The Results are in! Did our blog readers do better than our seminar audiences at predicting the impacts of a jobs program?

In a recent post, I described a randomized experiment in Jordan that I (along with Matt Groh, Nandini Krishnan and Tara Vishwanath) have been working on.

David McKenzie |
Gender, Jobs & Development

Health effects of non-health programs

The previous post in this blog discussed the positive dynamic effects of conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs in Mexico and Nicaragua – in particular on asset accumulation and the incidence of…

Berk Özler |
Jobs & Development, Gender, Education, Health, Social Protection

Are our blog readers better predictors of impact results than seminar audiences? Evaluating programs to get young women to work

I’ve been working for the last couple of years with Tara Vishwanath, Nandini Krishnan and Matt Groh on a pilot program in Jordan which aims to get young women just graduating from community…

David McKenzie |
Gender, Jobs & Development

The stressful condition

I came across this piece by Mullainathan and Datta in the Annual Report of the William Kellogg Foundation (HT Marginal Revolution), which is a behavioral economist’s take on the reasons why some…

Berk Özler |
Education, Gender, Health, Poverty

Making policy evidence-based: It’s also hard in developed countries…

Update: As if on cue, the Washington Post published an article (on January 19, 2012, 3:42 PM EST) that says:

Berk Özler |
Gender, Education, Health