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David Evans @daveevansphd.bsky.social · 5d

In Pakistan, providing a technological tool to teachers but framing its use as optional delivered bigger impacts than either an analog tool or a mandatory tool. tahir-andrabi.sites.pomona.edu/wp-content/u...

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Rafiuddin (Rafi) Najam @rnajam.bsky.social · 6d

Exciting news. We are hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Public Policy. Focus areas: environmental policy, international development, or poverty.
Link:
unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...

Submission Deadline: November 3, 2025.
Don’t hesitate to reach out with any questions.

Assistant Professor

This position is located in the Department of Public Policy within the College of Arts and Sciences. This tenure-track position includes 40% teaching, 40% research, and 20% service to the department. ...

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Mauricio Romero @marome1.bsky.social · 9d

Early Childhood Education is central to India’s NEP and global edu goals. Our(@petterberg.bsky.social @singhabhi.bsky.social) new paper at EJ (@resmedia.bsky.social ky.social, bit.ly/4gOtoVV), shows private ECE outperform public options, explaining 60% of the SES gap. In primary, NO private premium.

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Oliver Hanney @olihanney.bsky.social · 20d

🆕 Where to find development economics resources

I've updated my list of all the various sources of newsletters, articles, podcasts & videos relevant to development economics that I've come across in my three years at @voxdev.bsky.social: voxdev.org/topic/where-...

Where to find development economics resources: Newsletters, articles, podcasts & videos

Where can you find articles, podcasts, and videos about research and topics in development economics? This blog is your one-stop shop for accessible resources related to development economics.

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David McKenzie @dmckenzie.bsky.social · 19d

This week's links include some positive developments in development, how to negotiate your econ job, why an SEZ was not very successful, econ meets other disciplines, and more... blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...

Weekly links September 19: positive developments, negotiating a job, counting people, SEZ problems, and more…

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Andy de Barros @andydebarros.bsky.social · 20d

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Harry Anthony Patrinos @hpatrinos.bsky.social · 20d

A new GLO Discussion Paper shows that online tutoring during wartime improves student learning outcomes, reduced stress, and is highly cost-effective. It is possible to develop human capital amid conflict. #GLabor

www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10...

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Andy de Barros @andydebarros.bsky.social · 21d

New by Ila Fazzio, Rukmini Banerji, @alexeble.bsky.social, and others, edited by Nishith Prakash:

Support To Rural India’s Public Education System (STRIPES2) and impact on numeracy and literacy scores: A cluster randomized trial in rural villages of Madhya Pradesh, India

doi.org/10.1371/jour...

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Abhijeet Singh @singhabhi.bsky.social · Sep 5

Many interventions “work” in small trials but fail at scale

Also, EdTech often promises much, but delivers little

In a new paper (bit.ly/3JKLgVn)
@karthik-econ.bsky.social
& I show how personalized adaptive learning (PAL) software can sharply improve learning outcomes at scale🧵1/16

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Lee Crawfurd @leecrawfurd.bsky.social · Sep 1

4 findings from our experimenting with policymakers paper, finally published in World Development last month (a mere 3.5 years after the CGD working paper version) ...

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Colin Green @colinpgreen.bsky.social · Aug 29

Conference Announcement: 16th International Workshop on Applied Economics of Education (IWAEE - www.iwaee.org) will be held on the 15th and 16th of June, 2026.

More information, including call for papers, to follow

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Fred Oswald @foswald.bsky.social · Aug 26

as editor, I'm actually signing the petition myself :)

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e.g., look forward to exploring options for preregistration for the journal

@apajournals.bsky.social
@akmontoya.bsky.social

Sign the Petition

Adopt Registered Reports at Psychological Methods

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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · Aug 27

What great news that @iza.org is moving to @liser.lu!

The world's top network of labor economists emerged from tumult with a new and wonderful home.

A visionary choice by both institutions, with large ripple effects for economists worldwide. Thank you @iza.org and @liser.lu

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Jules Gazeaud @gazeaud.bsky.social · Aug 26

How to get honest answers to sensitive survey questions? Our WP introduces the ballot-bag, a new method that is both precise and unbiased, improving on existing approaches such as list experiments. Joint work with Bruno Crépon and Ahmed Elsayed. #econsky www.iza.org/publications...

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Todd Pugatch @toddpugatch.bsky.social · Aug 26

Thanks for the great response so far!

The @aefpweb.bsky.social EdDev group still has an open presentation slot for Sept. 12, 11am eastern! Contact me if you're interested. #edusky #econsky

Todd Pugatch @toddpugatch.bsky.social · Aug 25

The @aefpweb.bsky.social EdDev group is a community of researchers on education in low and middle income countries. We meet the second Friday of each month (virtually, 11am US eastern) to share work in progress.

Presentation slots are open for this academic year! Msg me for link. #econsky #edusky

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Lee Crawfurd @leecrawfurd.bsky.social · Aug 22

Much better data viz here than for our similar analysis of school books from 3 countries! journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

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VoxDev @voxdev.bsky.social · Mar 25

🆕 The challenges of improving parenting practices at scale

Today on VoxDev, Irma Arteaga (University of Missouri), Andreas de Barros (UC Irvine) & Alejandro J. Ganimian (NYU) present evidence from an automated phone call programme in India: voxdev.org/topic/educat...

The challenges of improving parenting practices at scale

Home visitation and group meeting parenting programmes have improved child development in low- and middle-income countries, but are too expensive to be delivered at large scale. Evidence from India sh...

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David Evans @daveevansphd.bsky.social · Aug 21

I love that so much attention is going to making sure children master literacy & numeracy in the early grades! But we can't forget the kids who need later remediation.

www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdf/10.1...

This study substantively boosts literacy & numeracy among secondary school students.

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Sandy Black @econsandy.bsky.social · Aug 19

Society of Labor Economists (SoLE) Annual Conference will be May 1-2, 2026 in Denver, Colorado. Submission portal is now open! Deadline for submissions is October 31--don't forget to submit! It will be a great conference! (organized by me and @jrothst.bsky.social)

mailchi.mp/sole-jole/so...

SOLE 2026 Submissions Open

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Alexander Berger @albrgr.bsky.social · Aug 18

Exciting NBER study (and NYT coverage) finding that $1,000 unconditional cash transfers in Kenya reduced under-5 deaths by 45%.

GiveWell already took this evidence into account in their positive update on GiveDirectly last fall (doesn't make a huge quantitative difference).

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Andy de Barros @andydebarros.bsky.social · Aug 17

Oxford University
CSAE Conference 2026: Economic Development in Africa

Deadline: September 14

Call for papers:
www.csae.ox.ac.uk/sitefiles/cs...

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Andy de Barros @andydebarros.bsky.social · Aug 14

Ah, now I understand why:

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Andy de Barros @andydebarros.bsky.social · Aug 11

Previous title: "Food for thought". Who made the authors change the title?

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Todd Pugatch @toddpugatch.bsky.social · Aug 11

School feeding program in Rwanda yields 11x return on investment academic.oup.com/jae/article-...

School Feeding and Cognitive Performance in Rwanda

Abstract. Using unique administrative data on test scores from a high stake national exam for primary school students in Rwanda, we evaluate the impact of

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Andy de Barros @andydebarros.bsky.social · Aug 10

TIL "Originally considered by Allied scientists in World War II, [multi-armed bandits] proved so intractable that (...) the problem was proposed to be dropped over Germany so that German scientists could also waste their time on it."

doi.org/10.1111/j.25...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-a...

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