[change] [CSE 590C1] Change seminar 12/06 - Leah Rosenzweig and Molly Offer-Westort

[Innocent Obi]

Hi everyone!

For our last UW CHANGE Seminar talk for the quarter (December 6th) will be
hearing from Leah Rosenzweig  and Molly
Offer-Westort  from the University of
Chicago. Leah and Molly's talk is titled "Designing adaptive experiments
for policy learning and inference".

*Description*
In this talk we will first provide an overview of adaptive experiments and
discuss their utility for policy learning and evaluation in social science
research. The second half of the talk will present results from two
adaptive experiments focused on countering COVID-19 misinformation and
increasing vaccine acceptance among social media users in Kenya and Nigeria.

*Seminar Details*
*Location*: Tuesdays from 12-1pm in 271 CSE2 (The Bill and Melinda Gates
Center)
*Zoom:* https://washington.zoom.us/j/95324763742

*Presenter Bio*

Leah Rosenzweig is Director and Lead Researcher at the Development
Innovation Lab  at
the University of Chicago. Her research focuses on the micro-foundations of
political and social behavior to gain leverage on macro policy-relevant
questions. Her current work in the political economy of development
explores the existence and consequences of social norms of voting
 in semi-authoritarian states,
government accountability
 in low- and
middle-income countries, and inter-group relations
. She also works on
designing and evaluating optimal policies to combat the spread of online
misinformation  and
increase vaccination , as
well as applied research methods
. Prior to joining DIL,
Leah held positions at Stanford University, the Institute for Advanced
Study in Toulouse, and was a consultant for the Nigerian government. Leah
received her PhD in Political Science from MIT.

Molly Offer-Westort is an Assistant Professor in the Department of
Political Science with an affiliation in the Department of Statistics at
the University of Chicago. Molly works on quantitative methodology for
social science research, with a focus on causal inference, machine
learning, and experimental design–particularly for adaptive experiments.
She earned her PhD from Yale, joint in Political Science and Statistics &
Data Science. Previously, Molly was a postdoctoral fellow in Susan Athey’s
Golub Capital Social Impact Lab at the Stanford Graduate School of
Business. In addition to the PhD, Molly holds a Masters in Statistics, also
from Yale, and a Masters in Public Affairs, from the Princeton School of
Public and International Affairs.

Best,

UW Change Organizers
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[change] Use Tech and Design for Social Impact with Master of Development Engineering @ UC Berkeley

[Matt Podolsky]

-- Forwarded message -
From: Maryanne McCormick JD 
Date: Mon, Dec 5, 2022 at 8:06 AM



Use Tech and Design for Social Impact with Master of Development
Engineering @ UC Berkeley

UC Berkeley’s Master of Development Engineering
 program is now accepting
applications for its third cohort! The 3-semester, interdisciplinary
program integrates engineering, economics, business, natural resource
development, and social sciences to develop, implement, and evaluate
technological interventions that address the needs of low-income
communities around the world. We are very excited about the growth of the
M.DevEng and would love to see students with various backgrounds

as part of our next cohort. Applications
 are due Jan. 10, 2023.

More info—including dates for upcoming info sessions—at:
developmentengineering.berkeley.edu
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