April 23, 2010
Esther Duflo for the win!
UPDATE from this morning's blog post about the John Bates Clark Medal: Esther Duflo was announced as the winner of the prestigious award. Congratulations from all at IPA!
April 23, 2010
WSJ blog post handicaps the Clark Medal
The John Bates Clark Medal is one of the most prestigious awards a young economist can win (some would say second only to the Nobel). And in fact, it has a reputation as a "Baby Nobel" because of how many awardees have gone on to win that prize as well.
April 19, 2010
Attention Program Implementers! 3ie issues call for programs to be evaluated
3ie, the International Initiative for Impact Evaluation, has released a call for proposals for programs to be evaluated. Unlike 3ie's Open Window, in which researchers submit evaluation proposals, this Policy Window is a call for government agencies and NGOs from developing countries to propose programs worth evaluating. 3ie will then issue RFPs to potential researchers for bids to evaluate the winning entries.
April 12, 2010
Have you read our latest newsletter?
IPA just released its latest newsletter, which provides a well-timed summary of the results of the recent microcredit impact evaluations, as well as information that reminds us that there are many "impact" quest
April 9, 2010
More debate on measuring the impact of microfinance
The debate over the impact of access to microcredit continues, with a group of practitioners entering the fray with the publication of "Measuring the Impact of Microfinance: Our Perspective." The release of this document, which is signed by Acción International, FINCA, Grameen Foundation, Opportunity International, Unitus, and Women´s World Banking, accompanies an Add new comment, Read more
April 7, 2010
Adventures in online adverstising, part II
Among the acronyms, FAI fared the best, outperforming Princeton, Harvard, and Yale. J-PAL narrowly edged out its counterpart IPA, and was right on the heels of Ivies Princeton and Harvard. But before any acronym organization gets too excited, we must note there was no significant difference between real and impostor acronyms. Although J-PAL and FAI marginally outperformed their impostors, IPA actually had a slightly lower click-through rate than "impostor" ITA. These findings unfortunately temper our enthusiasm at IPA and its fellow research groups apparently having