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Research

Cash transfer programs:

Working papers:

Vivalt, E., Rhodes, E., Bartik, A., Broockman, D., and Miller, S. (2024). “The Employment Effects of a Guaranteed Income: Experimental Evidence from Two U.S. States”

Miller, S., Rhodes, E., Bartik, A., Broockman, D., Krause, P., and Vivalt, E. (2024). “Does Income Affect Health? Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial of a Guaranteed Income”

Bartik, A., Rhodes, E., Broockman, D., Krause, P., Miller, S., and Vivalt, E. (2024). “The Impact of Unconditional Cash Transfers on Consumption and Household Balance Sheets: Experimental Evidence from Two US States”

Broockman, D., Rhodes, E., Bartik, A., Dotson, K., Krause, P., Miller, S., and Vivalt, E. (2024). “The Causal Effects of Income on Political Attitudes and Behavior: A Randomized Field Experiment”

The experiment in the papers above has been covered by over 100 original English-language pieces, including:

Vivalt, E. (2024). “The Unclaimed Property Puzzle: Billion Dollar Bills Lying on the Sidewalk”

In progress:

“The Causal Effects of Unconditional Cash Transfers: Experimental Evidence from a Large U.S. City”, with Alex Bartik, Sarah Miller, and Elizabeth Rhodes

“The Causal Effects of Unconditional Cash Transfers: Experimental Evidence from a U.S. County”, with Nour Abdul-Razzak, Alex Bartik, Sarah Miller, and Elizabeth Rhodes


Improving evidence-based decision-making:

1. Evidence-to-policy pipeline:

Vivalt, E., Coville, A. and KC, S. (forthcoming). “Local Knowledge, Formal Evidence, and Policy Decisions”, Journal of Development Economics.

Vivalt, E. and Coville, A. (2023). “How Do Policymakers Update Their Beliefs?”, Journal of Development Economics, 165: 103121.

Vivalt, E., Coville, A. and KC, S. (2023). “Seeking Evidence: Which Studies Do Policymakers Prefer?”

Vivalt, E. and Coville, A. (2021). “Policymakers Consistently Overestimate Program Impacts”

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2. Forecasting:

Social Science Prediction Platform website

Golden, M., Scacco, A, Zhai, H., Slough, T., Humphreys, M., Vivalt, E., Diaz-Cayeros, A., Dionne, K.Y., KC, S., Nazrullaeva, E., et al. (2023). “Gathering, Evaluating, and Aggregating Social Scientific Models of COVID-19 Mortality”, revise and resubmit at Political Analysis.

DellaVigna, S., Otis, N. and Vivalt, E. (2020). “Forecasting the Results of Experiments: Piloting an Elicitation Strategy”, AEA Papers and Proceedings, 110(5): 75-79.

DellaVigna, S., Pope, D. and Vivalt, E. (2019). “Predict Science to Improve Science”, Science, 366(6464): 428-429.

Vivalt, E. (2020). “Using Priors in Experimental Design: How Much Are We Leaving on the Table?” in Bédécarrats F., I. Guérin, and F. Roubaud, eds., Randomized Control Trials in the Field of Development: The Gold Standard Revisited (pp. 293-303). London: Oxford University Press.

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3. Meta-research:

Vivalt, E. (2020). “How Much Can We Generalize from Impact Evaluations?”, Journal of the European Economics Association, 18(6): 3045–3089. Online Appendices, Presentation, Teaching Slides

Vivalt, E. (2019). “Specification Searching and Significance Inflation Across Time, Methods and Disciplines”, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 81(4): 797–816.

Vivalt, E. (2015). “Heterogeneous Treatment Effects in Impact Evaluation”, American Economic Review, Papers and Proceedings, 105(5): 467–470.

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Moral values and norms:

Huet-Vaughn, E., Pham, M., Tasoff, J., and Vivalt, E. (2024). “Moral Preferences and the Marketplace of Ideas”

Freitas-Groff, Z., Macdonald, B., and Vivalt, E. (2024). “The Impact of New Products on Ethical Beliefs”

Chow, V. and Vivalt, E. (2022). “Challenges in Changing Social Norms: Evidence from Interventions Targeting Child Marriage in Ethiopia.” Journal of African Economies, 31(3): 183-210.