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Job market series 2024 Wrap-up: We just finished our series of 26 posts by development economics PhD students on the job market. Here is a summary of the process and a list of all the posts in case you missed any blogs.worldbank.org/en/impactevalu…

End of year links 2024: a long list of reviews, advice, funding calls, and conference calls to keep you going into the new year. blogs.worldbank.org/en/impactevalu…

Weekly links January 10, 2025: debating development as a field, learning from early community development, HC3 vs randomization-p, and more…. blogs.worldbank.org/en/impactevalu…

Weekly links January 10, 2025: debating development as a field, learning from early community development, HC3 vs randomization-p, and more…. blogs.worldbank.org/en/impactevalu…

Weekly links Jan 17, 2025: get up to speed with new literature, AI virtual tutors, P4R in practice, and more… blogs.worldbank.org/en/impactevalu…

Tiny plastics, big problem - Gabe Englander summarizes a new paper that shows a link between marine microplastics and low birthweights in places close to the coasts blogs.worldbank.org/en/impactevalu…

Weekly links January 24: averting pollution havens with clean energy, Global South is a silly term, production subsidies, Indian governance, and more… blogs.worldbank.org/en/impactevalu…

Mean Reversion in RCTs: It may matter for targeting… @BerkOzler12 summarizes a new working paper that gives another reason why the average effect may be close to zero in an RCT despite it helping some people blogs.worldbank.org/en/impactevalu…

Weekly links January 31: the ruling elite need more ambition, green technologies need less tariffs, know who you are, and more… blogs.worldbank.org/en/impactevalu…

The World Bank wants to to hire a consultant to write a systematic review of A/B tests/nimble evaluations of interventions to help better implement private sector policies. E.g. tests of best ways to recruit firms, select them, disburse money.. Details: dropbox.com/scl/fi/jq434qz…

Weekly links February 14, 2025: sharing data and the problems of poor data, polisci trends, shift-share explained, and more… blogs.worldbank.org/en/impactevalu…

How can you use the Social Science Prediction Platform (Social Science Prediction Platform ) for development papers? @tedmiguel & I summarize some use cases. blogs.worldbank.org/en/impactevalu…

Personal initiative training continues to yield positive benefits after 7 years, but impacts vary with gender - I summarize a form of business training that not only increased firm profits in Togo, but has impacts for men that grow over time blogs.worldbank.org/en/impactevalu…

Trade economists: The World Bank Development Research Group group is hiring a research economist to work on international trade issues. Posting here: worldbankgroup.csod.com/ux/ats/careers…

We are excited to share our latest episode 🎙️! Backstory: David McKenzie on Problem Selection and Public Goods Creation Listen now: ift.tt/NMYH2rs

The similarities between Abundance & Karthik Muralidharan's Accelerating India's Development; the need for tinkering, but also for stopping dumb polices - today's blog post is my attempt to draw out common themes and lessons blogs.worldbank.org/en/impactevalu…

Thoughtful blog post by David McKenzie World Bank Research on my book on the centrality of better state capacity for "Accelerating India's Development" and the parallels with the "abundance" framework of Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson in the US context.

Hi! The Behind-the-Scenes seminar series, where we explore how research papers come together, is back! We’re excited to welcome David McKenzie, who will be presenting on 27th May at 2 PM (UK time). Please register here to receive the Zoom link: forms.office.com/e/FUgVh7Jqxi

Incorporating informative Bayesian priors into impact evaluation offers the ability to learn more from experiments. Leonardo Iacovone, early modern boy-actress (they/them) & David McKenzie demonstrate how to do this in the context of a Colombian exporting experiment. econometricsociety.org/publications/e…

The State of Development Journals 2025: Quality, Acceptance Rates, Review Times, Open Access, and What’s New blogs.worldbank.org/en/impactevalu…