Iman Sen

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Can Ethnic Diversity Actually Work? What Women’s Networks in Rural India Reveal by Iman Sen @imansen2 (University of Maryland @UofMaryland) is now live on The Economic Misfit (@EconomicMisfit) Read more here: theeconomicmisfit.com/2026/02/23/can…

Talk about a program at #scale - building sanitation infrastructure & enabling behavior change in a country of 1.4 BILLION. Did it work? @YaleRISE founder @mushfiq_econ & co-authors Urmila Chatterjee, Juan Munoz and @imansen2 carefully assemble multiple data sets to answer. 1/n

"Women’s Labor Force Participation in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq: A Study of Social and Psychological Barriers" by @imansen2 @zeina_afif @varungauri and Gohdar Mohamed openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/3…

Interventions, including changes to perceptions of toilet use by others and association of toilets with cleanliness, increased toilet usage.

Empowerment programmes improve adolescent girls’ educational and labour market outcomes; financial incentives are effective in reducing child marriage. @rglenner discusses in a new @vox_dev video 📺 👇 voxdev.org/topic/health-e…

Furthermore, we dig deeper with front line health and nutrition workers to uncover different world views wrt to the causes of stunting, constructed from unprimed reporting, and show that these are correlated with service delivery.

Nice and fast tables in Stata? blogs.worldbank.org/impactevaluati… via @WorldBank

Helping Women in Kurdistan region of Iraq to Find Jobs goo.gl/ND24nr via @WorldBank Promising insights from our work on job search led by our very own @zeina_afif and @imansen2 #WB_eMBeD

Just wow, causal metrics, in a couple of animations!

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Thanks @markus_gold for this much needed conversation. Having worked a bit on both sides, my takeaway is to not to assume a survey firm knows a lot (i.e outsource completely) or too little (override everything), the key is to find the right level of collaboration each time.

IE Analytics: Introducing the Development Impact Evaluation Wiki tinyurl.com/ycm27ebv

How can machine learning and artificial intelligence be used in development interventions and impact evaluations? My take on last week's #SmartDev2018 conference tinyurl.com/ybkzjxh2

MLAs colluded to unfairly award rural road building contracts worth Rs 3592 cr, or 4% of Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana total spending between 2001 & 2013, says Princeton University study. bit.ly/2CCMbio

Great piece by Prof. Seema Jayachandran (@seema_econ) on the #economicsurvey18 analysis of the 21 million “unwanted girls.” The focus on sex ratio of last child instead of sex ratio per se was inspired by her terrific research. indianexpress.com/article/opinio…

Do male & female economists differ fundamentally in their views on economic policy issues? Yes. Does this finding accentuate the need for more equal gender representation in economic policymaking? Yes! @WomenEconAU #gendereconomics #womenineconomics #genderbalance #economics

Across countries girls do better in reading. In maths, boys are better than girls in less gender-equal cultures. In more gender-equal cultures, the reading gender gap becomes even larger. And the math gender gap disappears. [Guiso et al. in ‘Science': kellogg.northwestern.edu/faculty/sapien…]

.@worldbank blog highlights a study that shows how conditional transfers of cooking oil encouraged a delay in marriage and #pregnancy in #Bangladesh. #childmarriage #globalhealth @rglenner @imansen2 blogs.worldbank.org/impactevaluati…