Former Policy Fellow @CGDev, Research Associate @yloxford & ODI Fellow @ODI_Global. All views are my own.
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Each dot represents 10 people whose lives depend on US foreign aid for HIV prevention & treatment.
Without it, 1.6m people could die per year.
@charlesjkenny & I were pleased to work with @NickKristof and the NYT data viz team to show the stakes of what’s happening at USAID.
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Ras Desta wearing the medal stolen by #Fascist #Italia|n soldiers. STOP the #Swiss Auction tomorrow.
@SwissAddisAbaba @SwissMFA @swiss_un @UNEthiopia @_AfricanUnion
@AfricanUnionUN
@UNESCO_Addis
@RBissoonauth
@tsegabk
@mfaethiopia
@ArtRestitution
@OpenRestitution
@IcomOfficiel
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I'm hiring a research manager to run fieldwork for follow-up studies in Guinea Bissau and The Gambia
Info on original studies here: nitter.gq/alexeble/status/141278…
Job advert attached; email CV and cover letter to [email protected] and [email protected], hiring asap!
cc: @econ_ra
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My first blog with @the_IDB!
The vast majority of evidence from low- & middle-income countries suggests that childcare is good for mothers AND good for kids.
New blog by @PJakiela @AcostaAminaM & me
English blogs.iadb.org/desarrollo-in…
Español blogs.iadb.org/desarrollo-in…
Based on our paper cgdev.org/publication/impact…
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Feeding school kids has always been more about fairness and nation building than raising test scores. My new blog reviewing key moments and milestones in the history of school meals over the past century, marking this year’s international school meals day.cgdev.org/blog/how-school-me…
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🚨New Blog: Do the new causal studies on lead & learning line-up with our macro burden estimates based on the older observational literature? Pretty much!
cgdev.org/blog/new-data-caus…
3 JMPs this year (!) find pollution-haven effects in battery recycling:
1. @elitzow et al in Mexico: erinlitzow.github.io/MyFiles…
2. Gerald Ipapa in Kenya: drive.google.com/file/d/1-00….
3. @moogdho_mahzab et al in Bangladesh: drive.google.com/file/d/1Yd5…
There seems to be a pattern here.
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CGD is looking for a new president. Here’s why (I think) you should be applying, which I hope reflects the kind of people (I think) we want. Note CGD doesn’t have institutional positions (see below) –so maybe other people here see/want something different :-).
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Ethiopia’s secondary school leaving exam system has been exposed to have collapsed. Did the political economy of unbridled university expansion play any part in this? @jrossiter0 and I try to take a closer look at that questions in this blog.
cgdev.org/blog/pork-barrel-p…
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This paper offers a powerful new narrative about globalisation & global poverty since 1980
Bottom line: sure economic openness & trade integration played an important role; but without massive public invt in education, global poverty would never has been reduced nearly as much
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Reminder: join us Monday 9:30am ET for the big reveal
Have billions in US aid moved the needle on reading scores?
Was it a waste to evaluate the 'same' program model over and over again?
Federal law requires USAID to evaluate *all* its basic education programs -- that means dozens of RCTs and diff-in-diffs across 30+ countries.
Join LeAnna Marr (USAID), Ben Piper (Gates), Erin Collinson (CGD) and me to discuss the results Nov 20
cgdev.org/event/phonics-and-…
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“Lead poisoning constitutes a global health crisis that has been 'extraordinarily neglected' by donors and political leaders”
Great piece by @JesseCopelyn on the @CGDev Lead Working Group final statement
theguardian.com/global-devel…
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Our brilliant colleague @ritaperakis is leaving @CGDev this week. In her final blog she offers reflections and insights from her four years of building and leading research partnerships with southern research institutions.
It's well worth a read
cgdev.org/blog/future-resear…
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How to build partnerships with African research organisations: Reflections from 4-years of practice by @ritaperakis
cgdev.org/blog/future-resear…
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Let’s not forget poverty when we talk about learning poverty.
In this @ProSyn piece, @CGDev colleague @biniegu and I discuss the consequences of drawing artificial barriers between children’s education & their wellbeing
#feedallthekids #andkeepthemsafe
project-syndicate.org/commen…
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With the recent attention on lead poisoning and its effects on heart disease, aggressive behavior, cognition, and learning (see new CGD research on latter - cgdev.org/blog/can-lead-pois…), you might be wondering why exposure remains so high in many countries. An introduction:
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NEW @CGDev report finds that lead poisoning could account for over 20% of the learning gap between children in rich and developing countries. ☣️📚
Explore the research to learn how investing in lead reduction can promote better education outcomes:cgdev.org/blog/can-lead-pois…
With an updated, open-access, database now covering primary, lower- and upper-secondary public exams in Africa and South Asia: docs.google.com/spreadsheets…
New data highlights that exams may not be well suited to monitor students' performance. 👨💻
We need to prioritize supporting countries to conduct high-quality public exams; write @jrossiter0 + @mouna_akelbulan 📝:
cgdev.org/blog/silence-exam-…
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New data highlights that exams may not be well suited to monitor students' performance. 👨💻
We need to prioritize supporting countries to conduct high-quality public exams; write @jrossiter0 + @mouna_akelbulan 📝:
cgdev.org/blog/silence-exam-…
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In this @CGDev blog we lay our our rationale & approach to answer the question: Will Raising Test Scores in Developing Countries Produce More Health, Wealth, & Happiness Later in Life
Eager for feedback/ideas/to be told we're crazy to even try
With @jrossiter0 & @JustinSandefur
Do better literacy skills pay off for kids later in life? At present, we don't have a credible answer to this Q..
So... introducing our @CGDev Return to Learning project, where we'll attempt to track down kids from early grade reading RCTs, 10-15yrs ago
cgdev.org/blog/will-raising-…
Will Raising Test Scores in Developing Countries Produce More Health, Wealth, and Happiness Later in Life?
We want to find out.
Introducing CGD's Return to Learning Initiative -- a🧵
cgdev.org/blog/will-raising-…
6/7 Challenge #3: Statistical power.
Few studies have enough power to pick up reasonable effects on adult earnings, so we hope to pool multiple trials
Thankfully, we have a database of trials. We're starting with four of these: docs.google.com/spreadsheets…
