Great blog post by @kbeegle.bsky.social about a brand new #Africa_GIL working paper: “Mitigating the Impact of Household Expropriation on Female Entrepreneurship: Experimental Evidence from Ghana” blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...

Join me for this side event at #AFSF2025 in Dakar on young women & entrepreneurship powering Africa’s food systems. All about sharing evidence, models and momentum gained. Curated by #AGRA_Value4Her and #WorldBank_AfricaGIL. #AFSF2025 #WomenInAgriFood

Hey now, Don't dream it's over - we salute @berkozler12.bsky.social on his last day and the World Bank and highlight a few of his many contributions to the Development Impact blog over the last 14 years blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...

How does high-skilled emigration affect countries of origin? I summarize our recent Science paper, &draw out lessons from where we need nuance (not all high-skilled is the same, & most studies lump together), what we don't know (especially how to do better policy) blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...

Six questions with Kelsey Jack: we discuss how to get utilities to share their administrative data with you, whether work on climate economics focuses too much on the individual, the laugh test with your results, and more... blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...

Goldlilocks state capacity, why we can't get good stuff done. My blog today draws together some lessons from @karthik-econ.bsky.social 's book, @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social 's Abundance, and @noamangrist.bsky.social & @economeager.bsky.social 's work on ITT vs TOT. blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...

This week's links are up a day early - including @owenozier.bsky.social & co on software usage, me on the backstory podcast, funding for research on women-led businesses in LAC, several studies of unanticipated consequences of policies, and more ... blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...

A text-message outreach campaign in Côte d’Ivoire had no impact on enrollment in a youth employment programme custom.cvent.com/4E741122FD8B...

📽️Watch #OxCSAE2025 Closing Panel live at 16:30 GMT today Evidence-based Policy: Towards an Improved Research-policy Equilibrium in Africa @scepticalranil.bsky.social, Miriam Laker, Justice Tei Mensah, Nompumelelo Nyathi-Mohohlwane, @olihanney.bsky.social ox.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Page...

📽️Watch the CSAE Conference 2025 Keynote live at 11:30 GMT today! Nobel Prize winner James Robinson will present 'Wealth in People' at #OxCSAE2025 with @gamblingondev.bsky.social as moderator. ox.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Page... @blavatnikschool.bsky.social @oxfordecondept.bsky.social

Excited to be back at #OxCSAE2025 to present results from a take-up experiment in Côte d’Ivoire with @daveevansphd.bsky.social @claradelav.bsky.social Jeannie Annan, Estelle Koussoubé and Josephine Tassy

I promise I will consider this when drafting my next household survey questionnaire @kbeegle.bsky.social

This week's links include interviews with Nathan Nunn & Megan Lang, whether college grads are hurt or helped by taking low-skilled jobs while they wait for work, reducing attrition in a panel, when AI is the non-data-hungry solution, and more... blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...

Looking forward to being part of this UN CSW panel bringing together governments, researchers, and civil society on how social protection can advance gender equality across a woman’s life course This Thursday... Join us! #AfricaGIL #EconSky @unicef.org

Check out the long-term impact of the Personal Initiative Training program in Togo, in this latest blog by @dmckenzie.bsky.social #worldbank #AfricaGIL

Today's links include the role of multinationals in development, if you are publishing anything you're doing well, bluesky research is important, the economics of conflict and fragile settings, why do we care about your association, and more... blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...

More details in our working paper just out, co-authored with Jeannie Annan, @daveevansphd.bsky.social, Estelle Koussoube, @lea-rouanet.bsky.social and Josephine Tassy

Does free sound too cheap? Here's new evidence on something that did not work to get young people enrolled in vocational training programs in Côte d’Ivoire: sending text messages highlighting that the program is free... #AfricaGIL #EconSky

Around the world, UNICEF-trained social workers stand up for vulnerable girls who are in danger of being subjected to female genital mutilation. Progress is being made in the fight to #EndFGM. A look at how we can break the cycle of violence:

An important #AfricaGIL IE on IPV prevention in Rwanda is out, and @kbeegle.bsky.social wrote a great blog about it!

#Gender gaps remain on journal editorial boards, especially in #finance & economics. In finance, women make up 20% of editors on average. Affiliations are mainly in the UK and US, mirroring academic hierarchies. Będowska-Sójka, @alessia-paccagnini.bsky.social et al. cepr.org/voxeu/column... #EconSky

Post by @berkozler12.bsky.social "Mean Reversion in RCTs" on a very interesting paper by @marcellaalsan.bsky.social @johncawley.bsky.social Joseph J. Doyle Jr. & Nicholas Skelley. blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva... #MeanReversion #RCTs #heterogeneity #targeting

This week's links include the problems with the use of the terms developing country and Global South, how Vietnam escaped the pollution haven problem when trade rose, what happens to kids in Uganda 3 years after getting pre-school, and more... blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...

Today's article presents the child penalty in employment – i.e. how much the birth of a first child impacts the employment of mothers relative to fathers - for 134 countries around the world ⤵️

Check this Nigeria evaluation from WB colleagues, demonstrating the transformative potential of generative AI in classrooms, especially in developing contexts: blogs.worldbank.org/en/education...

