Léa Rouanet
@lea-rouanet.bsky.social
Senior Economist and Deputy Head at World Bank Africa Gender Innovation Lab. Views are my own.
https://www.worldbank.org/en/programs/africa-gender-innovation-lab
https://www.worldbank.org/en/programs/africa-gender-innovation-lab
Great blog post by @kbeegle.bsky.social about a brand new #Africa_GIL working paper: “Mitigating the Impact of Household Expropriation on Female Entrepreneurship: Experimental Evidence from Ghana” blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...
Grants to women-owned businesses
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September 17, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Great blog post by @kbeegle.bsky.social about a brand new #Africa_GIL working paper: “Mitigating the Impact of Household Expropriation on Female Entrepreneurship: Experimental Evidence from Ghana” blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...
Join me for this side event at #AFSF2025 in Dakar on young women & entrepreneurship
powering Africa’s food systems. All about sharing evidence, models and momentum gained.
Curated by #AGRA_Value4Her and #WorldBank_AfricaGIL.
#AFSF2025 #WomenInAgriFood
powering Africa’s food systems. All about sharing evidence, models and momentum gained.
Curated by #AGRA_Value4Her and #WorldBank_AfricaGIL.
#AFSF2025 #WomenInAgriFood
September 1, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Join me for this side event at #AFSF2025 in Dakar on young women & entrepreneurship
powering Africa’s food systems. All about sharing evidence, models and momentum gained.
Curated by #AGRA_Value4Her and #WorldBank_AfricaGIL.
#AFSF2025 #WomenInAgriFood
powering Africa’s food systems. All about sharing evidence, models and momentum gained.
Curated by #AGRA_Value4Her and #WorldBank_AfricaGIL.
#AFSF2025 #WomenInAgriFood
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Hey now, Don't dream it's over - we salute @berkozler12.bsky.social on his last day and the World Bank and highlight a few of his many contributions to the Development Impact blog over the last 14 years blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...
Hey now, Don’t Dream It’s Over Berk
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June 30, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Hey now, Don't dream it's over - we salute @berkozler12.bsky.social on his last day and the World Bank and highlight a few of his many contributions to the Development Impact blog over the last 14 years blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...
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How does high-skilled emigration affect countries of origin? I summarize our recent Science paper, &draw out lessons from where we need nuance (not all high-skilled is the same, & most studies lump together), what we don't know (especially how to do better policy) blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...
How does high-skilled emigration affect countries of origin? A new review highlights what we’ve learned and what we still don’t know
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May 27, 2025 at 5:20 PM
How does high-skilled emigration affect countries of origin? I summarize our recent Science paper, &draw out lessons from where we need nuance (not all high-skilled is the same, & most studies lump together), what we don't know (especially how to do better policy) blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...
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Six questions with Kelsey Jack: we discuss how to get utilities to share their administrative data with you, whether work on climate economics focuses too much on the individual, the laugh test with your results, and more... blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...
Six Questions with Kelsey Jack
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May 19, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Six questions with Kelsey Jack: we discuss how to get utilities to share their administrative data with you, whether work on climate economics focuses too much on the individual, the laugh test with your results, and more... blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...
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Goldlilocks state capacity, why we can't get good stuff done. My blog today draws together some lessons from @karthik-econ.bsky.social 's book, @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social 's Abundance, and @noamangrist.bsky.social & @economeager.bsky.social 's work on ITT vs TOT.
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How matters as much as What: Why policy doesn’t get enough good things done and Goldilocks state capacity
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April 15, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Goldlilocks state capacity, why we can't get good stuff done. My blog today draws together some lessons from @karthik-econ.bsky.social 's book, @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social 's Abundance, and @noamangrist.bsky.social & @economeager.bsky.social 's work on ITT vs TOT.
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This week's links are up a day early - including @owenozier.bsky.social & co on software usage, me on the backstory podcast, funding for research on women-led businesses in LAC, several studies of unanticipated consequences of policies, and more ... blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...
Weekly links April 10: trends in software use, unexpected consequences of policies, problem selection in research, and more…
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April 10, 2025 at 5:08 PM
This week's links are up a day early - including @owenozier.bsky.social & co on software usage, me on the backstory podcast, funding for research on women-led businesses in LAC, several studies of unanticipated consequences of policies, and more ... blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...
