Amber Peterman
@a_peterman
@UNICEFEval @TransferProjct & @CGDev NR fellow | Research: #Gender, violence & economic empowerment | would rather be climbing mountains | ๐ฑ-based
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Richard de Groot presents results from an RCT of cash + services via โ๏ธ groups in ๐ฒ๐ฑ at UNU-WIDER conference --> Impacts on overall child wellbeing driven by ECD #WIDERDevConf2025 UNICEF Social Policy UNICEF Mali UNICEF Innocenti unicef.org/innocenti/repoโฆ
.Elijah Kipkech presented this interesting paper today on an ultra-poor program in ๐บ๐ฌ --> PWD switch to more favorable occupations, but social inclusion did not improve #WIDERDevConf2025 UNU-WIDER BRAC University Trinity College Dublin dropbox.com/scl/fi/k91q1g6โฆ
In an environment of shrinking fiscal space ~ we cannot forget that social protection is about #dignity, #equality + #values NOT about charity, contingency or productivity UNU-WIDER #WIDERDevConf2025 Dan Gilligan IFPRI Elina Scheja UNICEF Social Policy
State of dev journals 2025 out from David McKenzie at World Bank Research --> Journal of Development Studies (JDS) reporting that 31% of accepted papers have an author from global south ~ curious to see how this stacks up for others! #EconTwitter blogs.worldbank.org/en/impactevaluโฆ
.International Fund for Agricultural Development is looking for a P-4 Senior Monitoring & Evaluation Specialist, Rome --> apply by June 24th! #econtwitter impactpool.org/jobs/1158236
Holi crimes ~ Rubรฉn Poblete-Cazenave & Claudia Martรญnez V. show increases in VAW in public spaces during ๐ฎ๐ณ's public festival by 170% "To date, nobody has been convicted" ErasmusESE Access to Medicine Foundation sciencedirect.com/science/articlโฆ
US disinvestment threatens progress on violence prevention Stark Chen Reis Seff Ruti Levtov & Deitch in The Lancet "Ending data collection on violence means erasing the experiences of survivors & weakening our collective ability to respond." thelancet.com/journals/lanceโฆ
๐ข #CallForPapers Policy Research Workshop: #WomenAndJobs in Latin America and the Caribbean #LAC | ๐ ๐๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐น๐ถ๐ป๐ฒ ๐ฒ๐ ๐๐ฒ๐ป๐ฑ๐ฒ๐ฑ ๐๐ผ ๐๐๐ป๐ฒ ๐ฎ๐ฎ, ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ฑ ๐ Bogota, Colombia | ๐ October 6โ7, 2025 ๐ Details & submission: bit.ly/4jVWjs2 โ๏ธ Travel support
๐จ Thrilled to share that our paper, "Sexual Harassment in Public Spaces and Police Patrols: Experimental Evidence from Urban India," is now in print at the QJE! ๐ฎ๐ณ๐๐ฉ๐ฝโ๐ฆฐ With Sofia Amaral, Girija Borker, Nathan Fiala, Anjani Kumar, & Maria Micaela Sviatschi ๐งต๐ Northeastern CSSH NU Economics
.Girl Effect is hiring a social behavior change director Possibility to be based in: Ethiopia, India, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania or UK * Grad degree + 7 years exp Apply by June 23rd ๐๐พ job-boards.greenhouse.io/girleffect/jobโฆ
Congrats to UNC-Chapel Hill alumna Audrey Pereira โ25 for receiving a competitive Horowitz Foundation award ๐ Pereira earned a Ph.D. from UNC Public Policy with a focus on social policy. She was one of only 20 recipients of the Horowitz grant nationwide. UNC Graduate School
.WBG Gender is looking for an ET consultant to work on gender & jobs, incl. in Jordan and Morocco Grad degree + 2 years exp + analysis skills Closes June 23rd --> worldbankgroup.csod.com/ats/careersiteโฆ
I'm a cartoon!* But I'll be there in person at the Nairobi #EvidenceWeek2025 :) *sketched by the fab Celestine Wamiru --> linkedin.com/in/celestine-wโฆ From a March workshop on the IDRC in Eastern and Southern Africa GrOW initiative --> idrc-crdi.ca/en/initiative/โฆ
.UCL UCL Global Health is looking for a Ph.D. level Senior Research Fellow in Global Mental Health * work with the fantastic Rochelle A. Burgess @thewrittenro.bsky.social! * ยฃ54,172-ยฃ63,752 * apply by 29 June ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/seโฆ