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.
- Introducing the Africa Gender Innovation Lab
- The multi-layered benefits of daycare: evidence from Mozambique
- Notes from the field: collecting gender disaggregated data in practice
- Dying from malaria in the market for lemons
- Learning from the experiments that didn't happen: Part II
- Learning from the experiments that didn’t happen: Part I
- Power to the people? Taking a look at community driven reconstruction in the DRC
- Should we believe the hype about adolescent girls?
- Notes from the field: Setting up a firm survey in Malawi
- Learning from (partial) failure
- Banking through your wife?
- Pull him down? How about pull her down...
- The Tao of Impact Evaluation
- How can we do better business training evaluations?
- Does Business Training Work?
- Better Nutrition Through Information
- Paper or Plastic? Part II: Approaching the survey revolution with caution
- Paper v Plastic Part I: The survey revolution is in progress
- Notes from the Field: How to incentivize your survey team
- DFID's Approach to Impact Evaluation - Part II
- DFID's Approach to Impact Evaluation - Part I
- Notes from the field: Making the most of monitoring data
- Getting good civil servants for tough jobs
- Dads and Moms
- Measuring Entrepreneurship (II)
