Cross-cut cash transfers in Malawi with an “input fair”. Cash increases investment by 27%, while the combination of cash and input fair increases investment by 40%, from Shilpa Aggarwal, Dahyeon Jeong, Kumar, David Sungho Park, Jon Robinson, and Alan Spearot nber.org/papers/w32263

Super interesting:

The way we measure global poverty focuses -- inadvertently, but perhaps usefully -- pretty heavily on households' ability to cope with shocks, rather than their average income over the year.

joshmerfeld.github.io/assets/papers/… Josh Merfeld Jonathan Morduch

If you have uneven attrition by treatment status, should you just focus remaining surveying on the group with lower response so far? I share my thoughts on what to do if you have surveyed 87% of T and 77% of C after regular efforts blogs.worldbank.org/impactevaluati…

I am so proud of my team Patrick Premand, Dahyeon Jeong and so many others who devote their lives to reimagine our future. It is easy to predict doom. It is much harder to have the courage and creativity to envision and find ways for us to secure a brighter future.

The 4th DIME-KDIS Development Impact Conference will be held on Nov 2-3 in Washington DC. The deadline to register is Oct 26. Limited space for in-person attendance but one can also attend online. Check out the conference schedule and register NOW! worldbank.org/en/events/2023…

What have we learned recently about the effectiveness of government job training programs in developing countries? Eliana Carranza & I summarize in today's blogpost some takeaways from our forthcoming JEP paper blogs.worldbank.org/impactevaluati… 1/5

It's about the system. Research fraud thrives when a field rewards single 'surprising' findings and there are low incentives for replication.

The problem is not enough formal theory.

If you haven't submitted your paper yet, do it now. The deadline is this Wednesday (9/20), and we already received more than 100 submissions!!

When is a baseline more than a baseline? blogs.worldbank.org/impactevaluati… Below are four ways that scholars have used baseline surveys to produce studies.

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The challenge of measuring intimate partner violence via self-interviewing.

New evidence from #Liberia and #Malawi by David Sungho Park KDI School of Public Policy and Management, Shilpa Aggarwal Indian School of Business (ISB), Dahyeon Jeong World Bank Research, Naresh Kumar, Jonathan Robinson & Alan Spearot: voxdev.org/topic/methods-…

Call for Papers Alert: Submit Your Papers Now for the 4th World Bank DIME-KDI School Development Impact Conference on November 2-3 in Washington, DC! Hurry, the submission deadline is September 20. The keynote will be Jenny Aker. See the details at: worldbank.org/en/events/2023…

Idah Pswarayi-Riddih Florence Kondylis the first edition of the DIME Impact Evaluation Summer School in collaboration with Eduardo Mondlane University in Maputo this past July was a success! @astridzwager Dahyeon Jeong Steven Glover Roshni Khincha

Taking research into practice to scale. Now is the time.

The challenge of measuring intimate partner violence via self-interviewing.

New evidence from #Liberia and #Malawi by David Sungho Park KDI School of Public Policy and Management, Shilpa Aggarwal Indian School of Business (ISB), Dahyeon Jeong World Bank Research, Naresh Kumar, Jonathan Robinson & Alan Spearot: voxdev.org/topic/methods-…

Six Questions with Morgan Hardy, who tells us about her path to development economics, advice for doing fieldwork, teaching a course in Ghana that gets undergrads doing fieldwork, and more... blogs.worldbank.org/impactevaluati…

The challenge of measuring intimate partner violence via self-interviewing.

New evidence from #Liberia and #Malawi by David Sungho Park KDI School of Public Policy and Management, Shilpa Aggarwal Indian School of Business (ISB), Dahyeon Jeong World Bank Research, Naresh Kumar, Jonathan Robinson & Alan Spearot: voxdev.org/topic/methods-…

Weekly links July 14: climate change and development, China’s industrial policy, Romanian tax incentives, women’s work affecting home bargaining power, and more… blogs.worldbank.org/impactevaluati…

Great collaboration with The Korea International Cooperation Agency (@KOICA) on impact evaluation to enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of international development cooperation.
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