The Center's researchers use randomized controlled trials and other rigorous forms of evaluation to promote sustainable social and economic development around the world.
[2] The Center's founders, including Haas School of Business Professor Paul Gertler, are considered pioneers in the field of impact evaluation.
[3] They have led some of the most influential field experiments in recent years, including evaluations of school-based deworming in Kenya[4] and of the Oportunidades program in Mexico.
The CEGA toolbox includes randomized evaluation as well as regression discontinuity, panel analysis, instrumental variables, and other quasi-experimental methods.
For example, CEGA researcher Edward Miguel, in collaboration with Michael Kremer, demonstrated in 2004 that school-based mass deworming in rural Kenya is a cost-effective way to improve school attendance.