A #carbon tax will not curb current #emissions in sub-Saharan #Africa and is unlikely to prevent future carbon lock-in effects. Meanwhile, a carbon tax could hit the poor in this region. READ: nature.com/articles/s4155…

The macro-rebound in energy efficiency interventions is important yet hard to study, they say. Here's our attempt to model & evaluate what happens on the "macro" (i.e. community) level after promotion of energy-efficient biomass cookstoves in Rwanda. academic.oup.com/wber/advance-a…

The State of Development Journals 2025: Quality, Acceptance Rates, Review Times, Open Access, and What’s New blogs.worldbank.org/en/impactevalu…

🆕 Understanding the re-emerging effects of cash transfers 12 years on Today on VoxDev, Jörg Ankel-Peters (Universität Passau) & JulianRose (RWI Leibniz Institute) discuss a new long-term follow-up on a cash grant programme in Uganda: voxdev.org/topic/methods-…

A new long-term follow-up on a cash grant programme in Uganda shows that impacts partly reappear during crisis times, shedding light on the challenges of long-term RCTs. Read today's article w/ Jörg Ankel-Peters (Universität Passau) & JulianRose (RWI Leibniz Institute) to learn more:

Join us RWI Leibniz-Institut & I4R as replicator for a meta-reproduction on deforestation. We pay replicators 2,500 EUR. Experience with geocoded data & background in environmental science are assets 1/2. bit.ly/4ke2p6o

Perhaps of interest if you are into replication and environmental topics #metascience2025

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Understanding the re-emerging effects of cash transfers 12 years on Last month on VoxDev, Jörg Ankel-Peters (Universität Passau) & JulianRose (RWI Leibniz Institute) discussed a new long-term follow-up on a cash grant programme in Uganda: voxdev.org/topic/methods-…

We have updates concerning this thread. The original article was retracted by the publisher, the author released a new response, the replicators briefly responded, and the author responded to response. 🧵

Replication Games @i4replication coming to Berlin! Register here. surveymonkey.ca/r/I4R_Replicat…

We have a new version of our 10-year follow-up on electricity adoption in rural Rwanda. osf.io/96xr8_v2/downl…

We are pleased to announce the 2025 Editors’ Choice Award for the paper “How Much Should We Trust Instrumental Variable Estimates in Political Science? Practical Advice Based on 67 Replicated Studies” by apoorva.lal, Mackenzie Lockhart, Yiqing Xu, and Gary ziwen_Zu.

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