Markus Goldstein
Lead Economist, Africa Region and Research Group, World Bank
Markus Goldstein is a development economist with experience working in Sub-Saharan Africa, East Asia, and South Asia. He is currently the Gender Practice Leader in the Africa Region and a Lead Economist in the Research Group of the World Bank. 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.
Blogging on: Development Impact, Voices
- Notes from the field: Sometimes you’re the windshield, sometimes you’re the bug
- Notes from the field: Teaching impact evaluation to policymakers and other non-economists
- The evil of flowers: women’s work and domestic violence in Ethiopia
- Context and theory
- When context matters
- Impact evaluation essentials – the DI holiday guide
- Development Impact introduces series on "Job Market Papers"
- Notes from the field: the usefulness of early workshops
- Notes from the field: getting feedback on early analyses
- Democracy isn't dead
- Getting better access to impact evaluation data
- When policy goes wrong: The effects of US restrictions on abortion
- Getting better data on financial services access
- Measuring work
- Further thoughts on sharing results
- The perfectionists versus the reductionists
- Getting to equal: more evidence needed
- The impact evaluation roller coaster
- Education, fertility and HIV: It’s complicated
- The effects of land tenure regularization in Rwanda
- Getting serious about learning how to overcome women’s economic barriers
- gender power doesn't come cheap
- We need to know more about how to economically empower women
- They can run, but can they hide? Tracking respondents in longitudinal surveys
- Calling it in: using phones for repeat surveys
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