Lab wins data.org “Inclusive Growth and Recovery Challenge” — one of 9 winners (out of 1350 applicants)!
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Date19 Mar 2021
Our work, a partnership between GiveDirectly and CEGA, was one of 8 awardees (out of 1350 applicants) of the data.org Inclusive Growth and Recovery Challenge. Read the press release here: https://www.mastercardcenter.org/press-releases/dataorg-challenge-awardees-announcement. hm
NPR article on our work in Togo
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Date15 Feb 2021
Read about our work on NPR: https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2021/02/15/966848542/the-pandemic-pushed-this-farmer-into-deep-poverty-then-something-amazing-happene Shegun Adjadi Bakari, advisor to Togo’s president, consulted with Esther Duflo, who in 2019 won a Nobel prize for her experimental approach to alleviating poverty — using randomized control trials to see if programs... Read More →
Paper accepted at ICML
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Date02 Jun 2020
Our paper, “Balancing Competing Objectives for Welfare-Aware Machine Learning with Imperfect Data”, was accepted for oral presentation at the International Conference on Machine Learning (IMCL 2020). Full citation below: Rolf, E., Simchowitz, M., Dean, S., Liu, L., Bj{\”o}rkegren, D., Hardt,... Read More →