Elsa Valli

Economists wanted! 📊🌍 We’re expanding our roster of high-quality economists. Experience with impact evaluations in complex rural settings? Strong survey data analysis skills? Spatial data expertise? Multiple UN languages? 👉 Apply to work with our team. lnkd.in/eXgazEiH

.@RALdeGroot @JennYablonski @ValliElsa use a DiD approach to document the impacts on young child nutrition outcomes & underlying determinants of a cash transfer programme in Ghana read more: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Substantial UCT impacts at 4-years, fade out at 7-years due to both catch-up of C + fade out of T group * Small + temp $$ was not "enough" to escape poverty for ultra-poor in 🇿🇲 @ashudirect @tembogel @luisanatali @AveriChakrabar1 @TransferProjct sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

What is abduction marriage and why does it persist in some communities? In this WP, @lindseyknovak and I combine econometric and qualitative methods to address these questions focusing in Ethiopia, where it affects around 10% of married women. Let's dive into the findings!🧵1/N

Check out @SP_Gateway's "In Case You Missed It" blog featuring recent papers and webinars from PRESTO's @TiaPalermo & Maja Gavrilovic on gender and #socialprotection. Read the blog here: socialprotection.org/discover/blog/…

🌍 New study in #JDevStudies: Savings programs in 🇪🇹 boost food security, improving dietary diversity for women & children. 📈 Empowering women enhances communities! 👉🏽Dig deeper: doi.org/10.1080/002203… @carecanada

Check out fantastic new overview of #evidence on #cashtransfers #cashplus 👉 most evidence on #cash only, #cashplus catching up! 👉 lots on access to #edcation #income #expenditures #foodsecurity, surprisingly little on #gender interactive map 👉 socialprotection.org/cash-transfers…

There is evidence of heterogeneous #CashPlus impacts under conditions of weather shocks & between socio-economic segments of the population in 🇸🇴 .@ValliElsa @IFAD presents this evidence: slideshare.net/TheTransferPro…

Congrats to @A_Peterman, @ValliElsa, and @TiaPalermo for publishing one of @ChicagoJournals Economic Development and Cultural Change’s most read and most cited articles! Check out the paper: journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.108…

The #climate crisis hits women, the rural poor and older people harder, a new @FAO report finds. Climate events such as heatwaves and floods affect rural women and men differently widening the already existing income gaps. Read more ⬇️#UnjustClimate fao.org/newsroom/detai…

LIVE NOW Join the launch of the new @FAO report #UnjustClimate - Measuring the impacts of climate change on the rural poor, women and youth twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…

Have you listened to the latest @SP_Gateway podcast on ‘Gender-Transformative Social Protection’ yet? PRESTO senior researcher Maja Gavrilovic discusses what it means if a social protection program is gender blind versus gender aware. 🎧Listen now: socialprotection.org/learn/podcasts…

.@RALdeGroot @JennYablonski @ValliElsa use a DiD approach to document the impacts on young child nutrition outcomes & underlying determinants of a #CashTransfer program in 🇬🇭 Read more: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

"There is a growing momentum to expand sex-disaggregated data systems for informed decision-making." Check out a new report & brief (from PRESTO researchers @TiaPalermo & @SavageWithin) on gender and social protection, produced through the @STAAR_Facility.

Fiscal resources are key to tackling urban poverty. Cuesta & @mnkdanquah show that while 🇬🇭's LEAP program transfers less than GHS 34 mil (US$7.6 mil)/yr, ending extreme poverty in 🇬🇭 would require spending around GHS 1,800 mil ($400 mil). 🔎onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.11…

@SavageWithin @FAO @Ugentilini Every year you get in the top of the year!! Congratulations!