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Senior Fellow @CGDev. Interested in #globalhealth, #AIDS, health economics, impact evaluation.

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@karambu

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#CGDTalks The health tax compliance story from Kenya is fascinating. I can imagine a hit TV series based on this story.

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@SaniaNishtar

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@CGDev Bravo for @Sania Nishtar saying that the worst reform can turn out well with persistent technical support that survives a change of government, while the best reform can be a disaster if jettisoned by a change of government.

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@CGDev Bravo for @Sania Nishtar saying that the worst reform can turn out well with persistent technical support that survives a change of government, while the best reform can be a disaster if jettisoned by a change of government.

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#CGDTalks The health tax compliance story from Kenya is fascinating. I can imagine a hit TV series based on this story.

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@CGDev Given that tax compliance is a big problem in all countries, but especially in countries with weak governments, is compliance enforcement harder or easier for health taxes than for other tax categories?

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@CGDev Given that tax compliance is a big problem in all countries, but especially in countries with weak governments, is compliance enforcement harder or easier for health taxes than for other tax categories?

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#CGDTalks @KarlaHuff Can you imagine an ethical experiment to estimate the impact of leadership on culture?

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#CGDTalks

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@CGDev @ElizabethLinos Isn't public education the most profound of attempts to change culture? Do we need to ask whether public education is ethical?

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@CGDev @ElizabethLinos Isn't public education the most profound of attempts to change culture? Do we need to ask whether public education is ethical?

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@AndrewBrudevold On "gendered language", see @PJakiela and @OwenOzier. (2020) “Gendered Language,” CGD Working Paper 500 https://t.co/D7A659kDh0

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@AndrewBrudevold #CGDTalks (4 of 6) In French, the official language of Burkina, “beer” is feminine and “carrot” is masculine. So for francophone participants, designating “beer” as masculine or “carrot” as feminine would be a linguistic mistake. Problem?

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@AndrewBrudevold #CGDTalks (6 of 6) For example, how would "points" awarded the two spouses in the "Lab-in-the-field" game differ depending on whether one or the other or both designate the good “beer” to be “male” or “female”?

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@AndrewBrudevold #CGDTalks (5 of 6) Does the “Lab-in-the-field” game reward participants differentially if a certain good is designated as "male" or "female" by husband, wife or both? Lack of consequences attenuates the measurement validity.

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@AndrewBrudevold #CGDTalks (3 of 6) Will the experiment use the woman’s responses to the "Lab-in-the-field" game questions as one of the measures of the woman’s empowerment before and after the #financialinclusion experiment, as in a DID design?

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@AndrewBrudevold #CGDTalks (2 of 6) In the game, spouses are separately asked to designate goods as “male” or “female”. Then the wife is asked whether her designations would change if she knows the designations will be revealed to her spouse.

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@AndrewBrudevold #CGDTalks (1 of 6) Thanks for your presentation of GIL work on at #CGDTalks today. I was particularly interested in the #financialinclusion RCT GIL is launching in Burkina Faso and its incorporation of a "Lab-in-the-field" game.

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#CGDTalks #ClimateChange Does global investment on combating the rise in the global temperature improve or worsen the ROI for epidemic preparedness?

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#CGDTalks

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@CGDTalks @Sarang Deo The essence of portfolio analysis is that the investor cares not only about expected value, but also about the variance of the portfolio. Diversification of the investments across types of epidemic would be revealed as optimal I believe.

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@CGDTalks @Sarang Deo The essence of portfolio analysis is that the investor cares not only about expected value, but also about the variance of the portfolio. Diversification of the investments across types of epidemic would be revealed as optimal I believe.

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@CGDTalks As follow-up to the suggestion of "portfolio analysis", some preparedness investments are helpful for different epidemics and others more specific to a subset. Would the former have a higher ROI?

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@CGDTalks ​When life-years lost are valued by willingness-to-pay in each country, what do you assume to be the relationship between GDP per capita in a country and the willingness-to-pay for a year of life?