Dean Karlan

With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility: Advice for the New US Aid Team cgdev.org/blog/great-pow… @DouthatNYT

What’s at stake as the US steps back from global health leadership, and who could fill the void? Join Dean Karlan, Margaret Kruk, and Zaher Sahloul as they answer those questions and more on 4/8 in partnership with @UChicagoKiphart and in conjunction with @WHO's #WorldHealthDay. A reception will follow the program. bit.ly/4dvJ0hp

I joined @catherinecheney on @devex's Global Progress in the AI Era, along with colleagues @deankarlan and Temina Madon, to discuss AI for development and why and how evidence should be a critical part of the journey. Many thanks to all three for the engaging conversation. Give it a listen below. Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/7cv6Gk… Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/glo… Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/devex-intl/glo… YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=TZ_Es8…

Today is World Health Day. The global holiday marks the founding of the World Health Organization (WHO) and brings attention to urgent public health concerns. For its 76th celebration, the WHO is recognizing the importance of scientific collaboration in protecting the health of people, animals, plants, and the planet. The Council is pleased to be partnering with @UChicagoKiphart to host @NorthwesternU’s @deankarlan, @washumedicine’s Margaret Kruk, and @MedGlobalOrg President @sahloul for a conversation on the state of global health leadership tomorrow evening, April 8. We invite you to join us in person or online. bit.ly/4dvJ0hp

The Graduation approach began as small pilots. Today, it has reached 6.7 million households across multiple countries, with impacts that last for years after. A decade after the pivotal study that showed Graduation's potential, the Partnership for Economic Inclusion has released a new survey on the global landscape of Graduation programs - explore the findings (PDF): bit.ly/3OmRzRn @BRACworld

.@deankarlan redefining paper highlights: "In a Blank Space of rural finance, new platforms quietly entered. Fearless farmers invest when digital credit is carefully tailored. But Out of the Woods we are not - lending seems best when swift."

Studying how the expectation of aid changes behavior in the context of cash transfers in Uganda, from @achadhvaryu, Jean-François Gauthier, @PJakiela, and @deankarlan nber.org/papers/w34857

Podcast with @SpencrGreenberg and me talking about foreign aid, philanthropy, and USAID on how organizations can use cost-effectiveness thinking! And what we had been doing to reform USAID in those directions podcast.clearerthinking.org/episode/296/de…

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Can simple reminder emails nudge people to save more? BCFG’s research into this question was recently featured in a @KelloggSchool article: insight.kellogg.northwestern.edu/article/can-em…

How group coaching makes graduation programmes more cost-effective @emily_beam @uvmvermont, L Brune @NU_GPRL, @gamblingondev @BlavatnikSchool, @deankarlan @KelloggSchool, @ashley_pople @wb_research, @chrisudry @NUEconomics & @roccozizzamia @ODID_QEH: voxdev.org/topic/social-p…

Thanks @danbanik for the engaging and thoughtful conversation!

How group coaching makes graduation programmes more cost-effective @emily_beam @uvmvermont, L Brune @NU_GPRL, @gamblingondev @BlavatnikSchool, @deankarlan @KelloggSchool, @ashley_pople @wb_research, @chrisudry @NUEconomics & @roccozizzamia @ODID_QEH: voxdev.org/topic/social-p…

I think we can do better. Again, I expand a bit more over on the linked network 👇

Why does the US military run elementary schools? Is that mission creep? Unnecessary overhead? Waste? Nope. Soldiers have families, so to have an effective military, bases need schools. Could you pay for only guns and tanks, sure. Would you get the same outcome? Probably not.

The State Department's new America First Global Health Strategy is out, focused on providing smaller, more focused, and limited supplies to fight several infectious diseases. I have most of my thoughts over on the other place, but a couple below as well.

🆕 Doing more with less: Why foreign aid should prioritise foundational learning now On VoxDev, by @angrist_noam @BlavatnikSchool, Pia Britto @UNICEF, @gamblingondev @Oxford_CSAE, @MichelleKaffs @WWHGlobalEd, @deankarlan & @benlpiper @gatesfoundation ⤵️ voxdev.org/topic/educatio…