- Merit-based or needs-based scholarships? Over at Let’s Talk Development, Dave Evans discusses the power of labels for school scholarships, based on 9-year results in Cambodia by Barrera, de Barros, and Filmer.
- The declare design team has another blog, this time illustrating designing for spillovers, and how you have to be careful about what estimand you are after.
- Are regular paper abstracts too wordy? Dan Rogger tries a comic strip abstract for his recent working paper on politics, bureaucracy, and infrastructure in Nigeria and provides examples of longer form graphic representations of research papers.
- On the Brookings Future Development blog, what a decade of panel data tells us about toilet use in India – “while almost all the new latrines in 2006 were still in use in 2010, many had been abandoned by 2016” – unfortunately the effects of community-led total sanitation were not lasting.
- The new AEA discussion board Econspark is in its infancy, but has some useful answers and advice up already. E.g. here is Matt Notowidigdo on his 2+2+2 model for how many papers to work on at one time (although given how long many development projects take, juggling more is possible); Al Roth on how undergrads should prepare for a PhD program; and how to interest young people in economics.
- Call for papers: conference on evidence-based solutions for African development to be held at Leuphana University in Germany in January. Markus is one of the two keynote speakers.
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