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Janine Aron and John Muellbauer give a great overview on the economics of mobile money. They present the overview on the rapid rise of services and users, discuss the uses and advantages, and review the empirical literature. voxeu.org/article/econom…

We're *hiring* an Associate Research Manager - Data & Analytics @Young1ove . One of the best jobs on the planet, I think :). Please share with your networks! young1ove.org/join-us-1. Deadline: May 24.

Well designed pay for performance teacher contract in Rwanda led to higher test scores mainly through increased teacher effort. Clare Leaver University of Oxford gives great paper DFID which distinguishes recruitment, motivation & effort impact of P4P. My 3min interview below.

Tune in for a sneak-peek of our new report on technology in health and education! 💃

We are looking for web developer to join our team. Here is our Jobs page: ourworldindata.org/jobs We just did Y Combinator and have a ton of requests and ideas – and it’s a great team really. If you are not a developer yourself, could you share it with a developer you know?

Amazing animation by @countcarbon showing the demographic transition over the last 150 years! From a world of high fertility and high child mortality to low fertility with few children dying: pic.x.com/SVtfY6O45g

Better lives start with smart people, not smart technology. Now is the time for #PositiveDisruption, now is the time for #SmartLives Read our report for better lives - bit.ly/positive-disru…

Suicide Rate in Australia By Sex and Age for the last 100 Years [Source: de.reddit.com/r/dataisbeauti…]

Very honored to be joining ECSA-HC ‘s Best Practices Forum and presenting our recently published Pathways for Prosperity Commission report on healthcare in a digital age in Arusha 🇹🇿 #PositiveDisruption #PathwaysCommission

A different tweet from me today: My brother's first paper was published as a pre-print today! While I don't understand much of the content, I'll just be here looking at the beautiful graphics 😁 #proudsister

If you are not an academic, this will seem insane If you are, you will wish to hire this guy. You can’t, though, because he has tenure at Harvard. Tenure announcement: April 2019 | James Mickens mickens.seas.harvard.edu/tenure-announc…

Thanks to Timothy Ogden for sharing this mind-boggling graphic on the change in US tax rates by income percentile from 1950 to 2018. nytimes.com/interactive/20…

"Showing that it is possible for a woman to succeed and be recognised for success I hope is going to inspire many, many other women to continue working and many other men to give them the respect they deserve." - Esther Duflo at today's press conference announcing her prize.

Janina is brilliant, researching with her would be nothing but an absolute treat! See ⬇️ for details.

Creating good governance with... entrepreneurship?! qz.com/africa/1766944/ via Quartz Africa

We collaborated with our friends from Kurzgesagt to make this video about the coronavirus pandemic. They all did an amazing job working night and day to produce this. Hope you like it!

Let me break it down for you. Using Our World in Data graphics which you've used in the past. The US currently has a yellow line. A yellow line is not good. You're NOT TESTING ENOUGH per confirmed case.

Better late than never: Our work on diagnostic testing for hypertension, diabetes and hypercholesterolaemia (all major CVD risk factors) in the Global South was published in The Lancet Global Health ! Might do a summary after my PhD defense next week🤓 sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

The pandemic greatly impacted young women's work aspirations and expectations in India. In a new World Bank study, our former fellow S Anukriti and coauthors call for targeted interventions to support young women's employment in the post-pandemic era: devdiscourse.com/article/headli…

How did exposure to the COVID-19 pandemic influence the labor market aspirations and expectations of young women in India? I examine this question in a new AEA P&P paper w/ Catalina Herrera & Sophie Ochmann. WP version: tinyurl.com/37e27buc World Bank Research AEA Journals