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 PhD in Economics and a MA in Mathematics from the University of California, Berkeley, as well as a MPhil in Development Studies from the University of Oxford, obtained while on a Commonwealth Scholarship. Prior to joining the University of Toronto, Dr. Vivalt worked at the World Bank and the Australian National University. Dr. Vivalt is affiliated with the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), the Inclusive Economy Lab at the University of Chicago, the Yale Research Initiative on Innovation and Scale, and the Forward Society Lab and the Schwartz Reisman Institute at the University of Toronto, as well as being a CEPR Research Policy Network member in AI.