New nature paper reviews #Togo’s experience with #cashtransfers and compares targeting performance of machine learning vs geographical vs (hypothetical) social registry-based methods. Aiken, Bellue Christopher Udry Dean Karlan & Joshua Blumenstock nature.com/articles/s4158…

In March, Togo's GiveDirect-Novissi COVID Aid program made the cover of nature and won a SXSW innovation award. Learn more → GiveDirectly.org/togo

Impressive results from an evaluation by IDinsight on our GiveDirectly💸 program providing cash transfers to refugees in Uganda. Read more below! #WorldRefugeeDay

Learn more the about amazing work by GiveDirectly💸 and IDinsight below 👇👇👇 #WorldRefugeeDay

This is an incredible resource on cash transfers. I can't wait to dig into it!

Excited to release TODAY the full endline report of our RCT (+qual) with GiveDirectly💸 on cash transfers to refugees. ~19 months post-transfer, recipient households had ⬆️consumption and ⬆️ assets, driven by ⬆️ business formation and ⬆️ remittances. w/ Heather Lanthorn | improving health systems, Nshakira Rukundo, +

A new comprehensive review elegantly lays out #socialprotection issues, design tradeoffs, implementation quandaries, and empirical gaps. By Banerjee Rema Hanna Ben Olken & Diana Sverdlin economics.mit.edu/sites/default/…

A study by Doug Johnson and Andres Parrado compares two main learning outcomes surveys - ASER & NAS - to determine the reliability of learning data. They note that these assessments are used to rewards schools, often resulting in unreliable data (3/10) ideasforindia.in/topics/human-d…

2 new papers on Brazil’s Bolsa #cashtransfers. Costa et al show that higher Bolsa coverage is associated with lower oral cancer mortality: iris.paho.org/bitstream/hand… Jones discusses the complexity of adulthood transitions compared to Bolsa’s “linear model”: journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.117…

Today I had the honor of attending a talk by Jonathan Morduch on poverty measurement. His team conducted a series of studies of consumption and income patterns of poor households in several countries across time. 1/3

"GiveDirectly’s program is exceptionally simple & direct: it lets individuals choose what they most want" - the head of GiveWell on why he still gives directly. Though our two orgs prioritize differently, we share the same goal: do as much good as possible for people in poverty.

Nearly 2M Syrian refugees live in the area of Turkey hit by the earthquake. They already struggled to start a life in their new home and now face the difficult task of restarting again. Send them funds directly at GiveDirectly.org/relief

Advice for new grads who want to get into development!

Want to work on a project about the effect of trade on market structure in Colombia? We got something for you! 😍🇨🇴 My co-authors and I are looking for a Bogota-based RA for *part-time* work with datasets at DANE. Details and application instructions below—please RT!

Beautifully for a project about market power, our inadvertent wage offer misquoting teaches us that: 1) PIs benchmark offers against competitors. 2) PIs face upward-sloping RA applicant supply. 3) PIs set RA wages. Will post our PI-specific apps=f(wage) curve after Aug 13 🤓.

Thank you kartik and to Karthik Muralidharan for connecting me to this amazing coauthor. Do check out my JMP. The papers illustrate the complexity of the rural labor markets in south India and how they've been shaped by 200 yr old land policies and new agricultural technology