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Beyond Blue Sky Research - no Patrick Behrer is not writing about this platform, but about how economists can contribute to research on geoengineering as a third way of dealing with climate change along with adaption and mitigation blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...

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In today's blog, @tedmiguel.bsky.social & I discuss how to use the @socscipredict.bsky.social Social Science Prediction platform for research on economic development. Use cases include providing alternative nulls and defense against "it's obvious", priors, & more blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...

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👋 Welcome to David McKenzie who is joining us in #Luxembourg this week as part of the #CrossingBorders Visiting Program. 🗣️ @dmckenzie.bsky.social, a Lead Economist in the Development Research Group at the #World Bank, will present “Identifying and Changing the Impacts of #Migration on Development”.

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This week's links are up a day early and include issues with data sharing and policymaking when people are not answering surveys, recent trends in political science research, a call for learning more about private sector policy implementation, and more... blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...

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The World Bank is looking to hire a consultant to write a systematic review of A/B tests/nimble evaluations of interventions to help better implement private sector policy interventions. E.g. tests of best ways to recruit firms, select them, disburse money.. Details: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/jq434...

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This week's links include an interview with @ericverhoogen.bsky.social, @kopalo.bsky.social on the ambition gap among Africa's ruling elites, how tariff & non-tariff barriers affect green technology take-up in developing countries, and more... blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...?

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Today's cool young researcher #econtwitter #econsky is @juliaseither @juliaseither.bsky.social at Universidad del Rosario who works on topics related to experimental + behavioral economics www.juliaseither.org/

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Pair this blog with Jishnu Das's blog on measurement error and program design from last year. Here's the link: www.linkedin.com/posts/jishnu...

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In today's blog, @berkozler12.bsky.social summarizes new work by @marcellaalsan.bsky.social & co-authors on how mean reversion may lower average impacts in RCTs - lots of people being treated may be in a temporary dip that will improve on its own blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...

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This week's links include the problems with the use of the terms developing country and Global South, how Vietnam escaped the pollution haven problem when trade rose, what happens to kids in Uganda 3 years after getting pre-school, and more... blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...

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Think Big.

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In today's blog, Gabe Englander asks whether health concerns about microplastics are the equivalent of flossing advice. He summarizes a new working paper which shows a causal link from marine microplastics to low birthweights near the coasts blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...?

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This week's links include some of the continuing education sessions of interest from the AEAs, practical issues implementing a pay for results policy, promising early results on AI virtual tutors in Nigeria, and more... blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...

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The Potomac “river” this morning.

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The first links of the new year are up, with discussions of the field of development economics, issues around PAPs and HC3 errors, funding for work on women's digital connectivity, lessons from the failed scaling of an early community development program & more... blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...

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As a Christmas treat, I put together a roundup of all migration job market papers in economics. International migration: www.laurenpolicy.com/p/2024-2025-... Domestic migration: www.laurenpolicy.com/p/2024-2025-...

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The last blog links for the year features several nice review articles, funding and conference calls, advice on publishing, and more... blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...

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This year we posted 26 #econjmp posts by PhD students on the market. Here is the list of all of them in case you missed any, plus a link to the @econthatmatters.bsky.social series which has some more - great to see all the exciting work in development blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...

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The last in our #econjmp has @guanghongxu.bsky.social (UCSC) shows how a new (Bayesian inference based) digital traceability system for milk quality in Kenya helped improve milk quality and led to farmers getting more credit from cooperatives and changing inputs blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...

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Our penultimate #econjmp is by Luisa Cefala (Berkeley), who shows how farmer workers can be reluctant to share skills when technology is rival - workers don't share row planting skill but do share composting knowledge. blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...

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Today's #econjmp by Oluchi Mbonu (Harvard) looks at the costs of segmented minibus services in Johannesburg. Minibus associations serve different territories within the city, & coordination frictions make supply much less responsive across than within territories blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...

