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by David K. Evans

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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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by David K. Evans

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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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by David K. Evans

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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.
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by David K. Evans — Reposted by: Todd Pugatch

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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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by David K. Evans

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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=...
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Charles Kenny @charlesjkenny.bsky.social · 23h
From new ODI multilateral bank client survey.

IADB Research Department: take a bow.

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by David K. Evans

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My feelings exactly
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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 1d
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.
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essencesimmone.blacksky.app @essencesimmone.blacksky.app · 4d
Those who are 35+, what advice do you have for people just entering their 30s?
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Reposted by: David K. Evans

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From new ODI multilateral bank client survey.

IADB Research Department: take a bow.

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Reposted by: David K. Evans

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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.
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essencesimmone.blacksky.app @essencesimmone.blacksky.app · 4d
Those who are 35+, what advice do you have for people just entering their 30s?
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Reposted by: David K. Evans, Diane Coyle, Georg Weizsäcker

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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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by David K. Evans

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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...
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by David K. Evans

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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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by David K. Evans

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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...
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by David K. Evans

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

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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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by David K. Evans

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

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

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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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by David K. Evans

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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!
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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 6d
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.
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by David K. Evans

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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...
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by David K. Evans

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

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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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by David K. Evans

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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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Reposted by: David K. Evans, Dani Rodrik

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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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by David K. Evans — Reposted by: Caroline Krafft

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"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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by David K. Evans

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Paper submitted! #GetYourManuscriptOut
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by David K. Evans

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

by David K. Evans

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I've written half of a proposal for 2-3 trade press books since I joined CGD the first time (in 2019). But I'm always lured back by the siren, short-term song of tweets & blogs & even papers (which, as you mention, have a longer total publication time but I can get a working paper out more quickly).
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by David K. Evans

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"Public Childcare, Labor Market Outcomes of Caregivers, and Child Development: Experimental Evidence from Brazil" www.cgdev.org/publication/... Updated version now available as a @cgdev.org working paper!
Public Childcare, Labor Market Outcomes of Caregivers, and Child Development: Experimental Evidence from Brazil
This study examines the impact of publicly provided daycare for children aged 0–3 in Rio de Janeiro, where a lottery for limited slots at the end of 2007 increased time in daycare and yielded higher h...
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by Seema Jayachandran — Reposted by: David K. Evans

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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.
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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 13d
If you could change one thing about Bluesky, what would it be?
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by David K. Evans

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I love Professor @corinnelow.com's advice to economists on how to write a trade press book. www.aeaweb.org/content/file...
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