Le Hub régional de l'Afrique de l'Ouest de l'EGAP a lancé un atelier de 5 jours appelé #LearningDays au CERAP ! Des chercheurs et des évaluateurs venus de toute l'Afrique vont discuter cette semaine de l'évaluation d'impact.

EGAP’s West Africa Regional Hub is kicking off a 5-day #LearningDays workshop at at the Centre for Research and Action for Peace (CERAP) in Abidjan today! Scholars and evaluators from all over Africa will be discussing rigorous impact evaluation this week.

Last month we gathered in person for a jam-packed few days to exchange ideas, provide feedback on emerging research, and build new connections. Read all about our recent meeting at @dukesanford.bsky.social 👇️

🌍 CEGA recently convened scholars from around the globe for the 2026 Working Group in African Political Economy (WGAPE) Annual Meeting, hosted at the @UnivofGh, to explore innovative research on African political economy. 💡 Learn more about WGAPE: go.cega.org/WGAPE

This month we're highlighting EGAP work in the #MiddleEast. First up, Fotini Christia & Horacio Larreguy w/ Norhan Muhab & Elizabeth Parker-Magyar test if an intervention in Egypt boosts respondents’ likelihood to report gender-based violence to supportive organizations.

New paper @pnasnexus.org w/ @brendannyhan.bsky.social & @elsavoytas.bsky.social Can we reduce support for violent extremism? And, if so, which messages work best?

It was so much fun to chat with @jenniferdoleac.bsky.social about my @restatjournal.bsky.social paper—with M.Prem and D.Mejía—for the 126th episode of Probable Causation! Thanks Jen for the invitation (and for paraphrasing my complicated answers 🤣) www.probablecausation.com/podcasts/epi...

Compartimos el siguiente mensaje en nombre de Daniel Rubenson, Director Ejecutivo de EGAP, y de Leopoldo Ferguson, Director del Hub de EGAP para América Latina.

We are sharing the following message on behalf of EGAP's Executive Director, Daniel Rubenson and Leopoldo Ferguson, Director of EGAP's Latin America Hub.

I am one of so many who benefitted from knowing Raúl, especially as an @egap.bsky.social colleague, and who is stunned and devastated to learn of his passing. What a terrible loss.

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📢 Join our team! J-PAL Global is recruiting a Senior Training Associate to help policymakers, researchers, and practitioners conduct rigorous impact evaluations. 📍 Based at MIT, Cambridge, MA. Apply by June 15: https://bit.ly/4dzzLex

Today we hosted a great feedback session for Sarah Khan & @sumitra.bsky.social's project, "The Social Cost of Truth: Gender and Misinformation in South Asia."

For our final #climatechange governance spotlight this month, we are sharing a conversation about a proposed framework for understanding climate policy preferences from EGAPer Nikhar Gaikwad, along with co-authors @fgenovese.bsky.social & @dustintingley.bsky.social Read more: buff.ly/7IwwE9c

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What explains the persistence of political violence in one of LatAm’s oldest democracies? In the #EGAPElectionSeries blog, @jvargas.bsky.social explores how institutional weaknesses have undermined peace & security in Colombia & what this means ahead of May 31 presidential election.

Today we are spotlighting a recipient of our Priority Theme Small Grants Fund. Learn more about Uchenna's Efobi's project, “Shifting Smallholders’ Attitudes towards Sustainable Farming Practice for Climate Justice in Nigeria” on our website! buff.ly/1FrOKdC

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That's a wrap on #EGAP31 🎉 Thank you to everyone who joined us @dukesanford.bsky.social for deep discussions and constructive feedback. We hope you will be leaving with new insights, deeper connections, and fresh perspectives!

We dug into six more innovative #experimentalresearch projects today, then concluded with a final plenary exploring the results & lessons from the #MetaketaV Study of Women’s Political Participation.

…and we are back for day two of #EGAP31! We are excited to continue critical conversations about #experimentalresearch on innovative evidence based policy in the area of #climategovernance and beyond 🌎️

Today we heard about many exciting projects on topics ranging from tropical forest conservation & labour markets evidence in Sierra Leone to a randomized field experiment in Himchal Pradesh looking at reforestation led by women's groups... and then, a walk through Duke's beautiful green campus! 🍃

Great conversations at #EGAP31 as participants get to know one another by discussing research collaborations and the pressing questions in governance and politics... all while enjoying some sunshine 🌞

We are here at Day One of #EGAP31 @dukesanford.bsky.social! We are looking forward to two full days of connecting and learning through deep discussion on #experimentalresearch with a focus on #climategovernance.

