📢 Call for Letters of Interest!
Topic: The politics of climate policy, with special emphasis on adaptation or mitigation policies
Eligibility: Global South + Global North scholars
Due Date: June 15
Apply here:
“Community policing” was designed in the US to build trust in police & reduce crime.
Does it work in the Global South, where it's now being widely adopted?
In
@ScienceMagazine
, we report answers from 6 coordinated experiments: “no.”
#PolicingEvidence
🌍
📌 Reminder: EGAP is now accepting new applications for individual researchers & institutional members.
Deadline: Sept 30, 2024
For more details & to apply, see here:
Please RT & share w/ networks!
Calling all scholars based at sub-Saharan African academic/research institutions: we are now accepting applications for our inaugural
@UCBerkeley
Visiting Fellowship for Fall 2020 & Spring 2021 semesters! Check out requirements & apply by 10 Feb 2020:
We're excited to announce that
@graemedblair
has been appointed to the new role of EGAP Trainings & Methods Co-Director and that
@n_ichino
has agreed to a reappointment as Trainings & Methods Co-Director!
HOT OFF THE PRESS:
@ScienceAdvances
has published results from the first
#Metaketa
round! Check out “Voter Information Campaigns and Political Accountability: Cumulative Findings from a Preregistered Meta-Analysis of Coordinated Trials.”
We have a new Fellow! Please join us in welcoming Anna Wilke as EGAP's next Pre-Doctoral Fellow. Anna is a PhD candidate in Political Science at
@Columbia
and works on comparative politics in Sub-Saharan Africa.
We're excited for
@cdsamii
to come onboard as our next Executive Director! Check out some of his plans for EGAP over the next few years:
#EGAPMemberShoutOut
Today we open a Call for Proposals for Global South scholars studying issues of governance relating to the COVID-19 pandemic. Deadline for submission: December 15, 2020. Please find details here:
Please join us in thanking our outgoing Pre-Doctoral Fellow
@tara_slough
for all her incredible work over the last two years! We'll miss you and wish you the best as you transition to
@nyuniversity
.
WE'RE HIRING! Applications are now open for the EGAP Pre-Doctoral Fellowship—a one-year, full-time position at UC Berkeley or in NYC with an expected start date in August 2020. Apply by June 9!
Please RT and share with your networks!
🚨NEW FUNDING OPPORTUNITY🚨 We are soliciting proposals for quantitative field studies on one of the following priority themes: (1) urban violence and policing, (2) climate justice, or (3) polarization and democracy. Apply by Sept 14. Learn more here:
🚨 EGAP Pre-Doctoral Fellow Position! 🚨
We are seeking expressions of interest for a pre-doctoral fellow for July 2022 - June 2023. Please send inquiries & a CV to admin
@egap
.org. Note that J-1 visa sponsorship is available. See🧵below for add'l info about the position. 1/7
Buenos dias from Bogotá! Today is the first day of our
#LearningDays
workshop at
@Uniandes
. We're excited for the week ahead of us. First topic: causal inference!
In today's feedback session we featured
@nara_pavao
@felipnunes
@vwirtschafter
Frederico Batista Pereira, Natália S. Bueno, and João Pedro Oliveira's research project, "Political Elites and the Appeal of Fake News in Brazil."
DEADLINE EXTENDED -- til October 3! You can still submit your proposal for a quant field study on one of these priority themes: (1) urban violence and policing, (2) climate justice, or (3) polarization and democracy. See additional details and apply here:
Please join us in welcoming
@rebeccajwolfe
&
@NandoRosenblatt
to the EGAP Thematic Steering Committees for Conflict and Elections, Representation, and Participation (respectively)! Thanks to
@laurenyoung231
& Kate Baldwin who served on these committees for the past two years.
Congrats
@piaraffler
and
@saadgulzar
on the
@APSAtweets
Experimental Research section’s Best Dissertation Award for the best dissertations utilizing experimental methods on questions about politics/making fundamental contributions to experimental methods!
#EGAPMemberShoutOut
For today's
#NewMemberTuesday
, say hello to
@NeelanjanSircar
! Neelanjan is a Senior Fellow at the Centre for Policy Research in Delhi and spends his time studying Indian voting behavior, the politics of welfare delivery, party systems, centralization, and democratic backsliding.
Know what time it is?
#NewMemberTuesday
!
Today we say hello to
@NazitaLajevardi
, Assistant Professor at
@michiganstateu
. Nazita's work focuses mainly on issues related to race and ethnic politics, political behavior, voting rights, and immigration.
To continue our 10 year anniversary celebration this month, we'd like to say thank you to our fearless leaders -- our Executive Directors
@cdsamii
@dshyde
and
@maqartan
-- for their exceptional work and dedication to EGAP over the last decade!
*NEW*
#PriorityThemeSpotlight
out now with
@NazitaLajevardi
about her article in
@The_JOP
that studies the implications of cable news depictions of Muslims and Muslim Americans on US public opinion and policy making.
