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, as well as a M.Phil. in Development Studies from the University of Oxford, which she received while on a Commonwealth Scholarship. After the Ph.D., Dr. Vivalt worked at the World Bank and the Australian National University before joining the University of Toronto. Dr. Vivalt is affiliated with the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), is a CEPR Research Policy Network member in AI, and is a research affiliate at the Inclusive Economy Lab at the University of Chicago and the Yale Research Initiative on Innovation and Scale, as well as the Forward Society Lab and the Schwartz Reisman Institute at the University of Toronto. While on leave from the University of Toronto, Dr. Vivalt served as a Director of the Global Priorities Institute at the University of Oxford and has also visited the Department of Economics at Yale University and Stanford University. 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.