#devecon — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #devecon, aggregated by home.social.
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Important new paper examining the appropriateness and limitations of using RCTs in education.
By Sam Sims @jakeanders Matthew Inglis, Hugues Lortie-Forgues, Ben Styles and Ben Weidmann
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Are there any established hashtags for development #economics or economics of #education?
I'd like to start #DevEcon and #EdEcon but not sure if there would be any takers.
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Global High-Resolution Estimates of the United Nations Human Development Index
#NewPaper by Sherman et al.—> https://www.nber.org/papers/w31044
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A simple, remarkable visualization of the 15–17 million excess deaths caused by the Covid #pandemic
By the indispensable @ourworldindata —> https://ourworldindata.org/world-population-update-2022#the-un-estimates-around-15-million-excess-deaths-in-2020-and-2021-from-the-covid-19-pandemic #HealthEcon #DevEcon
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A simple, remarkable visualization of the 15–17 million excess deaths caused by the Covid #pandemic
By the indispensable @ourworldindata —> https://ourworldindata.org/world-population-update-2022#the-un-estimates-around-15-million-excess-deaths-in-2020-and-2021-from-the-covid-19-pandemic #HealthEcon #DevEcon
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A simple, remarkable visualization of the 15–17 million excess deaths caused by the Covid #pandemic
By the indispensable @ourworldindata —> https://ourworldindata.org/world-population-update-2022#the-un-estimates-around-15-million-excess-deaths-in-2020-and-2021-from-the-covid-19-pandemic #HealthEcon #DevEcon
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A simple, remarkable visualization of the 15–17 million excess deaths caused by the Covid #pandemic
By the indispensable @ourworldindata —> https://ourworldindata.org/world-population-update-2022#the-un-estimates-around-15-million-excess-deaths-in-2020-and-2021-from-the-covid-19-pandemic #HealthEcon #DevEcon
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A simple, remarkable visualization of the 15–17 million excess deaths caused by the Covid #pandemic
By the indispensable @ourworldindata —> https://ourworldindata.org/world-population-update-2022#the-un-estimates-around-15-million-excess-deaths-in-2020-and-2021-from-the-covid-19-pandemic #HealthEcon #DevEcon
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Development Data Lab
Incredible open data resource for development economists, by @samasher & @paulnovosad & team —> https://www.devdatalab.org #DevEcon #development #economics #econtwitter
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Happy new year and hi to the Mastodon peeps!
I see #introductions are a thing, so here I go 🤓:
I'm Maja, an #econ postdoc working on #GlobalHealth at the Brigham & Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School.
Just got back from my email hiatus over the holidays. Now that I'm mostly off twitter, I'm trying to my way around here. Interested in: #AccessToCare #HIV #LMIC #NCDs #Aging #DevEcon #development #Gender #Equity #ResearchEthics #ImpactEval. Excel trashing also welcome. -
@marcgoldwein I found some by checking out hashtags and groups. (You can also follow both of those, too.)
