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Owen Ozier @owenozier.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

🚨Development Economists!🚨Do you use Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS Program) data, which had been supported by USAID? IPUMS ( @ipums.bsky.social ) and the UN Statistics Division have a survey for you. I just filled it out. You can too. #econsky

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Jordan Loper 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @jordanloper.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Very happy and proud of Habibou Ibrahim Kassoum, who I am happy to co-supervise with Pascale Phélinas at @cerdi.bsky.social. Habibou is hosted for a research stay (visiting) by the World Bank's Africa Gender Innovation Lab (GIL) 🙌🏼

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Mike O’Sullivan @mbosullivan.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

An amazing opportunity for economics scholars in Africa to spend 3 months @oxfordcsae.bsky.social Deadline to apply = May 31

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Jessica Leight @leightjessica.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Wanted to do an #econtwitter #econsky 🧵about some of the amazing gender-related work (note - not exhaustive!) presented this week at CSAE - was not there, but had a fascinating time browsing the program. (Link below)

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Christian Zimmermann @czimm-economist.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

New RePEc feature for Bluesky! Get new paper announcements from NEP in 100 different fields. Find them all on this starter pack bsky.app/starter-pack... and soon the links to the accounts will be at nep.repec.org #RePEc #EconSky

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NEP feeds for new economics papers, by field.

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Charles Kenny @charlesjkenny.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

@justsand.bsky.social and I try to answer the question: how many lives saved by US foreign assistance each year. Best estimate: 3.3 million. www.cgdev.org/blog/how-man...

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Mike O’Sullivan @mbosullivan.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Important piece from Caren Grown at Brookings on why the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) program remains indispensable for global public health and development. Without good data, we simply can’t make good policy.

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An ode to the Demographic and Health Survey Program

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

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David McKenzie @dmckenzie.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

In today's blog, I summarize 7-7.5 year impacts of a RCT we did in Togo that tested personal initiative (PI) training against a control and traditional business training. PI training has large and growing impacts for men, which diverge from those for women 1/3 blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...

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Personal initiative training continues to yield positive benefits after 7 years, but impacts vary with gender

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Stefan Dercon @gamblingondev.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

csae.ox.ac.uk/scholarships final application date CSAE scholarships for African economics graduate students at Oxford is 4 March

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Justin Sandefur @justsand.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

What does U.S. aid really pay for anyway? 1.5 million lives saved via Gavi, for one. New in AEJ: Economic Policy www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

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Sara Lowes @saralowes.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Please consider applying to a pre-doc position at UCSD. Projects at the intersection of development and culture in Africa with Eduardo Montero Nathan Nunn James Robinson & others. Possible fieldwork in DRC. French skills preferred. Thank you! employment.ucsd.edu/research-ass...

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Research Assistant - 133553

Apply for Research Assistant - 133553 position at UC San Diego in Remote, National on https://employment.ucsd.edu/

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VoxDev @voxdev.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

🆕 Improving hygiene, reducing menstrual stigma, and boosting learning in schools Today, Julieta Vera Rueda @WorldBank, Karen Macours @PSE & Duncan Webb @PrincetonEcon outline their study of a hygiene- & menstruation-focused intervention in Madagascar: voxdev.org/topic/health...

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Improving hygiene, reducing menstrual stigma, and boosting learning in schools

A hygiene- and menstruation-focused intervention in Madagascan schools boosted learning, while also reducing stress and improving the psychosocial climate of schools.

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VoxDev @voxdev.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

🆕 The lasting impact of war on trust: Evidence from Sierra Leone Today, Niklas Buehren @WorldBank, Markus Goldstein @WorldBank, Imran Rasul @uclofficial.bsky.social & Andrea Smurra @theifs.bsky.social outline how Sierra Leone's civil war changed the way trust formed: voxdev.org/topic/instit...

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The lasting impact of war on trust: Evidence from Sierra Leone

Sierra Leone's civil war not only left a legacy of lost lives and damaged infrastructure, but changed the way trust is formed, showing how early-life trauma can shape long-term economic decision makin...

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Mike O’Sullivan @mbosullivan.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Do check out @mrao.bsky.social's excellent and important job market paper. It raises a bunch of important questions for those of us trying to conduct research to inform policy.

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Mike O’Sullivan @mbosullivan.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

🚨40% of Africa's teen girls are out of school, married, or w/kids vs 12% of boys. Our new report w/@cgdev.bsky.social/Pop Council/WB People team offers new data & evidence on how targeted policy action unlocks big growth gains. Join us on Thurs. the 21st for the launch! Register: shorturl.at/uQt7N

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Mike O’Sullivan @mbosullivan.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Great — if sobering — JMP post from @mrao.bsky.social on how impact evaluations do & don’t shift policy spending. Quicker results & those linked to political party in power (i.e., low political constraints) are more likely to shape CCT spending in Latin America. Paper: tinyurl.com/yc2m5xau

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Mike O’Sullivan @mbosullivan.bsky.social · 03/10/2024

Our #AfricaGIL team has studied psychology-based personal initiative training, first in Togo, showing remarkable results for women & men. A new 7-year follow-up RCT from Togo finds even larger profit gains—but these impacts are concentrated among men. More below. #EconSky tinyurl.com/57mwpkdz

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Mike O’Sullivan @mbosullivan.bsky.social · 28/09/2024

Excited to see this paper published! You can find our #AfricaGIL policy brief on the findings here: documents1.worldbank.org/curated/en/0...

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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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Mike O’Sullivan @mbosullivan.bsky.social · 20/09/2024

🚨Job Alert!🚨 We're looking for a creative & technically strong economist to lead experimental research on women’s access to capital & entrepreneurship support in Ethiopia (and beyond). Join us at the Africa GIL team! Pls share! Details ⬇️ worldbankgroup.csod.com/ats/careersi... #EconSky #EconJobs 🧵

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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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