This paper with @pruett.bsky.social, @sabrinamkarim.bsky.social and Dao Freeman was an interesting piece to work on. It was my first time working on a field experiment and taught me a lot about how field experiments interact with the messy world around them.

This month, we're highlighting EGAP research in #Africa 🌍 To start off, read about a field experiment on a civic engagement program w/ police and party activists during Liberia’s 2017 election. From @sabrinamkarim.bsky.social w/ Lindsey Pruett, @dyzenhaus.bsky.social & Dao Freeman:

new vox dev piece on our recent RCT to counter misinformation in classrooms in india:

APSA deadline is next week! We (SEAPRG) are offering light abstract feedback (esp. for junior scholars) and matchmaking for organized panels on Southeast Asia. Fill out this short form by *tomorrow* (Jan 7) and we’ll do our best to get it on a strong APSA panel. tinyurl.com/apsa-sea

10 Things to Know About Statistical Power buff.ly/6es3mIj #EGAPMethodsGuide

As we reach the end of the year, we want to express appreciation for everyone who contributed to the network's success this year. Whether you participated in a member meeting, regional hub activities, or virtual feedback sessions, thank you!

📣What does life look like for the Ugandan women who were taken as children by the Lord Resistance Army in the 80s, 90s and 2000s, & are now adults raising families of their own? 📣 ➡️ New @CGDev blog post, on our study @alessandracassar.bsky.social @eeshani.bsky.social @mirandainez.bsky.social

In today's spotlight on #poverty & #inequality research in North America, @claireadida.bsky.social, @dadakim.bsky.social, & @melinaplatas.bsky.social explore if threats to public health and the politicization of these threats affect attitudes towards immigration in the United States. Read more:

We're excited to share the application for the next Research Transparency and Reproducibility Training (RT2)! Join us May 19 - 21, 2026 in Berkeley for hands-on training in open science tools and methods. Apply by Feb 8: cega.submittable.com/submit/34383...

I am hiring a post-doctoral fellow (2 years) to work on all things political finance in Africa. There are no teaching obligations, and lots of opportunities for fieldwork. A PhD in Political Science is a requirement. Please spread the word! Happy to answer questions - send them to my LSE email.

Now in print at JEEA: results from a negotiation training RCT for community leaders in rural Liberia. The goal was to address experience/knowledge asymmetries between community leaders and commercial interests in negotiating mining, logging, land lease, and other resource use contracts.

📣📣📣 GREAT, time-sensitive opportunity for senior/mid-career scholars to join us in Madrid at UC3M´s social sciences department (UC3M-ATRAE Program 2026) on an attractive pay+research funds package 📣📣📣 This does NOT happen everyday. THREAD below if this is of interest 1/n

10 Randomization Interference Procedures with ri2 buff.ly/uhSwSLx #EGAPMethodsGuide

This month we are spotlighting EGAPers researching #poverty & #inequality in North America. First up, @claireadida.bsky.social & @melinaplatas.bsky.social w/ Adeline Lo ask whether a perspective-taking exercise leads to more positive attitudes and behavior toward vulnerable groups.

10 Strategies for Figuring Out If X Caused Y buff.ly/eUpVmKe #EGAPMethodsGuide

And with that, we have wrapped #EGAP30 Zurich 🎉 Thank you to everyone who joined us for two days of deep discussion and constructive feedback. We hope you will be taking away new connections, perspectives, and insights 👋

We closed out #EGAP30 with a panel discussion on a big question: where should migration research go from here? Thanks to @dktrdr.bsky.social, Alex Hartman & @guygrossman.bsky.social for leading the discussion, and to everyone for contributing thoughts on potential pathways forward.

Second day of #EGAP30 starts with a feedback session for Don Green’s paper on reservations. @egap.bsky.social

Today we are diving right back into more feedback sessions! 💬 First up, participants discuss #experimentalresearch on the boundaries of state and nation among swedes and forced migrants as well as new evidence on the effects of randomly assigned reservations in local government.

…and we are back for day two of #EGAP30 Zurich! We are excited to continue critical conversations and deepen discussions of #experimentalresearch and evidence based policy and governance in the #migration space.

…and that’s a wrap on day one of #EGAP30. Thanks to everyone for the deep discussions and rich feedback. See you tomorrow!

Second feedback session on @simonchauchard.bsky.social ‘s et al paper on misinformation laws and Brazilian mayors. #EGAP30 @egap.bsky.social

Today’s feedback sessions dig into #experimentalresearch on a range of critical topics - from women's empowerment programs in Kenya to refugee aid cuts in Uganda to anti-misinformation laws in electoral campaigns in Brazil.

Thrilled to see our paper on “Spending Limits, Public Funding, and Election Outcomes” published in the @jeeanews.bsky.social! 👇👇 We investigate the effects of far-reaching campaign finance rules, with Nikolaj Broberg and Clemence Tricaud. Short thread on what we do and find (1/n).

