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Clara Delavallade
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Senior Economist at the World Bank's Africa Gender Innovation Lab. Passionate about women’s empowerment and behavioral development economics. Views are my own.
https://sites.google.com/site/claradelavallade/
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Deeply energizing to get to meet young (and less young!) researchers at the Women and Jobs in Africa workshop the AGIL co-organized last week at the University of Ghana, along with The World Bank Center for Research on Women and Jobs and African Center for Economic Transformation (ACET).
November 18, 2025 at 4:21 PM
claradelav.bsky.social
Thrilled to finally share #AfricaGIL new ESTEEM website bringing together years of work on socioemotional skills (SES) across Sub-Saharan Africa — from measurement tools to training curricula and research evidence.

#WEE #GenderEquality #SoftSkills #SocioEmotionalSkills
Effective Socio-emotional Skills to Gain Economic Empowerment (ESTEEM) | IPA
poverty-action.org
October 10, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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leightjessica.bsky.social
Evidence from Tanzania: while self-reported socioemotional skills show a gender gap (in favor of men), behavioral measures show few, + smaller gaps - suggesting underlying pattern is men's overestimation of own skills! joint w/@rchlcassidy @claradelav
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October 6, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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Honored to moderate this discussion on women’s agency and the power of group models. Join us tomorrow to learn more about what shapes women’s decision-making, how groups improve outcomes for women and girls, and why these insights should influence measurement, programming, and future research.
May 13, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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Our new working paper dives into the challenges rural women in Sub-Sahran Africa face in adapting to climate change and sets an agenda for future policy research.

#AfricaGIL #ClimateJustice #GenderEquality #Africa #Adaptation

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Women and Climate Adaptation in Rural Sub-Saharan Africa : Constraints and Research Priorities
Sub-Saharan Africa is highly vulnerable to climate change, with rural women dis- proportionately affected due to pre-existing gender inequalities that both increase their .
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April 7, 2025 at 7:42 PM
claradelav.bsky.social
Excited to present our paper at the CSAE conference Tuesday! We’ll talk about the impacts of socioemotional skills trainings on economic empowerment for agribusiness owners in Nigeria.

#AfricaGIL #EconSky #OxCSAE2025
oxfordcsae.bsky.social CSAE @oxfordcsae.bsky.social · Mar 22
Join in with the CSAE Conference 2025 with us here on BlueSky!

Presenting a paper? Amazed by the research? Looking forward to the keynote? Mention us & #OxCSAE2025
March 23, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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Looking forward to being part of this UN CSW panel bringing together governments, researchers, and civil society on how social protection can advance gender equality across a woman’s life course
This Thursday... Join us!
#AfricaGIL #EconSky
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March 10, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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The DHS Program is officially done. As I tell my statistics students, good data is ESSENTIAL to improve the world. We can’t make things better if we don’t know the current state of things. No new DHS data collection is an incalculable loss.

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/h...
February 27, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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Does free sound too cheap? Here's new evidence on something that did not work to get young people enrolled in vocational training programs in Côte d’Ivoire: sending text messages highlighting that the program is free...
#AfricaGIL #EconSky
openknowledge.worldbank.org
February 14, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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2. A memo distributed by NSA leadership to its staff says that on February 10, all NSA websites and internal network pages that contain banned words will be deleted.

This is the list of 27 banned words distributed to NSA staff:
Anti-Racism Racism Allyship Bias DEI Diversity Diverse Confirmation Bias Equity Equitableness Feminism Gender Gender Identity Inclusion Inclusive All-Inclusive Inclusivity Injustice Intersectionality Prejudice Privilege Racial Identity Sexuality Stereotypes Pronouns Transgender Equality
February 10, 2025 at 2:20 PM
claradelav.bsky.social
Empowering women starts with engaging everyone. 🫂
Our recent GIL policy brief summarizes the evidence on engaging men for women's economic empowerment.
openknowledge.worldbank.org/entities/pub...
#GenderEquality #WomenEmpowerment #SocialChange #EconSky #AfricaGIL @rajdevbrar.bsky.social
December 13, 2024 at 4:35 PM
claradelav.bsky.social
Men may behave more aggressively than they would want to if they wrongly believe this is what other men (and women) view as « manly » - not crying or using violence to get respect.
Here is recent experimental evidence on this from Rio de Janeiro.
#EconSky #gender
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School discussions reshape perceptions of masculinity norms. Guest Post by Ieda Matavelli
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December 6, 2024 at 3:59 PM
Reposted by Clara Delavallade
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2025 ECON5k starts December 1! Details are here sites.google.com/view/econ5k, including how to get a t-shirt and how to upload your results.

