Discipline: Economics

Greer Gosnell

Greer Gosnell is a Research Officer in the Grantham Research Institute at the London School of Economics. Her research uses field experiments to understand individual decisionmaking related to transport and energy use decisions. Her current projects focus on the contexts of commercial fuel efficiency, residential energy and resource use, individual transport decisions,…

Publication Bias and Editorial Statement on Negative Findings

The introduction of confidence at 95 percent or 90 percent has led the academic community to accept more easily starry stories with marginally significant coefficients than starless ones with insignificant coefficients. In February 2015, the editors of eight health economics journals sent out an editorial statement encouraging referees to accept studies that:…

AEA Registry for RCTs

The American Economic Association (AEA) Randomized Controlled Trials Registry is a registry for RCTs conducted in the social sciences. Registration is free and you do not need to be a member of the AEA to register. We encourage you to register any new study before data collection.

Alassane Koulibaly

Alassane Koulibaly is working for Innovations for Poverty Action – Francophone West Africa (IPA-FWA) since July 2014. he has been involved in research studies both in Burkina Faso and Mali. Since February he has been supervising several projects as a research coordinator. Alassane’s areas of work include rural finance, governance, health, agriculture,…

Improving the Credibility of Social Science Research: A Practical Guide for Researchers

Created by the Policy Design and Evaluation Lab (PDEL) at UCSD, this teaching module was developed to demonstrate the credibility crisis in the social sciences caused by a variety of incentives and practices at both the disciplinary and individual levels, and provide practical steps for researchers to improve the credibility of their…

Heba Abou-El-Sood

Dr. Heba Abou-El-Sood is an Associate Professor of Accounting and Finance at Cairo University Faculty of Commerce. Prior to that, she was affiliated with Lancaster University Management School. She holds an MPhil in Accounting with distinction from Cairo University, MSc in Accounting and Finance from Boston College, and PhD in Accounting and…

Jeffrey Naecker

Jeff Naecker is an economist at Google. His research is primarily in the fields of behavioral and experimental economics. He studies the motivations behind prosocial behavior, the usefulness of hypothetical and subjective data in predicting incentivized choice, and how machine learning can add new insights to behavioral models of preferences. A native…

Yannick Mbunang

Yannick Ngongang Mbunang is a Pre-doctoral fellow in African School of Economics (ASE)/ Institute of Empirical Research in Political Economics (IERPE), Benin. His interests are applied econometrics, impact evaluation and data science. Yannick has an MSc in Mathematics, Economics, and Statistics from ASE and a BSc in Pure Mathematics from University Yaoundé…

Kacana Sipangule

Kacana Sipangule is a Research Fellow at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy and a PhD Candidate in Economics at the University of Goettingen in Germany. She is also a Research Economist at the Poverty Reduction Equity and Growth Network (PEGNet). Her research interests include development, experimental, and agricultural economics. She…

Aleksandr Michuda

Aleksandr Michuda is a PhD candidate in Agricultural and Resource Economics at UC Davis in California, USA. His research focuses on land reform, land privatization policies and their political economy, relying on modern modeling techniques and structural estimation. His passions go from political philosophy and symbolic logic.   Contact

Transparency and Reproducibility in Economics Research

There is growing interest in research transparency and reproducibility in economics and other fields. We survey existing work on these topics within economics and discuss the evidence suggesting that publication bias, inability to replicate and specification searching remain widespread problems in the discipline. We next discuss recent progress in this area, including…

Solomon Olakojo

Dr. Solomon Abayomi Olakojo is a Lecturer in the Department of Economics, University of Ibadan in Nigeria. He obtained his PhD in Economics under the collaborative PhD programme of the African Economic Research Consortium (AERC) from University of Ibadan. He is an alum of the Brown International Advanced Research Institutes (BIARI) of…

Ingvild L. Skarpeid

Ingvild is a PhD student at the Centre for Experimental Research on Fairness, Inequality and Rationality (FAIR) at The Norwegian School of Economics (NHH). She is also a part of The Choice Lab at NHH. Her research is experimental, both lab and field based, and lies in the intersection of behavioural and…

Emmanuel Orkoh

Emmanuel Orkoh graduated in 2019 with a PhD in Economics from the Potchefstroom Campus of the North-West University, South Africa. He is currently working as a Researcher at the Nordic Africa Institute in Uppsala, Sweden and as an Extraordinary Research Scientist at the North-West University in South Africa. He holds a collaborative…

Impact Evaluation in Practice

The second edition of the Impact Evaluation in Practice handbook is a comprehensive and accessible introduction to impact evaluation for policymakers and development practitioners. First published in 2011, it has been used widely across the development and academic communities. The book incorporates real-world examples to present practical guidelines for designing and implementing…

Iyabo Adeoye

Iyabo Adeoye holds a Ph.D. degree in Agricultural Economics from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria and is currently the Acting Head of Department, Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation Department of National Horticultural Research Institute, Ibadan, Nigeria. She specializes in market intelligence and analysis, and value chain development of horticultural crops. Gender dimensions and…

Ada Gonzalez-Torres

Ada Gonzalez-Torres is an Assistant Professor in the Economics Department at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Her main research fields are in development economics and political economy. In her dissertation she studies drivers of civil violence, its consequences for main economic outcomes and interactions between institutions, beliefs and social norms, using quasi-experimental…

