- New evidence on the long-term impacts of de-worming in Uganda, and how it affects Givewell’s view of the effectiveness of this intervention from the Givewell Blog.
- Morten Jerven on the measurement costs of setting too many sustainable development goals (as a follow-up to the MDGs): “What used to be 8 goals are now 17, the list of targets has ballooned from 18 to 169, with the final list of indicators has not yet been determined. My estimate suggest that just the monitoring such a list would cost about $250 billion over 15 years -- or twice what is spent annually on Official Development Assistance globally”
- Kristen Himelein on imputing and modelling of consumption given limited data on the Let’s Talk Development blog.
- An overview of different strategies for causal inference in urban and regional economics. Includes this table of how the empirical methods used in the Journal of Urban Economics have changed over time.
- Job Opening: impact evaluation field coordinator in Benin for the Gender Innovation Lab.
- Call for Papers: 12th Midwest International Economic Development Conference
- Call for Papers: Second Annual Bank conference on Africa – focused on conflict and fragility.
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