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Upcoming Events

14th BITSS Annual Meeting

April 16, 2026 | UC Berkeley

Join us to discuss the role of publishers and AI in research transparency.

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RT2 2026 Training

May 19–21, 2026 | Berkeley, CA

Flagship training on tools and practices for transparent social science.

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Blog

  • The World Bank’s Reproducible Research Initiative: Raising the Bar for Transparency in Development Economics

    October 21, 2025
    Written for the BITSS Blog by Maria Ruth Jones, Senior Economist at the World Bank’s Development Impact Group. Imagine a world where every policy decision is backed by transparent, reproducible evidence—where anyone can verify the numbers behind the headlines. The World Bank has just taken a major step toward making this vision…

  • Putting Open Science Into Practice: Reflections from the 2025 RT2 Training

    June 5, 2025
    This year’s RT2 took place from May 21-23, 2025 on UC Berkeley’s Campus. BITSS Program Manager Jo Weech shares common questions from 28 early-career researchers who are working to implement open science practices in their own research. The academic community has long reckoned with epistemic challenges, from the reproducibility to the underreporting…

  • Advancing Research Transparency: A Conversation on Replication Checklists

    February 24, 2025
    Replication is an important tool for research credibility. In this interview, BITSS Program Manager Jo Weech interviewed impact evaluation experts Sridevi Prasad and Douglas Glandon on their replication checklist, designed to help standardize replications for impact evaluations and other social science studies. As the political landscape and funding for scientific research is…

  • Transparency Challenges in Policy Analysis: Lessons from the Congressional Budget Office

    December 10, 2024
    How can the principles of research transparency be applied to policy research? What opportunities are there for the incoming administration? BITSS Research Scientist Fernando Hoces de la Guardia and Program Manager Jo Weech discuss recommendations for the Congressional Budget Office, a key actor in the legislative process. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO),…

Recent Research

May 2025 | NBER WP 33753

Assessing Reproducibility in Economics Using Standardized Crowd-sourced Analysis

Abel Brodeur, Seung Yong Sung, Edward Miguel, Lars Vilhuber, and Fernando Hoces de la Guardia

Nov 2025 | NBER WP 34493

Forecasting Social Science: Evidence from 100 Projects

Stefano DellaVigna and Eva Vivalt

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The Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences (BITSS), a program within the Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA), is a network committed to strengthening scientific integrity across disciplines.

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