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Todd Pugatch
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education and development economist at University at Buffalo @ubuffalo.bsky.social, dad, Red Sox fan

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Todd Pugatch @toddpugatch.bsky.social · 15h
Publication lags in economics be like
leecrawfurd.bsky.social Lee Crawfurd @leecrawfurd.bsky.social · 16h
Mere decades after the passing of Maria Montessori, we have the first large-scale RCT results of Montessori preschool. Seems pretty good.

www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...

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Todd Pugatch @toddpugatch.bsky.social · 15h
Most of their waking hours??? Schools aren’t open for most of a kid’s waking hours even on school days.
nytimes.com The New York Times @nytimes.com · 16h
America’s children seem to be struggling. But the broad national conversation around children’s mental health seems to ignore the environment where children spend most of their waking hours: school, writes Jia Lynn Yang. nyti.ms/49IQpbz

Reposted by Todd Pugatch

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 16h
America’s children seem to be struggling. But the broad national conversation around children’s mental health seems to ignore the environment where children spend most of their waking hours: school, writes Jia Lynn Yang. nyti.ms/49IQpbz

Reposted by Richard S.J. Tol, Aaron Sojourner, Todd Pugatch

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Lee Crawfurd @leecrawfurd.bsky.social · 16h
Mere decades after the passing of Maria Montessori, we have the first large-scale RCT results of Montessori preschool. Seems pretty good.

www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Reposted by Todd Pugatch

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Claudia Sahm @claudia-sahm.bsky.social · 16h
privatize the gains and socialize the costs ftw.
ersquare.bsky.social R @ersquare.bsky.social · 17h
A story in 3 acts:

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Todd Pugatch @toddpugatch.bsky.social · 18h
NGO/Development organization!? Dave is CGD just your side hustle?

Reposted by Richard S.J. Tol, Ryan Enos, Scott A. Imberman , and 2 more

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Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham @paulgp.com · 23h
Update on the state of the job market courtesy of a nudge by @gottliebecon.bsky.social

It's bad!

paulgp.com/2025/11/24/j...
Economics Job Market Update: November 2025 - A Historic Low
paulgp.com

Reposted by Todd Pugatch

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Benjamin Piper @benlpiper.bsky.social · 1d
ADEA is seeking a Founding Executive Director to shape and lead FLIGHT, a new catalytic funding initiative to support African governments to implement proven foundational learning interventions at scale.

Learn more: adeanet.org/en/call-appl...

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Todd Pugatch @toddpugatch.bsky.social · 1d
Wow, that's me!
ubuffaloecon.bsky.social Economics | University at Buffalo @ubuffaloecon.bsky.social · 1d
UB Economics is proud to spotlight one of our fantastic faculty members - Dr. Todd Pugatch!

Check out the link to learn more about Dr. Pugatch and his advice for #UBuffalo students!

arts-sciences.buffalo.edu/economics/ne...

@ubartsandsciences.bsky.social @toddpugatch.bsky.social #UBEconSpotlight

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Economics | University at Buffalo @ubuffaloecon.bsky.social · 1d
UB Economics is proud to spotlight one of our fantastic faculty members - Dr. Todd Pugatch!

Check out the link to learn more about Dr. Pugatch and his advice for #UBuffalo students!

arts-sciences.buffalo.edu/economics/ne...

@ubartsandsciences.bsky.social @toddpugatch.bsky.social #UBEconSpotlight

Reposted by Tim Bale, Stuart Elden, Nils B. Weidmann , and 4 more

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Mark Fabian @markfabian.bsky.social · 1d
Recently did around 30 requests to ppl who'd published very similar papers to the one I needed reviews for. 3 declines, 25 no response. Please at least decline guys it slows stuff down so much otherwise.
bartoszbartk.com Bartosz Bartkowski @bartoszbartk.com · 1d
I'm still relatively new to this journal associate editor business, but it already sucks… I've had a paper on my desk for more than a month now:

Reviewers invited: 12
Of those…
Declined: 5
No response: 7

Reposted by Brendan Nyhan, Joshua Goodman, Aaron Sojourner , and 3 more

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Ezra Golberstein @egolberstein.bsky.social · 1d
Looking forward to the next iteration of this work, “F- it, we’re doing four robustnesses.”

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Todd Pugatch @toddpugatch.bsky.social · 2d
Reviewing another cross-country regression paper
a man laying on the floor holding a bottle of alcohol
ALT: a man laying on the floor holding a bottle of alcohol
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Todd Pugatch @toddpugatch.bsky.social · 3d
Yikes. Not that it makes you feel any better, but that's far down my list of troubling developments at Texas universities in the past year.

