Paulgertler.com Website Review

Paul Gertler delivered the keynote speech at this year's Every Child Ready, Every Child Learning World Bank Group’s Education Global Practice, the conference brought together around 200 key stakeholders, including relevant ministries, development partners, researchers, and practitioners to discuss school readiness, early grades learning, and innovative financing. (Nature) - Gertler and co-authors attempt to reproduce tables from studies published in economics journals with open data policies using publicly available data and code. Results and feasible policy recommendations ensue.  The Half-Life of Happiness: Hedonic Adaptation in the Subjective Well-Being of Poor Slum Dwellers to the Satisfaction of Basic Housing co-authors use a multicountry field experiment to examine the impact on subjective measures of well-being of the provision of improved housing to extremely poor populations in order to test whether they exhibit hedonic adaptation when their basic housing needs are met. Are There Synergies from Combining Hygiene and Sanitation Promotion Campaigns: Evidence from a Large-Scale Cluster-Randomized Trial in government-led handwashing and sanitation promotion campaigns in rural Tanzania, with the objective of tracing the causal chain from hygiene and sanitation promotion to changes in child health outcomes and specifically testing for potential interaction effects of combining Long-Run Effects of Temporary Incentives on Medical Care Productivity  randomized field experiment conducted in Argentina​ to show that costs of adjustment as opposed to low perceived value may explain why improved quality care practices diffuse slowly in the medical industry.. NOW AVAILABLE: IMPACT EVALUATION IN PRACTICE HANDBOOK (2ND EDITION) handbook is now available. The handbook is a comprehensive introduction to impact evaluation for policymakers and development practitioners. The updated version covers the latest techniques for evaluating programs, with expanded case studies. Complementary online