Yesterday, I had the privilege of delivering a lecture to the State Minister of Planning of Minas Gerais, Brazil. We discussed key lessons from the UK’s system of policy evaluations and how these insights can help strengthen evaluation practices in Brazil.

the police officers leading the project, the local council team, the project partner Living Without Abuse and the engagement workers, the University IRB, the police survey team, and our team of RAs made it happen. It was a privilege to work and learn from the entire Project360 team.

I had the pleasure of attending the 10th anniversary of Project360, a secondary responder programme to support victims of domestic abuse (DA), and seeing old and new team members. Jesse Matheson, Réka Plugor and I ran the RCT to evaluate its impact. A short thread on the story behind the research.

There you go, finally managed to lead on something...

Very glad to see our paper 'Maternal Dengue and the Health of Children' with Lívia Menezes in print in April issue of AEJ: Applied. Using matched admin data from Brazil, we show that maternal dengue infections reduces birth weight (BW) substantially, increases the chance for low birth BW (1/n)

Two weeks left to apply for the first round of the fully funded MRes+PhD in economics @economicssurrey. Details on the programme and application link can be found here: tinyurl.com/m55xzh4k