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Upcoming Events

  • Research Transparency and Reproducibility Training (RT2) – Washington, D.C.

    BITSS will hold its next Research Transparency and Reproducibility Training (RT2) in Washington DC, September 11-13, 2019. RT2 provides participants with an overview of tools …

  • BITSS Research Transparency and Reproducibility Workshop at the 8th Annual EASST Summit

    BITSS is partnering with the East Africa Social Science Translation (EASST), a CEGA initiative, to host a Research Transparency and Reproducibility Workshop on July 23 …

  • Webinar | Grassroots Networks Engaging Open Science in Their Communities

    Hosted by the Center for Open Science at 10 am ET on Jul 30, 2019, “Local Grassroots Networks” features insights from international panelists currently nurturing …

Recent Blog Posts

  • Pre-results Review at the Journal of Development Economics: Lessons learned so far

    1 day ago
    By Andrew Foster (Brown University), Dean Karlan (Northwestern University), Edward Miguel (UC Berkeley) and Aleksandar Bogdanoski (BITSS) This post was originally posted on the Development Impact blog. BITSS has been …

  • Pre-results review reaches the (economic) lab: Experimental Economics follows the Journal of Development Economics in piloting pre-results review

    1 month ago
    In its April 2019 issue, the journal Experimental Economics issued a Call for Submissions for a virtual Symposium of 5-7 papers to be published under “pre-results review”. BITSS Senior Program …

  • Better pre-analysis plans through design declaration and diagnosis

    3 months ago
    DeclareDesign is a set of software packages for planning for and assessing research designs, written by Graeme Blair, Jasper Cooper, Alexander Coppock, and Macartan Humphreys. The software is based on the …

Spotlight

  • Solomon Hsiang

    Solomon Hsiang

    Solomon Hsiang combines data with mathematical models to understand how society and the environment influence one another. In particular, he focuses on how policy can encourage economic development while managing global climate change, how natural disasters impact societies and the effectiveness of policy responses, and how environmental conditions influence social instability …
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