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🚨 Curious about recent advances on applied micro methods 🤓? I'm sharing a doc that I've put together and that lists a bunch of papers such advances. Suggestions are welcome! 🚨 👉 christinecai.github.io/PublicGoods/ap… 👈 #EconTwitter #PublicGoods #AppliedMicro #Econometrics

Teachers around the world use WhatsApp to help each other solve problems, share materials, and foster a sense of community. What challenges do these groups commonly face, and what is their impact on student learning? cgdev.org/publication/ho… We did a rapid review to find out.🧵

Join us for Development Impact Week launching DIME's flagship report “Driving Revolutionary Ideas into Practice” 1-5 May 2023 at the World Bank HQ in Washington DC. Excited to host Nobel Prize Winner Esther Duflo and WB Chief Economist Indermit Gill youtube.com/watch?v=XuGuFx…

Weighing the #evidence: which studies count? Eva Vivalt et al

World Bank has taken advantage of the explosion in data and AI analytics to generate just-in-time policy advice and analysis for our client countries. Join Esther Duflo, Arianna Legovini, and me on May 1 as we explore new and revolutionary approaches to development.

Join us from May 1-5 for #DevImpactWeek 🚀 to launch our flagship report "Driving Revolutionary Ideas into Practice" with Esther Duflo & Indermit Gill, & share the latest on how data & evidence can revolutionize development. Find out more: bit.ly/3NosLpC

Alice Evans In our data, female scientists are 1/3 as likely to have kids and half as likely to marry. It's the typical "choice" between career and kids for female academics which I hope becomes less & less common. To get there, we need to make sure female scientists can have kids & succeed

How can we use data, technology and evidence to boost development effectiveness? Tune in live as Esther Duflo, Indermit Gill and Arianna Legovini kick-off Development Impact Week. #DevImpactWeek x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

Mobile solutions can help us bridge the learning gap blogs.worldbank.org/developmenttal…

An experimental evaluation showed that minimum quality standards in health facilities improved quality without any decline in utilization or increase in prices, from Lupe Bedoya Jishnu Das, and Amy Dolinger nber.org/papers/w31203

Can a person paralyzed by a spinal cord injury walk again? A new nature paper says yes and how: by using an implant to decode the brain signals that control movement and using those signals to stimulate spinal cord nature.com/articles/s4158…

Happy to share that my paper with Aidan Coville, "How Do Policymakers Update Their Beliefs?", is accepted at the JDE! We leverage World Bank and IDB workshops to examine how policymakers, practitioners and researchers respond to #evidence. Here is what we find: 🧵

🆕 How government regulation can improve healthcare: Evidence from #Kenya Today on VoxDev, Lupe Bedoya (World Bank Research), Jishnu Das (McCourt School Georgetown SFS) & Amy Dolinger (World Bank World Bank Africa) outline their research: voxdev.org/topic/health-e…

Unsafe medical care leads to an estimated 2.6 million deaths in LMICs every year, leading to calls for greater government regulation. Today's article outlines much needed causal evidence on the impact of imposing minimum quality standards in Kenya. Read here:

Great to meet Director General Bård Vegar Solhjell and discuss our partnership on critical issues from delivering greater development impact through knowledge & impact evaluation to the need to scale up action. Looking forward to working more closely together!

Life is full of problems. Wisdom is not about solving every single problem that comes your way—it's about focusing your energy on the problems that are actually worth solving.

There's a better way to do public health messaging. nytimes.com/2024/11/13/opi…

Calling all field experimenters, including academics, policy types, and industry folks. I am happy to announce that our 2025 Advances with Field Experiments conference will be held Sept. 18th and 19th at the University of Chicago.  We have three fantastic keynotes:

Recently accepted by #QJE, “Cognitive Endurance as Human Capital,” by Brown (Christina Brown), Kaur (Supreet Kaur), Kingdon, and Schofield (Heather Schofield): doi.org/10.1093/qje/qj…

Paternity leave reduces fertility. "Men reported lower desired fertility after the [paternity leave] reform, possibly due to their increased awareness of the costs of childrearing."