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In today's #econjmp, Yunyu Shu (Brown) assesses how input and output subsidy types affect cocoa farmer's decisions to adopt shade trees with and w/o information interventions. Output subsidies combined with info intervention to correct beliefs increase uptake blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...

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In today's #econjmp, Rikhia Bhukta (IIT Kanpur) uses a fuzzy RDD of a bank branch opening policy in India to show how financial inclusion benefits marginalized castes the most through informal finance, business finance, and labor market effects blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...?

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Today's #econjmp by @rollykapoor.bsky.social is an RCT with women seeking jobs in Delhi. Matching them with other job-searching women and coordinating interview times makes them much more likely to show up for an interview & job-seeking together then persists blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...?

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Respondents who received evening surveys (4pm-8pm) were 2.8 percentage points less likely than respondents who received morning surveys (6am-12pm) to self-report IPV - today's #econjmp by Katherine Theiss (Fordham) on how survey methods affect IPV estimates blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...

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We are back on Bluesky! Let’s check out the blog posts so far for our Job Market Paper Series blog for 2024-2025. #EconJMP #JMP #ETRM #EconSky To kick things off, our first blog of the series by @chidiya.bsky.social discusses AI, regulation, and radicalization. econthatmatters.com/2024/11/can-...

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In today's #econjmp, @sarahshaukat.bsky.social provides evidence that NGOs do improve development - she uses DiD to examine what happened in Punjab, Pakistan when NGOs were deregistered, finding this caused a fall in schooling and economic activity (nightlights) blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...

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Looking at the transcript of a lunch seminar I was double booked for, and amused to see Callaway & @pedrosantanna.bsky.social transcribed as the “calories antenna” - just what you need at lunchtime!

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In today's #econjmp, Pascuel Plotkin (UBC) uses matched DiD in Brazil to trace out impacts of restaurant delivery apps on workers in restaurants that use these apps, those in nearby restaurants, and on gig workers. Also how workers value flexibility of app jobs blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...?

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Today's #econjmp is by Steven Brownstone (UCSD). He does a village level RCT in Telangana, India, introducing drum seeders to rice farmers. He shows mechanization by some farmers then lowers the wages others have to pay, & how this depends on women's job options blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...?

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Today’s #econjmp post is by @palaashbhargava.bsky.social, who does a RCT in India to examine how peer interactions work within and across classrooms. He shows tradeoffs from pairing isolated kids with popular kids vs each other blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...

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In today’s #econjmp, Francisco Eslava of UBC uses RDD to look at how female mayors reduced guerilla violence in Colombia blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...

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Working on private sector development? Trade? Net zero transition? Food security? Come join us! Our IFC Economic and Market Research Department is hiring - we are looking for job market candidates in any of the (sub-)fields listed in the advert. www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing....

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In today's #econjmp /psychology jmp, Sana Khan of Princeton conducts a perspective-taking RCT in Kenya to test whether a self-narrative approach improves support for Congolese & Somalian refugees. Impacts are limited to Congolese, are small, and don't persist blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...

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As more people join this platform and migcitsky, we'd like to reintroduce ourselves 👋 We welcome submissions about all migration themes from anywhere in the world. You can submit in any style and referencing system (we're "format free") and reference lists don't count towards our 10k word limit.

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In today's #econjmp, @iedamatavelli.bsky.social of UBC/post-doc at UNSW shows boys in Brazil overestimate how peers view masculinity norms, and in 2 RCTs, fostering discussions around masculinity reduces these misperceptions blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...?

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I'm happy to see my JMP written up in the Development Impact Blog! Let me give a small overview of my paper and why I think it's exciting / important / why you should hire me.

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In Friday's #econjmp, Peter Deffebach(BU) looks at the puzzle of why exits from wage jobs are so high in developing countries. Using panel surveys, he finds quit rates are much higher in Ghana than the U.S., & are driven by both self-employment & family transfers blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...

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