Aletheia Donald
@AletheiaDonald
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On my good days, I study how social norms affect economic outcomes. Economist @WorldBank Gender Lab. Opinions my own or borrowed from someone who said it better
Washington, DC
Joined July 2016
RT @JustinSandefur: “Ten insights from development economics research in 2024”. Great list from VoxDev editor @oliverhanney. A few of my fa….
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The National Academy of Sciences just published its first consensus study on women's empowerment and socioeconomic development. It presents a new conceptual framework, summarizes the evidence and sets an agenda for future research. I hope you find our work useful 👇🏼.
Just released! Our new report looks to advance the state of knowledge on the impact of women’s empowerment and associated population dynamics on socioeconomic development. Learn more:
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Check out our VoxDev blog post on our new paper w/ @markusgold ⤵️. We pool data from 6 RCTs of successful business training & land titling programs and find +ve fertility impacts, driven by women w/o sons pre-program.
🆕 How development programmes impact fertility rates in Africa. @AletheiaDonald @WorldBankAfrica, Tricia Koroknay-Palicz @wb_research & @MathildeSage @Paris_Dauphine outline evidence on the impacts of boosting African women's income & wealth on fertility:
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The new MAGNET site is up!. It’s a resource center housing 20+ new tools to measure agency, which will be regularly updated as we continue analysis of measurement properties across multiple contexts. Check it out ⤵️.
The 🆕 #MAGNETinitiative website includes tools to measure 3⃣ dimensions of women’s agency, or ability to make strategic life choices. Learn more: Read what the MAGNET team is saying about these tools: @CarenGrown @AletheiaDonald @MariaHdzdB @Cheryl_Doss
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RT @OKodila: Un article qui défie ce que certains pensent connaitre de la RDC. Congratulation @sararlowes @AletheiaDonald ! .
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(May 2024) - Extended family members can help women with childcare. Using data from 32 sub-Saharan African countries, we find that the prevalence of nuclear families relative to extended families is...
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RT @leightjessica: Fascinating webinar today w/researchers from @ifpri @worldbank @AletheiaDonald presenting new quantitative measure of ti….
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RT @DENeB_Berlin: 📢 Summer Seminar Series starting soon! Mark your calendars: First seminar is April 22, 1pm CET. Our lineup includes @domi….
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RT @KateVyborny: Our World Bank SAR-GIL team is recruiting for 2 STC positions based in Pakistan. We are looking for candidates with prior….
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RT @ssrc_org: Starting now, @sdellav of College and University Fund member @UCBerkeley & @BerkeleyHaas joins us to speak about Bottlenecks….
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The World Bank’s Africa Gender Lab is hiring a consultant to support the impact evaluation of a new childcare project in Benin. Candidate must have a Master’s degree, strong Stata skills & data collection management experience. Apply by February 18th!
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To top it all off, @DaveEvansPhD will present a review of how childcare affects children's outcomes, discussed by @Gen_Pov.
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@selimgulesci will then present on childcare, labor supply & business development in Uganda, w/ discussion by @sararlowes.
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Next up: 'The Effects of Childcare on Women and Children: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in Burkina Faso' presented by @KEstellos & discussed by @EmmaRiley19.
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If you're attending #ASSA2024, come check out our session! 'The Economic Impacts of Childcare For Men, Women and Children' chaired by @AlessandraVoena.
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Florian’s blog is out on Development Impact—and more importantly, he is on the job market! I can’t say enough about how brilliant Florian is, and he has an A+ sense of humor to boot. I would work with him on every project if I could. Any employer would be lucky to have him!.
Come Together: Employment Decisions and Joint Commuting in Urban Côte d’Ivoire: Today's job market post by @florian_grosset shows big increases in job take-up and retention when workers can commute with a friend
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RT @bijurao: Video of the wonderful talk given by @mlamont6 at @wb_research on her book “Seeing Others” which is about the centrally impor….
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Acclaimed Harvard sociologist Michèle Lamont makes the case for reexamining what we value to prioritize recognition—the quest for respect—in an age that has been defined by growing inequality and the...
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RT @CGDev: Next week, join @CGDev & @WPolicyCenter to explore the Equality within Our Lifetimes database & what it tells us about gender eq….
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The @WorldBankAfrica Gender Innovation Lab is hiring an ETC Economist to work on gender and entrepreneurship, access to capital, labor markets and/or childcare. Apply by November 9th! 🗓️.
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The World Bank's Africa Gender Innovation Lab is hiring a Research Analyst to support an impact evaluation of rural childcare in the DRC. Come work with us! Details at the link ⤵️.
@AletheiaDonald Julia Vaillant and I are hiring for a RA position for on-going work on childcare in the DRC. Please apply! The deadline is November 10. Application instructions here: .@econ_ra.
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