#economics
#AgEcon
#DevEcon
#economy
#economist
#Mosstodon
#biodiversity
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My final #DevEcon blog links of this year is a bumper crop. Includes funding calls, agricultural technology adoption in Africa, causal impacts of electrification, using adaptive experiments, critiquing meta-analysis, and much more... https://blogs.worldbank.org/impactevaluations/weekly-links-december-16-stagnant-agricultural-technology-progress-africa-stories
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The penultimate one of our #DevEcon #econjobmarket posts has Curtis Morrill using event studies to measure the impact of the staggered introduction of local elections in Indonesia https://blogs.worldbank.org/impactevaluations/does-democratization-produce-responsive-leaders-evidence-staggered-democratic
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The penultimate one of our #DevEcon #econjobmarket posts has Curtis Morrill using event studies to measure the impact of the staggered introduction of local elections in Indonesia https://blogs.worldbank.org/impactevaluations/does-democratization-produce-responsive-leaders-evidence-staggered-democratic
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The penultimate one of our #DevEcon #econjobmarket posts has Curtis Morrill using event studies to measure the impact of the staggered introduction of local elections in Indonesia https://blogs.worldbank.org/impactevaluations/does-democratization-produce-responsive-leaders-evidence-staggered-democratic
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The penultimate one of our #DevEcon #econjobmarket posts has Curtis Morrill using event studies to measure the impact of the staggered introduction of local elections in Indonesia https://blogs.worldbank.org/impactevaluations/does-democratization-produce-responsive-leaders-evidence-staggered-democratic
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Today's #DevEcon #econjobmarket post by Pia Schilling looks at the question of how you should integrate refugee children into schools- first put them in separate classes to teach the local language, or integrate them straight away into the classes with natives? https://blogs.worldbank.org/impactevaluations/integrating-refugee-children-schools-guest-post-pia-schiling Comparing outcomes for refugees allocated to different school systems, she finds the preparatory language classes backfire
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Today's #DevEcon #econjobmarket post by Pia Schilling looks at the question of how you should integrate refugee children into schools- first put them in separate classes to teach the local language, or integrate them straight away into the classes with natives? https://blogs.worldbank.org/impactevaluations/integrating-refugee-children-schools-guest-post-pia-schiling Comparing outcomes for refugees allocated to different school systems, she finds the preparatory language classes backfire
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Today's #DevEcon #econjobmarket post by Pia Schilling looks at the question of how you should integrate refugee children into schools- first put them in separate classes to teach the local language, or integrate them straight away into the classes with natives? https://blogs.worldbank.org/impactevaluations/integrating-refugee-children-schools-guest-post-pia-schiling Comparing outcomes for refugees allocated to different school systems, she finds the preparatory language classes backfire
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Our last week of #Devecon #econjobmarket posts has Naman Garg's work on how to detect fake news, based on a field experiment in India. https://blogs.worldbank.org/impactevaluations/learning-detect-fake-news-field-experiment-inoculate-against-misinformation-india - giving subjects weekly digests and examples of repeating fake news patterns helps them become more skeptical and better at discerning truth - and they change their attitudes towards inter-faith couples
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Today's #DevEcon #econjobmarket post is by Hossein Alidaee, who explores one reason why observations from peers might be more useful than information from extension agents - because there is less context uncertainty. https://blogs.worldbank.org/impactevaluations/sample-size-isnt-everything-why-social-learning-influential-guest-post-hossein
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In today's #DevEcon #econjobmarket post, Kazuki Motohashi looks at negative externalities of a large-scale latrine construction program in India. https://blogs.worldbank.org/impactevaluations/unintended-water-pollution-externalities-latrine-construction-india-guest-post . The horrifying phrase "fecal sludge" appears multiple times, and he shows how poor infrastructure for emptying the new latrines results in river pollution. This reduces the health benefits of the policy.
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Today's #DevEcon #econjobmarket post is by James Allen IV, who looks at how changing the school calendar in Malawi changes the amount of overlap with the farming calendar, with a big effect on schooling: after four years, a 10-day increase in school calendar overlap during peak farming periods reduces school advancement by 0.34 grades after four years, a 10-day increase in school calendar overlap during peak farming periods reduces school advancement by 0.34 grades
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Countries with higher initial scores for #GenderEquality under law exhibit more rapid subsequent income convergence
Just-released research by Can Sever of the #IMF #NewPaperAlert #LaborEcon #DevEcon —> https://ssrn.com/abstract=4184696
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Today's #DevEcon #econjobmarket post looks at the minimum wage literature in a new context - ride-sharing bike taxi drivers in Indonesia. Shotaro Nakamura shows a price floor on the cost of a ride increased prices, but more drivers entered the market, resulting in fewer trips per driver and no increase in driver earnings https://blogs.worldbank.org/impactevaluations/what-happens-when-we-directly-regulate-informal-labor-developing-economies-guest
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Today's #Devecon #econjobmarket post has Hui Zhao examining the impact of a policy in Chinese cities that restricted the import of used cars to reduce dirty emissions. https://blogs.worldbank.org/impactevaluations/should-developing-world-restrict-trade-dirty-goods-protect-environment-evidence She finds a reduction in imports, but that other cities also change their policies in response. Since used vehicles typically flow from rich to poor cities, poor cities end up with fewer dirty vehicles and less pollution, but richer cities have dirty vehicles remain.
