New @CGDev paper featured in the @FT.
Across 17 low- and middle-income countries, at least 1 in 10 schools sits within 5km of a documented contaminated site. That's roughly 250,000 schools and 43 million children.
New results from a 20-year follow-up on Progresa.
Children whose parents received cash transfers in Mexico 20 years ago earn 15% more than those who didn't
povertyactionlab.org/sites/default/…
From a recent interview:
Ashenfelter: "how do you feel about the way you historically were treated in the profession as a woman?"
Goldin: "I spent six years at Princeton, and not once in the six years that I spent at Princeton was I asked to give a seminar"
Iran started a Universal Basic Income in 2010 - 28% of average income paid monthly for everybody. It had no negative effect on work (& increased work for women & self-employed men)
sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
"Diversity caused high-income students to have more accurate perceptions of poverty, raised their concerns about fairness, and boosted their support for progressive
redistribution."
econ.jku.at/t3/veranstaltu…
An RCT of giving bicycles to girls in Zambia found it
- saved them an HOUR commuting to school each day
- reduced dropout by 19%
- reduced sexual harassment by 22%
brookings.edu/blog/education…
"Projects developed in partnership with policymakers are 17-20% points more likely to result in policy change ... partnerships most often occur earlier in the term when political conditions are conducive to experimentation & reform"
-- Cool paper by Alix Bonargent
Here's a list of all the countries with no contact tracing (as of 13th May)
United Kingdom
Angola
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Estonia
Greece
Iran
Iraq
Nicaragua
Solomon Islands
El Salvador
Turkmenistan
Venezuela
Yemen
Data from @BlavatnikSchoolbsg.ox.ac.uk/research/resea…
