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Policy Research Talks are how we at the WB Research Group (DECRG) showcase cutting-edge research from the World Bank & its implications for dev policy. Join us today for this talk by Damien de Walque on what we have learnt from the COVID-19 pandemic. Damien de Walque World Bank Research

What is a firm again? The fluidity of firm boundaries in developing country firms - I summarize recent empirical work on how capital & labor can be fluid across firms & workers in developing countries blogs.worldbank.org/impactevaluati…

Women on teams and in leadership matters for other women, men, and organizations: Kathleen Beegle @ManuGalasso & Mahvish Shaukat summarize 2 recent papers from the U.S. & Turkey blogs.worldbank.org/impactevaluati…

Introduction to the JDE Special Issue on "Methods and Measurement" is up! * measurement error, field experiments, expanding the scope of measures & more 🤓 Kathleen Beegle Dillon Dean Karlan & Christopher Udry sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Curious about the latest research on education from the World Bank Development Research Group (DECRG)? You can find out about it here: worldbank.org/en/research/br… World Bank Research

Six Questions with Jing Cai: we discuss her work on firm networking, industrial policy in China, working in an ARE department, and more... blogs.worldbank.org/en/impactevalu…

Weekly links May 23: ungating research, agile vs waterfall bureaucracy, African prices, services-led development, and more… blogs.worldbank.org/en/impactevalu…

Latest musings… on cash blogs.worldbank.org/en/impactevalu…

Does economics need more prophets? Thematic summer book recommendations from Gabe Englander who muses on technical wizardry vs moral solutions and what this means for dealing with climate change and other policies blogs.worldbank.org/en/impactevalu…

"COVID-19 Increased Existing Gender Mortality Gaps in High-Income Countries More Than in Middle-Income Countries" documents.worldbank.org/en/publication… by Kathleen Beegle @gdemom Damien de Walque Paul Gubbins Jeremy Veillard

⁦Louise Fox⁩ and I explore job creation v job displacement from job training interventions in Nigeria, in the latest Development Impact blog blogs.worldbank.org/en/impactevalu…

The latest Development Impact blog is a follow-up on the meaning of “creating jobs” in what might be low L demand settings, featuring work by ⁦Patrick Premand⁩ blogs.worldbank.org/en/impactevalu…

Avoiding open-access to protected areas - in today's blogpost Gabe Englander looks at the interaction between human migration, species conservation in national reserves, and who should have property rights blogs.worldbank.org/en/impactevalu…

Starting a recap 🧵 for the fascinating workshop on economics of the household hosted at Dickinson College this weekend #EconTwitter #Econsky, w/thanks to organizers Shamma Alam + Claus Pörtner Kathleen Beegle

Great to hear about a lot of new work on household economics in developing countries, including Jessica Leight’s work on sustainable land management in Ethiopia… thanks to Shamma Alam and Claus Pörtner for organizing this workshop!

Spent 2 days at Dickinson College in a thoughtfully organized workshop on Household Economics in Developing Countries. Thanks Shamma Alam, Claus Pörtner and Kathleen Beegle for putting this together, and for the invite. Love visiting the college!

A new paper by researchers at Stanford takes on both the question of whether we are adapting to climate change and, indirectly, how we should measure such adaptation. A. Patrick Behrer explains in today's blog. blogs.worldbank.org/en/impactevalu…

Blog your job market paper 2024: submissions now open - our 14th year of publishing posts by PhD students on the development job market (submissions due Nov 6) blogs.worldbank.org/en/impactevalu…

Heterogeneity of spillover effects of cash transfers: @BerkOzler12 does a deep-dive into understanding the spillover impacts of GiveDirectly💸 and how they vary among those non-treated according to eligibility status, reconciling with prior studies blogs.worldbank.org/en/impactevalu…

📢📢Call for paper for research proposal on women's economic empowerment, labor force participation, and entrepreneurship, for a 2-day workshop in Rome on May 15-16, organized by World Bank Research AXA Research Lab on Gender Equality and EIEF - Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance #econtwitter