U.S. Based Professors Laud Ethiopia’s Urban Transformation, Climate Action

Berkeley’s Edward Miguel and Gettysburg College’s Linus Nyiwul point to Addis Ababa’s rapid infrastructure growth, sustained economic reforms, and expanding climate resilience programs as models for the region.

CEGA Launches Zambia Mining and Local Development Fellowship 2026 for PhD Researchers

The Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA) at the University of California, Berkeley, has announced applications for its Remote Fellowship: Zambia Mining and Local Development, offering an exciting opportunity for Zambia-based PhD researchers to strengthen their quantitative research skills while contributing to a major study on the social and economic impacts of mining development.

Finding Confidence and Community at UC Berkeley

As part of the Places You’ll Go series, a new CERGE-EI blog interview features PhD student Winnie Wanjiru Njoroge and her research stay at UC Berkeley, where she immersed herself in seminars, Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA) meetings, development economics classes, and discussions with faculty and students.

Replication games’ test the robustness of social-science studies

A large-scale assessment of the reproducibility and robustness of 110 articles published in leading economics and political-science journals finds that more than 85% were computationally reproducible, and 72% of statistically significant results remained significant and in the same direction in robustness checks. About 25% of the evaluated articles contained non‑trivial coding errors.