Weekly links December 14: risk, replication, and adding your questions to another survey
· Nice op-ed in the Washington Post by reporter Dylan Matthews calling for more testing of policy experiments
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Friday links December 7: Deworming, impacts of infrastructure, nudges, and more…
· Givewell’s blog has an extended discussion revisiting the case for economic benefits of deworming.
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Friday links November 30: microinsurance, pre-school, RD code, happy migrants, and more...
· Jon Baron discusses the need to move towards evidence-based funding on the NY Times Economix blog including some cases where this has been done in the U.S. context.
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Friday links November 16: Impacts of pretty faces, paving streets, student aid, and more…
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Friday links November 9: African IE, poverty affects decision-making, paternalism and financial decision-making, and more…
· Reminder: submissions for the BREAD conference on Development in Africa to be held at the World Bank in Match are due November 15th. Details are here.
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Friday links November 2: impacts of online sexual education, Obama vs Romney ads, distance and voting, and more...
· The IDB Development that Works blog discusses an evaluation of an online sexual health program in Colombia provided to adolescents in public schools, finding positive impacts on knowledge and behaviors.
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Friday links October 26: training women, ending rent control, reducing homelessness, and more…
· Is business training for women’s subsistence businesses futile? I ask in a post on the All About Finance blog. I suggest we need an f(.) change. Also see my 2-page impact note.
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Friday links October 19: A Job opening, new conferences, peer savings, facebook advertising, and more…
· Job Opening at the World Bank for an experienced Impact Evaluator: Manager of the DIME unit. “In view of the rapidly expanding IE work program and related human and budgetary resources managed by the DIME unit, Bank management has decided to establish the position of Manager, DIME unit”.
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Friday links: Marshmallows, getting started in a development career, toilets and schooling, and more...
· In Nature, the push-back from scientists against Galor and Ashraf’s forthcoming AER paper on the impact of genetic diversity on per-capita incomes.
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Friday links: new online lessons, soap operas, systematic reviews, funding, and more...
· Call for papers : BREAD conference on Africa at the World Bank. Submissions due November 15, conference is at the start of March next year.
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