DeclareDesign

DeclareDesign is statistical software to aid researchers in characterizing and diagnosing research designs — including experiments, quasi-experiments, and observational studies. DeclareDesign consists of a core package, as well as three companion packages that stand on their own but can also be used to complement the core package: randomizr: Easy-to-use tools for common…

Elise Wang Sonne

2017 Leamer-Rosenthal Prize Recipient — Emerging Researcher Soazic Elise Wang Sonne is a statistician and economist researcher (PhD fellow) at the United Nations University (UNU-MERIT) and an Economist (Young Professional) at the Social Development Unit of the World Bank Group in Washington DC. Since early 2015, Soazic has been spearheading the research…

Maarten Voors

Maarten Voors (PhD Wageningen, 2011) is an Assistant Professor in Development Economics at Wageningen University. His main field is development and experimental economics. His research focuses on institutions, social capital, (post-conflict) development and behavior. He uses a variety of methods including surveys, lab and field experiments and econometric analysis. He has conducted…

Temitope Laniran

Temitope Laniran earned a BSc in Economics from Bowen University Iwo and a MSc in Economics & Finance for Development from the Bradford Centre for International Development (BCID), University of Bradford. He was awarded an Erasmus grant of the European Union lifelong learning programme to study Human Development and Food Security at the…

DMAS

The Distributed Meta-Analysis System is an online tool to help scientists analyze, explore, combine, and communicate results from existing empirical studies. It’s primary purpose it to support meta-analyses, by providing a database for empirically estimated models and methods to integrate their results. The current version supports a range of tools that are…

pcpanel

This package performs power calculations for randomized experiments that use panel data. Unlike the existing programs “sampsi” and “power”, this package accommodates arbitrary serial correlation. The program “pc_simulate” performs simulation-based power calculations using a pre-existing dataset (stored in memory), and accommodates cross-sectional, multi-wave panel, difference-in-differences, and ANCOVA designs. The program “pc_dd_analytic” performs analytical power calculations for a difference-in-differences experimental design,…

Oscar Barriga-Cabanillas

Oscar Barriga-Cabanillas is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Agricultural and Resource Economics program at UC Davis. His research focuses on understanding how households adopt new technologies to better manage risk and income fluctuations. His work leverages traditional household surveys and big data methods. Before joining the program, Oscar worked at the World…

Handbook of the Modern Development Specialist

Created by the Responsible Data Forum, this handbook is offered as a first attempt to understand what responsible data means in the context of international development programming. The authors have taken a broad view of development, opting not to be prescriptive about who the perfect “target audience” for this effort is within the space.…

Neeta Goel

Dr. Neeta Goel is a Senior Program Officer for Measurement, Learning and Evaluation at the Gates Foundation. Neeta has over seventeen years of experience in the international development sector. Her work has included the design, implementation, and evaluation of NGO interventions focusing on disadvantaged children, youth, and communities. Neeta is interested in…

Johannes Haushofer

Johannes Haushofer is Assistant Professor of Psychology and Public Affairs in the Department of Psychology and the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University. His research interests lie at the intersection of neurobiology, behavioral economics, and development economics. His research asks whether poverty has particular psychological and neurobiological consequences, and whether these consequences,…

Fiona Burlig

Fiona Burlig is an Assistant Professor at the Harris School of Public Policy and a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. She studies energy and environmental economics, with a focus on the developing world. Her recent research examines the impacts of rural electrification in India, uses machine learning…

re3data.org

The Registry of Research Data Repositories (re3data.org) is a global registry of research data repositories that covers research data repositories from different academic disciplines. It presents repositories for the permanent storage and access of data sets to researchers, funding bodies, publishers and scholarly institutions. re3data.org promotes a culture of sharing, increased access…

Dan Benjamin

Dan Benjamin is Associate Professor of Economics at the Center for Economic and Social Research and Economics Department at the University of Southern California. He is a behavioral economist who studies social-science genomics, subjective well-being, and belief biases. He has advocated improvements in statistical practice in the social sciences based on better…

Dagim Belay

Dagim Belay is a postdoctoral researcher at University of Copenhagen, Denmark. In fall 2016, he was an East Africa Social Sciences Translation Collaborative (EASST) Fellow with the Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA) at UC Berkeley. Dagim holds a PhD in Economics from University of Copenhagen. His main areas of interest focus on applying impact…

Hailemariam Ayalew

Hailemariam Ayalew obtained a PhD in Economics from the University of Copenhagen in Denmark in 2016 with a thesis entitled “Impact Evaluation of policy reforms: Quasi experimental evidence from Africa.” He also obtained MSc degrees in Economic Policy Analysis from Addis Ababa University and the University of Copenhagen. Previously, he worked as a…

AidGrade

AidGrade conducts open, real-time meta-analyses of impact evaluations on economic development programs. They collect results from impact evaluations and transparently synthesize them, building a database anyone can use.

Mercyline Kamande

Mercyline W. Kamande holds a PhD in Economics with concentrations in Public Sector Economics and Econometrics. She is a Senior Lecturer in Mount Kenya University, Rwanda. She is also the Founder, Executive Director, and Lead Consultant at Impact Evaluation Research for Development. She has wide experience in impact evaluation research, mainly on…