Dr Bet Caeyers

Bet Caeyers is Senior Research Associate at Yale Economic Growth Center, Adjunct Associate Professor at FAIR/Norwegian School of Economics (NHH), researcher at IIES/Stockholm University and Research Associate at the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS). Her research is centered on policy and programmatic approaches to scaling social protection and human development services, with a particular focus on Early Childhood Development (ECD) and sanitation. Her work spans the interface between measurement, the design and evaluation of low-cost, high-impact, context-appropriate services, and their scalability for national delivery and impact. Bet currently manages Kizazi Kijacho (‘The Next Generation’), a large-scale inter-sectoral longitudinal and experimental ECD research programme in Tanzania (https://www.iies.su.se/research/kizazi-kijacho), hosted at IIES/Stockholm University. In recent years she has managed similar ECD programmes in Ghana and in India. In the past Bet has worked several years as Senior Research Economist at the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), as Global Impact Evaluation Advisor at OXFAM GB and as Research Project Manager at EDI Global in Tanzania. Bet received her Ph.D in Economics from Oxford University (UK) and is currently based in Zimbabwe.