Do cash transfers (CTs) cause price inflation?💸➡️📈 Excited to share a new Evidence Brief joint with @Ugentilini reviewing 12 studies of CTs on price changes in LMICs that offer practical insights for researchers and policymakers. Check it out: hdl.handle.net/10568/177175

Thank you @leightjessica and @JEAllenIV for hosting me at @IFPRI last week! It was amazing to interact with your stellar community -- very excited to have IFPRI folks as key movers and shakers in @ideadevecon!

Development economics finally has a global professional home. Today we launch @ideadevecon ... Open to every development economist, everywhere. Join the community: idea.devecon.org Please share 🌍

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Why do households often prefer men—not women—to take paid jobs, even when women could earn more? A new paper by @JEAllenIV, Daniel Gilligan, Sikandra Kurdi, Nada Shokry & Basma Yassa use experimental survey evidence to measure gendered work norms in #Egypt. 📄 hdl.handle.net/10568/178587 #IWD2026 #ForAllWomenAndGirls #WithScienceWeCan @CGIAR @CGIARgender

From yesterday's 84°F and balmy to today's 30°F and snowy, DC weather is really putting the CHANGE in climate change. 😩

By providing doorstep services such as diagnosis and treatment of childhood illnesses, health promotion, and referrals, community health workers (CHWs) are widely viewed as a promising and cost-effective way to extend health systems to underserved populations. 🔍 How should these programs be structured to achieve the greatest health gains where resources are severely limited? Learn more in this blog by @JEAllenIV: on.cgiar.org/4r2alvD @CGIAR @IFPRI_Africa @IFPRIMalawi

🆕 #Blog: When caseloads matter: Community health workers, home visits, and child survival in Mali 🖊️ By @JEAllenIV. 🖱️Read more here: on.cgiar.org/4r2alvD @CGIAR @IFPRIAfrica

Live footage of me working on paper revisions before re-submitting. #runningupthathill #econtwitter

Because of me, a journal submission page now says "Selected submissions are currently experiencing intermittent issues on the services page. If you encounter an error, please wait for a short period before trying to proceed." So this is what it feels like to make a difference.🦸

Today's @IFPRI Applied Micro & Development speaker is Baafra Abeberese (Wellesley College) on “Court Efficiency, Contract Enforcement and Informality" w/ @rchaurey 🧑‍⚖️ Find in India that inefficient courts -> weak contract enforcement -> less incentive to formalize Great talk!

Both #misinformation and #stigma can be barriers for HIV testing and, our research finds, can be worsened inadvertently by community health programs. 😬 Check out @VoxDev article on my research joint w/ @deanyang @HangYu1990 & others: voxdev.org/topic/health/comm… #WorldAIDSDay2025

📝 A recent IFPRI discussion paper explores a lab-in-the-field experiment that assessed conditional cooperation for a new school meals program implemented by @WorldVision in Nampula and Zambezia provinces in rural Mozambique. 🖱️ Learn more in this blog by @JEAllenIV, @NKarachiwalla, and @meanregressive: on.cgiar.org/3XKyEBg @CGIAR

💡50 Years of Innovation to Support Evolving Food Systems🌱 Today on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women #IDEVAW, we highlight IFPRI’s work on how cash transfer programs can help reduce intimate partner violence. Part of our #IFPRI50Innovations series. 🔗 cash-ipv.org/ See more innovations from IFPRI here: ifpri.org/landing/50/#innova… @CGIAR @LSHTM @UNC @UNICEF #IFPRI50 #IFPRI50Innovations

A 🆕 @IFPRI paper & blog joint w/ @NKarachiwalla & @meanregressive! 🤝When asked to support a school meals program, many households reduced contributions as others gave more—opposite of findings from high-income labs. Paper: hdl.handle.net/10568/176850 Blog: ifpri.org/blog/all-in-togeth…

🆕 #Blog All in together? How communities contribute to school meals programs 🖋️ By @JEAllenIV, @NKarachiwalla, and @meanregressive. 🖱️ Read more: on.cgiar.org/3XKyEBg @cgiar.org