Great effort by our team that acted swiftly to collect data on the COVID-19 experiences of households and businesses in rural Kenya

New preprint out from a project I have been working on, showing very limited mask use in Kenya (via observations) despite self-reports that masks are almost always used (via phone surveys).

🚨 Important new paper just out in Science Advances: What were the effects of 2020 COVID lockdowns and disruptions on households in lower income countries? (From 26 co-authors on 3 continents!) Summary/brief: poverty-action.org/publication/co… Full Paper: advances.sciencemag.org/content/7/6/ea…

Read the 20-year follow-up study to @tedmiguel & Michael Kremer's landmark school-based deworming evaluation, published today in PNASNews w/ coauthors Joan Hamory Hicks, Michael Walker, and Sarah Baird: pnas.org/content/pnas/1…

Togo has developed a new, high-tech way to get money to the poorest people affected by the pandemic Download the #peoplefixingtheworld podcast for more: bbc.in/3mbjf9v