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Sep 12, 2024 Gearing up to lecture at J-PAL SEA’s Evaluating Social Programs Training, taking place in Bali September 30-October 4. I’ll be discussing the “why” and the “how” of randomization for impact evaluation :sparkles:
Aug 19, 2024 :scroll: New blog post up, discussing our upcoming work evaluating Climate Information Services (CIS) in Ethiopia!
Jul 10, 2024 Honored to have met so many policy-makers in Fiji with an interest in evidence-based policy-making!
Jul 1, 2024 CDES newsletter discusses our project on shock-responsive social protection in Fiji
Jun 12, 2024 A pleasure to present our paper “Media and Motivation: Experimental Evidence on the Effects of Performance Contracts for Journalists” at the CDES Sustainable Development Conference in Prato and hearing about others’ work on Information, Accountability, and Motivation (the name of our session)
May 27, 2024 I am looking forward to presenting “Selection and Heterogeneity in the Returns to Migration” at the 2024 Africa Meeting of the Econometric Society
Apr 1, 2024 :scroll: Very pleased that the latest version of our VoxDev Lit is out. It provides a great, up-to-date, synthesis of the literature on African agricultural technology adoption (I might be biased, but I genuinely think it’s great :grin: )