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Thanksgiving edition, by Jeff Mosenkis of Innovations for Poverty Action Image via FlickrTo make your cooking or holiday travel go a little faster IPA has our 2018 Great Holiday Travel Podcast Playlist up!Also if you’re killing time, read the abstracts from Jennifer Doleac’s thread of job market papers from women job candidates. I’m just going to drop you into the long thread here, at this dramatic paper from Jagori Saha showing how social protection programs in times of drought can save girls’ lives in India.IPA’s Peace and Recovery program has a postdoc opportunity for working with Chris Blattman and a great team building evidence on reducing violence (broadly defined), deadline for applying Nov 26th! Some examples of the work Chris is doing himself in this video (though the post-doc
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Thanksgiving edition, by Jeff Mosenkis of Innovations for Poverty Action Image via FlickrTo make your cooking or holiday travel go a little faster IPA has our 2018 Great Holiday Travel Podcast Playlist up!Also if you’re killing time, read the abstracts from Jennifer Doleac’s thread of job market papers from women job candidates. I’m just going to drop you into the long thread here, at this dramatic paper from Jagori Saha showing how social protection programs in times of drought can save girls’ lives in India.IPA’s Peace and Recovery program has a postdoc opportunity for working with Chris Blattman and a great team building evidence on reducing violence (broadly defined), deadline for applying Nov 26th! Some examples of the work Chris is doing himself in this video (though the post-doc
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Jeff Mosenkis (IPA) considers the following as important: aid, Charity, Crime, culture, development, Economics, job, links, miscellany, natural resources, news, podcast, podcasts, Research
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Thanksgiving edition, by Jeff Mosenkis of Innovations for Poverty Action
- To make your cooking or holiday travel go a little faster IPA has our 2018 Great Holiday Travel Podcast Playlist up!
- Also if you’re killing time, read the abstracts from Jennifer Doleac’s thread of job market papers from women job candidates. I’m just going to drop you into the long thread here, at this dramatic paper from Jagori Saha showing how social protection programs in times of drought can save girls’ lives in India.
- IPA’s Peace and Recovery program has a postdoc opportunity for working with Chris Blattman and a great team building evidence on reducing violence (broadly defined), deadline for applying Nov 26th!
- Some examples of the work Chris is doing himself in this video (though the post-doc can do much more):
- Some examples of the work Chris is doing himself in this video (though the post-doc can do much more):
- In a really great example of how more charities should work, Evidence Action and GiveWell announced together they were stopping fundraising on No Lean Season, the effort that had been a GiveWell top charity. The latest round of data from their gradual scaling-up failed to find the previous effects, and they’re going back to understand what changed.
- And a long read from Bloomberg on the story of the world’s most valuable cobalt mine in the DRC.
- Donate to IPA before Nov 29th and your gift will be matched dollar-for-dollar (up to $50k total)
- Happy Thanksgiving! (Kumail Nanjiani grew up in Pakistan – click through to read the whole thing:)
The greatest Thanksgiving story pic.twitter.com/rY8PLEAIYD
— ryan teague beckwith (@ryanbeckwith) November 21, 2018