NEW: Tiny footprints. A blue blanket. The autopsy reports of babies who died after not receiving a vitamin K shot at birth included heartbreaking details about how small the babies were — and what items they had with them when they died.

📣 Join us for the 1st Annual CGD Women in Leadership Conference! We'll convene experts to examine why promotion systems fail to deliver equitable leadership outcomes—and what that failure means. Register today! https://go.cgdev.org/4bBq3bL

Cholera deaths in Africa nearly doubled in 2025, reaching 7,500, up from about 3,800 in 2023 and 2024. Analysis by @eeshani.bsky.social, @charlesjkenny.bsky.social, Brian Webster, and @markusgold.bsky.social shows the disease became more deadly, with higher fatality rates. go.cgdev.org/49g4jk5

Blog with @eeshani.bsky.social @markusgold.bsky.social and Brian Webster Cholera Deaths Nearly Doubled in Africa in 2025. Cuts to Aid May Have Contributed. 7,500 reported cholera deaths in SS Africa in 2025, ~2x 2024/2023.

PEPFAR supports #HIV treatment for more than 20 million people worldwide. But new data shows testing fell from 21.9M to 17.2M, weakening the pipeline of new diagnoses and treatment. @eeshani.bsky.social#HIVand Brian Webster explain why “stable” numbers may be misleading. https://go.cgdev.org/3QGbStY

If you were horrified watching elected leaders run & scramble because of gun violence, just imagine how my daughter Jaime felt in school running from an active shooter before she was killed. Now, become a part of the solution & only vote for people determined to address gun violence in America.

Intriguing: On April 7th, the World Bank publishes a report on Nigeria’s economy. One of the recommendations: open petrol imports to bring prices down. That would be bad news for the profits of Nigeria’s largest refinery, owned by Aliko Dangote.

As the Integrity crew splashed down TO THE MINUTE of their estimated arrival and hit the BULLSEYE, this is a reminder that Katherine Johnson was an absolute genius. My God. #NASA #ArtemisII

This week we featured research on teachers, fiscal tightening, shadow banks and more! Read a summary of this work here: https://voxdev.org/topic/week-development-economics-voxdev-10042026

Health taxes on sugar and ultra-processed foods are gaining traction worldwide. But in many low-income settings, diets are shaped less by price than by what’s available. @eeshani.bsky.social argues without access to nutritious food, taxes alone won’t fix malnutrition. https://go.cgdev.org/4tlZLQP

At a moment of rising global crises, the #WorldBank should be operating at full strength. @charlesjkenny.bsky.social and @eeshani.bsky.social#WorldBankargue an opaque reorganization is sidelining expertise and weakening its ability to respond. https://go.cgdev.org/4c08se1

Blog: The World Bank’s Self-Inflicted Crisis www.cgdev.org/blog/world-b...

New blog with Eeshani Kandpal: The World Bank’s Self-Inflicted Crisis. The World Bank is undertaking some extremely odd internal reforms: ▪️ A centralization of expertise that appears to replicate Jim Kim’s “One World Bank Group” model that was widely considered a failure ...

Making a good case for "humanitarian" targeted cash transfers given the war's effects on food prices: www.cgdev.org/blog/when-oi... @eeshani.bsky.social @leecrawfurd.bsky.social

The Iran war oil shock will hit the hungry hardest. The same food price increase can mean 3× larger income losses for the poorest households. @leecrawfurd.bsky.social and @eeshani.bsky.social on why cash should be part of the response. https://go.cgdev.org/47KhM36

The Iran War Oil Shock Will Hit the Hungry Hardest—Cash Should Be Part of the Response (new @cgdev.org blog with @eeshani.bsky.social) www.cgdev.org/blog/when-oi...

In this short essay in BMJ Global Health, we draw attention to how standardised “global”measurement approaches obscure diversity, marginalise locally relevant insights needed for effective interventions, and create fragile measurement monocultures. gh.bmj.com/content/11/3...

NEW: They Didn’t Want to Have C-Sections. A Judge Would Decide How They Gave Birth. Two Florida women had to attend virtual court hearings while in labor to argue for their right to choose their own medical care. By @amyyurkanin.bsky.social

This beautiful picture by @eeshani.bsky.social, which she shared on LinkedIn, is proof that the Edgeworth Box was heaven-sent. www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

If the World Bank is serious about being a “knowledge bank,” Shanta Devarajan and @eeshani.bsky.social argue, it must cultivate not just the ability to produce evidence but a hunger for using it: https://go.cgdev.org/4u8auzD

Great news for the profession to have an amazing addition to the rank of full professor! So well deserved!

"From Childhood Abduction to Adulthood: Enduring Consequences for Women in Uganda" www.cgdev.org/publication/...

Now forthcoming in the Journal of Development Economics! With @alessandracassar.bsky.social, (the newly-minted Dr.) @mirandainez.bsky.social, Christine Mbabaze Mpyangu, and @danilaserra-eco.bsky.social

Deep breath. I'm honored and excited to join the faculty of America's oldest research university, Johns Hopkins. I'll start this summer as a full professor, one of the founding faculty at the brand-new School of Government and Policy. We're building something unique & important, even historic.

