@rvakis

Making sense of human behavior with magic, economics, common sense and hugs

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#agora2025 starts. Standing room only…strengthening research, policy and private sector co-creation of solutions for growth in Africa
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No more CTRL+F through long PDFs. Our new research tool, AVA, answers your questions with insights from @WorldBank reports, in your language, with citations. Learn more and start exploring: wrld.bg/n86v50XejVr #Ideas4Impact
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A useful new AI tool from the @WorldBank's Institute for Economic Development. If you're looking for a quick way to soak up the latest insights from our research, this is it.
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ammb@ammboud7 Mar 2023
Information? Norms? Money? Trying to get men to share parental leave in Uruguay. @ailintomio @p_p_ @rvakis @zeina_afif #embed @WBG_Poverty documents.worldbank.org/en/p…

Sharing Parental Leave between Mothers and Fathers : Experimental Evidence from a Messaging...

Parental leave has been increasingly used as a family policy to facilitate balancing care and work responsibilities and promoting gender equality. However, fathers' .

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Interesting piece on @WBG_Education programs — foundational learning & a growth mindset are vital.
Charles Towers-Clark@ctowersclark24 Feb 2023
Interesting research from the World Bank on why the teaching of a growth mindset can make a huge difference in education. Have a look at my latest Forbes article... and have a good weekend. buff.ly/3ZfZ9x3
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Want to intern with us? We are hiring #wb_eMBeD Summer Interns 2023 bit.ly/3iE2HsV
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RIDGE@RIDGE_uy4 May 2022
2022 RIDGE MAY FORUM You are invited to participate in the upcoming LACEA BRAIN Workshop 🗓️May 17-18 Check the program here: ridge.uy/wp-content/uploads/… Join the meeting: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi…
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Recently accepted at EJ: "Transfers, Diversification and Household Risk Strategies: Can productive safety nets help households manage climatic variability?" by Karen Macours, Patrick Premand @PatrickPremand & Renos Vakis @rvakis @PSEinfo academic.oup.com/ej/advance-…

Transfers, Diversification and Household Risk Strategies: Can Productive Safety Nets Help Househo...

Abstract. We present experimental evidence on a programme aimed at improving households' risk management through income diversification. The intervention t

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Combining cash transfers with vocational training or a productive grant protects households against droughts, by facilitating income diversification and migration, smoothing consumption and income.
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A year later, some reflection of our efforts Vaccine hesitancy: 10 lessons from chatbotting about COVID-19 in 17 countries blogs.worldbank.org/health/v… via @worldbank

Vaccine hesitancy: 10 lessons from chatbotting about COVID-19 in 17 countries

Vaccine hesitancy: 10 lessons from chatbotting about COVID-19 in 17 countries

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Our short piece on applying behavioral science policy makers is finally out! Mirror, mirror on the wall: Applying a behavioral science lens to decision-making blogs.worldbank.org/developm… via @worldbank

Mirror, mirror on the wall: Applying a behavioral science lens to decision-making

In this paper, the authors discuss how decision-making in the public policy sphere is influenced by three overlapping contexts: institutional, group, and individual.

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Share to your networks. Looking forward to your submissions. Lets BRAIN!
RIDGE@RIDGE_uy19 Jun 2021
CALL FOR PAPERS XIII RIDGE FORUM LACEA BRAIN (Behavioral Insights Network) Date: September 27, 28 and 29, 2021 To view the Call for Papers, visit: ridge.uy/2021-virtual-forum/
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Join us tomorrow!
Florencia Lopez Boo@florlopezboo29 Nov 2020
Very happy to announce the fantastic *virtual* program for the 2nd. ⁦@the_IDB @RIDGE_uy⁩ ⁦@voxlacea⁩ Behavioral Economics' conference of LACEA BRAIN on Dec 8 & 9. Keynote by @paul_gertler. If interested, register 👉 bit.ly/33gSBnz @BIDgente @IDB_Research
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On this World Mental Health day, 5 coping tips from Yale’s Laurie Santos: exercise, sleep, gratitude, socialize, acknowledge your emotions youtu.be/kCQim9VrnDY?list=PL…
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Attention Philippines (@DepEd_PH ): only one third of Philippines students think that their intelligence can change much. The graph below shows a strong correlation between growth mindset and average reading performance #PISA2018 @unicefphils @rvakis
Pablo Zoido@PabloZoido3 Dec 2019
The robust relationship between growth mindset and performance is the most important result in #PISA2018 @OECDEduSkills @BIDeducacion @joboaler @CarolDweckDSU @solebos @adriviterip
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Summer in DC eMBeDing? Please share with your networks @danariely @florlopezboo @KaliTJames @bailenson
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Behavioral-lacea-brain - Call for papers in our Latin America research network. Join us in Uruguay and help our BRAIN grow!! #wb_embed ⁦ iadb.org/en/research-and-dat…
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