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Examining the Global Relationship between Gender Norms and Economic Behavior
Publication: Breadwinners and Caregivers: Examining the Global Relationship between Gender Norms and Economic Behavior Gender norms are often emphasized to help explain gender gaps in the labor market. This paper examines global patterns of gender attitudes and norms toward the stereotypical gender roles of the male breadwinner and female caregiver, and broad support for gender equality in opportunities, and studies their relationship with economic behavior.
We conducted 50,000 interviews in Sub-Saharan Africa on COVID-19 vaccination since 2020 - here’s what we learned
It has been over three years since COVID-19 started disrupting livelihoods and brought in-person survey data collection to a near complete halt. Broad immunization against COVID-19 quickly emerged as the most sustainable solution to ending the pandemic. However, access to vaccines has been highly unequal, putting the poorest countries with the least means for domestic production or international procurement at a disadvantage.
The climate implications of ending global poverty
Eradicating extreme poverty and stopping global warming can only be tackled together: reducing poverty without considering carbon emissions is a self-defeating strategy, as climate change impacts will threaten hardly won development gains. But despite rapid progress to decarbonize the world economy, reducing poverty by increasing people’s consumption today requires increasing carbon emissions, since economic systems in most developing countries still rely on fossil fuel energy.
Agricultural Survey Design: Lessons from the LSMS-ISA and Beyond
Household surveys are the primary tool through which international development goals are monitored, and policy questions are informed based on empirical research. While the importance of agricultural statistics is widely acknowledged, practices in data collection vary widely across national statistical offices, international organizations that generate international data public goods, NGOs, and researchers.
Loss(t) in translation? Measuring disaster crop losses in surveys
Each year, crop production losses due to disasters cause economic losses in the billions of dollars and a loss in kilocalories that could potentially cut undernourishment in low-income countries (LICs) in half. By any definition, these losses are as significant from an aggregate economic perspective as they are a threat to the livelihoods of the poorest. Climate change threatens to increase this burden only further.
Creating an Integrated National Data System - Lessons from Estonia, Ghana, and Mexico
Image from the 2021 WDR: Data for Better Lives chapter 9 What goals are good goals? Psychology tells us that good goals are challenging, yet attainable. Easy goals don’t sufficiently challenge us to improve our performance, while unattainable goals tend to demoralize us and result in poor performance. The sweet spot is in the middle: choose a goal that’s tough yet achievable, and performance improves by directing attention, mobilizing effort, and increasing persistence.
Sustainedly high levels of COVID-19 vaccine acceptance in five Sub-Saharan African countries
In a previous blog post, we reported the results of a recent working paper finding high acceptance rates for an eventual COVID-19 vaccine in a sample of six Sub-Saharan African countries surveyed between September and December 2020. Since then, vaccine availability has become a reality, and vaccination campaigns are now underway in all countries covered.
A lot would take the shot: COVID-19 vaccine acceptance in six Sub-Saharan African countries
While the recent policy dialogue in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) focuses on vaccine supply and issues of financing, relatively little is known about the willingness to be vaccinated against COVID-19 within the population (a related blog post discusses some of the existing evidence).
National statistical offices still face disruptions and challenges as they adapt to a “new normal”
When the COVID-19 pandemic first broke out, national statistical offices (NSOs) around the world acted to suspend face-to-face interviews and asked staff to work from home, even though many lacked adequate technology for remote work.
How much should governments spend on data?
Image from Chapter 2 of the 2021 World Development Report: Data for Better Lives Some years ago, researchers documented that marathon finishing times follow a special pattern. Many runners finish just ahead of 3:30 hours, 4:00 hours, and other 30-minute thresholds while few people finish just after those thresholds. There is no physiological reason to believe that runners are much more capable of finishing 42.2 kilometers in three hours and fifty-nine minutes than in four hours and one minute.
Dealing with disruption: National statistical offices are adjusting to continued challenges as COVID-19 keeps affecting their operations
As various global restrictions related to the COVID-19 pandemic continue, so do disruptions to the operations of National Statistical Offices. This comes at a time when data remain key to inform evidence-based policymaking that addresses the manifold public health, economic, and social challenges countries face.
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