Weekly links April 26: measurement, conscientiousness, judge leniency IV, running regressions, the missing soul of development economics, and more… blogs.worldbank.org/en/impactevalu…

David McKenzie Jonathan Roth David, that is a brilliant post and it covers some of the most important points associated with Lee bounds.

For binary outcomes, there are closed form solutions that do not require randomly choosing which observations to trim.

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David McKenzie Great blog, as always!

I'm not sure though why you would randomly break ties with a discrete outcome rather than weighting the observations appropriately?

Lee Bounds in Practice: in today's post I discuss what to do with covariates, how to deal with ties and binary outcomes, whether bounds make sense if you can't reject equality of attrition rates, Lee & LATE, and more... blogs.worldbank.org/en/impactevalu…

Weekly links April 19: Indian poverty trends, experiences shaping behavior, getting more female enumerators, and more… blogs.worldbank.org/en/impactevalu…

Spillovers, three ways - Gabe Englander illustrates three ways of dealing with spillovers in impact evaluation through papers that look at impacts of Marine Protected Areas that limit or prohibit fishing in a location blogs.worldbank.org/en/impactevalu…

🆕 Reexamining whether, when and how developing country governments should provide job training and job search support

Today on VoxDev, Eliana Carranza WB Social Protection & David McKenzie World Bank Research examine new evidence & outline lessons from recent research: voxdev.org/topic/labour-m…

Weekly links April 12: declining African agricultural productivity, revenue from .ai, returns to Bangladeshi migration, and more…blogs.worldbank.org/en/impactevalu…

Part 1 covers survey design (Stefanie Barratt, Sonja Fransen, Craig Loschmann), survey experiments (@ProfSobolewska Laurence Lessard-Phillips), field/natural experiments (@dmckenzie001 Dean Yang), large-scale data sources (@bircantub Albert Ali Salah), and using satellite data (@j_hagenzanker) (4/n)

Coming October 2024: the 2nd edition of the Handbook of Research Methods in Migration I've co-edited w/ Carlos Vargas-Silva! It's an exciting update featuring 17 new chapters responding to key shifts in migration studies and social science. Table of contents and our summary below: (1/n)

Weekly links April 8: attitudes towards fuel subsidies, college attendance puzzles in the developing world, chatting with enumerators, and more… c4dauthor.worldbank.org/content/worldb…

'Neglecting to incorporate the family into our analytical frameworks & data collection can result in, at best, an incomplete understanding of economic behaviors & outcomes, and at worst, erroneous conclusions.'
See my new blog on Dev Impact. blogs.worldbank.org/en/impactevalu…

Family - S Anukriti blogs about how complicated family can be, and the importance of considering this in evaluating programs and designing surveys blogs.worldbank.org/en/impactevalu…

This week's links include how to concentrate and publish 26 papers without feeling busy, doing power analysis with non-experiments, childcare outcomes, and more...blogs.worldbank.org/en/impactevalu…

The Development Impact blog has been slowed down by the World Bank transitioning us to a newer, slower, more cumbersome, platform. But we are up and running with two posts. Here's Gabe Englander on publishing in science journals blogs.worldbank.org/en/impactevalu…

Jasmin Paris Jasmin Paris finished loop five of the #BM100 in 59:58:21.

many new opportunities to come work w/ us on high impact research! I am looking for RAs and filed coordinators on projects on gender empowerment across many countries, Ag in in Mozambique, tax and roads in Rwanda! Apply here: datanalytics.worldbank.org/dime-applicati… (follow instructions!)

Weekly links March 15: when vs what in policy research, what’s new in the last decade of development research, life skills for girls, and more… blogs.worldbank.org/impactevaluati…