World Bank Group

WBG Pioneer - LSMS Survey Innovation Fellow

Washington, DC, US

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Research

About the role

The assignment will contribute to the World Bank's research agenda on the identification of household businesses.
It will also provide the Fellow with practical experience in survey methodology, field experiment implementation, data quality monitoring, and applied quantitative research.
The scope of work includes supporting questionnaire refinement, survey implementation, data quality monitoring, and data analysis.

The Development Economics Survey Unit (DECSU) in the World Bank Group's Development Economics Vice Presidency supports the production and use of high-quality household survey data in low- and middle-income countries.
Through the Living Standards Measurement Study (LSMS) program, DECSU advances methodological innovation in household survey design, implementation, and data quality, with a focus on improving the evidence available for development policy and research.
The experiment is designed to develop and validate an innovative survey methodology for identifying and measuring household businesses in low- and middle-income countries, closing critical knowledge gaps - particularly for women entrepreneurs - and improving the accuracy and policy-relevance of business data.
The Fellow may also contribute to research outputs and develop an independent research question using project data, in consultation with the research team.

As part of this agenda, DECSU is implementing a randomized survey experiment in Kenya to test approaches for improving the identification and measurement of household businesses.
Duties and Responsibilities The Fellow will be part of the team supporting an ongoing randomized survey experiment in Kenya.

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