Working Group in African Political Economy Annual Meeting
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This year, the 2015 WGAPE Annual Meeting will be held at the Watson Institute at Brown University. The meeting will bring together political scientists, economists, and other public policy experts to discuss new, policy-relevant research. This year will include a discussion of pre-analysis plans to encourage better transparency practices among social scientists.
Research Transparency Workshop
The 2015 BITSS Summer Institute will take place June 10-12 in Berkeley. The workshop will provide an overview of new tools and resources for open and rigorous social science. Participants can expect to finish the program with a thorough understanding of best practices for transparent and reproducible research. In response to increased interest in the workshop, the Institute will be recorded and made publicly available on the BITSS website.
Global Resilience Challenge
CEGA is hosting a seminar on remote sensing and monitoring technologies for crisis response and community resilience as part of its participation in the Global Resilience Challenge. The workshop will discuss measurement of environmental and settlement changes during shocks, leveraging new technologies like micro-satellites, sensor networks, and mobile computing.
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CEGA IN THE NEWS
The Relationship between Warmer Temperatures and Math Scores
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CEGA affiliates Joshua Graff Zivin and Sol Hsiang have published a new working paper demonstrating the impacts of warmer temperatures on the brain. The authors are calling the study the "first economic analysis of the relationship between temperature/climate and human capital." The study was mentioned in The Washington Post.
How Climate Change Makes the World More Violent
This guest post on The Monkey Cage blog mentions research conducted by Faculty Director Ted Miguel and colleagues about the impact of climate change on conflict. As high temperatures impact crop yields, more people are likely to take up arms, leading to increased violence.
Incentives for Open Science
Executive Director Temina Madon shared the launch of the Leamer-Rosenthal Prizes for Open Social Science on the LSE Impact blog.
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EVIDENCE
A Scalable Satellite-based Crop Yield Mapper
CEGA affiliate David Lobell has completed research on new advances in satellite data acquisition and processing. These advances offer promise for monitoring agricultural lands globally. Using these data to estimate crop yields for individual fields would benefit both crop management and scientific research, especially for areas where reliable ground-based estimates are not currently made. The strength of the approach lies in its ability to leverage physiological knowledge embedded in crop models to interpret satellite observations in a scalable way, as it can be readily applied to new crops, regions, and types and timing of remote sensing observations without the need for ground calibration. Learn more here.
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OPPORTUNITIES
Leamer-Rosenthal Prizes for Open Social Science Research
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