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Data-driven global health research in the time of COVID Image: Dominic Chavez/World Bank On March 31st and April 1st, the World Bank’s Development Impact Evaluation (DIME) Department and Tools and Analytics Unit hosted MeasureDev 2021), in partnership with the Center for Effective Global Action. The conference showcased how researchers are using new types of data and data-intensive approaches to address critical public health challenges, especially in low- and middle-income countries. It hi...

Robert S. McNamara Fellowships Program (RSMFP) matches aspiring development economics researchers from developing countries with World Bank research economists creating unique opportunities for the fellows to participate in rigorous policy-relevant research in the World Bank’s Development Economics Vice Presidency (DEC). Fellows will be hosted at the World Bank in Washington, D.C. for 8 months (September to May each year) and work under the supervision of researchers in the World Bank’s�...

Introducing our newly hired researchers: part 2 of 3 We continue our series of highlighting our recently recruited researchers. Today we cover researchers who work on the environment, infrastructure and sustainability, and on poverty and public economics – noting again that these labels do not cover the full range of topics being studied. Environment, Infrastructure and Sustainability Gabriel Englander studies how policy and illegal behavior affect wildlife conservation. He hopes to provide ...

Introducing our newly hired researchers: part 1 of 3 Over the past few years, two research departments in the Development Economics Vice Presidency (DECVP), namely the Development Research Group (DRG) and the Development Impact Evaluation unit (DIME) have recruited 24 researchers. Many of these junior researchers joined the World Bank during a period, in which they could not physically come to the office and meet with us, schedule coffee and lunch meetings with our operational colleagues, or at...

How can we improve the quality of big data for development economics research? Experiences from traditional data collection can help! Motivation While the companies collecting these data often do internal quality assessments, repurposing big data for economics research typically requires additional quality checks to account for the fact that the data were not purpose-built to answer the specific research questions in mind. Therefore, quality assurance done by data scientists (e.g., the data qua...