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Great tips from David McKenzie (per usual): A crowd-sourced checklist of the top 10 little things that drive us crazy with regression output blogs.worldbank.org/impactevaluati… via @worldbank

Or the next @marcfbellemare !

Measuring harassment in the workplace: Kathleen Beegle summarizes work by Laura Boudreau @SylvainChassang Ada González-Torres🇺🇦 & @RachelMHeath on testing methods to better elicit sensitive information such as "hard garbling" where some responses are randomly flipped blogs.worldbank.org/impactevaluati…

A great summary of a great book. I especially liked #4 and #6 as I too share the background described in the penultimate tweet.

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Remembering Martin Ravallion, ‘superstar’ Australian economist who made poverty his life’s work theguardian.com/business/2023/…

Can AI write your Stata code? In today's Development Impact post, Owen Ozier provides good news for the job security of Stata RAs everywhere as he tests ChatGPT (which seems to be better at R than Stata). blogs.worldbank.org/impactevaluati…

IFPRI researcher @MehrabBakhtiar & Raymond Guiteras, James Levinsohn, & @mushfiq_econ find that adding a simple public commitment to a standard WASH community meeting had a lasting effect on ⬆️ hygienic latrine ownership in rural #Bangladesh 🇧🇩. Learn more: bit.ly/3Y8uIJg

Econ PhDs are struggling with symptoms of anxiety and depression at rates more than twice that of the general population, says Valentin Bolotnyy🇺🇸🇺🇦 of Stanford University. We spoke with him about why that is and what can be done about it. #ResearchHighlight aeaweb.org/research/menta…

The Indian Enigma revisited sciencedirect.com/science/articl… At long last its out. A little bittersweet, but also a nice way to remember a really great guy. And congrats to my co-author Liza von Grafenstein for her first big publication.

Come to the Barcelona School of Economics Development Economics Summer School, featuring me and Pamela Jakiela! Take our midday class, and throw in Jeffrey Wooldridge's AM panel data class, or Paul Milan's on networks! See Libertad González and Joan Llull (Econ) in Labor economics! bit.ly/3YXmvaT

Nice post today by Kathleen Beegle summarizing an EDCC paper by Mark Treurniet on how being part of a baseline survey increases farmers take-up of a new agricultural technology: i.e. doing a baseline can affect estimated impacts blogs.worldbank.org/impactevaluati…

Does the UN UN JP Rural Women’s Economic Empowerment reach, benefit, #empower #women & transform #gender relations? See our multi-country study in 🇪🇹🇰🇬 🇰🇬🇳🇪 TL, DR: yes, in some cases but watch out for workload impacts. Ruth Meinzen-Dick Dr Hazel Malapit (she/her) Dr. Jessica Heckert CGIAR GENDER authors.elsevier.com/a/1g-tt7sxZ~Fq…

The 7th in my annual series of statistics comparing development journals is now out: over 10,000 papers were submitted in 2022 to the 12 development journals I cover, with less than 1 in 10 accepted 1/5 blogs.worldbank.org/impactevaluati…

I’ve seen many Econ PhDs attempt collaborations with companies, especially students doing behavioral science/analytics. This is potentially very rewarding, but I wanted to share some caveats I’ve stumbled across:

Weekly links June 16: Busia, collaborating internationally, magic metrics, carbon costs are a-changin’, ML-based poverty mapping, and more… blogs.worldbank.org/impactevaluati…

Harvard is hosting the NEUDC econ development conference this fall; we particularly encourage PhD students and recent graduates to submit a paper. Huge thanks to CID's fantastic staff and dozens of reviewers who are making the conference possible. Please spread the word!

I've started a thread at david.mckenzie.1485 with updated versions of our curated links on technical topics sourced from the last decade of development impact posts: blogs.worldbank.org/impactevaluati…

A new method for measuring food insecurity developed by Cornell Dyson & Nutritional Sciences at Cornell researchers found that between 2001 - 2017, 1/3 of US households experienced at least temporary food insecurity. 🧵#NIFAImpacts Economic Research Service news.cornell.edu/stories/2023/1…