Garima Siwach

Economist at American Institutes for Research | Studying development, labor, education

[Amber Peterman @a_peterman]

If you are at #APPAM2023 --> check out @DukeSanford Ph.D. student Kevin Kamto Sonke presenting our new rev & meta-analysis

⏲️ tomorrow [Sat] @ 1:45 - 3:15 - Edgewood

Session: Women's Agency, Empowerment & Social Protection

cc. @jisteinert chair: @Thomasdehoop1

[Amber Peterman @a_peterman]

Impacts from a mentored girls’ clubs, life skills & vocational training to empower adolescent girls intervention 🇳🇬 are *huge*

Two yrs post-prog:

* 480% ⬆️ remaining unmarried
* 680% ⬆️ being enrolled in school

Cohen et al: https://t.co/bXHVNhpfab

[Garima Siwach @Garimasiwach]

@AveriChakrabar1

[Shreya Bhattacharya @ShreyaBEcon]

To mark #MHDay 2023, @MadhulikaKhanna and I wrote this piece on menstrual hygiene management in India. What explains the gap in usage of sanitary menstrual products? A short 🧵 with highlights from NFHS-5 (2019-21):

[Arvind Narayanan @random_walker]

We tested ChatGPT on WinoBias, a standard gender bias benchmark. Both GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 are about 3 times as likely to answer incorrectly if the correct answer defies stereotypes — despite the benchmark dataset likely being included in the training data.
https://t.co/gUDlaFYgB7

[Johannes Haushofer @jhaushofer]

Please RT: We're hiring a *Senior Product Owner* at @malengo to help us develop a digital system for our relationship with our students, incl. processing applications and payment management. Remotely based, unlimited PTO, competitive salary. Details here: https://t.co/6W7YV57Rs8

[Johannes Haushofer @jhaushofer]

We're incredibly excited to launch Malengo's program for students from Senegal and Ivory Coast who want to study in France or Belgium! More information at https://t.co/wPIRehU0oo. Please RT and spread the word!

[Averi Chakrabarti @AveriChakrabar1]

New paper alert: Check out our work on the impacts of cash transfers on the types of energy sources used by households: Evidence from two countries in sub-Saharan Africa.

https://t.co/gW9Gs0czOk

[American Institutes for Research @AIRInforms]

New in @AJAE_AAEA: The impacts of #cashtransfers on household energy choices.
Learn more about what changes households made to primary fuel sources in a new article by @ashudirect and other experts. https://t.co/EcIs32sHlf

[Garima Siwach @Garimasiwach]

Vocational Rehabilitation services, through Individualized Plans for Employment (IPE), led to large ⬆ in employment/earnings for youth with disabilities, lasting at least 2 years after service closure, ~4 years after service start. So glad to finally see this out! @AIRInforms

[Journal of Policy Analysis and Management @JPAM_DC]

Recently accepted at JPAM: "Vocational Rehabilitation Services and Labor Market Outcomes for Transition-Age Youth with Disabilities in Maine" by Michelle Yin, Garima Siwach, & Dajun Lin.
https://t.co/MpCuy4DHnz

[American Institutes for Research @AIRInforms]

On #WorldSavingsDay, we revisit the role of women’s Savings Groups in supporting member resilience, and the challenges they faced over the last two years (https://t.co/iPPwZHNUn9). Today we’re highlighting 3 pieces of evidence from @ECWGroup, co-led by AIR.

[American Institutes for Research @AIRInforms]

Today at 10 am ET, join AIR researchers Hannah Ring and Ozen Guven, along with a panel of experts, for a valuable discussion on teachers’ critical role in safeguarding inclusive and quality #education for #refugees during forced displacement worldwide. https://t.co/Tx5VwkUA6h

[Sonalde Desai @SonaldeDesai]

1. IHDS Rajasthan women respondents and I became a mutual sympathy society. I felt sympathy for their lack of independence in physical mobility. They openly sympathized that I had no father or brother to protect me. @DasMaitreyi

[Vijayendra Rao @bijurao]

Excited to announce a talk by @Rukmini at @wb_research about her book Whole Numbers and Half Truths: What Data Can and Cannot Tell Us About Modern India. On October 20th at 2pm EST. People outside the World Bank can register to attend virtually. https://t.co/Zh00O8EQmw

[Harsh Nisar @NisarHogaya]

Last year, we were hiring for Ministry of Rural Development’s Data & Insights Unit to use data science to responsibly improve rural-dev service delivery across schemes.

Hiring similar posts again (last tweet).

First, here's what the wonderful team did in <12 months:

(1/n)

[Chris Blattman @cblatts]

What if I told you that roughly $500 for therapy + a little cash helped the most troubled young men in West Africa drop their crime and violence by half. For at least 10 years.

Almost 350 fewer crimes PER PARTICIPANT over 10y.

That's ~$1.50 per crime averted.

New paper & a 🧵

[Chris Blattman @cblatts]

Medellin, Colombia has 100s of powerful gangs, but still went from one of the most violent cities in the world to homicide rates far lower than that of St Louis, Baltimore or Detroit. What happened?

The story here: great success, but at a terrible & hidden price.

A 🧵

[Amber Peterman @a_peterman]

+1 on gendered impacts of #COVID19:

@markus_gold @pabislogo Papineni & @jorshw use data from businesses in 50+ countries & show ♀️ owned firms are 4 pp more likely to close as compared to ♂️ owned firms

Why? School closures, childcare & domestic work

https://t.co/BUEEjYfxpt

[American Institutes for Research @AIRInforms]

🧵: The Nigeria for Women Project (@nfwp_ng) aims to improve women’s livelihood opportunities and facilitate their access to economic markets using a model of women’s affinity groups.

By providing opportunities in four components— (cont.) (1/4)

[Chinmay Tumbe @ChinmayTumbe]

Five different studies including our paper in Science places Covid mortality in India above 3 million.
Lasting legacy of this administration is to live in total denial of India's greatest demographic disaster since 1918. History will not be kind to it.

[American Institutes for Research @AIRInforms]

🧵: How has the organic cotton supply chain in India withstood the effects of the pandemic? A new AIR study explores the resilience of small holder organic cotton farmers in the state of #MadhyaPradesh, and strategies adopted by organic cotton supply chain actors in India...(1/3)