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The World Bank's Africa Gender Innovation Lab is hiring a Research Analyst to support an impact evaluation of rural childcare in the DRC. Come work with us! Details at the link ⤵️

Video of the wonderful talk given by Michele Lamont at World Bank Research on her book “Seeing Others” which is about the centrally important topic about how to build a more empathetic, inclusive, less divided world. Michael Woolcock and I were the discussants. worldbank.org/en/news/video/…

The World Bank Africa Gender Innovation Lab is hiring an ETC Economist to work on gender and entrepreneurship, access to capital, labor markets and/or childcare. Apply by November 9th! 🗓️ worldbankgroup.csod.com/ats/careersite…

Next week, join Center for Global Development & WORLD to explore the Equality within Our Lifetimes database & what it tells us about gender equality in the economy. Ft. Kehinde Ajayi, Aletheia Donald, Magda Barrera, Aminata Diop Ndoye, & Dossi Sekonou Gloria Agueh. RSVP: bit.ly/3QwMiW0

Florian’s blog is out on Development Impact—and more importantly, he is on the job market! I can’t say enough about how brilliant Florian is, and he has an A+ sense of humor to boot. I would work with him on every project if I could. Any employer would be lucky to have him!

The World Bank’s Africa Gender Lab is hiring a consultant to support the impact evaluation of a new childcare project in Benin. Candidate must have a Master’s degree, strong Stata skills & data collection management experience. Apply by February 18th! t.ly/e5vcO

Starting now, soph of College and University Fund member UC Berkeley & Haas School of Business joins us to speak about Bottlenecks for Evidence Adoption youtube.com/watch?v=Xrd7sl…

Our World Bank SAR-GIL team is recruiting for 2 STC positions based in Pakistan. We are looking for candidates with prior knowledge of RCTs, strong understanding of data, and excellent communication and managerial skills.

📢 Summer Seminar Series starting soon! Mark your calendars: First seminar is April 22, 1pm CET. Our lineup includes Dominic Rohner, Jaime Millán-Quijano, Seema Jayachandran, Kathleen Beegle, Esther Gehrke, Aletheia Donald, and Manuel Santos Silva. We're excited for many great talks!

Fascinating webinar today w/researchers from @ifpri @worldbank Aletheia Donald presenting new quantitative measure of time-use agency in Malawi incorporating satisfaction + ability to reallocate time

Un article qui défie ce que certains pensent connaitre de la RDC. Congratulation sara lowes Aletheia Donald ! aeaweb.org/articles?id=10… NGOKWEY Mi Papy Maotela Mbele Kamangu Kamori Mutw. Didier Jessy Goloze Wabo Ateliers de la République benedict konso Christian S. OTCHIA Claude Boyoo 1

The new MAGNET site is up! It’s a resource center housing 20+ new tools to measure agency, which will be regularly updated as we continue analysis of measurement properties across multiple contexts. Check it out ⤵️

Check out our VoxDev blog post on our new paper w/ @markusgold ⤵️ We pool data from 6 RCTs of successful business training & land titling programs and find +ve fertility impacts, driven by women w/o sons pre-program

The National Academy of Sciences just published its first consensus study on women's empowerment and socioeconomic development. It presents a new conceptual framework, summarizes the evidence and sets an agenda for future research. I hope you find our work useful 👇🏼

“Ten insights from development economics research in 2024” Great list from VoxDev editor Oliver Hanney. A few of my favorites: