BIDS Senior Fellow Edward Miguel - Oxfam Professor in Environmental and Resource Economics and Faculty Director of the Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA) at UC Berkeley - will give an Economics Departmental Seminar titled "Research Transparency & Reproducibility in Economics and Beyond" on Sep 25 at the Sibley Auditorium, Bechtel Engineering Center (map). The seminar will discuss the publication of "Transparent and Reproducible Social Science Research: How to Do Open Science", a new textbook co-authored by Garret Christensen (US Census Bureau), Jeremy Freese (Stanford), and Miguel, as well as new approaches to combat false positives and non-reproducible findings in economics research.
This seminar builds on similar talks that Ted has given as part of the NBER Summer Institute on 7/21 and the Metascience 2019 Symposium on 9/7.
Learn more here, or contact Camille Fernandez with any questions. No registration required.
Speaker(s)
Edward Miguel
BIDS Senior Fellow Edward Miguel is the Oxfam Professor of Environmental and Resource Economics, the Faculty Director of the Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences (BITSS), and the Faculty Co-Director of the Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA) at the University of California, Berkeley, where he has taught since 2000. His research focuses on African economic development, including work on the economic causes and consequences of violence; the impact of ethnic divisions on local collective action; interactions between health, education, environment, and productivity for the poor; and methods for transparency in social science research. He has conducted field work in Kenya, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, and India. Miguel earned S.B. degrees in both Economics and Mathematics from MIT, and received a Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University, where he was a National Science Foundation Fellow.