My work here is done!
25.11.2025 14:56 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
100% less Friends-related than I'd hoped. www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/w5smt...
24.11.2025 20:15 — 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
What do urban teachers do when they're not teaching? www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1... Lots of things!
(Evidence from a small sample of 60+ teachers in Cambodia)
24.11.2025 20:10 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
How you ask the question matters gh.bmj.com/content/3/2/...
24.11.2025 20:05 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I occasionally publish book reviews (sites.google.com/site/davidke...), mostly as a commitment device to read and process a book I want to read.
But today I got a notification that someone cited one of my reviews, so that means they were all worth the time, right? Right?!
24.11.2025 16:24 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I love a documentary that takes a topic that's not of inherent interest to me and brings it to life! Last night we watched Whistle, which documents the Masters of Musical Whistling festival in Hollywood, California, with competitors from around the world. The movie is a delight!
22.11.2025 17:24 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
"When migration risks are insured, more rural workers are willing to take the gamble of urban migration in pursuit of higher long-term earnings." editorialexpress.com/cgi-bin/conf... Evidence from Kenya by @gminer.bsky.social
21.11.2025 16:57 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
This is a great addition to the limited literature on childcare/early childhood education and women's outcomes.
See our piece in Science for a brief overview of how limited that literature is www.cgdev.org/sites/defaul...
21.11.2025 16:51 — 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
I always have to keep two things in my head: violence (including sexual violence) is far too common in schools AND girls are still safer in school than out of it www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
21.11.2025 14:19 — 👍 15 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
"Both community-based targeting and decentralized peer rankings are more likely to select widows/widowers for transfers than either the" proxy means test or the phone-based targeting. cowles.yale.edu/sites/defaul...
20.11.2025 15:45 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
20.11.2025 15:40 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Take it from Dr. Cocco-Klein! editorialexpress.com/cgi-bin/conf...
20.11.2025 15:24 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
How to target social protection programs to the most vulnerable households? www.nber.org/papers/w33919 In Bangladesh, proxy means testing is most accurate but "using machine learning to predict poverty using mobile phone usage behavior" is more cost-effective for large programs.
20.11.2025 15:22 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Innovate to Eradicate: How Technology Can Eliminate Poverty
YouTube video by Inter-American Development Bank
Joshua Blumenstock on how we can use technology to identify people most in need of safety nets. www.youtube.com/live/6iBqdpt... at @the_IDB's annual meeting in Chile earlier this year
20.11.2025 14:37 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
What do anti-poverty "graduation" programs look like, across twelve countries? editorialexpress.com/cgi-bin/conf... by @leightjessica.bsky.social et al.
20.11.2025 14:25 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
After two years, a multifaceted anti-poverty program (cash, livestock, technical training, savings) targeted to internally displaced people in Somalia boosted “consumption, assets, and savings,” mostly driven by [wait for it] more goats. editorialexpress.com/cgi-bin/conf...
20.11.2025 14:23 — 👍 14 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 0
Working in a school with few resources can be deeply demotivating.
jriiejournal.com/wp-content/u...
20.11.2025 13:59 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Stay tuned for follow-up, where we conduct an RCT involving vulnerable women in this area - half abducted as children - to assess the impact of:
1) cash only
2) cash+group life-skill training
3) cash+group mental health counseling
W/ @eeshani.bsky.social & @mirandainez.bsky.social
19.11.2025 21:22 — 👍 11 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0
Thanks @daveevansphd.bsky.social !
The most challenging fieldwork, but such important (and sad) findings.
Plugging @mirandainez.bsky.social who has done more work on men & women who were abducted as children. She studies how this childhood trauma impacts IPV later in life #econjobmarket
19.11.2025 21:20 — 👍 8 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
It's striking just how important factors beyond the school matter for school learning. Heat is one of them. Excited for this new report from the IDB. publications.iadb.org/en/heat-proo...
19.11.2025 21:15 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
What's the long-term impact of being abducted during an armed conflict? editorialexpress.com/cgi-bin/conf... In Uganda, 20 years after the conflict: "Formerly abducted women still exhibit significantly higher rates of depression and perceived stress, heightened stress responses..."
19.11.2025 20:44 — 👍 13 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 2
We probably missed some social sector papers that were in non-social sector sessions. If we did, then share a tidbit from your paper with me (and a link). I'd love to see it!
19.11.2025 20:17 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Using data to allocate teachers more carefully keeps children advancing in school. documents.worldbank.org/en/publicati...
18.11.2025 22:12 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Development microeconomist, mostly labour. Research Fellow @dpru-uct.bsky.social, UCT 🇿🇦 • Visiting Scholar @unu-wider.bsky.social 🇫🇮 • Consultant, World Bank • Research Associate, RESEP, Stellenbosch University • PhD, UCT
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