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Weekly links February 16: >7,000 RCTs, better bar graphs, dating apps and platform decay, choosing export sectors, and more…

This week's links include an update after 10 years of the AEA registry, industrial policy for exporters, tips for making better bar graphs in Stata, how platform markets unravel, and more.

Cyber Resilience Must Focus On Marginalized Individuals, Not Just Institutions

Cyber Resilience Must Focus On Marginalized Individuals, Not Just Institutions

Weekly links September 24: problems with excessive aspirations, gorillas in the midst of data, VR for green WTP, and more….

Three ways to promote savings among low-income families

A Communication Research Unicorn! Decent Evidence You Can Change People's Minds & Actions Via Social Media

Study finds physicians are widely effective messengers of Covid-19 information

Weekly links February 5: Poverty and productivity, Mobile money explained, who wants to migrate, and more…

Weekly links February 5: Poverty and productivity, Mobile money explained, who wants to migrate, and more… ·       The second VoxDevLit is out, this one is on mobile money, edited by Tavneet Suri and with a great group of co-editors – a great summary of what we have learned so far, and a call for more research “By the end of 2019, a total of 290 mobile money services were being offered in 95 countries; there were more than 1 billion mobile money accounts globally, including 372 million actively used for a transaction in the previous 90 days” “its use remains mostly limited to very specific P2P transactions: those that take place over long distances and those that are in places where holding cash is risky. Outside these applications, there has been less success” “Given that mobile money and, more broadly, a digital payments system has been so widely adopted in the developing world, and seeing that there are so few value-added services layered over it, there is a

Some of our favorite development papers of 2020

Some of our favorite development papers of 2020 Development Impact will now be on break over the next couple of weeks for the holidays, resuming in early January. As we have done previously (2018,2017), we will turn to the holidays with a gift to you of some of our favorite development papers that we came across this year. This year we thought we’d focus on papers related to impact evaluation or measurement produced by some of our colleagues at the World Bank. ·       (Jules Gazeaud, Eric Mvukiyehe and Olivier Sterck): This paper is important for the debate of whether fostering more employment opportunities at home will deter migration, or whether it will help people overcome liquidity and risk constraints and instead enable more migration to take place. One of the challenges in identifying impacts on international migration is that it is usually such a rare event that it is hard to get enough action to see treatment effects. Here the authors use a sample of over 2,000