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How Biased are Observational Methods in Practice? Accumulating Evidence Using Randomised Controlled Trials with Imperfect Compliance
05 April 2023 - Consider a policy maker choosing between programs of unknown impact. She can inform her decision using observational methods, or by running a randomised controlled trial (RCT). The proponents of RCTs would argue that observational approaches suffer from bias of an unknown size and direction, and so are uninformative.
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Evaluation and Measurement
27 March 2023 - This webinar will discuss the finding of the CEDIL funded project, Evaluation and Measurement, led by Orazio Attanasio, and the final paper “Evaluation and Measurement”
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Can we reduce vulnerabilities of short-term low-skilled women migrants in the South-to-West Asia corridor? Results from the Gender-Sensitive Risks and Options Assessment for Decision Making (ROAD) to Support WiF-2
25 January 2023 -
Please join us to discuss a summary of key results on the CEDIL is supporting project of an evaluation of selected interventions of WiF-2 with a focus on identifying interventions that reduce women’s vulnerabilities in the migration space. To analyse migration challenges and identify solutions we applied an innovative, gendered Risks and Options Assessment for Decision-Making (ROAD) process
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SEEDS for Recovery: The impact of agricultural interventions in Syria
15 December 2022 - In this webinar, we will share the findings on if and how the distribution of emergency seeds and tool kits strengthen food security of households living in protracted humanitarian settings. Using a novel 4-wave panel dataset in Syria, we test if the program is sustainable after 4 years. Moreover, heterogeneous effects are analyzed to understand the role of conflict in moderating treatment impacts. Finally, using satellite data and deep learning, we estimate the impact of the programme on crop productivity, highlighting the use of novel data and methods to complement survey data in hard-to-reach settings.
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The effectiveness of digital financial services in humanitarian interventions: results of an adaptive randomized trial in Ethiopia
7 December 2022 - This webinar is an opportunity to hear from the SHARPE project on their CEDIL funded project on an impact evaluation, which focused on the financial market system, and on the take-up and effectiveness of digital financial services among refugees, host populations, and women, using a market systems approach to improve livelihoods among refugees and host country nationals, and to improve the integration of refugees into the broader local economy.
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Gender equality and social inclusion mainstreaming in WASH interventions: experiences from implementation, research and policy
2 November 2022 - In light of the research gaps found in the CEDIL-funded review ‘Gender and social outcomes of WASH interventions: synthesis of research evidence’, the aim of this session is to discuss the importance of GESI mainstreaming in WASH interventions. Specifically, the webinar will explore how evaluations of GESI mainstreaming efforts in WASH can be done better and what type of support is needed to achieve this mainstreaming.
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Uncovering impacts of cash transfer programmes for different groups using machine learning
21 September 2022 - Cash transfer programs have become one of the most popular approaches to poverty reduction. They have been found to be successful in a variety of contexts. Little is known however about their effectiveness for specific population groups. Do people transitioning out of poverty under cash transfer programs share specific characteristics? Which successful strategies do they adopt?
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Economic empowerment, school participation and changing social norms
19 July 2022 - Reducing adolescent childbearing is a global priority; enabling contraceptive use is one means of achieving this. This webinar looks at what interventions have been evaluated in low- and middle-income countries and what is needed to move the field forward and ensure the best evidence and interventions are conducted in the future.
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The collaborative exploration of alternative futures: A different approach to Theories of Change
6 April 2022 - ParEvo is a web application that enables the collaborative construction and exploration of a range of alternative futures: likely and unlikely, desirable and undesirable. This webinar will describe a recent ParEvo exercise implemented by the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk (CSER) in Cambridge.
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