Thanks to all who took part: @nataliasbueno.bsky.social @melinaplatas.bsky.social @anbrown.bsky.social @danielnposner.bsky.social @dotanhaim.bsky.social @santiagotobon.bsky.social @cdsamii.bsky.social @sdhyde.bsky.social @slopezcariboni.bsky.social

We had an insightful afternoon reflecting on what EGAP-style interventions have taught us, and where we go from here in the current development landscape!

EGAP members, partners & friends are gathering at @dukesanford.bsky.social today for an exciting event in advance of our member meeting. We will hear insights from our expert panelists as they reflect on the future of development research and practice across regions.

📣 Call for Papers — BREAD / @ITAM_mx / @AgendaCAF Conference on Development Economics 🇲🇽 ITAM, Mexico City 📅 Oct 23–24, 2026 🗓️ Submission deadline: June 19, 2026 Submit: bread-mexico-2026.github.io#submit 🧵👇

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Please join us in Toronto for a very fun workshop! Details below 👇🏼

Nice write up about our recent PNAS article. (with @sgonzalezbailon.bsky.social, @Lluis Danus, @carotorreblanca.bsky.social and Will Dinneen) www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/...

In the lead up to #EGAP31 this May, we're spotlighting EGAP work on #climate governance 🌏 First up, @umbertomig.bsky.social , Matias Spektor, & Guilherme Fasolin investigate how citizens’ nationalist sentiments shape responses to foreign climate criticism:

It was a pleasure to chat with Andy Luttrell about my new paper on persuasion, joint with Scott Clifford and Patrick Liu. It's an exciting time to revisit classic debates about opinion formation and change!

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Another feedback session for a #LearningDays alumni & EGAP grant recipient today! Thank you to all who joined for Plangnan Joseph Damshakal's project, "Eco-violence and policy solutions: effectiveness of the national livestock transformation programme in Plateau State, Nigeria."

Ethnography isn’t just “being there.” It’s also about deciding what counts, what gets written, what gets left out. With Kate Parizeau, I reflect on how to do this fieldwork without reproducing harm. Our #Free2DownloadAndRead article can be read here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #RPVQual

Today we held a feedback session for #LearningDays alumni & EGAP grant recipient, Waliyat Olaide Oloyede on their experimental project looking at the effect of the nutritional information on the diets of rural households in Nigeria. Thank you to everyone who took part!

For our final #Displacement, #Migration & #Integration spotlight, we look at prejudice & intergroup contact in Afghanistan with EGAPers @jaylyall.bsky.social & @yangyangzhou.bsky.social.

🌍Are you interested in leveraging AI tools to support poverty research in sub-Saharan Africa? CEGA is hiring a full-time Research Assistant to support the digitization of a financial planning tool for low-income households in Rwanda. 🔗Apply here: go.cega.org/RA-rwanda

We are organizing a pre-conference workshop at EPSS on the Politics of South Asia. To present, discuss, or attend, please submit your info by May 13th: forms.gle/pXaKtTLifJAY... Please circulate widely! If questions, contact me, @aliz-toth.bsky.social or @simonchauchard.bsky.social!

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It takes a village to produce research with impact. This is the idea that motivated us to write this paper, published today.  Kudos to the team: @lluisdanus.bsky.social @william-dinneen.bsky.social @carotorreblanca.bsky.social @guygrossman.bsky.social @asc.upenn.edu www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Curious about strategies for increasing migrants’ political participation in India? Nikhar Gaikwad and Gareth Nellis discuss their project, "Overcoming the Political Exclusion of Migrants: Theory and Experimental Evidence from India." Read more:

Next week, join us for a virtual event to learn about the current challenge of public health mis- and disinformation + what researchers can do to help counter these trends. @lizhamel.bsky.social (@kff.org) & @adamberinsky.bsky.social (@mit.edu). 🔗 scholars.my.salesforce-sites.com/event/home/s...

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It was a pleasure and honor to coauthor this annual review piece with @alicexu.bsky.social and Audrey. I hope you find it interesting and informative.

This week, hear from @aalrababah.bsky.social & Jeremy Weinstein as they discuss their study on citizen attitudes towards migration of Syrian refugees to Jordan. buff.ly/hvNXhBH

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I'm teaching survey research courses online in the next few weeks. Sign up and/or spread the word! Free one hour seminar. April 13 tinyurl.com/v9vn9j85 Then a set of two (half) day courses. Not free (sorry!). -Intro: April 20-21 tinyurl.com/2mas96tf -Advanced: April 27-28 tinyurl.com/5467prx6

In today's spotlight on #Migration & #Integration, small grants recipients Abby Córdova & @natanski.bsky.social discuss their paper "Reducing Citizen Support for State Violence against Undocumented Immigrants through Victims’ Testimonies and Information Campaigns.”