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A text-message outreach campaign in Côte d’Ivoire had no impact on enrollment in a youth employment programme
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April 1, 2025 at 2:27 PM
A text-message outreach campaign in Côte d’Ivoire had no impact on enrollment in a youth employment programme
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📽️Watch #OxCSAE2025 Closing Panel live at 16:30 GMT today
Evidence-based Policy: Towards an Improved Research-policy Equilibrium in Africa
@scepticalranil.bsky.social, Miriam Laker, Justice Tei Mensah, Nompumelelo Nyathi-Mohohlwane, @olihanney.bsky.social
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Evidence-based Policy: Towards an Improved Research-policy Equilibrium in Africa
@scepticalranil.bsky.social, Miriam Laker, Justice Tei Mensah, Nompumelelo Nyathi-Mohohlwane, @olihanney.bsky.social
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March 25, 2025 at 11:49 AM
📽️Watch #OxCSAE2025 Closing Panel live at 16:30 GMT today
Evidence-based Policy: Towards an Improved Research-policy Equilibrium in Africa
@scepticalranil.bsky.social, Miriam Laker, Justice Tei Mensah, Nompumelelo Nyathi-Mohohlwane, @olihanney.bsky.social
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Evidence-based Policy: Towards an Improved Research-policy Equilibrium in Africa
@scepticalranil.bsky.social, Miriam Laker, Justice Tei Mensah, Nompumelelo Nyathi-Mohohlwane, @olihanney.bsky.social
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📽️Watch the CSAE Conference 2025 Keynote live at 11:30 GMT today!
Nobel Prize winner James Robinson will present 'Wealth in People' at #OxCSAE2025 with @gamblingondev.bsky.social as moderator.
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@blavatnikschool.bsky.social @oxfordecondept.bsky.social
Nobel Prize winner James Robinson will present 'Wealth in People' at #OxCSAE2025 with @gamblingondev.bsky.social as moderator.
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March 24, 2025 at 10:30 AM
📽️Watch the CSAE Conference 2025 Keynote live at 11:30 GMT today!
Nobel Prize winner James Robinson will present 'Wealth in People' at #OxCSAE2025 with @gamblingondev.bsky.social as moderator.
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@blavatnikschool.bsky.social @oxfordecondept.bsky.social
Nobel Prize winner James Robinson will present 'Wealth in People' at #OxCSAE2025 with @gamblingondev.bsky.social as moderator.
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@blavatnikschool.bsky.social @oxfordecondept.bsky.social
Excited to be back at #OxCSAE2025 to present results from a take-up experiment in Côte d’Ivoire with @daveevansphd.bsky.social @claradelav.bsky.social Jeannie Annan, Estelle Koussoubé and Josephine Tassy
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 23, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Excited to be back at #OxCSAE2025 to present results from a take-up experiment in Côte d’Ivoire with @daveevansphd.bsky.social @claradelav.bsky.social Jeannie Annan, Estelle Koussoubé and Josephine Tassy
I promise I will consider this when drafting my next household survey questionnaire @kbeegle.bsky.social
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 20, 2025 at 8:18 AM
I promise I will consider this when drafting my next household survey questionnaire @kbeegle.bsky.social
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This week's links include interviews with Nathan Nunn & Megan Lang, whether college grads are hurt or helped by taking low-skilled jobs while they wait for work, reducing attrition in a panel, when AI is the non-data-hungry solution, and more... blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...
Weekly links March 14: an overview of research on refugees, the grad school vs professor working day, AI vs online search for teachers in Sierra Leone, and more…
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March 14, 2025 at 2:02 PM
This week's links include interviews with Nathan Nunn & Megan Lang, whether college grads are hurt or helped by taking low-skilled jobs while they wait for work, reducing attrition in a panel, when AI is the non-data-hungry solution, and more... blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...
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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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This Thursday... Join us!
#AfricaGIL #EconSky
@unicef.org
March 10, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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
@unicef.org
This Thursday... Join us!
#AfricaGIL #EconSky
@unicef.org
Check out the long-term impact of the Personal Initiative Training program in Togo, in this latest blog by @dmckenzie.bsky.social #worldbank #AfricaGIL
In today's blog, I summarize 7-7.5 year impacts of a RCT we did in Togo that tested personal initiative (PI) training against a control and traditional business training. PI training has large and growing impacts for men, which diverge from those for women 1/3 blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...
