Yes, exactly! We think that the messages shared by leaders in the communities (at least, some of them) conflict with the key messages of the program. Rachael Pierotti is planning some work that may give us a clearer answer soon 🤞🏿

The World Bank’s Africa Gender Lab is hiring a consultant to support the impact evaluation of a new land certification project in Tanzania.

Candidate must a Master’s degree, strong Stata skills & data collection management experience. Apply by April 30th! t.ly/Zr0T

Sharing some facts on adolescent girls in Africa ahead of the finalization of the regional report on adolescent girls' economic #Empowerment in Africa that I am working on with Kehinde Ajayi and colleagues from World Bank and GIRL Center.

#ICYMI : Sule Alan Ceren Baysan Mert Gümren Elif Kubilay in QJE

'Understanding each other' perspective taking intervention [games, reading, videos] reduced violent events by ~60% in Turkish schools [16% Syrian refugees]

Among other impacts!

doi.org/10.1093/qje/qj…

Please RT: If you're a student from a low- or middle-income country interested in learning how to do econometrics with software (Excel and Gretl), here is a great class for you, available for free on remotestudentexchange.org! 'Computer Lab in Regression' with Tamara Schamberger

Thanks to the The Economist for highlighting our work w/IFPRI @PIM_CGIAR London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine et al. on how cash transfers & economic support can reduce violence against women [especially now, during #COVID19 !]

Tia Palermo Lori Heise IFPRIBangladesh

economist.com/leaders/2021/0…

New transformative results from a cash+ (k & psychosocial support) RCT in #Niger w/a great RoI documents1.worldbank.org/curated/en/404…

Promising results on the impacts of community based monitoring on public service delivery , in the agricultural sector for instance, in #Uganda . Spoiler alert : interesting heterogeneous effects!

Please RT: Another great new course open for students from low- and middle-income countries on remotestudentexchange.org!

'Program Evaluation and Causal Inference' with Prof. Pietro Biroli Pietro Biroli at the University of Zurich!

Want to know more about the ‘business case’ for gender equality?

Check our new paper with Ghazala Azmat Oxford Econ Policy

academic.oup.com/oxrep/article/…

🚨Job alert🚨 #Abidjan -based Economist position to support evidence-based policymaking with #WBGenderLab /World Bank Africa in Côte d'Ivoire 🇨🇮. App. deadline = Feb. 11. #CIV
worldbankgroup.csod.com/ats/careersite…

Last week to submit your work to 2021 International Conference on #Development #Economics #EconTwitter !

Submit at: devconf2021.sciencesconf.org before January 31.

Co-organised by DIAL, @GREThA5113 and #LAREFI , hosted by Université de Bordeaux (June 30-July 2).

Outstanding keynote speakers!

Becoming a mother in Chile implies a sharp decline in employment (−22%), working hours (−4%), and labor earnings (−28%), while fathers' labor market outcomes remain unaffected.
Inés Berniell Mariana Marchionni
sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Out now in World Development: our paper on spouses' often conflicting reports of women’s intra-household power in 23 African countries, and the benefits (and risks) associated with women taking power.

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#WBGenderLab is hiring! Role to help embed our evidence in World Bank & Gov't projects & policies & to provide admin support to GIL #IE work. Good position for recent grads. DMs are open for questions. Apply by Jan 11. Pls share! worldbankgroup.csod.com/ats/careersite…

Why do some some societies embrace innovations, and why do others resist it? New working paper with Jeff Frieden. Grateful for comments and suggestions!

The 2021 International Conference on Development Economics Call for papers is now open!

Submit your paper here: devconf2021.sciencesconf.org.

Co-organised by DIAL, @GREThA5113 and #LAREFI , the conference will be held from June 30 to July 2, 2021 at University of Bordeaux and online!

The World Bank is hiring a consultant to design measures of gender bias among loan officers, supervise data collection and analyze data.

Candidate should have experience in survey & experiment design, strong Stata skills & familiarity w/ gender issues. Details attached.

Check out my blog about an experiment with loan officers in Turkey 👇🏻 We found that 35% of sampled officers were biased against female applicants, who received 7.5% lower loan amounts compared to men. Officers' job experience predicted degree of gender bias in loan decisions.

This brief summarizes an exciting pilot study I did with alex h Eliana La Ferrara Aletheia Donald & Markus Goldstein on women's land formalization & civil marriage in 🇨🇮 w/Innovations for Poverty Action. The scale up is happening now!
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