In a Bloomberg piece, Dr. Kate Orkin discusses policy options for countries during the pandemic and how many arguments against cash transfers are not supported by rigorous evidence.
The MBRG's Kate Orkin and co-authors partnered with the South African NGO to study how information from soft skills assessments could be shared to alleviate labour market frictions between firms and young workseekers. Click for a VoxDev summary of results.
Research by the MBRG's Kate Orkin and collaborator Anett John was published in the June 2022 issue of the Journal of European Economic Association. See here for the policy note.
Dr Greg Walton and Dr Kate Orkin discuss 'wise interventions', and how social science can use this psychologically approach to understand the major problems in social life - poverty, social exclusion, child abuse, and discrimination.
Thiemo Fetzer, Lukas Hensel and Cristopher Roth study how the arrival of the new coronavirus leads to an increase in economic anxieties both through inferred patterns around Google search activity and through a survey experiment in a representative sample from the US.
Online searches for recession and survivalism topics are increasing, a sign that a dramatic slowdown in growth is likely, write Thiemo Fetzer, Lukas Hensel, and Christopher Roth.
The rapid and global spread of the new coronavirus within just a few months is threatening to infect the global economy, new research by Lukas Hensel has found.
Dr Greg Walton and Dr Kate Orkin discuss 'wise interventions', and how social science can use this psychologically approach to understand the major problems in social life - poverty, social exclusion, child abuse, and discrimination.
In his weekly links for the Development Impact blog, David McKenzie features an MBRG measurement matters series post from Lukas Hensel on measuring income expectations using phone surveys.
Marta Grabowska features in the World Bank's Weekly Links blog with her Measures Matter post on psychometric validation for non-cognitive skills.