Read it here:
Today we held a feedback session for
@tiscornia21
@sjleyg
and
@_Tiagoventura
's research project, "Criminal governance amid the COVID-19 pandemic in Mexico." This is a project that was partly funded through EGAP's COVID-19 Small Grants initiative.
🚨 NEW FUNDING OPPORTUNITY 🚨
The EGAP LATAM Regional Hub is soliciting proposals for quantitative field studies on the theme of displacement, migration, and integration. Applications are due by 5PM PST on Oct 15!
Learn more here:
We are excited to announce the 6 research teams that will receive funding as part of the first round of the EGAP LATAM Regional Hub Small Grants Fund! Check out their projects here:
#research
#grants
Our 2021 Membership Round is now open! We're looking for researchers based in the Global South or whose research focuses on under-represented & marginalized groups in the Global North. Deadline is June 1st. For details and to submit your application:
The EGAP/CERAP Learning Days Workshop is underway this week at
@cerapabidjan
, led by Hub Director
@bricebado
! Thanks to
@CarnegieCorp
's generous support, we have 25 extraordinary participants from West Africa who are learning about designing and analyzing randomized experiments!
Congrats to EGAP members
@ClaireAdida
and
@melinaplatas
and their coauthor Adeline Lo on the
@APSAtweets
Migration and Citizenship section's Best Paper Award for their paper "Engendering Empathy, Begetting Backlash: American Attitudes towards Syrian Refugees"!
#EGAPMemberShoutOut
We are excited to announce the 6 research teams that will receive funding as part of our first round of Priority Theme small grants! Check out their projects here:
The past two weeks, EGAP members met to reflect on the
#Metaketa
Initiative. Metaketas are coordinated, multicountry randomized controlled trials. Separate teams each put the same cause-effect claim to the test in a different place. 1/9
EGAP pre-doctoral fellow
@tara_slough
discussing the effect of community monitoring as a tool to prevent deforestation in
#Peru
—one of the studies from
#Metaketa
III: Natural Resource Governance. Thanks to
@RainforestUS
for convening this timely and vital event.
Please join us in welcoming Mónica Aldana, EGAP’s Latin American Regional Hub Program Officer! Mónica hails from Cali, Colombia and will be based at
@EconomiaUAndes
to support the establishment of the hub's academic advisory group and related activities. ¡Bienvenida Mónica! 🎉
*NEW*
#EGAPMethodsGuide
alert! It's a common misconception that obtaining a null result from an RCT means that the study "didn't work." Rekha Balu of
@CABS_MDRC
outlines 10 important things that a null might mean instead. Read more here:
Congrats
@guygrossman
and Kristin Michelitch on the
@APSAtweets
Experimental Research section's Best Paper Award for your paper "Information Dissemination, Competitive Pressure and Politician Performance between Elections: A Field Experiment in Uganda"!
#EGAPMemberShoutOut
Today for
#PolicingEvidence
🌍 week, we bring you a *NEW*
#QAWithMembers
post w/ EGAPer
@sabrinamkarim
! She shares her work on gender and policing, with a specific focus on the role that gender plays in how state agents provide security. Check it out here:
Today’s the day! In collaboration w/
@URosario
, EGAP’s
#LATAMRegionalHub
(housed at
@EconomiaUAndes
) is kicking off a 5-day
#LearningDays
workshop. We’re thrilled to be in-person, discussing rigorous impact evaluation with scholars and evaluators from all over Latin America.
Muchas gracias to all of those who made last week's
#LearningDays
workshop happen. Special h/t to our fabulous participants, dedicated instructors (Maarten Voors,
@tara_slough
, Natalia Garbiras-Díaz, and
@jakewbowers
), and welcoming hosts at
@Uniandes
(especially
@Andr3sMoya
)
Interested in receiving funding from EGAP to conduct a case study on the politics of your country’s approach to climate change? If so, make sure to send your letter of interest by June 15!
Learn more/apply here:
¡Culminamos EGAP
#LatAmRegionalHub
#D
íasdeAprendizaje, ha sido una semana fantástica
@EconomiaITAM_
@itam_mx
! ¡Gracias a todos los participantes que nos acompañaron durante 5 días intensivos aprendiendo experimentos aleatorios! ¡Ya queremos saber cómo resultan sus proyectos!
A great group and a great discussion today in our Feedback Session on
@graemedblair
@aecoppock
and
@maqartan
's book project, "Research Design: Declare, Diagnose, Redesign."
*NEWS 🚨*: EGAP's Summer 2021 newsletter is out! Read about the Latin American Regional Hub at
@EconomiaUAndes
& call for apps for the next
#LearningDays
workshop, an RFP for small grant funding, the
#Metaketa
III
@PNASNews
special issue, and much more.
