply! ⏰ EGAP's West Africa Regional Hub is hosting a five-day intensive Learning Days workshop at CERAP in June. Apply by FRIDAY, Feb 27, 2026 Learn more: buff.ly/9l0bdig

🎺 Call for proposals 🎺 1️⃣ replicate an existing experiment 2️⃣ run a novel experiment on repdata.com 3️⃣ coauthor with Mary McGrath and me to meta-analyze the replications and existing studies 4️⃣ publish your study details: alexandercoppock.com/replication_... applications open Feb 1 please repost!

📢1 WEEK LEFT to apply! EGAP #LatAm Learning Days Workshop + PhD Lab @Institute of Sociology, Catholic University of Chile. Deadline: Feb 28, 2026 buff.ly/9xgFGs2 @jakebowers.bsky.social @dktrdr.bsky.social @slopezcariboni.bsky.social @garciaponce.bsky.social @lmaldona.bsky.social

📢 ¡1 SEMANA PARA POSTULAR! Al Taller Learning Days & PhD Lab EGAP #LatAm @ Instituto de Sociología de la Universidad Católica de Chile. Cierre: 28 feb 2026 buff.ly/712R0Go @jakebowers.bsky.social @dktrdr.bsky.social @slopezcariboni.bsky.social @garciaponce.bsky.social @lmaldona.bsky.social

Thank you for all the support and reposts! We've gotten a steady stream of inquiries and submissions for this competition, but also some ANXIETY that the window will close before people have a chance to submit. We're nowhere near that! We'll update on here when we've allocated 50% of the capacity.

Next up as we spotlight EGAPers working on institutions & governance research in Asia: read about Edmund Malesky's research w/ Dimitar D. Gueorguiev on corruption and foreign investment in Vietnam.

Seeing like a citizen: Experimental evidence on how empowerment affects engagement with the state by @soerenhenn.bsky.social, @lbp2106.bsky.social, @wilsonprichard.bsky.social, @cdsamii.bsky.social, and Raúl Sánchez de la Sierra is now available in Early View. ow.ly/Ck8O50YfnC6

☀️☀️Academic friends wondering what to do with their sabbatical next year (FYI Jan 31 NOT a hard deadline) or the one after: Consider visiting us in Madrid for a term or 2! We have a great community in polisci/political economy/HPE/pol.behavior + offices and can help with settling you here. Link👇

10 Things to Know About Randomization Inference buff.ly/xkARTjq #EGAPMethodsGuide

I'm teaching a few survey research courses live and online. First, a free one hour seminar. Feb 20 instats.org/seminar/surv... Then a set of two (half) day courses. Not free (sorry!). -Intro Surveys (Feb 26-27): instats.org/seminar/intr... -Advanced Surveys (March 5-6): instats.org/seminar/adva...

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We're very happy that Caitriona Dowd and Juan Vargas will be joining us on 30 September and 1 October to give the Fragile Lives 2026 keynote speeches 🎤! If you are as excited to see these keynote speeches as we are, you're in luck! The call for papers is still open 👉 zerohunger.de/wp-content/u...

MOPED workshop on the political economy of development in Berlin Deadline to apply: 15 Feb (Sunday already!) This is a REALLY fun workshop; great papers, lovely space, wonderful crowd, finally some decent weather... www.wzb.eu/en/events/mo...

In today's spotlight on EGAP work on institutions & governance in Asia, @dktrdr.bsky.social w/ Erica Field, Leigh Linden & Shing-Yi Wang's research in Mongolia investigates how property rights institutions affect trust. Read more:

I'll be presenting tomorrow at 11am EST a new paper at the ONLINE Science of International Migration Seminar (SIMS), organized by Stanford IPL and ETH. Paper title: "Aid cuts for refugees reduce welfare without increasing self-reliance." To register: immigrationlab.org/science-of-i...

10 Things to Know About Heterogeneous Treatment Effects buff.ly/HUTuGvU #EGAPMethodsGuide

This month we are featuring EGAP work on institutions & governance in Asia. First up, @bijurao.bsky.social w/ Kripa Ananthpur & Kabir Malik look to India to ask: under what circumstances might an external intervention induce citizen participation in local governance? Learn more:

🚨🚨 Some hope: media and information literacy trainings - modules providing crucial skills to better consume information - in classroom settings appears to move the needle, and to have positive externalities! Check out the (open-access) results of our large field-experiment in India.

