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Caren Grown reflects on the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) Program and its 40-plus years of impact.

Public works in Djibouti targeting women had high uptake but only short term.

A new paper by researchers at Stanford takes on both the question of whether we are adapting to climate change and, indirectly, how we should measure such adaptation.

An interview with Jing Cai, an Associate Professor at the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of Maryland. Her research has focused on the diffusion and impact of finan...

The 2024 round-up of journal impact factors, rankings, number of submissions, numbers of papers published, and review times at leading development economic journals.

This post discusses how to use Lee Bounds for dealing with attrition, and the practical issues that can arise when applying this in field experiments.

A short set of links this week includes getting magnitudes precise, housing restrictions in Mumbai, and the Economist mag on RCTs

Many firms may use college education as a heuristic to find skilled workers, but search frictions in the labor market prevent firms from developing accurate beliefs of college graduates’ productivit...

Unraveling the potential and perils of teaching innovation

This study demonstrates that improved childcare and transport policies, among other policies targeted to reduce practical barriers to women's employment, may not overcome all barriers preventing India...