First set of feedback sessions focusing on Alberto Simpser et al’s paper on experiments to encourage governmental measures to combat climate change in Mexico. #EGAP30 @egap.bsky.social

Thank you to representatives from @internationalidea.bsky.social @idos-research.bsky.social @norad.no & the Advisory Council of International Affairs of the Netherlands for joining us and sharing your perspectives!

We kicked off with a discussion of European leadership in international development in the current context 🌏

First plenary panel on European perspectives on international development #EGAP30 @egap.bsky.social

It’s day one of #EGAP30 in Zurich! We are looking forward to two full days of deep discussion on #experimentalresearch in the area of #migration & #integration.

First day of a two-day workshop on field experiments with my @egap.bsky.social family.

EGAP members, partners & friends are gathering at @ethz.ch today for an engaging exploration of the challenges & lessons of mass displacement & integration. We are enjoying hearing insights from practitioners & expert researchers in the field of immigration & integration policy!

New paper! @william-dinneen.bsky.social @guygrossman.bsky.social Yiqing Xu and I use GPT to code 91k articles from 174 polisci journals (2003–2023)and track research designs, transparency practices, and citations. How has the credibility revolution reshaped the discipline? doi.org/10.31235/osf... 🧵

10 Things to Know About Covariate Adjustment buff.ly/g8TSqTU #EGAPMethodsGuide

For our final featured policy brief on voting behavior, we're sharing a project by @claireadida.bsky.social, @gmcclendon.bsky.social, Eric Kramon, and Jessica Gottlieb that studies the effects of increasing voters’ access to information in reducing ethnic voting in Benin.

NEW PAPER w/ @cselmendorf.bsky.social & @jkalla.bsky.social: An under-appreciated reason why voters oppose dense new housing, especially in less-dense neighborhoods: they think it looks ugly and want to prevent that, even in other neighborhoods. Some of what we think is NIMBYism might not be!

10 Things to Know About Missing Data buff.ly/nx6kcxV #EGAPMethodsGuide

🚨 New WP 🚨: All states monitor the political activity of their citizens. But who do they choose to surveil, and why? We study this question with the universe of Italian political surveillance files: 152,000 individuals born 1816–1932, across democracy and autocracy. 🧵 1/11

Very much looking forward to giving the TIME keynote lecture on the impact of development research in Dublin next Wednesday Come along if you're in town! @tcdeconomics.bsky.social @tcdpoliticalsci.bsky.social @tcddublin.bsky.social

Our book, edited with Aldo Madariaga and with insightful contributions from great colleagues on skills, values and development in Latin America is out! Take a look. fdslive.oup.com/www.oup.com/...

New piece out today with @profsaunders.bsky.social as part of a 15-article special issue from @iojournal.bsky.social on the future of global governance doi.org/10.1017/S002... Heroic work by the editorial team to pull this together quickly. Intro essay here: doi.org/10.1017/S002... #IOFoGG

Today's featured policy brief about voting behavior highlights a study by EGAPer Ghazala Mansuri and co-author Xavier Giné that asks "What are the reasons for low rates of political participation among women in rural Pakistan?". Check it out!

Really proud of our new article in @apsrjournal.bsky.social!! @nicoravanilla.bsky.social @matthewjnanes.bsky.social What does citizen contact do to police attitudes in conflict settings? For those interested in bureaucrats, embeddedness, conflict, mixed methods: doi.org/10.1017/S000...

Stay tuned for follow-up, where we conduct an RCT involving vulnerable women in this area - half abducted as children - to assess the impact of: 1) cash only 2) cash+group life-skill training 3) cash+group mental health counseling W/ @eeshani.bsky.social & @mirandainez.bsky.social

New paper in first view @thejop.bsky.social w/ Burde, Middleton, and Rahnama We show the promise of a community governance strategy to sustain schools in remote Afghan communities after NGO withdrawal. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...

10 Things to Know About Conducting a Meta-Analysis buff.ly/U2BM1R4 #EGAPMethodsGuide

Today in our spotlight on EGAP research into voting behavior is a project by Jessica Gottlieb that assesses whether civics courses in Mali help citizens hold their politicians accountable. Read more here:

10 Things to Know About Measurement in Experiments buff.ly/tbQUj8m #EGAPMethodsGuide

Ten years after 2015, what have we learned about mass displacement & integration in Europe? Join us on Dec 4 at @ethz.ch for panels with policy experts & researchers on crisis response vs long-term integration. @egap.bsky.social Registration: www.eventbrite.com/e/mass-displ...

🚨New paper🚨: Are you interested in key debates about civil war and counterinsurgency? Like questions about causal inference but wish you had a better method for dealing with spillover and carryover effects? Then check out our new paper: arxiv.org/abs/2504.03464

This month we are featuring policy briefs on voting behavior. First up is a study about the effects of informing voters about incumbent malfeasance in Brazil from EGAPer @dhidalgo.bsky.social and co-authors Taylor Boas & Marcus Melo.