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Clara Delavallade @claradelav.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Deeply energizing to get to meet young (and less young!) researchers at the Women and Jobs in Africa workshop the AGIL co-organized last week at the University of Ghana, along with The World Bank Center for Research on Women and Jobs and African Center for Economic Transformation (ACET).

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Clara Delavallade @claradelav.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Thanks to Smita Das, Markus Goldstein, Léa Rouanet (@lea-rouanet.bsky.social), Mike O'Sullivan (@mbosullivan.bsky.social), IPA (@poverty-action.bsky.social), BRAC, IRC (@rescue.org), Wellspring Philanthropic Fund and The World Bank.

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Clara Delavallade @claradelav.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

👉 Explore the resources here: poverty-action.org/socio-emotio... Use without moderation! And stay tuned for more publications!

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Clara Delavallade @claradelav.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

The site includes: 🌍 Validated SES measures, with resources to use, score, and interpret them 📘 Curricula and training guides to build SES in anti-poverty programs 🧩 A theory of change and research agenda on SES and women’s economic empowerment 📊 A growing collection of research outputs.

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Clara Delavallade @claradelav.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Thrilled to finally share #AfricaGIL new ESTEEM website bringing together years of work on socioemotional skills (SES) across Sub-Saharan Africa — from measurement tools to training curricula and research evidence. #WEE #GenderEquality #SoftSkills #SocioEmotionalSkills

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Effective Socio-emotional Skills to Gain Economic Empowerment (ESTEEM) | IPA

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Jessica Leight @leightjessica.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Evidence from Tanzania: while self-reported socioemotional skills show a gender gap (in favor of men), behavioral measures show few, + smaller gaps - suggesting underlying pattern is men's overestimation of own skills! joint w/@rchlcassidy @claradelav tinyurl.com/mw5vcyf4

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Clara Delavallade @claradelav.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Event hosted by WEESA, the South Asia Gender Innovation Lab (SAR GIL), in collaboration with the Africa Gender Innovation Lab (AFR GIL) and the East Asia and the Pacific Gender Innovation Lab (EAP GIL) #WEESA #AfricaGIL #SARGIL #GenderEquality #Agency #WEE #SouthAsia #Philippines

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Clara Delavallade @claradelav.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

📢 Speakers: • @Seema Jayachandran – Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, Princeton University @seema.bsky.social • @Forest Jarvis – Consultant, East Asia and the Pacific Gender Innovation Lab

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Clara Delavallade @claradelav.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

🌍 Key Insights: • Being the “decision-maker” may not be the best measure of agency. • The primary benefit of group models may lie in their economies of scale – delivering resources, information, and training to many women at once.

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Clara Delavallade @claradelav.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Honored to moderate this discussion on women’s agency and the power of group models. Join us tomorrow to learn more about what shapes women’s decision-making, how groups improve outcomes for women and girls, and why these insights should influence measurement, programming, and future research.

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Clara Delavallade @claradelav.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Teaser: these trainings work great, for both men and women, in areas where norms around gender roles are more progressive

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Clara Delavallade @claradelav.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Excited to present our paper at the CSAE conference Tuesday! We’ll talk about the impacts of socioemotional skills trainings on economic empowerment for agribusiness owners in Nigeria. #AfricaGIL #EconSky #OxCSAE2025

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Clara Delavallade @claradelav.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Looking forward to being part of this UN CSW panel bringing together governments, researchers, and civil society on how social protection can advance gender equality across a woman’s life course This Thursday... Join us! #AfricaGIL #EconSky @unicef.org

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Heather Randell @heatherrandell.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

The DHS Program is officially done. As I tell my statistics students, good data is ESSENTIAL to improve the world. We can’t make things better if we don’t know the current state of things. No new DHS data collection is an incalculable loss. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/h...

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Trump Administration Ends Global Health Research Program

The Demographic and Health Surveys were the only sources of reliable information in many countries on metrics such as mortality, nutrition and education.

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Clara Delavallade @claradelav.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

More details in our working paper just out, co-authored with Jeannie Annan, @daveevansphd.bsky.social, Estelle Koussoube, @lea-rouanet.bsky.social and Josephine Tassy

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Clara Delavallade @claradelav.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

... Even worse, when the texts were also sent to youth’s contact person (often a parent) who knew less about the program, enrolment dropped…

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Clara Delavallade @claradelav.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Does free sound too cheap? Here's new evidence on something that did not work to get young people enrolled in vocational training programs in Côte d’Ivoire: sending text messages highlighting that the program is free... #AfricaGIL #EconSky

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

2. A memo distributed by NSA leadership to its staff says that on February 10, all NSA websites and internal network pages that contain banned words will be deleted. This is the list of 27 banned words distributed to NSA staff:

Anti-Racism
Racism
Allyship
Bias
DEI
Diversity
Diverse
Confirmation Bias
Equity
Equitableness
Feminism
Gender
Gender Identity
Inclusion
Inclusive
All-Inclusive
Inclusivity
Injustice
Intersectionality
Prejudice
Privilege
Racial Identity
Sexuality
Stereotypes
Pronouns
Transgender
Equality

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Clara Delavallade @claradelav.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Working together as a team on household economic decisions and getting men to support their wives' rights to own assets are some of the best ways we've seen to make real progress so far.

