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Renata Lemos

@renatalemos.bsky.social

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Senior economist at the World Bank

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Programme on Innovation and Diffusion @poid-lse.bsky.social · 29d

New #POIDWorkingPaper "Investing in Human Capital During Wartime: Experimental evidence from Ukraine"
By Lelys Dinarte-Diaz, James Gresham, @renatalemos.bsky.social, @hpatrinos.bsky.social, @rrmaximiliano.bsky.social
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Investing in Human Capital During Wartime: Experimental evidence from Ukraine

This paper provides insights into human capital investments during wartime by presenting evidence from three experiments of an online tutoring program for Ukrainian students amid Russia's invasion of ...

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David McKenzie @dmckenzie.bsky.social · Sep 2

In today's blog post, what are attrition rates like in developed country field surveys? Benchmarks & lessons for development economists, especially those working with more urban/richer/more mobile populations... blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...

Attrition in surveys in developed country field experiments

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David McKenzie @dmckenzie.bsky.social · Apr 15

Goldlilocks state capacity, why we can't get good stuff done. My blog today draws together some lessons from @karthik-econ.bsky.social 's book, @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social 's Abundance, and @noamangrist.bsky.social & @economeager.bsky.social 's work on ITT vs TOT.
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How matters as much as What: Why policy doesn’t get enough good things done and Goldilocks state capacity

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David McKenzie @dmckenzie.bsky.social · Apr 4

This week's links include the long-lasting impacts of WWII industrial production in India, the economist as a designer, new research on African education, and more... blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...

Weekly links April 4: Indian structural transformation from WWII, the economist as designer, remote-sensing for development, and more…

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Renata Lemos @renatalemos.bsky.social · Mar 20

Super interesting paper. Thanks very much for the invite!

Renata Lemos @renatalemos.bsky.social · Mar 20

Hi Chloe, I would love to attend, how can I register?

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David McKenzie @dmckenzie.bsky.social · Mar 19

On the blog today, @kbeegle.bsky.social on why it is time to stop asking "who is the household head?" in surveys in developing countries. blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...

It is time to stop asking who is the household head

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David McKenzie @dmckenzie.bsky.social · Dec 18

This year we posted 26 #econjmp posts by PhD students on the market. Here is the list of all of them in case you missed any, plus a link to the @econthatmatters.bsky.social series which has some more - great to see all the exciting work in development blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...

Job market series 2024 Wrap-up

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Raffaella Sadun @raffasadun.bsky.social · Dec 12

The 10th edition of the Empirical Management Conference has just started! We have a great line up of presenters and papers:
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Just started a list of participants of current and past editions, ping me if you want to be added.

Empirical Management Conference - Faculty & Research - Harvard Business School

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Renata Lemos @renatalemos.bsky.social · Dec 12

That’s all he said? Jelly and some cheese?

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David Evans @daveevansphd.bsky.social · Dec 3

We need more studies at the intersection of maternal mental health & early childhood development.

If you want to know what questions to ask, check out "Tools to measure the impact of early childhood development interventions on maternal mental health"

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David Evans @daveevansphd.bsky.social · Dec 3

@andresmoya.bsky.social and others' work on how psychosocial support to caregivers in conflict-affect Colombia can improve maternal mental health and child development. www.jointdatacenter.org/wp-content/u...

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David McKenzie @dmckenzie.bsky.social · Nov 25

In today's #econjmp, @iedamatavelli.bsky.social of UBC/post-doc at UNSW shows boys in Brazil overestimate how peers view masculinity norms, and in 2 RCTs, fostering discussions around masculinity reduces these misperceptions blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...?

School discussions reshape perceptions of masculinity norms. Guest Post by Ieda Matavelli

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Programme on Innovation and Diffusion @poid-lse.bsky.social · Nov 10

The international empirics of management | Read the latest article by Nick Bloom, Renata Lemos, @raffasadun.bsky.social , @danielascur.bsky.social and @johnvanreenen.bsky.social for PNAS

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The international empirics of management

A country's national income broadly depends on the quantity and quality of workers and capital. But how well these factors are managed within and between firms may be a key determinant of a country's productivity and its GDP. Although social scientists have long studied the role of management practices in shaping business performance, their primary tool has been individual case studies. While useful for theory-building, such qualitative work is hard to scale and quantify. We present a large, scalable dataset measuring structured management practices at the business level across multiple countries. We measure practices related to performance monitoring, target-setting, and human resources. We document a set of key stylized facts, which we label 'the international empirics of management'. In all countries, firms with more structured practices tend to also have superior economic performance: they are larger in scale, are more profitable, have higher labor productivity and are more likely to export. This consistency was not obvious ex-ante, and being able to quantify these relationships is valuable. We also document significant variation in practices across and within countries, which is important in explaining differences in the wealth of nations. The positive relationship between firm size and structured management practices is stronger in countries with more open and free markets, suggesting that stronger competition may allow firms with more structured management practices to grow larger, thereby potentially raising aggregate national income.

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David McKenzie @dmckenzie.bsky.social · Sep 13

This week's blog links include using your econ PhD outside of academia, sharing research results with subjects in Zanzibar, city types in developing countries, building farmer resilience to climate change, and more... #econsky blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...

Weekly links September 13: pricing health insurance, sharing research with subjects, cities, climate resilient ag, and more…

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Renata Lemos @renatalemos.bsky.social · Aug 31

I guess it is a no to a week-long dry camping and hiking trip then?

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David McKenzie @dmckenzie.bsky.social · Aug 28

And finally miscellanea, where we have interviews with development economists, journal editors, people using their PhDs outside of academia, advice, some policy debates, and more: blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...

Curated Miscellanea: Interviews, Advice, Policy Debates, and Commonly Referred to Posts

This set of links collects together some of the other various series we have done over the years which are not included in our curated links on technical topics and methodology, or in our curated post...

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David McKenzie @dmckenzie.bsky.social · Aug 28

Second, survey methods and design: how to measure different things, ways of dealing with attrition, managing survey teams, working with admin data, remote sensing, and more: blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...

Survey methods — curated blogs

This list is a companion to our curated list on technical topics. It puts together our posts on issues of measurement, survey design, sampling, survey checks, managing survey teams, reducing attrition...

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David McKenzie @dmckenzie.bsky.social · Aug 28

I've just finished the annual update of our curated links on the Development Impact blog, which sort key posts from the last 13 years. First up, technical topics and methods: how to do RCTs, power calcs, DiD, IV, RDD, PAPs, publication, analysis issues, and more: blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...

A Curated List of Our Postings on Technical Topics – Your One-Stop Shop for Methodology

This is a curated list of our technical postings, to serve as a one-stop shop for your technical reading. I’ve focused here on our posts on methodological issues in impact evaluation – we also have a ...

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Daniela Scur @danielascur.bsky.social · Aug 15

The 10th edition of the Empirical Management Conference is coming up! This year it will take place at HBS on December 12/13 2024 -- send us your papers!!

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cc: @raffasadun.bsky.social @renatalemos.bsky.social @cep-lse.bsky.social

Empirical Management Conference – World Management Survey

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Renata Lemos @renatalemos.bsky.social · Dec 12

The sooner you realize deadlines are fake too the happier you will be :-)

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Gábor Békés @gaborbekes.bsky.social · Oct 12

This week, teaching one of my favorite case studies in Data Analysis on management quality using the World Management Survey. Great topic, cool survey method, many countries.
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Thx @raffasadun.bsky.social @danielascur.bsky.social @renatalemos.bsky.social

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