Weekly links March 12: LLMs for papers and lessons from using them for DiD, uncovering economic trends in places without much data, UBIs vs job guarantees, and more… David McKenzie March 12, 2026 This page in: English © 2026 World Bank Group,

https://blogs.worldbank.org/en/impactevaluations/weekly-links-march-12--llms-for-papers-and-lessons-from-using-th On VoxDev, Stephan Haggard, Kyoochul Kim & Munseob Lee discuss the range of forensic methods available to researchers for studying economies like North Korea, where official statistics are unavailable or unreliable: “researchers can use a range of forensic methods – such as satellite imagery, mirror trade data, price monitoring, refugee surveys, humanitarian data, and text mining – to extract credible economic information… No single method is enough on its own. The most robust findings come from triangulating across sources” © 2026 World Bank Group,