DEADLINES AND IMPORTANT DATES
Extended abstracts due : July 12, 2024
Notification to authors: August 16, 2024
Full paper draft due: November 8, 2024
Event: December 10, 2024 @ World Bank HQ in Washington, D.C.
The World Bank Living Standards Measurement Study (LSMS) invites extended abstracts for The Pulse of Progress: Harnessing High-Frequency Survey Data for Development Research in the Polycrisis Era. This one-day conference on December 10, 2024, at the World Bank Headquarters in Washington, D.C., marks four years of LSMS high-frequency phone surveys (HFPS) in Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Malawi, Nigeria, Tanzania, and Uganda.
Researchers are invited to submit abstracts (max. 800 words) using high-frequency phone survey data to explore topics such as:
- Resilience and shocks
- Food security
- Health
- Inequality, poverty, and wellbeing
- Education
- Jobs and labor
- Climate change
- Agriculture
- Conflict and fragility
- Gender
Submissions should be sent to LSMS_HFPS@worldbank.org. Early-career researchers are encouraged to apply. The World Bank will cover travel and accommodation for selected presenters.
The dataset covers all LSMS-HFPS survey rounds and allows linkages at the household and individual levels over time. It can be integrated with the LSMS-Integrated Survey on Agriculture (LSMS-ISA) series of nationally representative face-to-face household surveys in the same countries, including geo-variables and cluster locations. Interested authors can explore the scope of data on the LSMS webpage and access raw LSMS-HFPS and LSMS-ISA data through the World Bank Microdata Library.