Ethiopia’s Diversified Economic Growth Yields Impressive Results, According to International Economists
Berkeley’s Edward Miguel and Gettysburg’s Linus Nyiwul point to Addis Ababa’s transformation, sustained sectoral reforms, and climate-resilient green economy programs as evidence Ethiopia is emerging as a continental benchmark.
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.
GERD Huge Impetus for Ethiopia’s Economic Dev’t: US-Based Economics Professors
Gettysburg College’s Linus Nyiwul and UC Berkeley’s Edward Miguel point to the dam as a model of domestic resource mobilization, driving industrial growth and cementing Ethiopia’s shift toward renewable energy.
Cheating at Work Isn’t Just About Character—It’s About Conditions
Sometimes economic hardship can turn good people into reluctant rule-breakers, says research by Livia Alfonsi. But companies can take steps to deter grifting and support employees.
AI, transparency, and trust: rethinking open science in development research
Researchers, policymakers, and data experts discuss how artificial intelligence is reshaping transparency, reproducibility, and trust in development research during MeasureDev 2026.
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.
Podcast: DT_T (Do The _ Thing) Season 1 – Epsiode 8 Spotlights on Edward “Ted” Miguel
DT_T (Do The _ Thing) Season 1 – Epsiode 8 Spotlights on Edward “Ted” Miguel — Founder and Faculty Co-Director of the Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA) and Distinguished Professor of Economics, Oxfam Professor in Environmental and Resource Economics Ted’s work focuses on understanding one of the most fundamental questions of our time: why do …
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.
What do parasitic worms and wages have in common? More than you think
Nearly 30 years of data from a landmark UC Berkeley project in Kenya show that treating children’s intestinal parasites does more than improve health — it boosts adult earnings and secures the lives of the next generation.
The Simplest Way to Save Lives With Your Money
Elie Hassenfeld, the chief executive of the nonprofit GiveWell, makes the case for a more rigorous, transparent and accountable approach to charitable giving.
Economists dropped $10M in rural Africa. It changed economic science forever
Can giving away money make an entire economy stronger? This real-world experiment in Kenya may change how we think about aid, poverty, and economic growth forever. Watch Money & Macro explore “General Equilibrium Effects of Cash Transfers: Experimental Evidence from Kenya.”
Edward Miguel Kenya direct cash transfers interview on BBC World Service Radio Weekend programme
A major study in western Kenya has found that unconditional cash transfers to low-income families led to significant improvements in health, including almost a 50% drop in infant mortality. Economist Professor Edward Miguel of the University of California, Berkeley, explains the results of the large-scale trial conducted with the NGO GiveDirectly.
Just money, with no strings attached’: how direct cash transfers are giving women in rural Kenya a new life
Financial support given directly to the women in Kilifi county has cut both infant mortality and deaths among under fives, while boosting village businesses
Let’s get negative about scholarly publishing
This blog post from Reciprocal Space discusses recent research on publication bias the reluctance to publish null and negative results and suggests some solutions.
Dr. Edward Miguel: US Tariffs: What Is The Impact?
On The Brain Surgeon’s Take, Dr. Rick Komotar and Prof. Edward Miguel break down how today’s U.S. tariffs affect prices, jobs, and America’s role in the global economy.
Watch an economics professor explain foreign aid in 101 seconds
Edward Miguel, faculty co-director of UC Berkeley’s Center for Effective Global Action, has made it his life’s work to figure out how to improve the lives of some of the poorest people on earth.
Cutting aid could kill children. Giving cash could save them
Opinion: Maternal deaths are rising for the first time in decades, and every year, children die before their fifth birthday, mostly from preventable causes. But the answer may not entirely lie in medicine — it’s also a question of money.
Study finds giving pregnant women cash transfers cuts infant mortality in half
A new study by Associate Professor Dennis Egger (Department of Economics and Centre for the Study of African Economies, University of Oxford) and researchers at the University of California, Berkeley reveals that giving unconditional cash transfers to pregnant women in rural Kenya significantly reduces infant and child mortality.
Cash payments cut infant mortality in rural Kenya by half
New study in rural Kenya, co-authored by economist Edward Miguel, shows that unconditional cash transfers halved infant mortality rates. In conversation with NPR, Miguel emphasized that the findings go beyond poverty relief, demonstrating how direct aid enables families to seek lifesaving care at critical moments — a powerful case for cash as a public health …
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Researchers discover a secret weapon that saves babies’ lives. And it’s not medical
A newly published study shows that infants and little children born to people who received $1,000, no-strings-attached, in a massive experiment had improved survival rates.
A New Way to Reduce Children’s Deaths: Cash
Simply giving money to poor families at certain times reduced deaths among young children by nearly half, a new study found.
This Problem Is Easy to Solve
This New York Times opinion piece by Nicholas Kristof examines the devastating impact of recent U.S. foreign aid cuts, spotlighting how millions of vulnerable children around the world—especially in Africa—are losing access to life-saving food, medicine, and basic support. It echoes the findings of the landmark ‘Worms’ study by Edward Miguel, Michael Kremer, and others, …
Edward Miguel on the Developing Practice of Development Economics
In this episode of Sean Carroll’s Mindscape Podcast, Ted Miguel dives deep into the world of development economics, sharing how randomized controlled trials (RCTs) are transforming the way we understand and tackle global poverty. Drawing on decades of fieldwork in sub-Saharan Africa, Ted unpacks the power of simple, cost-effective interventions like deworming pills and cash …
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