Elsa Valli

Development economist @FAO & @TransferProjct tweeting on #socialprotection #gender #impactevaluation #agriculture

[Elsa Valli @ValliElsa]

Economists wanted! 📊🌍
We’re expanding our roster of high-quality economists.
Experience with impact evaluations in complex rural settings? Strong survey data analysis skills? Spatial data expertise? Multiple UN languages?
👉 Apply to work with our team.
https://t.co/b27XQmVMdx

[Transfer Project @TransferProjct]

.@RALdeGroot @JennYablonski @ValliElsa use a DiD approach to document the impacts on young child nutrition outcomes & underlying determinants of a cash transfer programme in Ghana

read more: https://t.co/tE0qVHhXOh

[Amber Peterman @a_peterman]

Substantial UCT impacts at 4-years, fade out at 7-years due to both catch-up of C + fade out of T group

* Small + temp $$ was not "enough" to escape poverty for ultra-poor in 🇿🇲

@ashudirect @tembogel @luisanatali @AveriChakrabar1 @TransferProjct

https://t.co/i8eqv8wTTE

[Jorge Garcia Hombrados @jorgeghombrados]

What is abduction marriage and why does it persist in some communities?

In this WP, @lindseyknovak and I combine econometric and qualitative methods to address these questions focusing in Ethiopia, where it affects around 10% of married women. Let's dive into the findings!🧵1/N

[PRESTO @prestopolicy]

Check out @SP_Gateway's "In Case You Missed It" blog featuring recent papers and webinars from PRESTO's @TiaPalermo & Maja Gavrilovic on gender and #socialprotection.

Read the blog here: https://t.co/DlhgO2OdJX

[Journal of Development Studies (JDS) @JDevStudies]

🌍 New study in #JDevStudies: Savings programs in 🇪🇹 boost food security, improving dietary diversity for women & children. 📈 Empowering women enhances communities!

👉🏽Dig deeper: https://t.co/KZxzOtf4CP

@carecanada

[Keetie Roelen @KeetieRoelen]

Check out fantastic new overview of #evidence on #cashtransfers #cashplus

👉 most evidence on #cash only, #cashplus catching up!
👉 lots on access to #edcation #income #expenditures #foodsecurity, surprisingly little on #gender

interactive map 👉 https://t.co/tN6WprRiXk

[Transfer Project @TransferProjct]

There is evidence of heterogeneous #CashPlus impacts under conditions of weather shocks & between socio-economic segments of the population in 🇸🇴

.@ValliElsa @IFAD presents this evidence: https://t.co/dudtOvptvx

[PRESTO @prestopolicy]

Congrats to @A_Peterman, @ValliElsa, and @TiaPalermo for publishing one of @ChicagoJournals Economic Development and Cultural Change’s most read and most cited articles!

Check out the paper: https://t.co/WgyXiBGWGZ

[FAO Newsroom @FAOnews]

The #climate crisis hits women, the rural poor and older people harder, a new @FAO report finds.

Climate events such as heatwaves and floods affect rural women and men differently widening the already existing income gaps.

Read more ⬇️#UnjustClimate

https://t.co/gbiTzKgSHx

[Food and Agriculture Organization @FAO]

LIVE NOW Join the launch of the new @FAO report #UnjustClimate - Measuring the impacts of climate change on the rural poor, women and youth https://t.co/lqqot4uBmS

[PRESTO @prestopolicy]

Have you listened to the latest @SP_Gateway podcast on ‘Gender-Transformative Social Protection’ yet? PRESTO senior researcher Maja Gavrilovic discusses what it means if a social protection program is gender blind versus gender aware.

🎧Listen now: https://t.co/Ssb7K5Mj8S

[Transfer Project @TransferProjct]

.@RALdeGroot @JennYablonski @ValliElsa use a DiD approach to document the impacts on young child nutrition outcomes & underlying determinants of a #CashTransfer program in 🇬🇭

Read more: https://t.co/tE0qVHhpYJ

[PRESTO @prestopolicy]

"There is a growing momentum to expand sex-disaggregated data systems for informed decision-making."

Check out a new report & brief (from PRESTO researchers @TiaPalermo & @SavageWithin) on gender and social protection, produced through the @STAAR_Facility.

[Transfer Project @TransferProjct]

Fiscal resources are key to tackling urban poverty.

Cuesta & @mnkdanquah show that while 🇬🇭's LEAP program transfers less than GHS 34 mil (US$7.6 mil)/yr, ending extreme poverty in 🇬🇭 would require spending around GHS 1,800 mil ($400 mil).
🔎https://t.co/cVFlCGYPsY

[Elsa Valli @ValliElsa]

@SavageWithin @FAO @Ugentilini Every year you get in the top of the year!! Congratulations!