"How to Improve Education Outcomes Most Efficiently? A Review of the Evidence Using a Unified Metric" is now forthcoming at the Journal of Development Economics! Working paper here cgdev.org/publication/ho… by @Angrist_Noam, Filmer, @RGlenner, Rogers, @Shwetlena, and me

"Exports have a significant positive effect on wage premiums and that the effect on wage premiums accounts for essentially all of the medium-term effect of exporting on plant-average wages." Evidence from Mexico.

In Latin America and the Caribbean, "improving spending efficiency could increase life expectancy at birth by 3.5 years (4.6%), or slightly more than the...improvement in average life expectancy in the region between 2000 & 2015." journals.plos.org/plosone/articl… by Goyeneche & @SBauhoff

Si hoy te despertaste y pensaste: "Me gustaría escuchar las preocupaciones de Dave sobre la inteligencia artificial en la educación", ¡entonces es tu día de suerte!

Tuvo la satisfacción de dar a luz el libro “Retos de la Longevidad en Latinoamérica” junto con Diego Valero y Marco Morales. Lo presentamos en Bilbao, España, en el marco del Global Pension Programme, junto con las autoridades, reguladores y expertos del mundo.

📢TE INVITAMOS AL LANZAMIENTO DE LA NUEVA PUBLICACION de Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo *Sembrar inclusión: Qué sabemos y qué falta saber sobre políticas de discapacidad* 🗓️3 de diciembre ⏲️ 11am ET Regístrate: events.iadb.org/calendar/event… David Evans Ferdinando Regalia

I've been at the Inter-American Development Bank for exactly one year, and I'm marking it with a new working paper! "Ten Findings about Poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean" publications.iadb.org/en/ten-finding… (co-authored with Chang & Carolina Rivas).

Honrados de recibir al presidente del Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo, Ilan Goldfajn, en #México. Anunciamos apoyo al desarrollo de una política nacional de cuidados para cerrar brechas de género y fomentar el desarrollo. Listos para colaborar con el gobierno de Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo. 👉 shorturl.at/qKf49

Con las estrategias adecuadas, la migración puede ser un motor para el desarrollo de nuestra región y el bienestar de sus habitantes. Una mayor y mejor movilidad laboral es una de esas estrategias. Acá lo explicamos 👇 #DiaDelMigrante

Cash transfers in Latin America and the Caribbean, as currently designed... * only reach 55% of the population in poverty * only bring recipients one-third of the way out of poverty. from Stampini, Nadin Medellin, & Pablo Ibarrarán (publications.iadb.org/en/cash-transf…)

Quiere unirse al equipo de la Unidad de Migración de Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo? Estamos buscando un/a especialista para reforzar nuestro equipo de Conocimiento. Si le interesa, revise los requisitos de la convocatoria 👇: jobs.iadb.org/job/Economics-…

En representación del Srio. Marath Bolaños, tuve el gusto de intercambiar reflexiones y números sobre "Economía Moral y Trabajo" con David Kaplan, Irasema Infante y Sergio Silva C., en el foro organizado por Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo sobre el Plan Nacional de Desarrollo.

More than 50,000 people die annually in Mexico due to cases of diabetes and kidney disease that could be avoided with "timely and effective healthcare"! thelancet.com/journals/lanam… New work from Sofia Castro Vargas, Rios-Zertuche, & Sebastian Bauhoff

This looks like a great conference! Submission deadline = June 15.

Last week, we presented our paper "Trading Places: How #TradePolicy Is Reshaping Multinational Firms’ Location" at the CESifo Area Conference on Global Economy. Thanks to the organizers for the invitation and to participants for their comments: bit.ly/4gLgOp9 #MNEs

So very thrilled to announce that this paper has finally found a home. “Inside the Black Box of Child Penalties: Unpaid Labor and Household Structure” forthcoming at the JDE. Of course, it took Sandra Aguilar-Gómez, Elia De la Cruz Toledo and me quite a few years to get here!

Más de la mitad de los trabajadores en ALC está fuera de la seguridad social. Desde el Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo apoyamos a los países a repensar la protección social y adaptarla a realidades como la informalidad y el autoempleo. Una red moderna e inclusiva es clave. goo.su/hUhNY

Workers are savvy! "We find a discontinuous increase in transitions to formal work at age 50, consistent with...people timing their entrance to the formal sector to minimize contributions to the social security system while maintaining...benefits." publications.iadb.org/en/public-pens…

EN: Happy to announce that my paper with Abbate Nicolas,"Do Minimum Wage Hikes Lead to Employment Destruction? Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design in Argentina," has been accepted by the Journal of Development Economics! sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

💡2019: An idea to use Mexico's largest longitudinal survey to explore the motherhood, sisterhood, and grandmotherhood penalty 📃2025: Hot off the press in JDE. Includes full replication package Open access for the next 50 days...Go grab a copy! sciencedirect.com/science/articl…