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A Book Review of the “Handbook on Child Poverty and Inequality” cgdev.org/blog/book-revi… Now out in the journal Population and Development Review
David Evans
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David Evans
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Economist at @CGDev. Formerly @the_IDB, @WorldBank, @RANDCorporation, and an usher at my neighborhood movie theater. My views, not my employer's.
- When grandmothers pass away in Mexico, the employment rate for mothers falls by 27 percent (with no impact on fathers). Cheaper daycare mitigates that impact. cpb-us-e1.wpmucdn.com/sites.northwes… by Talamas
- ECONOMICAL READING To help you prepare for your holiday shopping, here are 10 books by economists, written for broad audiences, that came out in 2019. Let me know which ones I missed! Below is a thread with links to each book.
- I had to re-write the introduction to a paper, so I diagrammed the introductions of a bunch of development papers in top economics journals. This is what I learned: "How to Write the Introduction of Your Development Economics Paper." cgdev.org/blog/how-write… #EconTwitter
- What do we learn from 27,000 economics journal articles on African countries? "45% of all economics journal articles ... are about five countries accounting for just 16% of the continent’s population." drive.google.com/file/d/1vGpzi_…
- In Malaysia, the language of teaching in schools changed from Bahasa Malaysia to English in 2003. New evidence suggests that math and science scores fell as a result, both for students who experienced the switch and for subsequent cohorts. documents.worldbank.org/en/publication…
- "Female department chairs reduce gender gaps in publications & tenure for assistant professors & shrink the gender pay gap. Replacing a male chair with a female chair increases the number of female students among incoming graduate cohorts by 10%."
- A Checklist for Difference-in-Differences Practitioners jonathandroth.com/assets/files/D… from @jondr44, @pedrohcgs, @ambilinski, & @DavidPoe223
- 47 journals with explicit short paper options where economists publish their research An annotated list: bit.ly/36qNVfn [And a thread]
- At the end of last year, I was diagnosed with cancer (specifically, diffuse large b-cell lymphoma). Boo! I then underwent four months of chemotherapy. The cancer is now in remission. I’m fine! Yay! Here’s a little thread 🧵 about my experience, in case it is of use to others.
- I summarize a lot of development economics papers. I love papers where I can tell, from the title/abstract: (1) what's the research question? (2) what's the main result? (3) where did it take place? (4) what's the research method? Lots of papers don't have these!
- Today I saw someone present a nicely executed study with null results, and I remember this blog : "How to Publish Statistically Insignificant Results in Economics" blogs.worldbank.org/impactevaluati… #ThrowbackThursday
- Today is my first day as Principal Economic Advisor for the Social Sector at the Inter-American Development Bank. I've long admired @the_IDB's work, and I look forward to contributing, as the mission says, "to improve lives in Latin America and the Caribbean."
