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Oh my God!! My book, “Economic Diversification in Nigeria: the Politics of Building a Post-Oil Economy” was selected by the @FinancialTimes as one of the Best books on Economics for 2022!!!
I am so thrilled and overjoyed and happy!!! ft.com/content/634c1974-bc76…
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A crowd-sourced checklist of the top 10 little things that drive us crazy with regression output blogs.worldbank.org/impactev…
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We want you! 👉The @WorldBankAfrica Fellowship Program is a great opportunity for PhD candidates & recent grads from #Africa. We are hoping to attract some of the brightest minds from the region, so please share widely and/or apply by Aug. 25: wrld.bg/FNuj50JYpKN #WBGFellows
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The World Bank’s Africa Gender Innovation Lab is hiring a consultant to support an impact evaluation of a Nigerian bank’s new cash-flow-based loan product for entrepreneurs.
Candidate must have a Master’s degree in econ or related field & strong Stata skills. Details attached!
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More on using a waitlist as part of your experimental design - I illustrate how adding a waitlist can boost power, and some questions that came up teaching @novafrica summer school last week blogs.worldbank.org/impactev…
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The World Bank’s Africa Gender Innovation Lab is hiring a consultant to support the implementation & evaluation of a menstrual hygiene management pilot in Mauritania.
Candidate must have strong Stata skills, data collection management experience + fluency in French. Details⤵️
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Today, the Supreme Court not only reversed nearly 50 years of precedent, it relegated the most intensely personal decision someone can make to the whims of politicians and ideologues—attacking the essential freedoms of millions of Americans.
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Weekly links June 10: development ideas from wandering around, what Chinese censorship and public health illness detection have in common, better interviewing, and more… blogs.worldbank.org/impactev…
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Bitter experience has made me skeptical of financial education. Do they actually work better than I think they do? (and thoughts about meta-analyses) based on a forthcoming paper by
@tim_econ, @Dr_AnnaLusardi, Lukas Menkhoff & @carly_urban blogs.worldbank.org/impactev…
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Happy to announce that our review paper on gender & food systems can be downloaded for free for the next 50 days @jemimah_njuki @HMalapit @Ruth_Meinzen_D authors.elsevier.com/a/1fBWz…
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illusion of #SchoolChoice: In Ghana, qualified students at low-performing elementary schools applied to lower-performing secondary schools than peers. @kfajayi suggests that these students prioritize proximity, & are further from high-performance schools. jhr.uwpress.org/content/earl…
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Updated Curated Links 2022: updated to now include 11 years of blogposts curated to put in one place our posts on technical topics and analysis, survey design, advice and other miscellanea. blogs.worldbank.org/impactev…
Todays links in Development Impact. The @NewYorker article on economics and the welfare state is a great piece on the value (and failures) of econ for policy making: blogs.worldbank.org/impactev…
Today in Development Impact - @AletheiaDonald @learouanet and I blog about our paper showing large impacts when couples plan together for their farm rather than the man going it alone: blogs.worldbank.org/impactev…
U.S. women’s and men’s national soccer teams close pay gap with ‘game-changing’ deal. A fascinating and inspiring case of making progress on pay equity in the face of unequal structures (I am looking at you FIFA) washingtonpost.com/sports/20…
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Yes we can! Unbundling poverty graduation programs for cost-effective impact blogs.worldbank.org/impactev… via @worldbank @markus_gold @TBossuroy and fantastic co-authors
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I’ve always respected @Trevornoah so much but this closing speech from the White House correspondents’ dinner is particularly spectacular.
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Microenterprise interventions: @beegle_kathleen argues for the need for authors to provide more descriptive details on what types of businesses participants are doing blogs.worldbank.org/impactev…
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What can #EconomicInclusion programs do for extremely poor women? 💬
✅Improve consumption & food security
✅Increase business revenues
✅Boost psychological & social well-being
See the summary brief of our article @Nature 👉👉
nature.com/articles/d41586-0…