10 Things to Know About Cluster Randomization buff.ly/OLnYs3n #EGAPMethodsGuide

New blog post summarizing my and coauthors' recent #systematicreview of the comparative effectiveness of #locallyleddevelopment approaches. Post includes additional analysis of agency-related outcomes as reported in the included studies. Journal article in comments. www.linkedin.com/pulse/limite...

My talk on "Inference for group interaction experiments" from the Foundations of Causal Inference workshop at the Isaac Newton Institute is available via their Youtube channel: youtu.be/3hh-bM8YNSc?...

Very happy to share our paper “Voting Rules, Turnout, and Economic Policies,” published in the Annual Review of Economics! Full paper here: www.annualreviews.org/content/jour... Short 🧵on main take-aways below. w/ E. Cantoni and J. Schafer #EconSky #PoliSciSky @annualreviews.bsky.social (1/n).

REMINDER: Our West Africa Hub is hosting a Learning Days workshop at CERAP this June 🌍 We welcome applicants from Africa-based researchers & evaluation professionals from university, government, & civil society orgs. Apply by: Feb 27, 2026 Learn more: buff.ly/9l0bdig

For our final spotlight on EGAP research in #Africa, see Lily Tsai & Ben Morse's #Metaketa experiment in Liberia. They test if community policing builds confidence in police, increases crime reporting, improves info sharing, & reduces incidence of crime.

📢 ¡EGAP #LatAm @EconomiaUAndes vuelve a organizar el taller de Learning Days y un PhD Lab este julio y agosto 2026! 📍 Lugar: Instituto de Sociología, Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago 🗓 Cierre: 28 febrero 2026 🔗 Info: buff.ly/712R0Go

El Nodo Regional de EGAP en Latinoamérica @egap.bsky.social realizará un taller de Días de Aprendizaje Santiago en alianza con el Instituto de Sociología, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, del 27 al 31 de julio de 2026: egap.org/project/dias... Compartan con sus redes y consideren aplicar

📢 Call for Applications 📢 EGAP’s #LatAm Hub @ Facultad de Economía Uniandes is again hosting a Learning Days Workshop & PhD Lab this July & August, 2026! 📍 Location: Instituto de Sociología, Catholic University of Chile, Santiago 🗓 Apply by: February 28, 2026 🔗 Details: buff.ly/9xgFGs2

JOIN us for this year’s Rebecca Morton conference on experimental political science at NYU! March 6-7. We have a great line up of papers and posters! Program (scroll down) here: wp.nyu.edu/cesspolitica... Register (no fee) here: nyu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

10 Things to Know About the Local Average Treatment Effect buff.ly/kIlpoDC #EGAPMethodsGuide

Looking forward to all the exciting talks in the LSE Latin American Politics Seminar (LAPS) series this term! Talks will be on-campus (open to anyone interested) but you can also join remotely. www.lse.ac.uk/government/r... @lsegovernment.bsky.social

Open Position: Knight Postdoctoral Fellow at Wharton School: Expertise in the quantitative study of the information ecosystem, especially news, media, and advertising. infodem.upenn.edu/wharton-post...

In our next spotlight on EGAP work in #Africa, Kristin Mitchelitch, Nicole Audette & Jeremy Horowitz ask if personal narratives reduce prejudicial attitudes towards immigrant outgroups & policies aimed at benefiting them in Kenya. Preparer: @bhumi.bsky.social.

📣 We’re hiring! CEGA is looking for a Predoctoral Research Fellow to support rigorous impact evaluations in Uganda, India, and South Africa related to health, gender, and environmental economics. 🔗 Learn more and apply by January 21: go.cega.org/devecon-predoc

10 Things to Know About Causal Inference buff.ly/iSJWZYC #EGAPMethodsGuide

Early career researchers (especially in Europe / UK, but all are welcome): Apply to present your work on the urban/rural divide (very broadly defined!) @ LSE @lseinequalities.bsky.social @lsegovernment.bsky.social

How do we conduct evidence-based research & policymaking in the context of contemporary displacement dynamics? EGAPers & associated researchers grappled with this question & more at last month's Zurich meeting. 👉 Read about the event on our website: buff.ly/kjL3w8e

Our next @lsegovernment.bsky.social APEG seminar is this Thursday, Jan. 22, at 12 pm. We are happy to host Dr. Kristin Michelitch (sites.google.com/site/kristin...). Her talk is titled "Penalties for Particularism and Partisanship?" Please join us. @carlmc.bsky.social