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Evidence in Governance and Politics (EGAP) @egap.bsky.social · 11d
📢 Call for Applications 📢

EGAP’s #LatAm Hub @ Facultad de Economía Uniandes is again hosting a Learning Days Workshop & PhD Lab this July & August, 2026!

📍 Location: Instituto de Sociología, Catholic University of Chile, Santiago

🗓 Apply by: February 28, 2026

🔗 Details: buff.ly/9xgFGs2
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This month we are featuring EGAP work on institutions & governance in Asia.

First up, @bijurao.bsky.social w/ Kripa Ananthpur & Kabir Malik look to India to ask: under what circumstances might an external intervention induce citizen participation in local governance? Learn more:
Brief 42: Understanding the Failure of a Randomized Trial to Deepen Democracy in Rural India – EGAP
EGAP researchers: Vijayendra Rao
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February 5, 2026 at 3:46 PM
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🚨🚨 Some hope: media and information literacy trainings - modules providing crucial skills to better consume information - in classroom settings appears to move the needle, and to have positive externalities!

Check out the (open-access) results of our large field-experiment in India.
October 9, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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10 Things to Know About Cluster Randomization buff.ly/OLnYs3n #EGAPMethodsGuide
10 Things to Know About Cluster Randomization – EGAP
En Français
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February 3, 2026 at 2:03 PM
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New blog post summarizing my and coauthors' recent #systematicreview of the comparative effectiveness of #locallyleddevelopment approaches. Post includes additional analysis of agency-related outcomes as reported in the included studies. Journal article in comments.
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Limited but encouraging evidence about the relative effectiveness of locally led development also includes findings about agency
By Annette N. Brown, February 2, 2026 One of the heralded expected outcomes from the drastic disruptions and reductions in foreign assistance over the last year is a greater shift toward locally led d...
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February 2, 2026 at 7:32 PM
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My talk on "Inference for group interaction experiments" from the Foundations of Causal Inference workshop at the Isaac Newton Institute is available via their Youtube channel: youtu.be/3hh-bM8YNSc?...
Prof. Cyrus Samii | Inference for Group Interaction Experiments
YouTube video by INI Seminar Room 1
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February 2, 2026 at 8:16 PM
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Very happy to share our paper “Voting Rules, Turnout, and Economic Policies,” published in the Annual Review of Economics!

Full paper here: www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Short 🧵on main take-aways below.

w/ E. Cantoni and J. Schafer
#EconSky #PoliSciSky @annualreviews.bsky.social (1/n).
Voting Rules, Turnout, and Economic Policies
In recent years, voter ID laws and convenience voting have generated heated partisan debates. To shed light on these policy issues, we survey the evidence on the institutional determinants and effects...
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February 2, 2026 at 1:24 PM
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REMINDER: Our West Africa Hub is hosting a Learning Days workshop at CERAP this June 🌍

We welcome applicants from Africa-based researchers & evaluation professionals from university, government, & civil society orgs.

Apply by: Feb 27, 2026

Learn more: buff.ly/9l0bdig
Learning Days 18: EGAP West Africa Regional Hub Learning Days Workshop 2026 – EGAP
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February 2, 2026 at 1:02 PM
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For our final spotlight on EGAP research in #Africa, see Lily Tsai & Ben Morse's #Metaketa experiment in Liberia. They test if community policing builds confidence in police, increases crime reporting, improves info sharing, & reduces incidence of crime.
Building Trust and Improving Police Effectiveness: Lessons from Liberia – EGAP
Metaketa researchers: Ben Morse, Lily Tsai
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January 29, 2026 at 6:05 PM
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📢 ¡EGAP #LatAm @EconomiaUAndes vuelve a organizar el taller de Learning Days y un PhD Lab este julio y agosto 2026!

📍 Lugar: Instituto de Sociología, Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago

🗓 Cierre: 28 febrero 2026

🔗 Info: buff.ly/712R0Go
January 28, 2026 at 4:30 PM
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El Nodo Regional de EGAP en Latinoamérica @egap.bsky.social realizará un taller de Días de Aprendizaje Santiago en alianza con el Instituto de Sociología, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, del 27 al 31 de julio de 2026:

egap.org/project/dias...

Compartan con sus redes y consideren aplicar
Días de Aprendizaje 19: Hub Regional de EGAP en América Latina, 2026 – EGAP
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January 28, 2026 at 3:51 PM
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📢 Call for Applications 📢

EGAP’s #LatAm Hub @ Facultad de Economía Uniandes is again hosting a Learning Days Workshop & PhD Lab this July & August, 2026!

📍 Location: Instituto de Sociología, Catholic University of Chile, Santiago

🗓 Apply by: February 28, 2026

🔗 Details: buff.ly/9xgFGs2
January 28, 2026 at 3:30 PM
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JOIN us for this year’s Rebecca Morton conference on experimental political science at NYU! March 6-7. We have a great line up of papers and posters!

