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Very exciting opportunities at HLI!

Academics/advocates, please help! “Submission of a paper implies that it reports unpublished work and that it is not under consideration for publication elsewhere.” Does this include reports published by an NGO on their website? Important Q for advocacy timelines. Cheers!

Bad news: Leaded fuel reduced the IQ of everyone born before 1990 by ~4.25%. Millennials are the first to be born with unleaded gas. Worse news: a new paper shows environmental lead levels from leaded gasoline are still around in cities today, and cause continued neurotoxicity.

Happier Lives Institute 🌻 has a new analysis comparing the cost-effectiveness of psychotherapy and cash transfers in low-income countries in terms of subjective well-being (happierlivesinstitute.org/overview.html). In our dataset, we find the former is 12x (95% CI: 4, 27) more cost-effective. Thread 1/N

“This is an entire United States issue. It really is everywhere.” It’s also a huge global issue. Hundreds of millions of children suffer irreversible harm from lead poisoning - denying them their health and their potential. theguardian.com/us-news/2021/d…

We’re looking to expand our current projects (leadelimination.org/projects/) at LEEP - any leads in Niger, Burundi or Angola v much appreciated! Feel free to DM me

We got rid of leaded gasoline and we can do the same for lead paint. Nice that our work at LEEP with partners in Pakistan and Liberia is featured in this Vox article from dylan matthews 🔸

Whoop for this! Center for Global Development plan to research the effects from lead exposure in low- and middle-income countries (evidence is sparse on this). And organise a working group to get lead exposure on the global agenda 🙌

More data and more testing capacity is needed if lead exposure is to be eliminated in LMICs 👇

What if I told you that roughly $500 for therapy + a little cash helped the most troubled young men in West Africa drop their crime and violence by half. For at least 10 years. Almost 350 fewer crimes PER PARTICIPANT over 10y. That's ~$1.50 per crime averted. New paper & a 🧵

Deadline for Head of Ops and (multiple) Programs Manager positions at LEEP is this Sunday! You can work remotely from anywhere + flexible hours. Do apply if you want to have an impact and help us build an organisation that improves millions of children's lives 📈🌍

TIME's cover image in LEEP yellow too 🙌

Really exciting progress in Madagascar. The Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development, and Rila Rakotomanana in particular, has been doing an incredible job on this project, glad that LEEP could support them!

Meta-analysis of lead/crime lit finds pub bias but thinks there’s real effect sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

New study with Aga Khan University Aga Khan University shows that many oil-based paints for home-use available on the market in Pakistan contain high levels of lead. As we've found before, it looks like red and yellow pigments are the main source of lead

Huge opportunity at LEEP!

🚨New Paper🚨 1/2 of kids in the developing world have elevated blood lead. That explains about 1/5th of the test score gap b/n rich & poor countries. cgdev.org/publication/ho… FT coverage here: ft.com/content/18bdb6… with Lee Crawfurd Rory Todd Susannah Hares & @rsilv_dc