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Many respondents underestimated how much progress we made in last 4 decades & how many people used to live in extreme poverty not that long ago. In 1980, about 42%(!) of people in the world lived with less than the equivalent of around 2 USD/day (adjusted for price differences).

New article on J-PAL's policy blog on our paper w/ Erika Deserranno, Stefano Caria and Philipp Kastrau: we find that sharing bonuses between community health workers and their supervisors results in 61% more health visits than providing them to one or the other tinyurl.com/2p9h6z6k

What motivates community health workers? J-PAL affiliates Erika Deserranno Gianmarco León-Ciliotta & Philipp Kastrau find that community health workers make more visits when they have merit-based promotions and a steep salary scale. #GovernanceInitiative j-p.al/es63

There's a myth that all employees want to be fully remote. Some do - 31% on average in the US - but the majority want hybrid #WFH, coming to work usually two to three days a week. Age 20-29 employees are the least keen on fully-remote, valuing in-person mentoring and socializing

Meritocratic promotions lead to higher productivity, driven by workers who expect steep pay rises and perform best Erika Deserranno Northwestern Economics Philipp Kastrau IDinsight & Gianmarco León-Ciliotta Economia i Empresa UPF ow.ly/gpOu50LxgSi #STEGWorkingPapers #EconTwitter FCDO Research, Science and Technology

Do meritocratic promotions increase worker productivity? In this #VoxDevTalk, Erika Deserranno Northwestern Economics outlines the key takeaways from research w/ Philipp Kastrau IDinsight & Gianmarco León-Ciliotta Economia i Empresa UPF, based on a field experiment in Sierra Leone: ow.ly/mfJW50MzNP1

🆕 Sharing financial incentives between community health workers and their supervisors improved healthcare in Sierra Leone 🇸🇱 Stefano Caria Warwick Economics, Erika Deserranno Kellogg School, Gianmarco León-Ciliotta Economia i Empresa UPF & Philipp Kastrau IDinsight: voxdev.org/topic/labour-m…

We are hiring summer interns for next year. Cool research that will inform our $800M+ grantmaking portfolio, open to Master and PhD students (and people working for orgs allowing externships), and well-compensated. Please apply! #econtwitter

The state of play, a week into Elon's assault on USAID. USAID is in a state of suspended animation - it has been powered down, but it's not *quite* to the point where it can't be powered back on. What happens next comes down to the courts & Congress. 🧵

For those of us who have lived and covered this war from 2014 and before it is hard to imagine a more counterfactual, distorted and frankly offensive interpretation of the last decade

Our paper "Promotions and Productivity: The Role of Meritocracy and Pay Progression in the Public Sector" (w/ Erika Deserranno and Philipp Kastrau) is out in the latest issue of AER:I !!! Here is a short summary of the paper: voxdev.org/topic/labour-m…