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David Evans

@daveevansphd.bsky.social

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Economist at the Center for Global Development. Formerly: Inter-American Development Bank, World Bank, RAND Corporation, & my local movie theater. I mostly share about international development research plus books and movies. Views mine, not my employer's.

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David Evans @daveevansphd.bsky.social · Jan 15

Violence against students in schools is a major problem around the world. We have the data to show that.

But most education systems don't have the data to see if they're making progress in reducing violence, nor to pinpoint who is perpetrating violence. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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David Evans @daveevansphd.bsky.social · 19h

How big are the returns to early investments in literacy and numeracy?📚

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David Evans @daveevansphd.bsky.social · 1d

PS While I read the book as a kid, this time I listened to an audiobook version narrated by actor Justin Long. He was great!

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David Evans @daveevansphd.bsky.social · 1d

I loved Judy Blume's writing when I was an adolescent. She captured the complexity of that time of life fabulously. I revisited her book about a 13-year-old boy hitting puberty, *Then Again, Maybe I Won't* & had forgotten how hard it hits on class issues. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Then_Ag...

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David Evans @daveevansphd.bsky.social · 1d

Famously, one of the characteristics of Singapore's initial teacher education is high selectivity: only the best are admitted!

documents1.worldbank.org/curated/en/0...

Bahrain sought to adapt Singapore's model and in 2024 had 7,000 applicants for just 330 spots in its national teacher college.

David Evans @daveevansphd.bsky.social · 1d

Is there a tool to assess risk of bias that economists commonly use or like?

Most tools I've seen seem to be built around medical studies (whether experimental or quasi-experimental). Some elements seem relevant but many others less so.

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David Evans @daveevansphd.bsky.social · 1d

In my time in the social sector of @the_IDB, I was consistently impressed with the research and analysis produced by operational teams to highlight key issues and inform decisions by country clients.

Check out their research: publications.iadb.org/en?f%5B0%5D=...

Charles Kenny @charlesjkenny.bsky.social · 1d

From new ODI multilateral bank client survey.

IADB Research Department: take a bow.

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David Evans @daveevansphd.bsky.social · 1d

My feelings exactly

Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 2d

If it doesn’t survive the washing machine or the dish washer, maybe it was never meant to be part of your household in the first place.

essencesimmone.blacksky.app @essencesimmone.blacksky.app · 5d

Those who are 35+, what advice do you have for people just entering their 30s?

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Dina Pomeranz @dinapomeranz.bsky.social · 3d

Does anyone have slides that lend themselves for undergraduate teaching, which go step by step through a behavioral lab experiment, and would be willing to share them with me?

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David Evans @daveevansphd.bsky.social · 5d

One of Ceará's (Brazil) big innovations was creating sizeable incentives for mayors to boost learning *together* with informed technical support for how to do that. openknowledge.worldbank.org/server/api/c...

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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David Evans @daveevansphd.bsky.social · 5d

PSA: The Chatham House Rule *doesn't* mean the things are to be kept in confidence, but rather than they are to remain unattributed. www.chathamhouse.org/about-us/cha...

David Evans @daveevansphd.bsky.social · 5d

How did Brazil's state of Ceará achieve massive learning gains? documents1.worldbank.org/curated/en/2...

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David Evans @daveevansphd.bsky.social · 5d

In Chile, "a robust...relationship between pre-college academic achievement and several short and long run measures of teacher productivity." humcap.uchicago.edu/RePEc/hka/wp...

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David Evans @daveevansphd.bsky.social · 5d

How to get high performing students into teacher college christopherneilson.github.io/work/better-... Evidence from Chile

David Evans @daveevansphd.bsky.social · 6d

La foto proviene de la película Le ley de Heródes de 1999, dirigida por Luis Estrada. es.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_ley_...

David Evans @daveevansphd.bsky.social · 6d

Este alcalde tiene razón, pero esperen a ver el presupuesto local.

¡La financiación de la educación es importante!

Pero ¿cómo utilizar estos recursos eficazmente? El BID ofrece ejemplos concretos en su nuevo informe: «Gasto inteligente en educación...» publications.iadb.org/es/gasto-int...

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David Evans @daveevansphd.bsky.social · 6d

I've really valued and learned from @drodrik.bsky.social's thinking in the past. Excited for this one! Audiobook book out on November 4!

Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 7d

Kirkus Reviews praises @drodrik.bsky.social’s Shared Prosperity in a Fractured World: “A thoughtful consideration of how to promote democracy, sustainability, and prosperity in a world riven by dislocation . . . A closely reasoned—and pragmatic—call for remaking the world’s economy.” buff.ly/rN9RmbE

SHARED PROSPERITY IN A FRACTURED WORLD | Kirkus Reviews

A thoughtful consideration of how to promote democracy, sustainability, and prosperity in a world riven by dislocation and conflict.

www.kirkusreviews.com

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David Evans @daveevansphd.bsky.social · 6d

Remember that cost-effectiveness estimates used to identify "what works" can be sensitive to both uncertainty in impact estimates AND cross-location variation in costs. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

David Evans @daveevansphd.bsky.social · 6d

Two crucial questions to assess the impact of any given fiscal policy on poverty and equity www.worldbank.org/en/publicati...

David Evans @daveevansphd.bsky.social · 6d

Benicio del Toro slays in the excellent movie *One Battle After Another*. (There are many other great people in it as well.)

I'd recommend seeing it on the biggest screen you can find.

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David Evans @daveevansphd.bsky.social · 7d

The week of the IMF / World Bank Annual Meetings, just come and hang out at @cgdev.org. www.cgdev.org/page/cgd-202... It's going to be LIT! (Especially Friday, October 17.)

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David Evans @daveevansphd.bsky.social · 12d

"More than 3/4 of the rural women in Nigeria are multidimensionally poor... Security shocks, unemployment, and time to health care services as the biggest contributors." www.cell.com/heliyon/full... by Tolulope Jerumeh

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David Evans @daveevansphd.bsky.social · 12d

Paper submitted! #GetYourManuscriptOut

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Seema Jayachandran @seema.bsky.social · 13d

An algorithm. Benevolent algorithms are underrated.

My experience on Twitter pre-2022 was fantastic because the algorithm enabled me to see useful content and placed my posts in the feeds of people I hoped would see it.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 14d

If you could change one thing about Bluesky, what would it be?

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David Evans @daveevansphd.bsky.social · 12d

Thank you! I will absolutely do so. Looking forward to reading your book soon.