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

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

When it comes to female education, have we gotten it all backwards?

To get children to attend school in developing countries, our approach has been primarily to assume that the schooling that is available is worth pursuing, meaning that the problem must be with…

Berk Özler |
Education, Financial Inclusion, Financial Sector, Gender, Health

Stitching together the future: the effects of the garment industry on girls’ schooling in Bangladesh -Guest Post by Rachel Heath

We want to increase (girls) education… but what’s the best way to do this?

Education, Gender, Competitiveness