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Clara Delavallade @claradelav.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks to Smita Das, Markus Goldstein, Léa Rouanet (@lea-rouanet.bsky.social), Mike O'Sullivan (@mbosullivan.bsky.social), IPA (@poverty-action.bsky.social), BRAC, IRC (@rescue.org), Wellspring Philanthropic Fund and The World Bank.

Clara Delavallade @claradelav.bsky.social · 1d

👉 Explore the resources here: poverty-action.org/socio-emotio...

Use without moderation! And stay tuned for more publications!

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Clara Delavallade @claradelav.bsky.social · 1d

The site includes:
🌍 Validated SES measures, with resources to use, score, and interpret them
📘 Curricula and training guides to build SES in anti-poverty programs
🧩 A theory of change and research agenda on SES and women’s economic empowerment
📊 A growing collection of research outputs.

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Clara Delavallade @claradelav.bsky.social · 1d

Thrilled to finally share #AfricaGIL new ESTEEM website bringing together years of work on socioemotional skills (SES) across Sub-Saharan Africa — from measurement tools to training curricula and research evidence.

#WEE #GenderEquality #SoftSkills #SocioEmotionalSkills

Effective Socio-emotional Skills to Gain Economic Empowerment (ESTEEM) | IPA

poverty-action.org

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Jessica Leight @leightjessica.bsky.social · 5d

Evidence from Tanzania: while self-reported socioemotional skills show a gender gap (in favor of men), behavioral measures show few, + smaller gaps - suggesting underlying pattern is men's overestimation of own skills! joint w/@rchlcassidy @claradelav
tinyurl.com/mw5vcyf4

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Clara Delavallade @claradelav.bsky.social · May 13

Event hosted by WEESA, the South Asia Gender Innovation Lab (SAR GIL), in collaboration with the Africa Gender Innovation Lab (AFR GIL) and the East Asia and the Pacific Gender Innovation Lab (EAP GIL)

#WEESA #AfricaGIL #SARGIL #GenderEquality #Agency #WEE #SouthAsia #Philippines

Clara Delavallade @claradelav.bsky.social · May 13

📢 Speakers:
• @Seema Jayachandran – Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, Princeton University @seema.bsky.social
• @Forest Jarvis – Consultant, East Asia and the Pacific Gender Innovation Lab

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Clara Delavallade @claradelav.bsky.social · May 13

🌍 Key Insights:
• Being the “decision-maker” may not be the best measure of agency.
• The primary benefit of group models may lie in their economies of scale – delivering resources, information, and training to many women at once.

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Clara Delavallade @claradelav.bsky.social · May 13

Honored to moderate this discussion on women’s agency and the power of group models. Join us tomorrow to learn more about what shapes women’s decision-making, how groups improve outcomes for women and girls, and why these insights should influence measurement, programming, and future research.

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Clara Delavallade @claradelav.bsky.social · Apr 7

Our new working paper dives into the challenges rural women in Sub-Sahran Africa face in adapting to climate change and sets an agenda for future policy research.

#AfricaGIL #ClimateJustice #GenderEquality #Africa #Adaptation

documents.worldbank.org/en/publicati...

Women and Climate Adaptation in Rural Sub-Saharan Africa : Constraints and Research Priorities

Sub-Saharan Africa is highly vulnerable to climate change, with rural women dis- proportionately affected due to pre-existing gender inequalities that both increase their .

documents.worldbank.org

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Clara Delavallade @claradelav.bsky.social · Mar 23

Teaser: these trainings work great, for both men and women, in areas where norms around gender roles are more progressive

Clara Delavallade @claradelav.bsky.social · Mar 23

Excited to present our paper at the CSAE conference Tuesday! We’ll talk about the impacts of socioemotional skills trainings on economic empowerment for agribusiness owners in Nigeria.

#AfricaGIL #EconSky #OxCSAE2025

CSAE @oxfordcsae.bsky.social · Mar 22

Join in with the CSAE Conference 2025 with us here on BlueSky!

