Lots of good reading this week in my weekly links: use cases of AI for development, electricity is complex, the psychology of poverty, several conferences on jobs and women, and more... blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...
The research group at the Workd Bank is doing an off-cycle hire for a trade economist worldbankgroup.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
This week's links include the challenges of interviewing shopkeepers vs farmers, giving second-best policy advice, power analysis the Bayesian way, customised business services as place-based policy, and more... blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...
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On the blog today, @kbeegle.bsky.social on why it is time to stop asking "who is the household head?" in surveys in developing countries. blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...
An ode to the DHS by my friend, colleague, and former boss Caren Grown
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Devastating news at IZA yesterday. More than 25 years of hard work, earned reputation, and valuable institutional knowledge and public good provision wiped out with a single stroke. It’s hard to find the words.
Read up on work that finds significant backlash from couple intervention to reduce IPV… scaling up and spillovers matter!
The last blog links for the year features several nice review articles, funding and conference calls, advice on publishing, and more... blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...
The last in our #econjmp has @guanghongxu.bsky.social (UCSC) shows how a new (Bayesian inference based) digital traceability system for milk quality in Kenya helped improve milk quality and led to farmers getting more credit from cooperatives and changing inputs blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...
Emanuela Galasso & I had a bit of fun using NotebookLM to create a podcast (and blog) of our paper….read and listen here.
In today's blog Patrick Behrer summarizes a new working paper by @marshallburke.bsky.social and co-authors on how we should go about measuring adaption to climate change: blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...
The latest Development Impact blog with Louise Fox: Creating or displacing jobs in Nigeria?
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Today we continue our occasional interview series with Jing Cai, who tells us about her path into development economics, what other countries can learn from her work on firm networking in China, working in an ARE department, industrial policy lessons, and more... blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...
My annual post on submission numbers, acceptance rates, review times, etc. at development journals is now up: blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...
Lee bounds in practice: today's post covers how to use covariates, what to do when your outcome is binary or has ties, issues using Lee bounds with LATE, how to discuss the bounds if they include an opposite sign effect, and other practical issues...
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On Development Impact today, Gabe Englander illustrates three different ways of dealing with spillovers in estimating treatment impacts, through papers that examine impacts of marine conservation areas on fish blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...
This week's links include how Anguilla is funding half of its government in a surprising way through ai, the puzzle of declining agricultural productivity in Africa, public finance and structural transformation, and more... blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...
The lastest from Development Impact, where Manu and I take a look at a great new paper on public works in urban Ethiopia by Franklin et al:
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We resume our job market series with today's post by David Wu, who conducts an RCT in Ethiopia that matches firms with employment agencies to help them find college-educated workers. The results are surprising, with this resulting in more non-college workers blogs.worldbank.org/impactevalua...
Today’s job market post is by Saloni Gupta and looks at whether you can teach kids innovation in school, and also how to measure this. Kids then do better at innovation but worse in math scores & enthusiasm blogs.worldbank.org/impactevalua...
Today's job market post by Suhani Jalota is an RCT with Indian housewives that cross-randomizes job offers for flexible work at home vs in the office, and wage rates. Job take-up much higher for working at home, and not very sensitive to wages. blogs.worldbank.org/impactevalua...
