Ten years ago, I left Innovations for Poverty Action to start my PhD.

Today, I've returned.

I am excited to build IPA's new Data Science and Engineering function. We'll be starting from an amazing foundation of strong data quality, rigorous research, and evidence-based policy work!

I've been sharing earlier versions of this study for years. I'm happy to see it out in a great journal!

academic.oup.com/ej/advance-art…

by Annie Duflo, Kiessel, & Adrienne Lucas

Read more about this recent work by Susan Athey Jann Spiess and Niall Keleher, who combined experiments and AI to compare targeting strategies for SMS reminders to potential FAFSA applicants.

Consider donating to support flooding victims in Malawi on @justgiving.
justgiving.com/campaign/TheSp…

I know a person who runs lots of field experiments. Literally prize winning stuff. Their estimate of how likely it is for a field experiment to happen successfully once a partner firm or organization agrees:

10%

(Success here means actually carried out, correctly)

In 2014, I wrote a viral piece in Fortune showing consistent gender bias in performance feedback language. I'm now looking at some new data sets. Would you fill in this 2min survey? I will share insights from this chapter of the work when complete!

surveymonkey.com/r/JFPJQBB

Is this a common challenge task for prize winners? Or something specific to disadvantage Canadians?

Join Textio at our online career fair this week! Want to learn about Textio, what we're up to, and what we're hiring for? Want to just get to know some inclusive, data-minded, and highly committed people?

There are still a few spots left to register!
app.brazenconnect.com/events/j3L60

Why Lisa Cook is a better nominee for the Board of Governors of the Fed than John Cochrane would be -- or than I would be.

paulromer.net/lisa-cook/

Good morning #Malawi . Although we woke up this morning with no electricity, no cabinet and (most likely), with no money, let's take a moment to appreciate this footballing genius Gabadinho Mhango. Take a bow in the presence of greatness #Flames

A little late, but, as promised, this paper, by Avi Feller Eli Ben-Michael, & (the Twitterless) Erin Hartman deserves a 🧵 all of its own. Like Erin's other work in survey world, it's about embracing modern statistical tooling to replace existing practice

arxiv.org/abs/2102.09052

What if a wooden spoon could help AAPI’s?

I’m making 10 spoons to auction in support of Twitter's #StandForAsians allyship fund (3x match). Let’s raise an obnoxious amount of 💰.

ONLY 10 will be made. $250 ea. min. Top 10 DM donations get a spoon, auction ends in 1 week.

Looking forward to this year's COMPASS! Submit a paper or poster to this excellent, collaborative, and cross-domain conference. Submissions due April 7. #COMPASS21 #ICT4D #Tech4Good

New! Can youth sports change life outcomes? Lori Beaman Niall Keleher Magruder, & Sylvan Herskowitz puzzle over some findings from Liberia - better employment, but perhaps not through the route they expected?
poverty-action.org/blog/can-sport…

Quite the stark difference between last summer and this morning.

Important explainer on the IRB process.

Valuable structure to a researcher's method

Mostly true about legislation but he's singular in focus and very effective in building coalition. Should check out The Cynic by Alec MacGillis.

US president-elect Joe Biden reads the words of Irish poet Seamus Heaney