Eva Vivalt is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Toronto. Her research explores questions related to development and labour, and has studied cash transfers in the U.S., the stumbling blocks to evidence-based policy decisions, including methodological issues, how evidence is interpreted, and the use of forecasting.

Dr. Vivalt is also affiliated to J-PAL, the Center for Economic Policy and Research’s Research Policy Network on AI, Inclusive Economy Lab at the University of Chicago, the Yale Research Initiative on Innovation and Scale, the Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society at the University of Toronto, and the co-founder of the Social Science Prediction Platform, a platform to coordinate the collection of forecasts of research results. She received her PhD in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley.