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Research suggests the most effective way to help poor people can be to give them no strings attached cash. A new study finds even neighbors who don't get the aid benefit from a big ripple effect. Listen to the interview with UC Berkeley Professor Ted Miguel on NPR's Morning Edition.
"Zucman is an economist, but he also had some of the qualities—youth and fervency—that investigative reporters often have, and that made him someone people would go to when they thought something was very wrong." Gabriel Zucman and his colleagues are advocating a progressive wealth tax as a solution to global inequality, one that rethinks both evasion and the goals of taxation. Read the New Yorker Story here.
BITSS will hold its eighth Annual Meeting on December 13, 2019, at the Wells Fargo Room, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley. The event brings together stakeholders from academia, scholarly publishing, and policy to share knowledge and discuss the evolving movement toward research transparency and efforts to strengthen the standards of openness and integrity in the social sciences. Read more and RSVP here.
A New York Times article highlights research by Berkeley Economics Professor Enrico Moretti on taxing the wealth of America’s ultrarich via an estate tax, in an age when bigger fortunes are being made and states stand to get richer. Read more
Call for papers deadline extended to Oct. 27! The Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences (BITSS) will hold its 8th Annual Meeting at UC Berkeley on December 11, 2019. Learn more and submit your paper here.
The Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA) is hosting our annual Evidence to Action (E2A) Research Symposium in San Francisco on October 29th, with keynote speaker Bright Simons, co-founder of mPedigree. Seating is limited, so please submit an "Expression of Interest" form today.