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Searching for the Devil in the Details: Learning about Development Program Design - Working Paper 434

Sara Nadel
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August 03, 2016
Motivated by our experience in designing a particular social program, skill set signaling for new entrants to the labor market in Peru, we articulate the need for, and explore the empirical consequences of, alternative learning approaches to the design of development projects. We suggest that projec...
Blog Post

Mapping the Worm Wars: What the Public Should Take Away from the Scientific Debate about Mass Deworming

July 30, 2015
It was a big deal when various media outlets declared last week that the evidence to support mass deworming had been “debunked.” The debate now is not about whether children sick with worms should get treated (everyone says yes), but whether the mass treatment of all kids — includi...