- Lia Fernald and co-authors have a toolkit for measuring early childhood development – “The ECD Measurement Inventory that accompanies this Toolkit contains 147 measurement tools for children under 8 years. For each test it reports the domains assessed, age range for which the tool is appropriate, method of administration, purpose of the assessment, origin and locations of use, logistics, and cost.”
- Cyrus Samii has a nice “selection of amazing papers from 2017” – advances in causal inference, work on generalizability, and great examples of field studies. And Cal Women of Econ have a round-up of papers on gender and racial disparities in economics and the workforce.
- In the NYTimes, Seema Jayachandran has a really interesting Economic View on Using the Airbnb model for conservation – a nice collaboration of science, economics, and new data.
- NPR’s Goats and Soda profiles No Lean Season/Mushfiq Mobarak and co-authors’ work on seasonal migration in Bangladesh.
- Job opening for a Qualitative impact evaluation expert: a World Bank team is looking for a consultant to conduct qualitative research both with job seekers and firms to inform the technical design of a Youth Labor Market Inclusion project in Mexico
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