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Travis Lybbert

@TravisLybbert

Professor @UCDavisARE @UCDavis | Affiliate @CEGA_UC & @cgiarspia | Economics of poverty, agriculture, nutrition, psychology, innovation and technology

 Davis, CA
tlybbert.ucdavis.edu
Joined June 2013
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Sylvan Herskowitz@SylvanRH25 Jan 2021
Amid the chaos of the last few weeks, my paper on sports betting in Uganda came out. A thread for those who’d like to know more, but don't want to download the pdf/skim the intro. 1/17 aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.12…
Gambling, Saving, and Lumpy Liquidity Needs

Gambling, Saving, and Lumpy Liquidity Needs

I present evidence that unmet liquidity needs for indivisible, "lumpy," expenditures increase demand for betting as a second-best method of liquidity generation in the presence of financial constra...

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🎉Congratulations to superstar, Dr Emilia Tjernstrom (@etjernst) who has been named Australia's leading researcher for Development Economics in the @australian 2020 Research Report! bit.ly/35YeuKv @Sydney_Uni @ArtSS_Sydney
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Come work with me in Kenya! I'm looking for a Research Assistant for two years, based at @BusaraCenter in Nairobi. Last year's hire @mlarreboure and I found each other via Twitter, so please retweet! povertyactionlab.org/fr/care…
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Wayne Sandholtz@wsandholtz5 Dec 2019
RCTs may help us learn "what works" ... but does "what works" get votes for politicians who implement it? My JMP says "Yes, but it can backfire unless it works REALLY well," using a randomized school reform in Liberia. My *Dev-Impact-style* blog: medium.com/@wsandholtz/an-rc…
An RCT said the reform worked. What did the voters say?

An RCT said the reform worked. What did the voters say?

At its best, democracy gives voters the chance to hold politicians accountable for the public services they want. But in many of the…

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Bruce Wydick@BruceWydick17 Jan 2019
Half the world's poor are located in just five countries: blogs.worldbank.org/opendata… h/t Chad Hayward @accordnetwork
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