Kathleen Beegle
@kbeegle.bsky.social
Lead Economist, World Bank Research Group, and Development Impact blogger
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Lots of good reading this week in my weekly links: use cases of AI for development, electricity is complex, the psychology of poverty, several conferences on jobs and women, and more... blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...
Weekly links May 16: Using AI for development, win-wins for the environment, electricity, psychology and poverty, …
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May 16, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Lots of good reading this week in my weekly links: use cases of AI for development, electricity is complex, the psychology of poverty, several conferences on jobs and women, and more... blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...
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The research group at the Workd Bank is doing an off-cycle hire for a trade economist worldbankgroup.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
Research Economist
Do you want to build a career that is truly worthwhile? Working at the World Bank Group provides a unique opportunity for you to help our clients solv...
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March 28, 2025 at 4:48 PM
The research group at the Workd Bank is doing an off-cycle hire for a trade economist worldbankgroup.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
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This week's links include the challenges of interviewing shopkeepers vs farmers, giving second-best policy advice, power analysis the Bayesian way, customised business services as place-based policy, and more... blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...
Weekly links March 28: surveying shopkeepers, giving second-best policy advice, Bayesian power analysis, saying no, and more…
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March 28, 2025 at 1:28 PM
This week's links include the challenges of interviewing shopkeepers vs farmers, giving second-best policy advice, power analysis the Bayesian way, customised business services as place-based policy, and more... blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...
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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
Presenting a paper? Amazed by the research? Looking forward to the keynote? Mention us & #OxCSAE2025
March 22, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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
Presenting a paper? Amazed by the research? Looking forward to the keynote? Mention us & #OxCSAE2025
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On the blog today, @kbeegle.bsky.social on why it is time to stop asking "who is the household head?" in surveys in developing countries. blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...
It is time to stop asking who is the household head
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March 19, 2025 at 11:21 PM
On the blog today, @kbeegle.bsky.social on why it is time to stop asking "who is the household head?" in surveys in developing countries. blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...
An ode to the DHS by my friend, colleague, and former boss Caren Grown
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An ode to the Demographic and Health Survey Program
Caren Grown reflects on the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) Program and its 40-plus years of impact.
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March 6, 2025 at 7:51 PM
An ode to the DHS by my friend, colleague, and former boss Caren Grown
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Devastating news at IZA yesterday. More than 25 years of hard work, earned reputation, and valuable institutional knowledge and public good provision wiped out with a single stroke. It’s hard to find the words.
February 25, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Devastating news at IZA yesterday. More than 25 years of hard work, earned reputation, and valuable institutional knowledge and public good provision wiped out with a single stroke. It’s hard to find the words.
Read up on work that finds significant backlash from couple intervention to reduce IPV… scaling up and spillovers matter!
Yikes! Backlash from an IPV intervention
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February 6, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Read up on work that finds significant backlash from couple intervention to reduce IPV… scaling up and spillovers matter!
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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...
End of year links 2024
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December 20, 2024 at 2:27 PM
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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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...
Let the Cream Rise to the Top: Digital Traceability and Quality Upgrading in Kenyan Dairy Value Chain. Guest post by Guanghong Xu.
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December 16, 2024 at 6:49 PM
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...
Emanuela Galasso & I had a bit of fun using NotebookLM to create a podcast (and blog) of our paper….read and listen here.
Public works in Djibouti targeting women had high uptake but only short term.
Public works in Djibouti targeting women had high uptake but only short term.
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October 9, 2024 at 7:28 PM
Emanuela Galasso & I had a bit of fun using NotebookLM to create a podcast (and blog) of our paper….read and listen here.
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In today's blog Patrick Behrer summarizes a new working paper by @marshallburke.bsky.social and co-authors on how we should go about measuring adaption to climate change: blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...
A new paper by researchers at Stanford takes on both the question of whether we are adapting to climate change and, indirectly, how we should measure such adaptation.
A new paper by researchers at Stanford takes on both the question of whether we are adapting to climate change and, indirectly, how we should measure such adaptation.
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October 8, 2024 at 9:43 PM
In today's blog Patrick Behrer summarizes a new working paper by @marshallburke.bsky.social and co-authors on how we should go about measuring adaption to climate change: blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...
The latest Development Impact blog with Louise Fox: Creating or displacing jobs in Nigeria?
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July 2, 2024 at 1:58 PM
The latest Development Impact blog with Louise Fox: Creating or displacing jobs in Nigeria?
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Today we continue our occasional interview series with Jing Cai, who tells us about her path into development economics, what other countries can learn from her work on firm networking in China, working in an ARE department, industrial policy lessons, and more... blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...
Six Questions with Jing Cai
An interview with Jing Cai, an Associate Professor at the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of Maryland. Her research has focused on the diffusion and impact of finan...
