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Did workfare offset jobs losses in India?

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Weekly links May 14: Microcredit summarized, better targeting of vocational training, (almost) destroy your own graphs, and more….

| David McKenzie

Did workfare offset jobs losses in India?

| Kathleen Beegle

What have we learned about cash transfers?

| John Loeser, Berk Özler, Patrick Premand

Weekly links May 7: Team research grows, getting someone to answer their phone in Mexico City is hard, boosting testing rates for diabetes in Armenia, and more…

| David McKenzie

If your follow-up survey has attrition, what should you do for your descriptive analysis?

| David McKenzie

Weekly links April 30: immigration economics explained, those economists aren’t being rude, they just don’t have enough prefrontal function, and more…

| David McKenzie

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