Presenting a paper? Amazed by the research? Looking forward to the keynote? Mention us & #OxCSAE2025

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Clara Delavallade @claradelav.bsky.social · Mar 10

Looking forward to being part of this UN CSW panel bringing together governments, researchers, and civil society on how social protection can advance gender equality across a woman’s life course
This Thursday... Join us!
#AfricaGIL #EconSky
@unicef.org

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Heather Randell @heatherrandell.bsky.social · Feb 27

The DHS Program is officially done. As I tell my statistics students, good data is ESSENTIAL to improve the world. We can’t make things better if we don’t know the current state of things. No new DHS data collection is an incalculable loss.

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/h...

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Clara Delavallade @claradelav.bsky.social · Feb 14

More details in our working paper just out, co-authored with Jeannie Annan, @daveevansphd.bsky.social, Estelle Koussoube, @lea-rouanet.bsky.social and Josephine Tassy

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Clara Delavallade @claradelav.bsky.social · Feb 14

... Even worse, when the texts were also sent to youth’s contact person (often a parent) who knew less about the program, enrolment dropped…

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Clara Delavallade @claradelav.bsky.social · Feb 14

Does free sound too cheap? Here's new evidence on something that did not work to get young people enrolled in vocational training programs in Côte d’Ivoire: sending text messages highlighting that the program is free...
#AfricaGIL #EconSky

openknowledge.worldbank.org

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · Feb 10

2. A memo distributed by NSA leadership to its staff says that on February 10, all NSA websites and internal network pages that contain banned words will be deleted.

This is the list of 27 banned words distributed to NSA staff:

Anti-Racism
Racism
Allyship
Bias
DEI
Diversity
Diverse
Confirmation Bias
Equity
Equitableness
Feminism
Gender
Gender Identity
Inclusion
Inclusive
All-Inclusive
Inclusivity
Injustice
Intersectionality
Prejudice
Privilege
Racial Identity
Sexuality
Stereotypes
Pronouns
Transgender
Equality

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Clara Delavallade @claradelav.bsky.social · Dec 13

Working together as a team on household economic decisions and getting men to support their wives' rights to own assets are some of the best ways we've seen to make real progress so far.

Clara Delavallade @claradelav.bsky.social · Dec 13

Empowering women starts with engaging everyone. 🫂
Our recent GIL policy brief summarizes the evidence on engaging men for women's economic empowerment.
openknowledge.worldbank.org/entities/pub...
#GenderEquality #WomenEmpowerment #SocialChange #EconSky #AfricaGIL @rajdevbrar.bsky.social

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Clara Delavallade @claradelav.bsky.social · Dec 6

And, even more importantly, facilitating discussions about masculinity among middle-schoolers reduces these misperceptions and can help shift social norms on masculinity.

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Clara Delavallade @claradelav.bsky.social · Dec 6

Men may behave more aggressively than they would want to if they wrongly believe this is what other men (and women) view as « manly » - not crying or using violence to get respect.
Here is recent experimental evidence on this from Rio de Janeiro.
#EconSky #gender
blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...

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

blogs.worldbank.org

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ECON5k @econ5k.bsky.social · Dec 1

2025 ECON5k starts December 1! Details are here sites.google.com/view/econ5k, including how to get a t-shirt and how to upload your results.

Please also feel free to post your results on BlueSky with the hashtag #ECON5k!

Home

Economists running @econ5k.bsky.social [email protected]

sites.google.com

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Clara Delavallade @claradelav.bsky.social · Nov 21

Over half of African girls ages 15 to 19 are out of school or married or have children.
Our recent report dives into promising ways to address these challenges.
EVENT LAUNCH is NOW!! Register here to join virtually or in person: www.worldbank.org/en/events/20...
#africagil #EconSky #gender

Pathways to Prosperity for Adolescent Girls in Africa Report Launch

Africa is home to 145 million adolescent girls today - a number projected to represent one-third of the world’s adolescent girls by 2050. Investing in the potential of adolescent girls is crucial for ...

www.worldbank.org

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Clara Delavallade @claradelav.bsky.social · Nov 18

Join us NOW for a rich discussion on new measures of goal-setting, self-efficacy and locus of control validated in various African countries. A prerequisite for informing policies seeking to improve women's agency!
#AfricaGIL #EconSky @WBG_AfricaGIL

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