Are mask mandates followed? MASSIVE difference in self reports 📰 vs observation 🔎 (e.g., 10% vs 88%). Striking results from Kenya Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA) Aleksandra Jakubowski Dennis Egger, Carolyne Nekesa, Layna Lowe Michael Walker @tedmiguel. medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

Economists, I have a question

2/ Many mothers in #Ghana can’t access or don’t know about antenatal care. Aleksandra Jakubowski & Aaron Asibi Abuosi are looking at how social networks, actionable birth plans, & interaction w/ skilled providers can address this issue & reduce maternal mortality: buff.ly/2QV9DEU

"Hey - would you mind taking this result down and putting it with the rest of the supplemental data? Watch out for the monsters though."

Does lack of access to mobile phones inhibit women’s representation in phone surveys? When men manage the household phone, is it hard to access women? During the pandemic, we IDinsight conducted 7 household phone surveys in rural India targeting women: ⬇️ what we found (1/10) 🧵

Great work documenting the transmission dynamics of COVID-19 in Kenya; impact on different SES groups of the population and estimates of proportion of pop exposed: "COVID-19 transmission dynamics underlying epidemic waves in Kenya" science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Afrophobia

New from The Lancet Global Health Effect of universal HIV testing and treatment on socioeconomic wellbeing in rural Kenya and Uganda: a cluster-randomised controlled trial by Aleksandra Jakubowski and colleagues thelancet.com/journals/langl… #openaccess @hthirumurthy

Get up. Make some tea. Check the covid numbers. Ensure Zellensky is still alive. Commence day. We are truly living in wild times.

There's a website where Poles have been registering their offers of help for Ukrainians. This is what it looks like in Google Maps.

I'm delighted to share that I will join Northeastern U. this fall as an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Health Sciences and Economics. Thanks to my wonderful mentors @tedmiguel Harsha Thirumurthy Margaret E. Kruk for their support. Excited for this next chapter!!

It’s been fun to be back in Ghana this week after taking a pause from fieldwork. Amazing to hear from health workers & participants how they felt about our pilot intervention to support pregnant women & engage partners in ANC. Now on to grant writing to scale up!! #globalhealth

I feel grateful that one of my dissertation papers has been published & is now accessible to a broader audience. Thankful to my mentors & co-authors for their support. #mentalhealth #gender #whenwomeneatlast #genderinequality onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/mc…

It's almost jm season! It's 10 years post-jm for me, so here are the 10 tips that would have helped me the most.

I spent some time today putting together thoughts for someone interested in the evidence on how to help low income countries (LICs) grow and I thought there might be wider interest so here goes a thread. Achieving a higher growth rate is the holy grail of econ but...1/many

Possibly the most important news of the year, which won’t make it to your news app: first vaccine approved to fight malaria cut deaths among young children by 13% over nearly 4 years. This is *massive*. science.org/content/articl…