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When helping, remember: it's not about you. When people are in challenging situations, they need to realize that they can overcome obstacles and grow through their efforts. Any intervention should enhance their sense of capability, not undermine it by attributing success to an

How to empower women in extreme poverty? New results from Niger: boosting interpersonal agency had broader effects than promoting personal initiative. Highlights the importance of “cultural wisdom”. documents.worldbank.org/en/publication… #SahelASP World Bank Research Partnership for Economic Inclusion (PEI)

What do we learn from a new review of social protection programs for youth (ages 15-24)? 9 takeaways for policy and for future research documents.worldbank.org/en/publication… from @CaridadAraujo, Baird, Saini Das, @BerkOzler12, luca parisotto, Prof. Tassew Woldehanna

Agency isn’t just about achieving goals. It’s about the simple steps we take everyday to move towards our objectives. For Ester Agasha, the key question is how? How are we enabled, whether through finance, behavior or motivation, to get the outcomes we want? Hear more from

We all know that organizations struggle with siloed problem-solving. But in the social sector, the even bigger challenge may be that organizations are siloed from one another. To find big solutions, we all need to step out of our comfort zones and share space and time with other

Everyone should get to share equally in the gains of AI. But how can we achieve that when, around the world, 2.7 billion people don’t have access to the internet? Ask Viamo Anything (AVA) is a generative AI-powered companion that operates through voice calls. This means that

Economic behavior is triggered by many different wirings in our brains, says economist Kaushik Basu. And policymakers must be attuned to that.

We are seeking innovative projects that align with our mission and values. We want to hear from you if you have a project that: ➡️will engage more than 1,000 users ➡️will help people update their beliefs, perspectives, or mental models; and have a way to demonstrate this ➡️will

Thank you The Agency Fund for the support - and now happy to retweet to add that we just got a revision requested (R&R) from the Journal of Political Economy!🔥 Reading the feedback and loving how the refs and editor valued that this research was implemented and tested repeatedly

We worked with the government of Rio de Janeiro to test the impact of publicly provided daycare. nber.org/papers/w30653 Among the most sustained impacts, seven years later? Children were taller: care with nutrition in the early years really matters.

🚨New article🚨 In this paper with Matthew Jukes, we examine when gender differences in socioemotional skills emerge and explore the socioeconomic/cultural determinants of these skills. We use Young Lives data with a comprehensive set of skill measures. Just out in Journal of Development Studies (JDS).

Do chatbots speak your language? Many of our partners work in communities that speak indigenous Indic and African languages. This creates a major challenge for the deployment of AI in the social sector, because the major LLM providers haven’t developed operating capacity in

Why numbers are sometimes better than words. What people think you say when you say “little chance,” “probably not,” or “highly likely.”

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In both policy and research, agency tends to be understood in terms of personal freedom: the absence of social constraints. The problem with this view is that it misses perhaps the most important aspect of human agency, which is that it is built socially. This presents us with

Society for Personality and Social Psychology and psychologists in the Intervention Science community, do you want to partner with organizations to design psychological interventions to solve social problems? Apply now for the The Agency Fund's $10,000 Agency Intervention Innovations Award and get matched with an org!

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🎬 Trailer: Taking the Alternative Path Across East Africa, young women are forging their own paths. They are ambitious entrepreneurs, dreamers, and changemakers. But many face barriers—unfinished schooling, financial hardship, and limited opportunities. youtube.com/watch?v=Rvibz4…

Meaning may be healthier than happiness. 23-year study: A sense of purpose is a more robust predictor of longevity than life satisfaction. Having worthwhile goals is a source of vitality. It’s nice to feel happy today. It’s important to have something to strive for tomorrow.

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