Globally, 50% students aged 13–15 (~150 million!) report experiencing peer-to-peer violence in and around school. How can we reduce school-based violent behaviors? In our forthcoming paper at JEEA 🎉, with P. Egana-DelSol, we provide evidence for El Salvador. Here’s a 🧵(1/n)

🏆💻TOP 5 VIEWED ARTICLES online in the #JournalofAfricanEconomies in 2023. @OUPEconomics No. 1⃣ is 'Education in Africa: What are we Learning?' and it's #openaccess (is that 3 years running?) 🖋️David Evans & Amina Mendez Acosta 📚doi.org/10.1093/jae/ej…

The US government is investing billions in avoiding lead (pb) poisoning, whilst the British government is investing approximately zero. It's a no-brainer and should be a national scandal. smf.co.uk/commentary_pod…

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In a new analysis reviewing the effect of center-based childcare interventions, David Evans, Pamela Jakiela, and Amina Mendez Acosta find an overwhelmingly positive impact on children’s developmental outcomes in LMICs 🚸 Read on 👇 bit.ly/4b6VOaw

Do you or your students ever need to make bar graphs in Stata ? I just published a "Pt.2" of my guides on advanced bar graphs, this time covering visualizing cross-tabs, -catplot- & adding a "Total" category. Hope it is helpful for you! 😊#StataGallery medium.com/the-stata-gall…

Come work with us! Center for Global Development is looking for a policy analyst for its Global Education team: …erforglobaldevelopment.applytojob.com/apply/Q7CpD2Mj…

"The Impacts of Childcare Interventions on Children’s Outcomes in Low- & Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review" (by Pamela Jakiela Amina Mendez Acosta and me) is now out in AEA Papers & Proceedings! Published aeaweb.org/articles?id=10… Open access working paper cgdev.org/publication/im…

A systematic review of 71 studies of center-based childcare interventions find that at current levels of quality most have positive impacts on child development outcomes. More studies are needed to understand which are the characteristics of child care centers that matter the

Across the globe, #teachers are leaving the profession in droves. Why? 🏫 In a NEW Center for Global Development working paper, Biniam Bedasso and Amina Mendez Acosta examine what's driving teachers to quit, highlighting the impact of violence and conflict on turnover rates. ⬇ bit.ly/4eYuJZb

What’s causing #teachers to #quit? 🏫 Biniam Bedasso & Amina Mendez Acosta examine what drives teachers to leave their jobs in low-income and conflict-affected settings—a critical starting point to developing policies to retain them ⬇ bit.ly/4eYuJZb

New meta-analysis by David Evans Amina Mendez Acosta on probably the most cost-effective intervention in global education. Small average effects but at extremely low cost (though we still need to do much better on collecting cost data!) cgdev.org/sites/default/…

ICYMI: 🚨Center for Global Development is hiring🚨 Senior fellows / fellows Could be the biggest hiring round in my many years here, as Rachel Glennerster takes the reins this week as our new president. Esp. looking for ppl in: health development finance education agriculture, & climate

What if you could improve education just by providing information on the returns to education? Here's what Amina Mendez Acosta and I learned from a dozen interventions. Working paper cgdev.org/publication/ch… Summary blog blogs.iadb.org/educacion/en/t… And a thread of our main findings 🧵

School meal programs are expanding globally, but what's the impact? 🍽️ Reviewing 15 years of evidence, Amina Mendez Acosta and Biniam Bedasso provide five key insights—from effects on school access to benefits in low-income countries, explore the findings ⬇ bit.ly/4gvMwqq

A brilliant overview of evidence on school feeding Center for Global Development Justin Sandefur. Please retweet/use as widely. one request: convert standard deviations into a currency people & policy makers can relate to - years in school, less malnutrition, better learning cgdev.org/blog/do-school…

Looking forward to Nathan Nunn and Daniel Trefler speak at University of Alberta this September!