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Clara Delavallade @claradelav.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Empowering women starts with engaging everyone. 🫂 Our recent GIL policy brief summarizes the evidence on engaging men for women's economic empowerment. openknowledge.worldbank.org/entities/pub... #GenderEquality #WomenEmpowerment #SocialChange #EconSky #AfricaGIL @rajdevbrar.bsky.social

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Clara Delavallade @claradelav.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

And, even more importantly, facilitating discussions about masculinity among middle-schoolers reduces these misperceptions and can help shift social norms on masculinity.

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Clara Delavallade @claradelav.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Men may behave more aggressively than they would want to if they wrongly believe this is what other men (and women) view as « manly » - not crying or using violence to get respect. Here is recent experimental evidence on this from Rio de Janeiro. #EconSky #gender blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...

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School discussions reshape perceptions of masculinity norms. Guest Post by Ieda Matavelli

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ECON5k @econ5k.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

2025 ECON5k starts December 1! Details are here sites.google.com/view/econ5k, including how to get a t-shirt and how to upload your results. Please also feel free to post your results on BlueSky with the hashtag #ECON5k!

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Clara Delavallade @claradelav.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Over half of African girls ages 15 to 19 are out of school or married or have children. Our recent report dives into promising ways to address these challenges. EVENT LAUNCH is NOW!! Register here to join virtually or in person: www.worldbank.org/en/events/20... #africagil #EconSky #gender

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Pathways to Prosperity for Adolescent Girls in Africa Report Launch

Africa is home to 145 million adolescent girls today - a number projected to represent one-third of the world’s adolescent girls by 2050. Investing in the potential of adolescent girls is crucial for ...

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Clara Delavallade @claradelav.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Join us NOW for a rich discussion on new measures of goal-setting, self-efficacy and locus of control validated in various African countries. A prerequisite for informing policies seeking to improve women's agency! #AfricaGIL #EconSky @WBG_AfricaGIL

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Jessica Leight @leightjessica.bsky.social · 31/10/2024

I'm again seeking to organize sessions on violence against women as well as mental health in LMICs for the 2025 Ashecon conference in Nashville. If you're interested, please contact me (drop a response here or email me - DMs are not open, but my email is on my website)

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Clara Delavallade @claradelav.bsky.social · 25/10/2024

Join us for an insightful seminar on socioemotional skills, discrimination and hiring practices! #Skills4Dev #AfricaGIL #EconSky @yashodhan.bsky.social

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Clara Delavallade @claradelav.bsky.social · 04/10/2024

Excited to share our recent brief on tweaks to social protection programs that work for improving gender equality in Africa: childcare, socio-emotional skills, engaging men, and more! Drawn from #AfricaGIL research #EconSky openknowledge.worldbank.org/server/api/c...

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Seema Jayachandran @seema.bsky.social · 01/10/2024

ungatedresearch.org is a wonderful public good being developed by Martin Abel and Susie Godlonton. It's a website with links to the latest ungated version of papers published in several economics journals. Especially valuable in LMICs where many scholars don't have access to the journals.

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Clara Delavallade @claradelav.bsky.social · 26/09/2024

Giving smallholder farmers access to warrantage (storing their crops and, when they choose so, using that as a collateral to obtain credit) helps them invest more in human and farm capital. Sharing our recent experimental evidence from Burkina Faso #econsky

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Warrantage: A model of rural finance that boosts farmers’ income and investment

Warrantage is an innovative model of rural finance which improves access to credit and crop storage. In Burkina Faso, warrantage increased farmers’ sales revenues, which they spent on education, healt...

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Seema Jayachandran @seema.bsky.social · 23/09/2024

Our new paper shows that men benefit from couples' long-distance joint moves more than women do, in both Germany and Sweden. Is this just b/c men are usually the main breadwinner? No, it's hard to explain the patterns we see w/o a gender norm prioritizing men's careers. www.nber.org/papers/w32970

Moving to Opportunity, Together

Many couples face a trade-off between advancing one spouse’s career or the other’s. We study this trade-off using administrative data from Germany and Sweden. We first conduct an event-study analysis of couples moving across commuting zones and find that relocation increases men’s earnings more than women’s, with strikingly similar patterns in Germany and Sweden. Using a sample of mass layoff events, we then find that couples in both countries are more likely to relocate in response to the man being laid off compared to the woman. We investigate whether these gendered patterns reflect men’s higher potential earnings or a gender norm that prioritizes men’s career advancement. We provide suggestive evidence of a gender norm using variation in norms within Germany. We then develop and estimate a model of household decision-making in which households can place more weight on the income earned by the man compared to the woman.