APPLY NOW: The EGAP West Africa Regional Hub at
@cerapabidjan
in Cote d'Ivoire is hosting a
#LearningDays
workshop from 18-22 July. The workshop will focus on causal inference in impact evaluation for Africa-based researchers & evaluators. Apply by 1 May:
📢 We are pleased to announce the selection of 6 climate change governance case studies! Each case will explore the politics of climate change in a key country, focusing particularly on the factors that influence officials’ decision making. Read more here:
Submit an Expression of Interest to EGAP's new
#Metaketa
round -- MK V: Political Participation in Hybrid Regimes! … Deadline to apply: Feb 28, 11:59pm EST. Please RT and share with your networks!
t's
#NewMemberTuesday
! Today we welcome
@yangyang_zhou
, Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of British Columbia. Yang-Yang studies the causes and consequences of migration, with a focus on conflict, development, and national identity.
Congratulations to our post-doctoral fellow
@MathiasPoertner
on his new position as an Assistant Professor at
@TAMU
! We are very excited for you and look forward to eating some delicious brisket when we visit!
Some exciting personal news: I’ll start as an Assistant Professor at Texas A&M University in the Fall! Very grateful to my advisors, friends, and colleagues who supported me along the way! Free brisket for anyone who come visit College Station!
@TAMU
@tamuresearch
@BushSchool
*NEW*
#EGAPMethodsGuide
: 10 Things to Know About Survey Experiments. Are you interested in running one but not sure where to start? Check out the guide here:
Congratulations to
@JPAL
's Esther Duflo + Abijit Banerjee and
@Harvard
's Michael Kremer for this well-earned acknowledgement of their tireless work towards the cause of experimental research in evidence-based policy making!
BREAKING NEWS:
The 2019 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel has been awarded to Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer “for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty.”
#NobelPrize
A warm
#EGAPMemberShoutOut
of congrats to Metaketa I Benin Team
@ClaireAdida
, Jessica Gottlieb, Eric Kramon,
@GManMac
on winning the APCG Award for Best Article at ASA, "Reducing or Reinforcing In-Group Preferences? An Experiment on Information and Ethnic Voting!"
@qjps_editors
We are excited to announce a new EGAP resource! These products, called Standards Discussions, provide a forum for talking about topics related to conducting, analyzing, and utilizing impact evaluation studies. 1/4
DEADLINE TOMORROW: Our 2020 Membership Round is still accepting applications for individual researchers! If you're a scholar doing experimental work in politics & governance and are interested in joining the EGAP network, apply now:
*NEW* EGAP policy brief! Brief 65: "Effects of A Campaign Against Vote Buying in Uganda" from EGAP researchers
@cblatts
and Horacio Larreguy, along with Benjamin Marx and Otis Reid! Thanks to Nicholas Kuipers for preparing the brief.
🎺Our book is out!
So happy but also very aware that the whole "design-declaration, design-diagnosis" business can seem impenetrable
So: a🧵about how to navigate the *design library* to get quickly to a vast range of designs
@aecoppock
@graemedblair
🎉 EGAP HAS A NEW WEBSITE! 🎉 Click through the sleek new pages, check out the interactive maps, utilize the improved search + filter tools, and enjoy the beautiful visuals. Visit us virtually today!
*NEW*
#EGAPMethodsGuide
out today: 10 Things to Know About Pre-Analysis Plans ! Thanks to Lula Chen and Chris Grady at
@IllinoisPoliSci
for your hard work on this guide!
New EGAP Policy Brief: The Effect of Information on Vote Choice and Turnout in
#Uganda
. Read more at the link: Thank you
@melinaplatas
and
@piaraffler
!
Congratulations 🎉 to our
#Metaketa
I teams & steering committee on receiving the
@APSAtweets
2019 Best Book Award in Experimental Research by the Experimental Research Section for their book "Information, Accountability, and Cumulative Learning: Lessons from Metaketa I!"
Well done Peter Aronow for receipt of the
@APSAtweets
Harold F. Gosnell Prize, which recognizes the best work of political methodology presented at a political science conference in the last year!
#EGAPMemberShoutOut
Our
#Metaketa
V RFP round has officially closed! We are excited to announce that we have awarded five grants to teams planning studies in Kyrgyzstan, Malawi, Myanmar, Pakistan, & Vietnam. Congrats to the award recipients! Full list of studies here:
*NEW* EGAP Standards Discussion alert!
@tara_slough
writes about the different ways you can learn from an experiment (sneak preview: there's still a lot to learn from experiments that produce null results). Read more here:
Today we had a feedback session featuring a research project by
@antobandiera_
,
@abaldama
,
@SZonszein
, & Mateo Vásquez-Cortés that explores the effect of perspective-getting interventions in reducing discrimination against Venezuelan immigrants in Colombia.
Ever wanted to screenshot an equation and transform it into LaTeX code?! Now you can with ! You can directly modify in the task bar, copy and paste, etc. Check it out today!
We are pleased to announce that Cyrus Samii, Associate Professor of Political Science at NYU, has been elected as the next EGAP Executive Director! His term will begin in January 2019. Congratulations
@cdsamii
!
1/ In this paper recently published in
@PSRMJournal
,
@zeitzoff
,
@lwantchekon
& I examine whether voters are willing to make trade-offs between security and corruption in a violent context (Mexico's Drug War). 🧵