Friday links: willpower, microfinance, empowerment, education and more...
Lots of links this week:
· David Roodman summarizes the new microfinance impact evaluation research at the CGAP blog.
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Microfinance, RCTs and the big picture, look up your grandparents, and more...
Berk is on a plane, so you get your links a day early this week:
· David Roodman summarizes the new microfinance randomized experiment in Bosnia – a new example of randomization among marginal MFI clients.
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Friday links: pre-school, energy conservation, the $1/day line, migration experiments and more...
· If you want a taste of the wide range of exciting new research going on in development economics, the programs of the CSAE conference at Oxford and PACDEV conference at UC Davis are a good place to start.
Friday links: Panchayats, polisci, the pill, CCTs and more
· A nice summary with pretty pictures on the VoxEU blog of the paper on selling female condoms in Zambia that Markus blogged about recently.
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Friday links: computer-aided instruction, politics, reducing domestic violence, and more...
· The IDB Development that Works blog covers a randomized trial of the one laptop per child program in Peru – no impact on learning, but some increase in cognitive skills.
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Friday links: The case for bad jobs, leveraging impact, the future of energy economics and more...
· Shanta on leveraging impact evaluations for aid.
· Want to work as a research assistant in the research group at the Bank. Bilal Zia is hiring, see his posting here.
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Links of the week
· Global poverty numbers for 2005-2008 are out. Many of you may not have known this, but the four of us who maintain this blog work in the same research group at the World Bank that is responsible for producing these numbers.
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Friday links: More cash less STIs, more advice on grants, the difficulties of microenterprise growth and more...
· People behave more generously in dictator games when there is a white foreigner observing – evidence from Sierra Leone.
Friday links: Jobs, blogs, eating veges, paying teachers, and more...
· The On think tanks blog examines Martin Ravallion’s work on the demand for research within the World Bank and compares it with its own work on whether research and evaluations are being used effectively by DFID staff.
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credit lines, soda labels, school size impacts, opt-out bracelets and more...
· The impact of public credit lines on Brazilian firms at the IDB Development that works blog.
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