- On the IGC blog, Steve Anderson MacDonald blogs about his impressive results from a business training program teaching marketing skills in South Africa.
- Martin Ravallion has a new paper “The World Bank: Why it is still needed and why it still disappoints”
- From VoxEU- how immigrants and job mobility help low income workers – Mette Foged and Giovanni Peri uses the exogenous variation induced by a refugee policy in Denmark - refugee-country immigrants spurred significant occupational mobility of natives and increased their specialisation into complex jobs
- Nicolae Naumof blogs on the important role of ambiguity and lack thereof in explaining when behavioral science phenomena will occur “Most of the times, people rely on contextual cues only if there isn’t clarity regarding the issue at hand. For example, anchoring works because people don’t know the exact value that has to be estimated… if we ask an illiterate five-year-old child from East Africa in what year did WWII end, then providing anchors will strongly influence the child’s answer (that is unless he simply says “I don’t know”). However, if we ask WWII veterans the same question, then providing anchors will have zero effect. Moreover, the veterans will be offended by the lack of knowledge of the people asking the question.”
- From the poverty to power blog: A new way to measure individual deprivation aka another index subject to the Ravallion critique
- On my reading list: program evaluation and spillover effects, a practical guide by Manuela Angelucci and Vincenzo di Maro.
- Looking for an excuse to combine good steak, good football, and learning about impact evaluation? A short course on impact evaluation in August in Buenos Aires.
- Impact evaluation job: the Africa Gender Innovation Lab is seeking an impact evaluation field supervisor(STC) for work on female entrepreneurship in Ghana
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