Bet Helena Caeyers

Senior Researcher at Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI, Bergen) and Adjunct Associate Professor at FAIR/Norwegian School of Economics (NHH).

Bet Caeyers is also Deputy Research Director of UKAID funded THRIVE, a large-scale multi-country research program focusing on how best to scale Early Childhood Development services in Low- and Middle-Income Countries.

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). 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 co-leads Kizazi Kijacho (‘The Next Generation’), a large-scale inter-sectoral longitudinal and experimental ECD research programme in Tanzania, hosted at IIES/Stockholm University.

In recent years she has managed similar ECD programmes in Ghana and 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 data collection firm EDI Global in Tanzania.

Bet received her PhD in Economics from Oxford University (UK).