This brings back really bad memories. When I was four, my hand got caught in an escalator right where the rubber handrail meets the side. It burned my arm badly before someone stopped it and pulled me free. The scar once ran from my pinky to my elbow, though it’s faded a lot now.
This year's Empirical Management Conference is at Stanford, May 27-29!
Send us your best papers! Details and submission form here:
worldmanagementsurvey.org/emc2026/
JOIN US!! It's fun, I promise!
@raffasadun.bsky.social @johnvanreenen.bsky.social @renatalemos.bsky.social @nickbloom.bsky.social
New #POIDWorkingPaper "Investing in Human Capital During Wartime: Experimental evidence from Ukraine"
By Lelys Dinarte-Diaz, James Gresham, @renatalemos.bsky.social, @hpatrinos.bsky.social, @rrmaximiliano.bsky.social
poid.lse.ac.uk/PUBLICATIONS...
In today's blog post, what are attrition rates like in developed country field surveys? Benchmarks & lessons for development economists, especially those working with more urban/richer/more mobile populations... blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...
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.
blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...
This week's links include the long-lasting impacts of WWII industrial production in India, the economist as a designer, new research on African education, and more... blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...
Super interesting paper. Thanks very much for the invite!
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...
Hi Chloe, I would love to attend, how can I register?
This year we posted 26 #econjmp posts by PhD students on the market. Here is the list of all of them in case you missed any, plus a link to the @econthatmatters.bsky.social series which has some more - great to see all the exciting work in development blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...
The 10th edition of the Empirical Management Conference has just started! We have a great line up of presenters and papers:
www.hbs.edu/faculty/rese...
Just started a list of participants of current and past editions, ping me if you want to be added.
That’s all he said? Jelly and some cheese?
We need more studies at the intersection of maternal mental health & early childhood development.
If you want to know what questions to ask, check out "Tools to measure the impact of early childhood development interventions on maternal mental health"
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
@andresmoya.bsky.social and others' work on how psychosocial support to caregivers in conflict-affect Colombia can improve maternal mental health and child development. www.jointdatacenter.org/wp-content/u...
In today's #econjmp, @iedamatavelli.bsky.social of UBC/post-doc at UNSW shows boys in Brazil overestimate how peers view masculinity norms, and in 2 RCTs, fostering discussions around masculinity reduces these misperceptions blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...?
The international empirics of management | Read the latest article by Nick Bloom, Renata Lemos, @raffasadun.bsky.social , @danielascur.bsky.social and @johnvanreenen.bsky.social for PNAS
poid.lse.ac.uk/PUBLI...
This week's blog links include using your econ PhD outside of academia, sharing research results with subjects in Zanzibar, city types in developing countries, building farmer resilience to climate change, and more... #econsky blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...
I guess it is a no to a week-long dry camping and hiking trip then?
And finally miscellanea, where we have interviews with development economists, journal editors, people using their PhDs outside of academia, advice, some policy debates, and more: blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...
Second, survey methods and design: how to measure different things, ways of dealing with attrition, managing survey teams, working with admin data, remote sensing, and more: blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...
I've just finished the annual update of our curated links on the Development Impact blog, which sort key posts from the last 13 years. First up, technical topics and methods: how to do RCTs, power calcs, DiD, IV, RDD, PAPs, publication, analysis issues, and more: blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...
The 10th edition of the Empirical Management Conference is coming up! This year it will take place at HBS on December 12/13 2024 -- send us your papers!!
worldmanagementsurvey.org/emc2024/
cc: @raffasadun.bsky.social @renatalemos.bsky.social @cep-lse.bsky.social
The sooner you realize deadlines are fake too the happier you will be :-)
This week, teaching one of my favorite case studies in Data Analysis on management quality using the World Management Survey. Great topic, cool survey method, many countries.
gabors-data-analysis.com/casestudies/...
Thx @raffasadun.bsky.social @danielascur.bsky.social @renatalemos.bsky.social