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Clara Delavallade @claradelav.bsky.social · 19/09/2024

Still on that same topic of what drives women's fertility choices: sharing excellent recent work by my GIL colleagues showing that boosting women's income boosts their fertility too as a means to ensure long-term economic security: voxdev.org/topic/health...

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How development programmes impact fertility rates in Africa

New causal evidence shows boosting African women's income and wealth increases fertility, particularly among women without a son, suggesting that this fertility increase is a means to safeguard long-t...

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Clara Delavallade @claradelav.bsky.social · 19/09/2024

And on the same topic - having kids might be a desirable choice - but with a liberal philosopher angle: www.nytimes.com/2024/09/16/o...

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Opinion | Why Have Kids? A Liberal Case for Natalism.

A philosopher wants to take back the issue from conservatives.

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Clara Delavallade @claradelav.bsky.social · 19/09/2024

Happening tomorrow! Discussing this great paper on the important topic of women's fertility choices in Burkina Faso #Econsky

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Mike O’Sullivan @mbosullivan.bsky.social · 16/09/2024

And here: Unpacking Socio-Emotional Skills for Women’s Economic Empowerment [brief] documents1.worldbank.org/curated/en/3... 11/11

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Mike O’Sullivan @mbosullivan.bsky.social · 16/09/2024

Learn more about World Bank’s Africa Gender Innovation Lab’s SES research here. Which Socio-Emotional Skills Matter Most for Women’s Earnings? New Insights from Sub-Saharan Africa [brief] openknowledge.worldbank.org/entities/pub... 10/n

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Open Knowledge Repository

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Mike O’Sullivan @mbosullivan.bsky.social · 16/09/2024

🙏 Special thanks to our partners at BRAC Tanzania, IPA, IFC, Trinity College Dublin, & the teams that made this research possible. Thanks also to our funders (Wellspring, IDRC, FCDO, UFGE) for supporting this work. 9/n

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Mike O’Sullivan @mbosullivan.bsky.social · 16/09/2024

You can download the full paper here: documents.worldbank.org/en/publicati... This paper is part of a larger #RCT testing the relative impact of different SES trainings targeted at young women and men in Tanzania. Stay tuned for those results in the near future! 8/n

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Do Men Really Have Greater Socio-Emotional Skills Than Women ? Evidence from Tanzanian Youth

Individuals’ socio-emotional skills (SES), and their perceptions of their skill levels, matter for labor market outcomes and other welfare outcomes. Men appear to have .

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Mike O’Sullivan @mbosullivan.bsky.social · 16/09/2024

Implications: This study challenges the use of self-reported SES data and calls for the use of better, behavior-based measures of SES which can improve the targeting and design of SES interventions. The findings also point to the potential to correct young men’s misperceptions of their own SES. 7/n

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Mike O’Sullivan @mbosullivan.bsky.social · 16/09/2024

Third: Young men in this setting tend to over-estimate their skills, contributing to the mismatch between the self-reported gaps & behavioral measures of SES. This finding is consistent w/evidence from US lab experiments on overconfidence of young males in their math and science abilities. 6/n

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Mike O’Sullivan @mbosullivan.bsky.social · 16/09/2024

🔎 So, what did we find? First: Self-reported SES gender gaps are large (0.2σ), but they virtually disappear when measured behaviorally. Second: The male advantage in self-reported SES correlates positively w/social desirability bias, lower cognitive skills levels, & less gender-equitable views. 5/n

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Mike O’Sullivan @mbosullivan.bsky.social · 16/09/2024

The twist: Those results rely on self-reported SES. But are they reliable? We went a step further. Together with BRAC & IPA, we designed an innovative/validated set of behavioral measures to compare self-reported & observed SES among 4,000 youth in urban Tanzania. 4/n

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Mike O’Sullivan @mbosullivan.bsky.social · 16/09/2024

The backstory: In an earlier paper, we teamed up with Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) to examine SES in 17 countries in Africa. Men scored 0.15σ higher than women on aggregate SES—equivalent to gains from 5.6 yrs of schooling. Gender gaps in interpersonal SES actually grew w/education. 3/n

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Mike O’Sullivan @mbosullivan.bsky.social · 16/09/2024

The basics: SES—like perseverance, emotional regulation, collaboration, & listening — are key for men’s & women’s earnings & career success. But how can we accurately measure these skills? This will be critical to closing large gender gaps in earnings & productivity. 2/n

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Mike O’Sullivan @mbosullivan.bsky.social · 16/09/2024

🚨NEW WORKING PAPER🚨 Socio-emotional skills (SES) matter for labor market outcomes. There also appear to be large male-female gaps in these skills. But are these gender SES gaps real, or is something else at play? Our latest World Bank #AfricaGIL paper delves into this question. 👇 #EconSky 1/n

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