Please also feel free to post your results on BlueSky with the hashtag #ECON5k!
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December 1, 2024 at 2:00 AM
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Over half of African girls ages 15 to 19 are out of school or married or have children.
Our recent report dives into promising ways to address these challenges.
EVENT LAUNCH is NOW!! Register here to join virtually or in person: www.worldbank.org/en/events/20...
#africagil #EconSky #gender
Pathways to Prosperity for Adolescent Girls in Africa Report Launch
Africa is home to 145 million adolescent girls today - a number projected to represent one-third of the world’s adolescent girls by 2050. Investing in the potential of adolescent girls is crucial for ...
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November 21, 2024 at 5:03 PM
claradelav.bsky.social
Join us NOW for a rich discussion on new measures of goal-setting, self-efficacy and locus of control validated in various African countries. A prerequisite for informing policies seeking to improve women's agency!
#AfricaGIL #EconSky @WBG_AfricaGIL
November 18, 2024 at 1:25 PM
Reposted by Clara Delavallade
leightjessica.bsky.social
I'm again seeking to organize sessions on violence against women as well as mental health in LMICs for the 2025 Ashecon conference in Nashville. If you're interested, please contact me (drop a response here or email me - DMs are not open, but my email is on my website)
October 31, 2024 at 2:24 PM
claradelav.bsky.social
Join us for an insightful seminar on socioemotional skills, discrimination and hiring practices!
#Skills4Dev #AfricaGIL #EconSky
@yashodhan.bsky.social
October 25, 2024 at 1:42 PM
claradelav.bsky.social
Excited to share our recent brief on tweaks to social protection programs that work for improving gender equality in Africa: childcare, socio-emotional skills, engaging men, and more! Drawn from #AfricaGIL research #EconSky
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October 4, 2024 at 2:06 PM
Reposted by Clara Delavallade
seema.bsky.social
ungatedresearch.org is a wonderful public good being developed by Martin Abel and Susie Godlonton.

It's a website with links to the latest ungated version of papers published in several economics journals.

Especially valuable in LMICs where many scholars don't have access to the journals.
Screenshot of ungatedresearch.org homepage
October 1, 2024 at 2:23 PM
claradelav.bsky.social
Giving smallholder farmers access to warrantage (storing their crops and, when they choose so, using that as a collateral to obtain credit) helps them invest more in human and farm capital. Sharing our recent experimental evidence from Burkina Faso
#econsky
Warrantage: A model of rural finance that boosts farmers’ income and investment
Warrantage is an innovative model of rural finance which improves access to credit and crop storage. In Burkina Faso, warrantage increased farmers’ sales revenues, which they spent on education, healt...
voxdev.org
September 26, 2024 at 1:27 AM
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seema.bsky.social
Our new paper shows that men benefit from couples' long-distance joint moves more than women do, in both Germany and Sweden. Is this just b/c men are usually the main breadwinner? No, it's hard to explain the patterns we see w/o a gender norm prioritizing men's careers. www.nber.org/papers/w32970
Moving to Opportunity, Together Many couples face a trade-off between advancing one spouse’s career or the other’s. We study this trade-off using administrative data from Germany and Sweden. We first conduct an event-study analysis of couples moving across commuting zones and find that relocation increases men’s earnings more than women’s, with strikingly similar patterns in Germany and Sweden. Using a sample of mass layoff events, we then find that couples in both countries are more likely to relocate in response to the man being laid off compared to the woman. We investigate whether these gendered patterns reflect men’s higher potential earnings or a gender norm that prioritizes men’s career advancement. We provide suggestive evidence of a gender norm using variation in norms within Germany. We then develop and estimate a model of household decision-making in which households can place more weight on the income earned by the man compared to the woman.
September 23, 2024 at 6:43 PM
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Still on that same topic of what drives women's fertility choices: sharing excellent recent work by my GIL colleagues showing that boosting women's income boosts their fertility too as a means to ensure long-term economic security:
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How development programmes impact fertility rates in Africa
New causal evidence shows boosting African women's income and wealth increases fertility, particularly among women without a son, suggesting that this fertility increase is a means to safeguard long-t...
voxdev.org
September 19, 2024 at 6:03 PM
claradelav.bsky.social
Happening tomorrow! Discussing this great paper on the important topic of women's fertility choices in Burkina Faso #Econsky
September 19, 2024 at 1:37 AM
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And here:
Unpacking Socio-Emotional Skills for Women’s Economic Empowerment [brief]
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September 16, 2024 at 5:58 PM
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Learn more about World Bank’s Africa Gender Innovation Lab’s SES research here.

Which Socio-Emotional Skills Matter Most for Women’s Earnings? New Insights from Sub-Saharan Africa [brief]
openknowledge.worldbank.org/entities/pub...

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September 16, 2024 at 5:57 PM