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Released today by #IZA Bonn, my new Policy Paper:
“Pathways for Labor Migration from Northern Central America: Five Difficult but Necessary Proposals”
https://www.iza.org/publications/pp/195
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Today's #econjobmarket #DevEcon post is by Jonah Rexer and looks at what happened in Nigeria when multinational oil firms divested and turned over oil fields to local firms. Local firms are able to reduce theft and violent crime through political connections, but also result in more oil spills https://blogs.worldbank.org/impactevaluations/dirty-business-illicit-oil-and-indigenous-firms-niger-delta-guest-post-jonah
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The great Nancy Birsdall, my treasured colleague and mentor, is blogging her autobiography:
"My Life as an American, Woman, Development Economist"
Now up to Episode 7, and soon more, here—> https://www.cgdev.org/tags/my-life-american-woman-development-economist
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I also missed Friday's #econjobmarket #Devecon post by Eleanor Wiseman on cross-border informal trade around the Kenya-Uganda border crossing and how information frictions stop traders exploring new markets https://blogs.worldbank.org/impactevaluations/economists-and-traders-have-more-learn-about-trade-role-information-frictions
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Today's #econjobmarket #DevEcon post is by Stefan Leeffers. He uses an RCT in urban Mozambique to show how providing information on clearing drainage canals ahead of expected flooding can facilitate collective action and improve flood mitigation.https://blogs.worldbank.org/impactevaluations/be-prepared-effect-information-ahead-urban-floods-mozambique-guest-post-stefan
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'Moving toward a Better Future? #Migration and Children’s Health and Education'
In a 19-year longitudinal survey of households in Tanzania, children who migrate to cities rather than to other rural areas have greater height, weight, and education as adults.
Research recently published by @[email protected] of @[email protected] —> https://doi.org/10.1086/713931 #DevEcon #Laborecon #Economics @devecon @laborecon
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Today's #DevEcon #econjobmarket post has R Sai Shiva Jayanth discussing an RCT on how to get farmers to adopt smartphone agricultural advice https://blogs.worldbank.org/impactevaluations/can-text-messages-nudge-farmers-adopting-smartphones-agriculture-guest-post-r-sai
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What methods do developing countries currently use to target social assistance programs?
I know which methods are used (PMT, CBT, etc.), but am looking for recent estimates of their relative frequency.
#DevEcon @DevEcon
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Congratulations to @deankarlan, new Chief Economist of #USAID, and congratulations to #USAID!
https://www.usaid.gov/news-information/speeches/nov-15-2022-administrator-power-swearing-in-ceremony-dr-dean-karlan-usaid-chief-economist
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In today's #DevEcon #econjobmarket post, @livia_alfonsi summarizes her job market paper on how Ugandan youth fail to take account of the gains to be had from initial work experience when rejecting low-paying initial jobs, and how mentors can help https://blogs.worldbank.org/impactevaluations/curb-your-wage-enthusiasm-how-mentorship-can-shape-career-formation-guest-post She records and codes conversations between youth and mentors for a nice look inside the black box of mentoring
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According to the UN, the world's population has now passed 8 billion.
Previously, we featured work by Celine Zipfel, which examines some of the drivers behind this population growth, and explores the key policy takeaways from these findings: https://voxdev.org/topic/health-education/bursting-bubble-population-growth-evidence-sub-saharan-africa
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According to the UN, the world's population has now passed 8 billion.
Previously, we featured work by Celine Zipfel, which examines some of the drivers behind this population growth, and explores the key policy takeaways from these findings: https://voxdev.org/topic/health-education/bursting-bubble-population-growth-evidence-sub-saharan-africa
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According to the UN, the world's population has now passed 8 billion.
Previously, we featured work by Celine Zipfel, which examines some of the drivers behind this population growth, and explores the key policy takeaways from these findings: https://voxdev.org/topic/health-education/bursting-bubble-population-growth-evidence-sub-saharan-africa
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Providing performance feedback on delays in public service delivery speeds up bureaucrats, but faster delivery does not decrease corruption. Instead, positive feedback to well-performing bureaucrats worsens #corruption.
Today on VoxDev, we feature new research by Martin Mattsson in #Bangladesh; read here: http://ow.ly/i9xb50LCml3