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Clara Delavallade
@claradelav.bsky.social
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/
Thanks to Smita Das, Markus Goldstein, Léa Rouanet (@lea-rouanet.bsky.social), Mike O'Sullivan (@mbosullivan.bsky.social), IPA (@poverty-action.bsky.social), BRAC, IRC (@rescue.org), Wellspring Philanthropic Fund and The World Bank.
October 10, 2025 at 12:13 PM
👉 Explore the resources here: poverty-action.org/socio-emotio...

Use without moderation! And stay tuned for more publications!
October 10, 2025 at 12:13 PM
The site includes:
🌍 Validated SES measures, with resources to use, score, and interpret them
📘 Curricula and training guides to build SES in anti-poverty programs
🧩 A theory of change and research agenda on SES and women’s economic empowerment
📊 A growing collection of research outputs.
October 10, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Reposted by Clara Delavallade
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
tinyurl.com/mw5vcyf4
October 6, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Event hosted by WEESA, the South Asia Gender Innovation Lab (SAR GIL), in collaboration with the Africa Gender Innovation Lab (AFR GIL) and the East Asia and the Pacific Gender Innovation Lab (EAP GIL)

#WEESA #AfricaGIL #SARGIL #GenderEquality #Agency #WEE #SouthAsia #Philippines
May 13, 2025 at 2:33 PM
📢 Speakers:
• @Seema Jayachandran – Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, Princeton University @seema.bsky.social
• @Forest Jarvis – Consultant, East Asia and the Pacific Gender Innovation Lab
May 13, 2025 at 2:32 PM
🌍 Key Insights:
• Being the “decision-maker” may not be the best measure of agency.
• The primary benefit of group models may lie in their economies of scale – delivering resources, information, and training to many women at once.
May 13, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Teaser: these trainings work great, for both men and women, in areas where norms around gender roles are more progressive
March 23, 2025 at 8:17 AM
More details in our working paper just out, co-authored with Jeannie Annan, @daveevansphd.bsky.social, Estelle Koussoube, @lea-rouanet.bsky.social and Josephine Tassy
February 14, 2025 at 4:33 PM
... Even worse, when the texts were also sent to youth’s contact person (often a parent) who knew less about the program, enrolment dropped…
February 14, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Reposted by Clara Delavallade
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:
February 10, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Working together as a team on household economic decisions and getting men to support their wives' rights to own assets are some of the best ways we've seen to make real progress so far.
December 13, 2024 at 4:35 PM
And, even more importantly, facilitating discussions about masculinity among middle-schoolers reduces these misperceptions and can help shift social norms on masculinity.
December 6, 2024 at 3:59 PM