Does working while in school pay off? Our new working paper offers the first experimental evidence on the long-term impact of work-study programs—showing sustained gains in formal earnings seven years later. Explore here: https://t.co/7cowpzVgmF #EconTwitter @WorldBank

Are Apps a game changer for women’s business training? See our new blog on this based on a recent study: https://t.co/WjhSPEEOQ8

NBER gender & digital program in 2 weeks (livestreamed); very interesting paper by @diegoubfal @rchlcassidy & Menaal Ebrahim on F2F vs digital delivery of business training for women in #Ethiopia. F2F better on completion but both modes weak on outcomes.

Rethinking Business Training: Digital Challenges and In-Person Advantages for Women. Thanks @Dev_Discourse for an excellent blog on our paper. https://t.co/VQYxef2gHD

Just published online at WBRO: Supporting Women-Led Businesses: Narrative Review of Recent Causal Evidence

Results: 22% completed digital vs. 71% in-person training. Both had limited impact on business outcomes. Highlights complexities of digital scaling, even for a screened sample with smartphone and internet access. With @rchlcassidy mebrahim @WBG_Gender #africa #GenderLab

Can digital training be an efficient solution to train women entrepreneurs? New Results from RCT testing app-based vs. in-person training with a sample of women entrepreneurs who own smartphones and have good access to internet in Ethiopia.

Highlights: 96% response rates in phone surveys, validation of null effect on formal jobs with snapshot from Social Security admin records. https://t.co/6PUDpvyUgO @AndrewBrudevold @africagil @WBG_Gender @poverty_action

Social networks is one of the main job-finding sources (@dmckenzie001 and @ElianaCarranza 2024). Our paper in Labor Economics shows soft-skills training helps recent grads expand job networks and find jobs faster, though effects fade over time. https://t.co/6PUDpvyUgO

News on latest research on #gender and #entrepreneurship: 1. Survey of the causal literature accepted @ World Bank Research Observer! Read the working paper here: https://t.co/YTP1ZB5qPg 2. Don't miss the excellent conference next week at the IDB:

Training entrepreneurs in LMICs can yield high returns, but in-person training costs $. Can we scale training by moving it online? Yes, at least in the short run, says my new paper (w/ @diegoubfal Lafortune & Tessada), just out in Econ. of Ed. Review! 1/

Great new paper by @i4Replication finding high reproducibility rates for top journal articles in economics and pol science, but with robustness checks finding large changes in statistical significance, and coding errors in several papers. We contributed with one replication

Literature review on what works in supporting women-led businesses. Check the new version (motivating graph below): https://t.co/LwWgpUvgO5 #gender #entreprenuership @worldbank @wbg_gender @IFC_org

The @WorldBank presented its new draft Gender strategy at the Ministry of Women of Panama @MujerPma. We received invaluable inputs from the minister @Drajuana_ and her team #WBGenderStrategy

Excelente reunión con el @MIDESPma en el marco de las consultas sobre la Nueva Estrategia de Género del Banco Mundial. Hemos recibido valiosos comentarios sobre la problemática de género en Panamá y los puntos en común con nuestra estrategia global. @WBG_Gender

"Our new playbook will leverage the power of women to drive a more inclusive, resilient, and sustainable future." @WBG_Gender Senior Economist @diegoubfal at the @Women_Rio20 event this past #SDGActionWeekend. Full replay: https://t.co/TuRLW3zSch

Little is known about how price affects the demand for business training programs. Diego Ubfal @diegoubfal @WorldBank @wb_research discusses research to estimate the demand for training. https://t.co/B4zlTcU3he #econtwitter #economics

Shall we offer business training programs free of cost or are there benefits from charging a positive price? Check the video prepared by @FacultiNet of our paper in Jamaica with @dmckenzie001 and @almaffioli, @WorldBank @BIDInvest

En las noticias de Uruguay discuten nuestra evaluación del programa de estudio y trabajo que venimos estudiando. Espero que estas intervenciones se repliquen en el resto de la región ya que muestran efectos muy positivos incluso para las jóvenes @WBG_Gender @BancoMundialLAC

This is just to clarify (in case you did not read my second tweet) that results in the paper were robust to all our checks, and that the minor coding error did not affect the conclusions. Thanks again to the authors for a great paper and for a transparent scientific reply!