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May 13, 2024 at 10:49 AM
Today we continue our occasional interview series with Jing Cai, who tells us about her path into development economics, what other countries can learn from her work on firm networking in China, working in an ARE department, industrial policy lessons, and more... blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...
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My annual post on submission numbers, acceptance rates, review times, etc. at development journals is now up: blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...
The State of Development Journals 2024: Quality, Acceptance Rates, Review Times, and What’s New
The 2024 round-up of journal impact factors, rankings, number of submissions, numbers of papers published, and review times at leading development economic journals.
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May 16, 2024 at 8:19 PM
My annual post on submission numbers, acceptance rates, review times, etc. at development journals is now up: blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...
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Lee bounds in practice: today's post covers how to use covariates, what to do when your outcome is binary or has ties, issues using Lee bounds with LATE, how to discuss the bounds if they include an opposite sign effect, and other practical issues...
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Lee Bounds in Practice
This post discusses how to use Lee Bounds for dealing with attrition, and the practical issues that can arise when applying this in field experiments.
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April 22, 2024 at 12:38 PM
Lee bounds in practice: today's post covers how to use covariates, what to do when your outcome is binary or has ties, issues using Lee bounds with LATE, how to discuss the bounds if they include an opposite sign effect, and other practical issues...
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On Development Impact today, Gabe Englander illustrates three different ways of dealing with spillovers in estimating treatment impacts, through papers that examine impacts of marine conservation areas on fish blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...
Spillovers, three ways
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April 17, 2024 at 12:46 PM
On Development Impact today, Gabe Englander illustrates three different ways of dealing with spillovers in estimating treatment impacts, through papers that examine impacts of marine conservation areas on fish blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...
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This week's links include how Anguilla is funding half of its government in a surprising way through ai, the puzzle of declining agricultural productivity in Africa, public finance and structural transformation, and more... blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...
Weekly links April 12: declining African agricultural productivity, revenue from .ai, returns to Bangladeshi migration, and more…
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April 12, 2024 at 1:04 PM
This week's links include how Anguilla is funding half of its government in a surprising way through ai, the puzzle of declining agricultural productivity in Africa, public finance and structural transformation, and more... blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...
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Weekly links March 8: More bad news on power, Mumbai’s housing mess, spillovers personified and more…
A short set of links this week includes getting magnitudes precise, housing restrictions in Mumbai, and the Economist mag on RCTs
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March 8, 2024 at 8:42 PM
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The lastest from Development Impact, where Manu and I take a look at a great new paper on public works in urban Ethiopia by Franklin et al:
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January 24, 2024 at 4:22 PM
The lastest from Development Impact, where Manu and I take a look at a great new paper on public works in urban Ethiopia by Franklin et al:
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We resume our job market series with today's post by David Wu, who conducts an RCT in Ethiopia that matches firms with employment agencies to help them find college-educated workers. The results are surprising, with this resulting in more non-college workers blogs.worldbank.org/impactevalua...
Firms have a hard time too! Leveraging employment agencies to reduce search frictions for firms. Gue...
Many firms may use college education as a heuristic to find skilled workers, but search frictions in the labor market prevent firms from developing accurate beliefs of college graduates’ productivit...
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November 27, 2023 at 6:01 PM
We resume our job market series with today's post by David Wu, who conducts an RCT in Ethiopia that matches firms with employment agencies to help them find college-educated workers. The results are surprising, with this resulting in more non-college workers blogs.worldbank.org/impactevalua...
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Today’s job market post is by Saloni Gupta and looks at whether you can teach kids innovation in school, and also how to measure this. Kids then do better at innovation but worse in math scores & enthusiasm blogs.worldbank.org/impactevalua...
Innovation on the rise, math scores take a dive: Unraveling the potential and perils of teaching inn...
Unraveling the potential and perils of teaching innovation
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November 28, 2023 at 3:52 PM
Today’s job market post is by Saloni Gupta and looks at whether you can teach kids innovation in school, and also how to measure this. Kids then do better at innovation but worse in math scores & enthusiasm blogs.worldbank.org/impactevalua...
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Today's job market post by Suhani Jalota is an RCT with Indian housewives that cross-randomizes job offers for flexible work at home vs in the office, and wage rates. Job take-up much higher for working at home, and not very sensitive to wages. blogs.worldbank.org/impactevalua...
What prevents Indian housewives from local flexible work opportunities? Guest Post by Suhani Jalota
This study demonstrates that improved childcare and transport policies, among other policies targeted to reduce practical barriers to women's employment, may not overcome all barriers preventing India...
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November 16, 2023 at 1:18 PM
Today's job market post by Suhani Jalota is an RCT with Indian housewives that cross-randomizes job offers for flexible work at home vs in the office, and wage rates. Job take-up much higher for working at home, and not very sensitive to wages. blogs.worldbank.org/impactevalua...