A research initiative involving GRADE receives international award for comparative methodology
The Metaketa Initiative, led by Evidence in Governance and Politics (EGAP), has received the 2026 Margaret Levi Award for Advancement in Comparative Methodology.
The Comparative Politics Section of the American Political Science Association (APSA) presents the award. It recognizes initiatives that advance methodologies for analyzing complex governance phenomena.
The Metaketa Initiative was a collaborative research model that sought to enhance the accumulation of knowledge through field experiments on topics in which researchers and policymakers share substantial interests. It operated from 2013 to 2023 and organized five rounds of global comparative research. Through our Senior Researcher, Martín Valdivia, GRADE participated in Round II on taxation and formalization. Together with his co-authors Rafael Goldszmidt, Anna-Katharina Lenz, and César Zucco Jr., they developed the project “Increasing Microentrepreneurs’ Formalization and Access to Social Security in Brazil”.
The study’s findings are included in two publications:
