Closing soon on the SSPP: This incentivized survey asks you to predict what will happen to credit card default under different interest rates and minimum payment policies! socialscienceprediction.org/predict/r/4c5f…
📅 Closes: Nov 24
📚 Field: Economics
⏱️ Length: 10 min

It was such a pleasure to meet the winners of the #EinsteinFoundationAward2023 w/ BIH QUEST Center yesterday: Yves Moreau (Individual), BITSS (Institutional) & Anne Gärtner (@gaertneranne.bsky.social) (Early Career). Your pioneering work helps to fundamentally advance research quality! award.einsteinfoundation.de

Today, 6 pm (CET): Join us online for an exclusive Meet & Greet with the winners of the #EinsteinFoundationAward w/ BIH QUEST Center! We are excited to honor Yves Moreau KU Leuven, BITSS & Anne Gärtner (@gaertneranne.bsky.social) for their contributions to promoting research quality! award.einsteinfoundation.de/events/meet-th…

Congratulations BITSS on your Einstein Foundation Award, recognizing your role in the ‘credibility revolution’ in science, by promoting careful experimentation and supporting efforts to make replication and verification commonplace👏👏

Tune in on Monday, November 20th, to hear from BITSS Faculty Director Edward Miguel and Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA) Executive Director Carson Christiano about our origin, mission, program initiatives, and more!

Exciting news! #EinsteinFoundationAward2023 w/ BIH QUEST Center Institutional winner Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences (BITSS) has empowered thousands of social scientists around the🌏 w/ #OpenScience training. Discover more on Nov 20th: award.einsteinfoundation.de/events/meet-th…

We're extremely excited to announce that Arthur Lupia will keynote the 2024 BITSS Annual Meeting, to be held at UC Berkeley on Friday, March 8th! We're currently accepting submissions for papers in all aspects of meta-science: buff.ly/47b7ypU. Deadline to apply: Dec 31!

If you've ever considered collecting predictions for your research, now is the time! Take advantage of our new Superforecaster Panel and check out the platform here: socialscienceprediction.org

Sign up to join the ✨first✨ Berkeley Replication Games: We're excited and honored to co-host with Economists for Equity at Berkeley (BEE) and CSWEP, and encourage the participation of underrepresented researchers!

Of note, the games will be followed by the 2024 BITSS Annual Meeting on March 8th. Registration will be open in January 2024. BITSS is currently inviting submissions for papers here: cega.berkeley.edu/event/2024-bit….

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Great talk with great people about open science, transparency and reproducibility in Brazilian political science and international relations

Check It out!

🚨 CEGA is #Hiring 🚨

We’re recruiting for a  research manager to support work from CEGA affiliated professor Frederico Finan and help grow CEGA’s portfolio of work on political economy, governance, conflict, and security.

💸: $71,663 -$85,995
Apply now: cega.berkeley.edu/career/researc…

Reminder that we have two free virtual workshops:

1. How to Make Your Work Reproducible from Day 1 (8:30-10:30 a.m. EST; Tuesday October 24th) 

2. Social Science Reproduction Platform: Producing and Publishing Reproductions (12:00-1:00 p.m. EST; Wednesday October 25th)

Closing soon on the SSPP: Muhammad Zia Mehmood investigates the effect of SMS-based business management trainings on outcomes for micro-entrepreneurs in Kenya! Submit your predictions here before it closes: buff.ly/491Uapy
📅 Closes: October 27
📚Field: Dev Econ
⏱️Length: 5 min

How do BITSS catalysts shape the future of transparent social science research?

Check out this impact story highlighting Anna Josephson + Jeffrey D. Michler @jdmichler.bsky.social’s work developing their book,  “Research Ethics in Applied Economics: A Practical Guide.”

cega.berkeley.edu/impact/bitss-c…