Franziska Gassmann

Afghan Women Singing in English for Freedom and Gender Apartheid 🇦🇫 The slogan "My voice is not private" of Afghan women after the Taliban enacted a new law for women and banned women's voices in the media. #Poems_For_Freedom #GenderApartheid #UN

The Taliban has banned Afghan women from showing their faces or speaking out loud in public under strict new laws. @Channel4News Codify #GenderApartheid As A #CrimeAgainstHumanity

Afghan Women Rights Activist Tahmina Salik: With these sounds, and poetry we Afghan women shook the palace of your authoritarian rule and we will destroy it. Afghan women are shared their voices through the poetry for their freedom. #صدای_زن_عورت_نیست #GenderApartheid

Afghan women can now be punished for singing or speaking in public. The Taliban's silencing of women’s voices in Afghanistan is abhorrent. @hrw @WRNAfghanistan #LetUsExist End #GenderApartheid

🚸How do rural roads impact child labor and schooling in 🇪🇹? The study "Rural Roads, Child Labor, and Schooling in Rural 🇪🇹" in #JDevStudies finds that improved road access doesn’t lead to more dropouts or child labor. 👉🏽Read: doi.org/10.1080/002203… @gassmann21 @MaastrichtU

Interested in tracking urbanization trends, conflict areas or economic activity? Discover the potential of @NASA's #BlackMarble #data with our latest blog post, and explore how #R and #Python packages simplify data access and analysis. 🛰️ wrld.bg/wzkN50R5VFP

📢 New free course exploring why & how political institutions affect economic development + applying theories & empirical techniques to real-world examples. More details on this course w/ Abhijit Banerjee & @Ben_Olken: mitxonline.mit.edu/courses/course… Teaser ⤵️ youtube.com/watch?v=zZL2qP…

Join our vibrant and committed @UNICEFSocPolicy network as Chief of Social Policy in @UNICEF_Burundi- lead and exciting and urgent agenda to address child poverty, scale-up social protection and public finance for children. jobs.unicef.org/cw/en-us/job/5…

The Development Impact blog has been slowed down by the World Bank transitioning us to a newer, slower, more cumbersome, platform. But we are up and running with two posts. Here's Gabe Englander on publishing in science journals blogs.worldbank.org/en/impactevalu…

Join our dynamic and vibrant Public Finance for Children team as Public Finance Specialist. Critical agenda to enhance impactful investments across social protetion, health, nutrition, WASH, ECD and more! Apply by March 17th! @UNICEFSocPolicy @orriagoni jobs.unicef.org/cw/en-us/job/5…

Most countries don't provide granular data on economic activity. Luckily, there are a range of geospatial datasets we can use as proxies. Here's a list of the best (free) resources for estimating sub-national economic activity:

This is a must-read. A powerful critique of mainstream economics coming from Angus Deaton, a recent Nobel Prize winner in economics who has spent most of his career within the mainstream. He highlights five major deficiencies of mainstream economics, and they are spot on: the neglect of power structures in economic analyses, the marginalisation of philosophical issues, the obsession with efficiency, the narrow interpretation of empirical methods and the blind fixation on inferential statistics, and the lack of humility vis-a-vis other social sciences. imf.org/en/Publication…

Social protection for inclusive climate action!🌱 Learn how #IDAworks to use social protection instruments to improve climate resilience and protect the most vulnerable people from climate-related shocks. wrld.bg/TNTg50QMzGI

A new validation method shows that people systematically misreport subjective well-being, which means caution is warranted when using such survey responses as welfare measures, from @JamesAndreoni, B. Douglas Bernheim, and Tingyan Jia nber.org/papers/w32208

How to make sure funds for school meals are used well? sciencedirect.com/science/articl… "A transparency intervention in the Colombian School Meals Program significantly changed the behavior of powerful operators. The intervention consisted of informal audits & text messages to parents."

Calling PhD scholars interested in social policy and welfare studies 😃👇 I look forward to some inspiring days 🤓📚

"Towards improved and more transparent ethics in randomised controlled trials in development social science" tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Cash transfers are an anti-#poverty tool using prediction models that reach a billion people worldwide. Are they targeting the right households? Stephan Dietrich @MalerbaDaniele & @gassmann21 develop a assessment framework: bit.ly/3Subyx7 @UNUMERIT @IDOS_research

According to the @WorldBank #COVID19 Household Monitoring Dashboard, households in poorer countries were less likely to report receiving govt assistance, & more likely to resort to coping strategies w/ damaging consequences to #poverty and social mobility. wrld.bg/UKPV50QkNrg