I just finished another book that intertwines the life of one person with the history of a country (Anansi's Gold /Ghana) and I'm in the midst of another (The Return: Fathers, Sons & the Land in Between /Libya).

I wonder if there's a name for this style of historical narrative!

Now forthcoming at the World Bank Research Observer!

Working paper still available 👇

'Exports have a significant positive effect on wage premiums and that the effect on wage premiums accounts for essentially all of the medium-term effect of exporting on plant-average wages.'

Now officially forthcoming at The JHR jhr.uwpress.org/content/early/… 🎉🎉🎉
Karthik Muralidharan Abhijeet Singh

How can health interventions improve educational outcomes? openknowledge.worldbank.org/entities/publi… from Daniel Plaut and others

The economics of the Democratic Republic of the Congo: an annotated bibliography of studies drive.google.com/file/d/1FuriIo…

Afro-descendants in Latin America see lower returns to education at every level in just about every country studied.

documents.worldbank.org/en/publication…

Lower quality of education (i.e., in areas with more Afro-descendants), discrimination in the labor market, both, or something else?

Bringing up this oldie but goodie thread on looking beyond test scores.

'Human resource challenges in health systems: Evidence from ten African countries' is now forthcoming at Health Policy & Planning (HealthPolicyPlanning)!

Earlier, preprint version available here medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

How to make health 'resource allocation more efficient and equitable' in Latin America and the Caribbean?

tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.10…

5 steps from Ursula Giedion, Espinoza, Pamela Góngora Salazar, DPhil, Mehndiratta, & Ollendorff

Dave Evans seems to have 48 hours a day. I'm so impressed with all that you do! From running to reading to watching and reviewing movies to writing amazing papers. #InAwe

Well deserved! Check out @AGanimian's fabulous research alejandroganimian.com/research

I see far more analysis of the impact of inequality on economic growth than I do for the impact of economic growth on inequality.

Any recommended references for the latter (the impact of growth on inequality)?

Automated phone calls to provide parenting advice in India increased parental anxiety and didn't improve their parenting.

de-barros.com/publication/ar…

new work from Irma Arteaga, Andy de Barros, Alejandro J. Ganimian

In Ethiopia, 'young women face significant barriers to engaging in factory work in the short run that a simple job-facilitation intervention can help overcome.' But by four years later, the benefits have disappeared. academic.oup.com/wber/advance-a…