Book reviews

The book: Equality Within Our Lifetimes: How Laws and Policies Can Close—or Widen—Gender Gaps in Economies Worldwide, by Jody Heymann, Aleta Sprague, and Amy Raub

My review in Population and Development Review, 2023. Or see the version on the CGD blog, with hyperlinks.

The book: The Voltage Effect: How to Make Good Ideas Great and Great Ideas Scale, by John A. List

My review on the Center for Global Development blog, 2022. (This review also appears on the World Bank's Development Impact blog.)

The book: The Scale-Up Effect in Early Childhood and Public Policy: Why Interventions Lose Impact at Scale and What We Can Do About It, edited by John A. List, Dana Suskind, and Lauren H. Supplee

My review on the Center for Global Development blog, 2022 (plus a chapter-by-chapter round-up). (This review also appears on the World Bank's Development Impact blog.)

The book: Randomized Control Trials in the Field of Development: A Critical Perspective, edited by Florent Bédécarrats, Isabelle Guérin, and François Roubaud

My review in Population and Development Review, 2021 (see also the version on the CGD blog, with hyperlinks to individual chapters)

The book: Letters to a New Minister of Education (second edition), edited by Fernando M. Reimers

My review on the Center for Global Development blog, 2019

The book: The Goldilocks Challenge: Right-Fit Evidence for the Social Sector, by Mary Kay Gugerty and Dean Karlan

My review on the Development Impact blog, 2018

The book: Experimental Conversations: Perspectives on Randomized Trials in Development Economics, edited by Tim Ogden.

My review on the Development Impact blog, 2017

The book: Helping Children Succeed: What Works and Why, by Paul Tough

My review on the Development Impact blog, 2016