Martin Ravallion on multidimensional poverty indices documents1.worldbank.org/curated/en/4...

"Option C Thinking: creating evidence that provides greater scaling confidence in the original design alongside the efficacy test"

#AfricaGIL cited under point #4: "Other evidence from Africa, pooling data from six experimental evaluations in Benin, Ethiopia, Ghana, Rwanda and Togo, finds that development programmes which increase women’s earnings and household wealth increase fertility (Donald et al. 2024)".

Study of Australian income data (2001-2013) finds longer parental leave is associated with lower post-leave income for women in men-dominated occupations but not in women-dominated or gender-neutral fields. theconversation.com/parental-lea...

Most countries don't have the data they need to know if they're succeeding in eliminating school violence. Currently correcting proofs! Read the working paper www.cgdev.org/publication/...

The expansion of India’s food transfer programme prevented approximately 1.8 million children from being stunted, while also raising wage incomes and improving dietary diversity ⤵️

Something crucial missing in the inflation debate? The deep sense of inequity & injustice it creates. Lower-income households report making more costly adjustments to cope & many believe higher-income wages keep up with prices easily. For people, it’s about more than prices: it’s also about fairness

This year we posted 26 #econjmp posts by PhD students on the market. Here is the list of all of them in case you missed any, plus a link to the @econthatmatters.bsky.social series which has some more - great to see all the exciting work in development blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...

🆕 Improving hygiene, reducing menstrual stigma, and boosting learning in schools Today, Julieta Vera Rueda @WorldBank, Karen Macours @PSE & Duncan Webb @PrincetonEcon outline their study of a hygiene- & menstruation-focused intervention in Madagascar: voxdev.org/topic/health...

How can African countries ensure adolescent girls thrive? 🌍 Kehinde Ajayi and Estelle Koussoubé introduce the Pathways to Prosperity for Adolescent Girls in Africa report, which finds that investing in girls can yield a tenfold economic return ⬇ www.cgdev.org/publication/...

School meal programs are expanding globally, but what's the impact? 🍽️ Reviewing 15 years of evidence, Amina Mendez Acosta and Biniam Bedasso provide five key insights—from effects on school access to benefits in low-income countries, explore the findings ⬇ bit.ly/4gvMwqq

Come work with me on poverty measurement at the Inter-American Development Bank! (Applications due this Wednesday) iadbcareers.taleo.net/careersectio... Does *not* have to be based in DC or USA.

JOIN US for The World Bank Geneva 4th impact series event focusing on ”Accelerating Gender Equality in Developing Countries” co-organised with the Geneva-based offices of the UN Women, World Trade Organization, and United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA).

Respondents who received evening surveys (4pm-8pm) were 2.8 percentage points less likely than respondents who received morning surveys (6am-12pm) to self-report IPV - today's #econjmp by Katherine Theiss (Fordham) on how survey methods affect IPV estimates blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...

🆕 Why more flexible grants worked better for small firms in Burkina Faso Today on VoxDev, Michael Grimm, Sidiki Soubeiga & Michael Weber (@UniPassau, @WorldBank) outline their latest research from Burkina Faso: voxdev.org/topic/firms/...

Papers authored by Black, Hispanic or Asian economists receive 5.1% to 9.6% fewer citations than those by White scholars. The citation gap is largely driven by homophily in citation patterns and racial clusters in networks (i.e., cite authors from own racial group). www.nber.org/papers/w33150

What drives Gender-Based Violence and what are the main risk factors? How can we effectively address and prevent it? Today's blog shares evidence on VoxDev that shines a light on these questions ⤵️ voxdev.org/topic/unders...

In today's #econjmp, @iedamatavelli.bsky.social of UBC/post-doc at UNSW shows boys in Brazil overestimate how peers view masculinity norms, and in 2 RCTs, fostering discussions around masculinity reduces these misperceptions blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...?

🆕 Training teachers on gender-based violence helps keep girls safe in school To mark the start of 16-Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence, today's article outlines new research on an intervention in schools in Mozambique to combat GBV: voxdev.org/topic/health...

Tune in NOW for online live streaming: www.worldbank.org/en/events/20...

- Ratio of 1 🟰 gender parity in likelihood a woman is employed as a worker/manager - Women-owned businesses are 1.5x more likely to employ women as workers & around 6-8x more likely to have another woman as a manager ⤵️ female entrepreneurship ➡️ important implications for women’s employment patterns

Today's #econjmp is Casemiro Campos of Goethe U, who uses a differences-in-discontinuities (combining RDD & DiD) to look at the impacts of "the oscars for education", a prize competition for school improvement in Ceará, Brazil. Eligibility improves test scores blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...?

The official launch of our new report on adolescent girls in Africa is tomorrow, 12:30pm ET: register here to join in person or virtually: www.worldbank.org/en/events/20... #EconSky #AfricaGIL (1/N)

Mark your calendars! On Nov 21, the Population Council, CGD & the World Bank launch “Pathways to Prosperity for Adolescent Girls in Africa.” Don’t miss insights from thought leaders on transforming Africa’s future ⬇ https://buff.ly/40ORWZ9 #InvestInGirls