Eva Vivalt is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Toronto. Dr. Vivalt’s main research interests are in investigating stumbling blocks to evidence-based policy decisions, including methodological issues, how evidence is interpreted, and the use of forecasting. Dr. Vivalt is also a principal investigator on three guaranteed income RCTs and co-founder of the Social Science Prediction Platform, a platform to coordinate the collection of forecasts of research results.
Dr. Vivalt holds a Ph.D. in Economics and an M.A. in Mathematics from the University of California, Berkeley and previously worked with the Development Economics Research Group at the World Bank. Prior to the Ph.D., Dr. Vivalt completed an M.Phil. in Development Studies at the University of Oxford on a Commonwealth Scholarship. Dr. Vivalt was a Director of the Global Priorities Institute and an Associate Member of Nuffield College at the University of Oxford, has visited the Department of Economics at Yale University and Stanford University, and was previously a lecturer at the Australian National University. Dr. Vivalt is also a Faculty Affiliate at the Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society, an Affiliated Researcher at the Yale Research Initiative on Innovation and Scale, and an Invited Researcher at the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab. Dr. Vivalt’s work has been published in Science, the Journal of the European Economic Association, and the Journal of Development Economics, among other journals, and featured in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Financial Times, NPR, and many other media outlets.