Program (scroll down) here: wp.nyu.edu/cesspolitica...

Register (no fee) here: nyu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
Annual NYU CESS Experimental Political Science Conference
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January 27, 2026 at 4:57 PM
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10 Things to Know About the Local Average Treatment Effect buff.ly/kIlpoDC #EGAPMethodsGuide
10 Things to Know About the Local Average Treatment Effect – EGAP
Author: Peter van der Windt
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January 27, 2026 at 7:03 PM
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mathiaspoertner.bsky.social
Looking forward to all the exciting talks in the LSE Latin American Politics Seminar (LAPS) series this term!

Talks will be on-campus (open to anyone interested) but you can also join remotely.

www.lse.ac.uk/government/r...

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January 27, 2026 at 4:20 PM
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Open Position: Knight Postdoctoral Fellow at Wharton School: Expertise in the quantitative study of the information ecosystem, especially news, media, and advertising.

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Wharton-Postdoc - Center on Media, Technology and Democracy
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January 26, 2026 at 4:28 PM
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In our next spotlight on EGAP work in #Africa, Kristin Mitchelitch, Nicole Audette & Jeremy Horowitz ask if personal narratives reduce prejudicial attitudes towards immigrant outgroups & policies aimed at benefiting them in Kenya. Preparer: @bhumi.bsky.social.
Brief 70: How Personal Narratives Reduce Negative Attitudes Towards Immigrants in Kenya – EGAP
EGAP researchers: Kristin Michelitch
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January 22, 2026 at 4:02 PM
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📣 We’re hiring!

CEGA is looking for a Predoctoral Research Fellow to support rigorous impact evaluations in Uganda, India, and South Africa related to health, gender, and environmental economics.

🔗 Learn more and apply by January 21: go.cega.org/devecon-predoc
January 20, 2026 at 8:05 PM
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10 Things to Know About Causal Inference buff.ly/iSJWZYC #EGAPMethodsGuide
10 Things to Know About Causal Inference – EGAP
En Français
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January 20, 2026 at 5:03 PM
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Early career researchers (especially in Europe / UK, but all are welcome):

Apply to present your work on the urban/rural divide (very broadly defined!) @ LSE

@lseinequalities.bsky.social @lsegovernment.bsky.social
charlottekuberka.bsky.social Charlotte Kuberka @charlottekuberka.bsky.social · 19d
📣 Call for Papers:
🗓️ 23-24 April 2026 at LSE

Submit full papers: forms.office.com/e/9qVWeNTK0p

Please share with colleagues & early-career researchers!
January 20, 2026 at 1:43 PM
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How do we conduct evidence-based research & policymaking in the context of contemporary displacement dynamics?

EGAPers & associated researchers grappled with this question & more at last month's Zurich meeting.

👉 Read about the event on our website: buff.ly/kjL3w8e
January 19, 2026 at 3:02 PM
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Our next
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APEG seminar is this Thursday, Jan. 22, at 12 pm. We are happy to host Dr. Kristin Michelitch (sites.google.com/site/kristin...). Her talk is titled "Penalties for Particularism and Partisanship?" Please join us. @carlmc.bsky.social
January 19, 2026 at 9:17 AM
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@heikogiebler.bsky.social, Johannes Giesecke, @macartan.bsky.social, @swenhutter.bsky.social & @heikekluever.bsky.social: Mobilizing Europe’s citizens to take action on migration and climate change: behavioral evidence from 27 EU member states 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
January 16, 2026 at 4:05 PM
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bhumi.bsky.social
I like to pull together the latest work on gender and politics from the global south a few times a year, mostly as an accountability mechanism to keep up. Here's the latest one with articles published since September 2025: open.substack.com/pub/genderpo...

#GenderSky
#PoliSky
Winter 2025 Roundup
Articles on authoritarianism, toxicity in politics, and more.
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January 16, 2026 at 10:51 AM
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For today's spotlight on research in #Africa, Eric Kramon, @sarahbrierley.bsky.social & @gofosu.bsky.social's 2016 study, conducted around Ghana's parliamentary elections asks if candidate debates influence voters in new democracies?
Brief 64: The Moderating Effect of Debates in Ghana – EGAP
Policy Brief
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January 15, 2026 at 7:02 PM
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A week ago, I gave the “Recent Developments in the Political Economy of Elections and Democracy” lecture at the 2026 AEA @assameeting.bsky.social !

Video: www.aeaweb.org/webcasts/202...
Slides: www.vincentpons.org/recent-devel...

Thread with the TL;DR of my talk below.
January 13, 2026 at 1:39 PM