Personal initiative training continues to yield positive benefits after 7 years, but impacts vary with gender
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March 3, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Check out the long-term impact of the Personal Initiative Training program in Togo, in this latest blog by @dmckenzie.bsky.social #worldbank #AfricaGIL
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Today's links include the role of multinationals in development, if you are publishing anything you're doing well, bluesky research is important, the economics of conflict and fragile settings, why do we care about your association, and more... blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...
Weekly links February 28: basic science is valuable, learn about the economics of conflict settings, FDI, does your advisor matter, and more….
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February 28, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Today's links include the role of multinationals in development, if you are publishing anything you're doing well, bluesky research is important, the economics of conflict and fragile settings, why do we care about your association, and more... blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...
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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
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
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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
#AfricaGIL #EconSky
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February 14, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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
#AfricaGIL #EconSky
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Around the world, UNICEF-trained social workers stand up for vulnerable girls who are in danger of being subjected to female genital mutilation.
Progress is being made in the fight to #EndFGM. A look at how we can break the cycle of violence:
Progress is being made in the fight to #EndFGM. A look at how we can break the cycle of violence:
5 Things You Should Know About FGM
Over 230 million girls and women worldwide are living with the pain and trauma of female genital mutilation. Most girls are harmed before the age of 15. FGM ...
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February 7, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Around the world, UNICEF-trained social workers stand up for vulnerable girls who are in danger of being subjected to female genital mutilation.
Progress is being made in the fight to #EndFGM. A look at how we can break the cycle of violence:
Progress is being made in the fight to #EndFGM. A look at how we can break the cycle of violence:
An important #AfricaGIL IE on IPV prevention in Rwanda is out, and @kbeegle.bsky.social wrote a great blog about it!
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 7, 2025 at 7:47 AM
An important #AfricaGIL IE on IPV prevention in Rwanda is out, and @kbeegle.bsky.social wrote a great blog about it!
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#Gender gaps remain on journal editorial boards, especially in #finance & economics. In finance, women make up 20% of editors on average. Affiliations are mainly in the UK and US, mirroring academic hierarchies.
Będowska-Sójka, @alessia-paccagnini.bsky.social et al.
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#EconSky
Będowska-Sójka, @alessia-paccagnini.bsky.social et al.
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#EconSky
February 4, 2025 at 9:32 AM
#Gender gaps remain on journal editorial boards, especially in #finance & economics. In finance, women make up 20% of editors on average. Affiliations are mainly in the UK and US, mirroring academic hierarchies.
Będowska-Sójka, @alessia-paccagnini.bsky.social et al.
cepr.org/voxeu/column...
#EconSky
Będowska-Sójka, @alessia-paccagnini.bsky.social et al.
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#EconSky
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Post by @berkozler12.bsky.social "Mean Reversion in RCTs" on a very interesting paper by @marcellaalsan.bsky.social @johncawley.bsky.social Joseph J. Doyle Jr. & Nicholas Skelley.
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#MeanReversion #RCTs #heterogeneity #targeting
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#MeanReversion #RCTs #heterogeneity #targeting
Mean Reversion in RCTs: It may matter for targeting…
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January 27, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Post by @berkozler12.bsky.social "Mean Reversion in RCTs" on a very interesting paper by @marcellaalsan.bsky.social @johncawley.bsky.social Joseph J. Doyle Jr. & Nicholas Skelley.
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#MeanReversion #RCTs #heterogeneity #targeting
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#MeanReversion #RCTs #heterogeneity #targeting
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This week's links include the problems with the use of the terms developing country and Global South, how Vietnam escaped the pollution haven problem when trade rose, what happens to kids in Uganda 3 years after getting pre-school, and more... blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...
Weekly links January 24: averting pollution havens with clean energy, Global South is a silly term, production subsidies, Indian governance, and more…
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January 24, 2025 at 3:41 PM
This week's links include the problems with the use of the terms developing country and Global South, how Vietnam escaped the pollution haven problem when trade rose, what happens to kids in Uganda 3 years after getting pre-school, and more... blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...
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Today's article presents the child penalty in employment – i.e. how much the birth of a first child impacts the employment of mothers relative to fathers - for 134 countries around the world ⤵️
January 20, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Today's article presents the child penalty in employment – i.e. how much the birth of a first child impacts the employment of mothers relative to fathers - for 134 countries around the world ⤵️