USAID is making strides to put evidence first. Join USAID & Center for Global Development on Thursday, Oct. 10 for my keynote on our evidence efforts and to hear from other experts on identifying and scaling cost-effective interventions for 🌎 development. Register: cgdev.org/event/elevatin…

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In The Hill, Ted Yoho and I offer a straightforward 2-part framework for rebuilding US foreign assistance thehill.com/opinion/intern…

🆕 What broad lessons have we learned from 115 studies on unconditional cash transfers? Today on VoxDev, Tommaso Crosta, Dean Karlan, Finley Ong, Julius Rüschenpöhler & Christopher Udry (NU Global Poverty Research Lab Kellogg School) explore the impacts of cash transfers: voxdev.org/topic/social-p…

🚨 Update on our UCT meta-analysis! 🚨 Remember our NBER paper on the impacts of 💰Unconditional Cash Transfers💰in LMICs? We just added new analysis on labor, contextual factors, model validation, & more! 📌 You can find the original thread here: x.com/deankarlan/sta…

Dean Karlan's spent his career obsessing over a development economics question: How can we actually test what works? For the past two years, his job was to make USAID more efficient — to get the maximum value out of each dollar. Then came DOGE. statecraft.pub/p/how-to-fix-f…