- Chris Blattman rediscovers one of my favorite blog posts – on managers vs makers and how one meeting can kill your whole day
- Eval Blog’s 10 predictions for the future of evaluation “Most evaluations will be internal”, “Evaluation reports will become obsolete due to real-time data” and more…
- Vox on PLOS One’s new section for negative studies: a collection of negative, null, and inconclusive studies title “missing pieces” including a failure to replicate the idea that self-control gets depleted
- In Science this week – the endogeneity of support for democracy - preferences for democracy increase as individuals experience more time living under democratic rule – uses repeated rounds of World Value Surveys/AfroBarometer, and then relies in time variation in the exposure of people of different ages to democracy across countries - one of the few non-experimental studies I’ve seen Science publish.
- Chris Blattman in the Washington Post’s MonkeyCage blog summarizes all the microfinance RCT studies with the great quote “microfinance is a useful little product… I think of it like my family’s first microwave, in 1984: it didn’t make us better off in ways that are easy to measure, but life was a bit more convenient.”
- Funding opportunity: Jobs Umbrella Trust Fund – open to World Bank researchers and external institutions partnering with the World Bank.
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