Markus Goldstein
Lead Economist
Markus Goldstein is a development economist with experience working in Sub-Saharan Africa, East Asia, and South Asia. He is currently a Lead Economist in the Office of the Chief Economist for Africa at the World Bank, where he leads the Gender Innovation Lab. His current research centers on issues of gender and economic activity, focusing on agriculture and small scale enterprises. He is currently involved in a number of impact evaluations on these topics across Africa. Markus has taught at the London School of Economics, the University of Ghana, Legon, and Georgetown University. He holds a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley.
- Aspirations and poverty
- The Payoffs from Political Competition
- The yawning evidence gap in agriculture
- Ethical Validity Response #3: Would a graph help?
- Gentle nudges to better education
- Rethinking the household: the impacts of transfers
- Cash transfers: beyond protection to productive impacts
- Notes from the field: community entry and seatbelts
- The impact evaluation primer you have been waiting for?
- The program costs of impact evaluation
- Hammers, wrenches, and development policy
- Building the evidence based roadmap for women's economic empowerment
- Biking to more education in India
- The International Rescue Committee's approach to impact evaluation
- The MCC's approach to impact Evaluation
- Thinking about how to target anti-poverty programs: ordeals or proxy means tests?
- Getting to better data: Talking to strangers
- What makes bureaucracies work better? Lessons from the Nigerian Civil Service
- Getting to better data: Do men say yes more often than women?
- What happens when large ruminants (and some training) meet poverty traps
- Getting to better data: who does the editing?
- Q&A with Arun Agrawal, Editor of World Development Part II
- Q&A with Arun Agrawal, Editor of World Development Part I
- Climate change and conflict
- Introducing the Africa Gender Innovation Lab
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- Thansk Gaby. One
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- Author reply
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