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Todd Pugatch @toddpugatch.bsky.social · 3d
OK, that's different...here I haven't seen the same encroachments into faculty teaching.

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Todd Pugatch @toddpugatch.bsky.social · 3d
I dunno...our admin is also Team AI but I distinguish their interest in AI research $ from an endorsement of uninhibited AI use for student academic work.

Reposted by David K. Evans, Todd Pugatch

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Lee Crawfurd @leecrawfurd.bsky.social · 4d
Training a single teacher (the "gender focal point") in each school in Mozambique reduced sexual abuse of girls by school staff by 67%

Reposted by Seema Jayachandran, Todd Pugatch

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Tim Bresnahan @timobres.bsky.social · 4d
For Harvard and for Economics, the problem in the Summers/Epstein exchanges isn't Epstein, it's Summers./1

Reposted by Lauren Hersch Nicholas, Todd Pugatch, Bianca K. Frogner

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Anne Fitzpatrick @annefitz13.bsky.social · 4d
🚨Attention! AshEcon call for papers! 🚨
www.ashecon.org/2026-minneap...

Due date for abstracts: December 10, 2025

I'm the Program Chair for Health and Development, so would like to encourage global health scholars in particular

Some tips for prospective authors in thread below
2026 Call for Abstracts – ASHEcon
www.ashecon.org

Reposted by David K. Evans, Todd Pugatch

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Danila Serra @danilaserra-eco.bsky.social · 5d
Stay tuned for follow-up, where we conduct an RCT involving vulnerable women in this area - half abducted as children - to assess the impact of:

1) cash only

2) cash+group life-skill training

3) cash+group mental health counseling

W/ @eeshani.bsky.social & @mirandainez.bsky.social
daveevansphd.bsky.social David Evans @daveevansphd.bsky.social · 5d
What's the long-term impact of being abducted during an armed conflict? editorialexpress.com/cgi-bin/conf... In Uganda, 20 years after the conflict: "Formerly abducted women still exhibit significantly higher rates of depression and perceived stress, heightened stress responses..."

Reposted by Todd Pugatch, Danila Serra

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David Evans @daveevansphd.bsky.social · 5d
What's the long-term impact of being abducted during an armed conflict? editorialexpress.com/cgi-bin/conf... In Uganda, 20 years after the conflict: "Formerly abducted women still exhibit significantly higher rates of depression and perceived stress, heightened stress responses..."

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Todd Pugatch @toddpugatch.bsky.social · 5d
This is wild: "Sorry for my lengthy relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. Anyway, last class we were talking about consumer surplus..."
phillewis.bsky.social Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 6d
Larry Summers discusses his “statement of regret” for his disturbing messages to Jeffrey Epstein with Harvard students

Reposted by Heather Boushey, Steven N. Durlauf, Yana van der Meulen Rodgers , and 10 more

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CSWEP @aeacswep.bsky.social · 5d
CSWEP strongly condemns Larry Summers’ behavior as revealed in the email correspondence with the late Jeffrey Epstein. While abuse of power in the economics profession is not new, rarely has the intent behind such abuse been so clearly stated.

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Todd Pugatch @toddpugatch.bsky.social · 6d
boost enrollment with this one weird trick

Reposted by Joshua Goodman, Todd Pugatch

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Lee Crawfurd @leecrawfurd.bsky.social · 6d
Indonesia built 6,000 secondary schools and you'll never guess what happened to enrolment rates next

cesarlgm.github.io/documents/pa...

Reposted by Rosemary A. Joyce, Yana van der Meulen Rodgers, Joseph Schafer , and 5 more

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 6d
Larry Summers discusses his “statement of regret” for his disturbing messages to Jeffrey Epstein with Harvard students

Reposted by Todd Pugatch

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David Evans @daveevansphd.bsky.social · 6d
Using data to allocate teachers more carefully keeps children advancing in school. documents.worldbank.org/en/publicati...

Reposted by Valerie Mueller, Climent Quintana‐Domeque, Todd Pugatch

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David McKenzie @dmckenzie.bsky.social · 6d
Reminder, last couple of weeks to get your papers in for a special issue of the WBER on migration and development.

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Todd Pugatch @toddpugatch.bsky.social · 6d
Proud to be part of an institution that welcomes international students

Reposted by Todd Pugatch, Matthew A. Kraft, Christina Weiland

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Annenberg Institute @annenberginstitute.bsky.social · 6d
📢 New postdoc opportunity at Annenberg!

The Annenberg Institute is seeking a postdoctoral research associate for a 2‐year appointment to join a diverse community of scholars committed to educational equity and improvement!

More info here: annenberg.brown.edu/opportunitie...