David Evans
Senior Economist
David is a Senior Economist in the Chief Economist's Office for the Africa Region of the World Bank. He coordinates impact evaluation work across sectors for the Africa Region. In the past, he worked as Senior Economist in the Human Development Department in the Latin America and the Caribbean Region of the World Bank, and as an economist designing and implementing impact evaluations in Africa. He has designed and implemented impact evaluations in agriculture, education, health, and social protection, in Brazil, the Gambia, Kenya, Mexico, Sierra Leone, and Tanzania. He has taught economic development at the Pardee RAND Graduate School of Public Policy, and he holds a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University.
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- What’s the latest economic research on Africa? CSAE Round-up – Days 2 and 3
- What’s the latest economic research on Africa? CSAE Round-up – Day 1
- When Is A Baseline More Than A Baseline? 5 Uses for Your Baseline Survey
- Smackdown: Provide the people of Africa with training, or with cold, hard cash?
- What’s in a title? Signaling external validity through paper titles in development economics
- Is My NGO Having a Positive Impact?
- That zero effect may not mean what you think it means, and other lessons from recent educational research
- Do school grants buy student learning? No.
- Weekly links December 4: Get a grant for your next IE, study televisions in schools in Delhi, read the latest on early child education
- What’s the latest in development economics research? A round-up of 150+ papers from NEUDC 2015
- The Opposite of Sexting: Using Text Messages to Reduce Adolescent Pregnancy in Ghana
- What is the return on adult education? Evidence from India
- What The Martian teaches us about the value of a statistical life
- Augmenter les taux d’alphabétisation au Niger : quelques coups de fils peuvent-ils vraiment faire une différence ?
- Can monitoring teachers and students – with no incentive or punishment attached -- improve test scores? Yes.
- Worm Wars: The Anthology
- Bridge the Gap between Research and Policy, One Panel Discussion (and 145 Studies) at a Time
- L’épidémie d’Ebola est peut-être bientôt finie, mais l’urgence demeure
- The Ebola epidemic may be over soon, but the emergency won’t be
- Do More Hours Equal More Learning? Probably, But It Isn't Cheap
- Conflit et fragilité en Afrique : ce qu’il faut retenir d’une cinquantaine de travaux de recherche
- The take-aways from four dozen papers on conflict and fragility in Africa in under 2,000 words
- Confronting Fragility and Conflict in Africa: What Does the Research Tell Us?
- Mystery clients in development research
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