The must read for this week: the 2013 World Bank Development Report on jobs is out today. What will OXFAM say?. Unexpected partners in crime: A randomized experiment just published in the American Journal of Epidemiology shows (gated) that the introduction of Metrocable in Medellin- a new cable-propelled transit system - show that interventions in neighborhood physical … [Read more...] about Cable cars, reading glasses for kids, and other random Monday links
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Financing the family: Remittances to Central America in a time of crisis. On theories of change: Many randomized control trials in international development fail to pay adequate attention to collecting data around the intervention’s theory of change. And so the authors resort to non-evidence based speculation to explain their findings. But without such explanation the … [Read more...] about Random Monday links