Lelys Dinarte-Diaz

Excited to announce that the 15th Annual Meeting of AL CAPONE (America Latina Crime and Policy Network) will be hosted at FGV/EBAPE in Rio de Janeiro on May 28–29! 🌎 @ebape We’re thrilled to have @cblatts as our keynote speaker. Co-organized with @juanf_vargas.

How can we make sure every child is safe at school? Don't miss the chance to submit your research to our upcoming workshop on school-related violence prevention and response. cgdev.org/event/call-pap… Submission deadline is coming up (Wednesday, October 15).

“My parents could barely read or write. It’s been quite a journey, science allows you to do it.” New laureate Omar Yaghi was in the middle of changing flights when we reached him, just after he heard that he had been awarded the 2025 #NobelPrize in Chemistry. In this interview we speak about his early life as a refugee in Jordan and the overwhelming draw of the beauty of chemistry: “I set out to build beautiful things and solve intellectual problems.” Listen now:

@Nicolas_Ajz Que estupendo Nico!! Felicidades

Ahora sí, amigos. Hoy salió mi nuevo libro. Lo conseguís en tu librería amiga (en Argentina, pronto en otros países) y en ebook. Escribí el libro que me hubiera gustado leer cuando estaba eligiendo qué carrera estudiar, cuando empecé a estudiar economía. Me cuentan.

📢 Call for Papers: Research Workshop on School-related Violence Prevention & Response 🗓️Feb 10–11, 2026 | DC | Hosted by @CGDev We invite submissions on drivers, consequences, and solutions to end school-related violence in LMICs. Deadline: Oct 15, 2025. cgdev.org/event/call-pap…

Preschools as a pathway out of poverty: Evidence from Mozambique Last month on VoxDev, Marina Bassi (@wb_research), Bruno Besbas, @ile_din (@wb_research), @saravana_econ (@LKYSch) & Ana Reynoso (@umichECON) discussed a preschool construction programme: voxdev.org/topic/educatio…

In today’s Development Impact Blog, Alaka Holla and I share 5 concrete ways to reduce bias in meta-analyses—drawing on lessons from our global review of preprimary edu. programs. From study selection to analysis, we show how transparency and rigor matter. blogs.worldbank.org/en/impactevalu…

Preschools as a pathway out of poverty: Evidence from Mozambique Last week on VoxDev, Marina Bassi (@wb_research), Bruno Besbas, @ile_din (@wb_research), @saravana_econ (@LKYSch) & Ana Reynoso (@umichECON) discussed a preschool construction programme: voxdev.org/topic/educatio…

A cost-effective at-scale preschool construction programme in Mozambique improved development outcomes of primary-school age children living in extreme deprivation. Read today's article to learn more: x.com/vox_dev/status…

Proud to share our work showing how targeted preschool investments can expand opportunity for the most vulnerable. From 3% preschool enrollment to 73%, an example of how scalable programs can transform kids' futures. Thanks to @vox_dev for helping us disseminate this research!

Don’t forget to submit your papers this weekend! Submission deadline was extended by a week. Selected papers will have the opportunity to get published in a special issue of the JDE! evento.uniandes.edu.co/en/callforpape…

The State of Development Journals 2025: Quality, Acceptance Rates, Review Times, Open Access, and What’s New blogs.worldbank.org/en/impactevalu…

I echo Claudio’s words and want to highlight what an amazing advisor and truly inspiration Pancho has been for us doing PhD in Economics in PUC Chile…which I’m sure he will continue doing ✨

We have had some technical issues with LACEA membership/Oxford abstracts. Therefore we are extending the deadline until next Wednesday June 4th. Get your paper in and come to Recife! @lacea2025 @voxlacea lacea2025.org

The call for papers for the 2025 LACEA conference is out. The conference will be in Recife, Brazil, Nov 20-22 lacea2025.org. Please submit your paper before May 30th @voxlacea @ufpeoficial @pimes_em

Exciting news from Berkeley ARE! 🎉Abdoulaye Cisse will be joining the @WorldBank as a Research Economist starting in 2026, following an academic year as a Visiting Scholar at @Princeton. Congratulations, Abdoulaye! acisse.com #Econwitter

The similarities between Abundance & @karthik_econ's Accelerating India's Development; the need for tinkering, but also for stopping dumb polices - today's blog post is my attempt to draw out common themes and lessons blogs.worldbank.org/en/impactevalu…

@hbejaonline Hernán! Todo bien? Mil gracias 😊

@ile_din Felicitaciones Lelys, más que merecido!

Excited to share my latest research published in the JDE! I investigated how the composition of groups by risk for violence affects outcomes in after-school programs (ASPs). Here is the link followed by a thread: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

@piza_caio Obrigada Caio!! ☺️

@ile_din Parabéns Lelys!!!

@Prof_Nishith_P Thanks Nishith! ☺️

@ile_din Many congratulations!!