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.
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- Freely available data: The public good that keeps on giving?
- Notes from the field: Selection bias, friendship and more
- What you don't know can hurt you: Malaria edition
- Business training that goes better with friends
- Saving your way to a better state
- Do impact evaluations tell us anything about reducing poverty?
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- Checking survey quality with Benford's law
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- The Payoffs from Political Competition
- The yawning evidence gap in agriculture
- Ethical Validity Response #3: Would a graph help?
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- Rethinking the household: the impacts of transfers
- Cash transfers: beyond protection to productive impacts
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- The program costs of impact evaluation
- Hammers, wrenches, and development policy
- Building the evidence based roadmap for women's economic empowerment
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- The International Rescue Committee's approach to impact evaluation
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