Our new #McNamaraFellowship cohort kicks off this week! From hands-on research to policy impact, watch past #RSMFP fellows share their transformative experiences at the World Bank. 📺worldbank.org/en/news/video/…

“[Algorithms] encode culture. They encode beliefs. They encode worldviews.” ~ Uyi Stewart, keynote speaker and Chief Data and Technology Officer at data.org blogs.worldbank.org/en/opendata/ho… via World Bank Data

Join DIME’s flagship course on conducting field research, now available as e-learning. The largely self-paced course kicks off with a keynote by Arianna Legovini Great for researchers, graduate students, m&e professionals, development practitioners. Please share with your networks!

I will be kicking off the Reproducible Research Fundamentals course on September 30, 9-10AM with a in-person conversation with Aart Kraay (Chief Economist, Prosperity,WB), Andrew Dabalen (Chief Economist, Africa, WB), and Jochen Kluve (Director of Evaluation, KfW). Can we do even

Why reproduce the results of papers before they are published? We cannot afford to provide inaccurate information that could negatively impact policies and the individuals affected by them. Our experience shows that only 16% of results, graphs, and charts reproduce as reported.

🌱 How might irrigation affect farmers’ profits? Maria Jones Florence Kondylis John Loeser and J-PAL affiliate Jeremy Magruder explore the impacts of irrigation access in Rwanda: bit.ly/3zODTHP

Ready to increase your skills and research profile in doing high-quality field research? More than +5k people—1k more than last year— have already signed up for our Manage Successful Field Research e-learning course, led by DIME Analytics: wbginstitute.learnworlds.com/course/manage-…

Learn about the World Bank’s experience introducing reproducible research standards : hdsr.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/jn90uuur

I'm glad I don't have to write an endorsement piece, because I really wouldn't know how to go about it. Ever since 2015, when Trump descended the escalator, I have had the same feeling, which I've never quite seen articulated, so I will briefly try:

Jennifer Lopez: I am Puerto Rican and yes I was born here, and we are Americans. I am a mother. I am a sister. I am an actress and I like Hollywood endings and I like it when the good guy, or in this case the good girl wins. And with an understanding of our past, and our faith in

Governments all over the world face complex development challenges. Better collection and data analytics can help the regions. Be part of the government analytics revolution. 📢 Apply to the Government Analytics Fellowship by January 10, 2025: survey.wb.surveycto.com/collect/ga_fel…

Exciting new working paper from @I on assessing reproducibility with LLMs! I contributed as part of one of the AI-led teams—fascinating insights, but it’s clear we can’t let AI handle replication for us just yet. Worth a read! 🔍📄

Deadline extended to March 3! Reproducibility is the key to transparency, accountability, and trust in research. Build a solid foundation for credible, impactful work with our free and self-paced Reproducible Research Fundamentals course. Register here wrld.bg/gzSv50ULQQu

That's a wrap! Many thanks to our amazing speakers & FAIR-The Choice Lab for co-funding the 13th BITSS Annual Meeting. Great discussions on meta-research, results reporting, and reproducibility. Carson Christiano Stuart Buck Maria Jones Stefano DellaVigna

🚨 New Special Issue Alert! 🚨 This special issue of Economic Inquiry on reproducibility & replicability in economics is co-edited by Farasat Bokhari, Michalis Drouvelis and our chair, Abel Brodeur. This is Part I, focusing on methodological advances and key challenges. 🧵👇

Join us for a conversation on impact: a paradigm shift on how knowledge can drive progress and change.

Just released: a new tool for data quality checks from DIME Analytics! iehfc has lots of checks (consistency, outliers, enumerator checks) and requires no coding. It uses free, open-source software (r, but can create stata code on back end) Learn more: blogs.worldbank.org/en/impactevalu…

Opening of Africa LEADS World Bank with Indermit Gill, Ousmane Diagana & Ethiopis Tafara to adapt and scale investments for high impact by leveraging public private partnerships in energy , agriculture, education and public finance. #AfricaLEADS #DevImpact

This new paper in Science exemplifies exactly the kind of Dev Econ research I get excited by. Building blocks for initiatives that could be truly transformative for welfare. Great summary thread below Huge congrats to Aprajit Mahajan and all coauthors!

We did not want to start the week like this, but here we are. Yet again our chair’s inbox is filled with messages from replicators who have opened “replication” folders only to find names, Social Insurance Numbers, mental-health diagnoses and incomes of study participants. 🧵