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Do financial incentives undermine the motivation of public sector workers? Maybe, but where is the evidence from the field?

posted to Development Impact - News, views, methods, and insights from the world of impact evaluation on Wed 22nd May 13

These past weeks Ive visited several southern African nations to assist on-going evaluations of health sector pay-for-performance reforms. Its been a whirlwind of government meetings, field trips, and periods of data crunching. Weve made good progress and also
Do Conditions Moderate the Effects of Cash Transfer Programs? Preliminary Findings from a Systematic Review

posted to Development Impact - News, views, methods, and insights from the world of impact evaluation on Tue 21st May 13

Last week, I talked about the difficulty of categorizing cash transfer programs neatly into bins of unconditional (UCT) and conditional (CCT) ones. Afterwards, one of the comments gently chastised me for being overly optimistic of thinking about these programs
Getting to better data: Do men say yes more often than women?

posted to Development Impact - News, views, methods, and insights from the world of impact evaluation on Wed 15th May 13

A couple of days ago, my wife and I were having one of the moments -- I was convinced we had had a detailed conversation about something and she was convinced that no such conversation had taken place. Now, if you were to show up and do a survey of us, we wouldn't

Working Papers are NOT Working.

posted to Development Impact - News, views, methods, and insights from the world of impact evaluation on Thu 30th Jun 11

In research, as in life, first impressions matter a lot. Most sensible people dont go on a first date disheveled, wearing sweatpants and their favorite raggedy hoodie from their alma mater, but rather wait to break those out well into a relationship. Working
The Impact of Blogs Part II: Blogging enhances the bloggers reputation. But, does it influence policy?

posted to Development Impact - News, views, methods, and insights from the world of impact evaluation on Thu 11th Aug 11

Berk zlerOn Monday, we examined the impact of blogs on downloads and citations. Today, in Part II (of a three or four part series over two weeks), we present our findings (and detail our efforts in doing so) to see whether blogging improves the bloggers reputation
The Impact of Economics Blogs -- Part III: New Survey Evidence and Experimental Results

posted to Development Impact - News, views, methods, and insights from the world of impact evaluation on Mon 15th Aug 11

David McKenzieThanks for the very helpful comments on our first and second posts, in which we examined the impact of economics blogs on paper downloads, professional reputation, and speculated on their influence on policy. Two common themes from your comments

Will Rising Temperatures Derail Africas Rise?

posted to Africa Can... - End Poverty on Wed 27th Mar 13

Africa is on the move. After two decades of decline, fortunes reversed by the end of the 1990s, resulting in a decade of strong economic growth and sizable improvements in sanitation, education and health. Real incomes per capita in Sub-Saharan Africa grew
Links I liked

posted to Chris Blattman on Sat 16th Mar 13

Does international child sponsorship work?Google gets a little evilWhen to use sample weightsA new search engine for finding online filmsA Barack Obama toy sold in Japan
Contraception costs

posted to Offsetting Behaviour on Tue 5th Feb 13

Berk Ozler asks whether the government should provide free emergency contraception for young girls. It's an interesting question, especially as the Taranaki District Health Board recently announced plans for free EC provision.* Berk summarises the existing