Alabama has the worst maternal mortality in the United States at 60 deaths per 100K live births. For reference, California has 18 deaths per 100K live births. But Dr. Oz thinks it’s “cool” that American citizens do not have access to good reproductive healthcare in the wealthiest nation in history.

In this, @mrao.bsky.social and I look at the gender of senior economic leadership across Latin America and the Caribbean from 1960-2020: - an overwhelmingly male club (no women until ‘89, very few even since) - the women who break through are more likely to have a PhD than men Read 👇 for more.

We know lead poisoning impacts children's cognition, schooling, and more. But what about other core development priorities? @leecrawfurd.bsky.social and @eeshani.bsky.social take a look at the underobserved interaction between lead and child nutrition: https://go.cgdev.org/45DyaRV

Economic policy is framed as technocratic—but leaders are appointed through political processes. Analyzing data from 1961–2020, @mrao.bsky.social & @eeshani.bsky.social find a persistent gender gap among economic decision-makers in Latin America & the Caribbean: https://go.cgdev.org/4qbFQSL

The gender wage gap has widened for two consecutive years, the first time that's happened since data collection started in 1960 nwlc.org/resource/wag...

I'm surprised and depressed. "...time alone won’t close that gap—it will require intentional efforts to rethink how economic leadership is identified and appointed." www.cgdev.org/blog/where-a... @eeshani.bsky.social

NEW @cgdev.org BLOG with @eeshani.bsky.social - Is Lead Poisoning a Missing Link in the Fight Against Malnutrition? www.cgdev.org/blog/lead-po...

Forthcoming in the JEL: "Women's Power in the Household" by Seema Jayachandran and Alessandra Voena. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Great piece by my Cato colleague. “Since July, immigration agents have shot at least six people behind the wheel of a vehicle. The same playbook is used each time: the agent says they “feared for their life” as a vehicle was “weaponized” against them. Juries should decide, but we tie their hands.

PEPFAR treated 14.4m women in 2024—the largest share of individuals served. As the program faces major uncertainty, analysis from @eeshani.bsky.social and Brian Webster shows who relies on PEPFAR and what disruptions could mean for women and children: https://go.cgdev.org/4aaa44f

Our findings 20 years post conflict: Childhood trauma from conflict has lasting psychological and social effects that may be missed by standard economic measures. 📣 Child abductions are still tragically commonplace in conflicts around the worldtoday. cgdev.org/publication/ch…

New work with @alessandracassar.bsky.social @mirandainez.bsky.social Christine Mbabaze Mpyangu and @danilaserra-eco.bsky.social

📣What does life look like for the Ugandan women who were taken as children by the Lord Resistance Army in the 80s, 90s and 2000s, & are now adults raising families of their own? 📣 ➡️ New @CGDev blog post, on our study @alessandracassar.bsky.social @eeshani.bsky.social @mirandainez.bsky.social

📢 In a new paper with @alessandracassar.bsky.social @mirandainez.bsky.social Christine Mbabaze Mpyangu @danilaserra-eco.bsky.social, we study how childhood abductions cast a long shadow into adulthood among women in northern Uganda. Blog: www.cgdev.org/blog/childho... #gender #conflict #mentalhealth

"The question is not whether PEPFAR will change, but whether its evolution will uphold the dignity, rights, and survival of those who depend on it." New analysis by @eeshani.bsky.social and Brian Webster shows who relies on PEPFAR and what disruptions could mean: https://go.cgdev.org/4aaa44f

So pleased to learn that @seyeabimbola.bsky.social has been promoted to full professorship! Bravo, Seye! 🎉 Keep up the inspiring work!!

PEPFAR treated 14.4 million women in 2024—the largest share of individuals served. As the program faces major uncertainty, new analysis by @eeshani.bsky.social and Brian Webster shows who relies on PEPFAR and what disruptions could mean for women and children: https://go.cgdev.org/4aaa44f

Sometimes nudges backfire. www.cgdev.org/publication/...

The American Economic Association's Committee on the Job Market surveyed Economics Departments in the U.S. regarding their plans to hire assistant professors this cycle (2025-26). 29.7% said that their department was under a hiring freeze. 1/3 #EconSky #EconJobMarket

Thoughtful and thorough piece on the risk to independent research at World Bank of latest reorg. To every economist everywhere working on global development: Read this and resist. @charlesjkenny.bsky.social @eeshani.bsky.social

The World Bank plans to “operationally align” its research arm. But the changes could undermine its ability to deliver rigorous, independent analysis free from client or internal pressure. More from @charlesjkenny.bsky.social and @eeshani.bsky.social ⬇️ https://go.cgdev.org/43vNSgK

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

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

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..."

📣 New NBER Working Paper out today 📣 "The Consequences of Faculty Sexual Misconduct" Sarah Cohodes & Katherine Leu