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Steven Glazerman @eduglaze.bsky.social · 20d

😢 when you look in the mirror and you see your own image reflected back in an NBER paper

Steven Glazerman @eduglaze.bsky.social · 27d

Outstanding funding opportunity for U.S. based/focused nonprofits that are smallish (<$10m revenue) to advance AI education and innovation. h/t @alexnawar.bsky.social

openai.com/index/people...

A People-First AI Fund: $50M to support nonprofits

Applications are now open for OpenAI’s People-First AI Fund, a $50M initiative supporting U.S. nonprofits advancing education, community innovation, and economic opportunity. Apply by October 8, 2025,...

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Steven Glazerman @eduglaze.bsky.social · 28d

Hmm. I don't think even the strongest advocates for RCTs think they are the only option.

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Steven Glazerman @eduglaze.bsky.social · 28d

Nice @markusgold.bsky.social and Juan Manuel Menendez post about how far empirical economics still needs to go in studying sub-Saharan Africa www.cgdev.org/blog/researc...

Motivating for @poverty-action.bsky.social's initiative promoting LMIC research collabs poverty-action.org/research-col...

Table shows that most authors of papers on sub-Saharan Africa in top economics journals are at American institutions, followed by the UK, Canada, and European countries. 5.2 percent are authored by researchers in African institutions.

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Steven Glazerman @eduglaze.bsky.social · Aug 21

Would be an honor to be on this list!

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Steven Glazerman @eduglaze.bsky.social · Aug 19

How-to guides on topics like randomization data.poverty-action.org/research-des...
Statistical power
data.poverty-action.org/research-des...
Version control with Github: data.poverty-action.org/software/git...
Coding environments. Are you Quarto-curious? data.poverty-action.org/software/qua...

GitHub – Research and Data Science Hub

data.poverty-action.org

Steven Glazerman @eduglaze.bsky.social · Aug 19

One page gets you set up with software tools, like virtual environments for Python and R.
data.poverty-action.org/software/gui...

Virtual Environments – Research and Data Science Hub

data.poverty-action.org

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Steven Glazerman @eduglaze.bsky.social · Aug 19

Really useful resource for RAs and others interested in doing field work in international settings, or any rigorous empirical work in social sciences
@poverty-action.bsky.social just launched the IPA Knowledge Hub
data.poverty-action.org

Screenshot from the IPA Knowledge Hub home page. Headers are "Research Design", "Research Ethics", "Data Quality", "Data Collection", "Data Cleaning", and "Software Guides"

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Steven Glazerman @eduglaze.bsky.social · Aug 19

How can survey researchers and survey methodologists step in to shore up faith in official statistics? Unclear, but this blog by @jedkolko.bsky.social brings useful commentary about private sector's role in public data

www.piie.com/blogs/realti...

The private sector can’t replace official statistics—but could be a great partner

After President Donald Trump fired Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner Erika McEntarfer, claiming that jobs data were “faked” and “rigged,” an urgent question arose: Could private sector data fill...

www.piie.com

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Steven Glazerman @eduglaze.bsky.social · Jul 17

Anybody else out there in an NGO spending thousands of dollars to prove to funders and auditors that you’re not wasting hundreds of dollars?

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Evidence in Governance and Politics (EGAP) @egap.bsky.social · Jun 3

10 Things to Know About Adaptive Experimental Design buff.ly/Klwp446 #EGAPMethodsGuide

10 Things to Know About Adaptive Experimental Design – EGAP

Author: Donald Green

buff.ly

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Jill Barshay @jillbarshay.bsky.social · Jun 3

Yesterday, June 2, was an interesting day at work. I was reporting a story about how the Education Department hadn't delivered a report to Congress on the Condition of Education, despite the June 1 deadline mandated by law. 🧵 (1/9)

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Steven Glazerman @eduglaze.bsky.social · May 27

This is odd because the same bill has marriage penalty provisions like the Child Tax Credit that deny credits if one of the parents does not have a SSN. If you have a child with a partner on a visa (legal), the bill provides disincentive to marry.

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Will Wheeler @willwheels1.bsky.social · Apr 28

Is anyone on #EconTwitter or another social science aware of any evaluations of Promise Pay (in its use as a utility debt relief app--I know there can be other uses)? I'd appreciate any leads. Thanks!

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Steven Glazerman @eduglaze.bsky.social · May 13

Academics: how many hours would you set aside for prepping a class you've taught before in different forms, but not this particular audience and format, and level of background?

Assume 32 hours of instructional time (lecture and prof-led discussion).

Steven Glazerman @eduglaze.bsky.social · May 13

Should there be a neutral response option or do you mean to force polarity?

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Alex Coppock @aecoppock.bsky.social · May 13

Our community must take this issue very seriously!

ideally, we'd post these publicly:
raw_no_pii.csv
cleaning.R
clean.rds
analysis.R

but destroy or archive privately:
raw.csv
remove_pii.R

(was glad to see in this thread political science apparently does better than other fields but still)

Institute for Replication @i4replication.bsky.social · May 13

We did not want to start the week like this, but here we are. Yet again our chair’s inbox is filled with messages from replicators who have opened “replication” folders only to find names, Social Insurance Numbers, mental-health diagnoses and incomes of study participants. 🧵

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Science Magazine @science.org · May 8

Exclusive: National Science Foundation staff were told today that the agency’s 37 divisions—across all eight directorates—are being abolished and the number of programs within those divisions will be drastically reduced.

Exclusive: NSF faces radical shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions

Changes seen as a response to presidential directives on what research to fund

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Steven Glazerman @eduglaze.bsky.social · May 9

@stuartbuck.bsky.social regularly puts out very thoughtful level-headed pieces on substack about science and social impact. This is just one of his gems.

goodscience.substack.com/p/ngos-arent...

NGOs Aren't the Enemy

One oddity about the recent political environment is the flaming hostility to so-called NGOs, or non-governmental organizations.

goodscience.substack.com

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Steven Glazerman @eduglaze.bsky.social · May 9

That sinking feeling when you're trying to access a really useful online repository of measurement tools and... it doesn't load. Then you remember it was USAID-funded.

www.youthpower.org/resources/me...

Stylized image of an eccentric billionaire holding a chainsaw over an outline of the U.S. Capitol. Credit: The New Yorker magazine

Steven Glazerman @eduglaze.bsky.social · May 7

Talking about dolls deflects from real people who have to forgo real things like insulin or food.

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Steven Glazerman @eduglaze.bsky.social · May 7

Pitching austerity as a promise for a better future would be more convincing from someone who made sacrifices themself

Steven Glazerman @eduglaze.bsky.social · Apr 29

Aggregation bias? Household measures averaged to country level and then compared seems fishy.

Steven Glazerman @eduglaze.bsky.social · Apr 28

despite the all caps this is the correct take. The refs just wanted to go home. The NBA has turned into MMA.

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Dan Goldhaber @cedr.bsky.social · Apr 28

Hey, some good news, ERIC lives!

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