Join Arianna Legovini and Maria Jones at the launch of the DIME Data Handbook on July 14 to hear Lars Vilhuber 🇺🇦 @tedmiguel Marshall Burke and Ruth E Levine is on Substack discuss the production, use and dissemination of transparent, high-quality data in development economics. worldbank.org/en/events/2021…

I'm excited to share that SurveyCTO is rolling out a grant program to help support graduate students collecting primary data. Learn more and apply at surveycto.com/data-collectio…

Despite the growing importance of managing data work, little practical guidance is available for practitioners to the conventions, standards, and best practices that are a necessity for empirical research. Development Research in Practice fills that gap: wrld.bg/HCbv50Fz9VA

We’ve just added built-in citation support to GitHub so researchers and scientists can more easily receive acknowledgments for their contributions to software. Just push a CITATION.cff file and we’ll add a handy widget to the repo sidebar for you. Enjoy! 🎉

Development Research in Practice: The DIME Analytics Data Handbook is intended to teach all users of development data how to handle data effectively, efficiently, and ethically. Want to learn more, read here: wrld.bg/OzUD50FQF2W

But I don't blame them. I also had to learn that lesson. Because most of us grow up in an educational system that grades us on our first try, instead of pushing us to do the same thing over multiple times. 9/N

We're hiring again! DIME is hiring 16 consultants to support our global portfolio of impact evaluations, including research assistants, pre-docs, field coordinators and data scientists. More details at datanalytics.worldbank.org/dime-recruitme…

After spending a long time writing a book, we're back to writing Stata packages! iefieldkit version 2.1 is out, with a very useful feature to create datasets and codebooks for reproducibility packages. @_bbdaniels Kristoffer Bjärkefur

🚨We're hiring🚨 DIME is looking to hire 27 (!) consultants to work on our impact evaluations all over the world as Research Assistants, Pre-Docs, and Field Coordinators. Applications close on March 14. More details on the link worldbank.org/en/research/di…

Interested in remote Primary Data Collection or Monitoring and Evaluation? Do not miss out on the upcoming Manage Successful Impact Evaluations Surveys course organized by DIME Analytics! Registration deadline on May 20th. Register now! wrld.bg/yjZk50IY2m7

Want to make your research is reproducible? Check out what DIME has learned from 55 reproducibility checks: blogs.worldbank.org/impactevaluati…

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Learn more about DIME’s reproducibility practices next week!

#econtwitter Had data quality issues with a survey? Struggled with high frequency checks? Fill out DIME’s short survey survey.wb.surveycto.com/collect/hfc_sh…. Results will go on the Development Impact blog and guide a user-friendly open-source tool currently under development by DIME Analytics.

I blog today about a new feature, where we have made it easy to make user-written commands in Stata 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 reproducible. This reduces the complexity of setting the ado-path into a single line of code. blogs.worldbank.org/impactevaluati…

This is great writeup on workflow management! I have also written a few articles on this topic: medium.com/the-stata-guid… Here are two that help you streamline your research 👇

World Bank has taken advantage of the explosion in data and AI analytics to generate just-in-time policy advice and analysis for our client countries. Join Esther Duflo, Arianna Legovini, and me on May 1 as we explore new and revolutionary approaches to development.

The need to abolish undemocratic forms of government in Europe (and eslewhere) are bigger than ever. Support Republic and anti-monarchy organizations where you live!

I’m now out of the police station. Still waiting for my colleagues. Make no mistake. There is no longer a right to peaceful protest in the UK. I have been told many times the monarch is there to defend our freedoms. Now our freedoms are under attack in his name.