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Come work with me as a post-doc next year members.apsanet.org/CAREERS/eJobs/… Can be remote. Pls apply / spread the word

Want to learn more about our work in India🇮🇳, Pakistan🇵🇰, Tanzania🇹🇿and Rwanda🇷🇼? Join the discussion on What Works Hub for Global Education country research plans during the #WWHGlobalEd24 conference. 🗓️ 25 September 🕘 9.15am (BST) 📍Visit our website for more information: bit.ly/4guqK79

In a new working paper, Jacobus Cilliers, Nour Elashmawy & I look at the use of PDS Lasso for selecting control variables in field experiments. This is an issue that in part came up through discussions a while back on Twitter, 1/5 blogs.worldbank.org/en/impactevalu…

A new paper by researchers at Stanford takes on both the question of whether we are adapting to climate change and, indirectly, how we should measure such adaptation. A. Patrick Behrer explains in today's blog. blogs.worldbank.org/en/impactevalu…

Well-designed programmes with prior evidence of success often fail when scaled up by government. ⤵️ Discover how we identify and test for a low-cost way to improve the implementation of a school governance reform programme in Tanzania🇹🇿. Jacobus Cilliers buff.ly/3AI51bQ

Mpumi Mohohlwane Stephen Taylor Jacobus Cilliers et al 👏👏👏

Excited to see our paper published. Early intervention matters and it persists! We intervened in Setswana in Gr 1-3 & the benefits were seen Gr 7!

Two take-aways from our paper: 1) Clear long-term (to Grade 7) effects of an early grade (Gs 1-3) reading intervention. 2) Initial impacts in foundational skills (fluency) translate to longer-term impacts in higher-order skills (comprehension). #RTIFellow

Food > money? Most Ghanaian parents prefer school meals to the equivalent sum in cash. Fear of food price inflation appears to be a factor.

Differentiated learning holds so much promise for improving learning around the world. See link below for research on this method (me, with Adrienne Lucas Sabrin Beg and follow up work with Stephanie Bonds )

Really happy to see this in print. Will do a full thread later but big picture take-aways: (1) Admin data on learning in India has severe manipulation (2) No easy statistical fixes. Be v cautious using these for research or policy (3) We can do better (companion RCT in EJ)

Letting Asylum Seekers Work Is Not a “Pull Factor” - why do politicians get away with repeating this evidence-free argument? cgdev.org/blog/letting-a…

This cannot go on any longer. Paul Kagame must be stopped from meddling in Congolese affairs. Enough is enough.

Millions of lives saved. And now the PEPFAR data website is no more. Ironically, the original landmark JAMA study showing PEPFAR was turning the tide on the global HIV/AIDS epidemic was coauthored by... Jay Bhattacharya, Trump's pick to run NIH.

Kick off the year with exciting updates from What Works Hub for Global Education in our first newsletter of 2025! Discover: ✨ A New Year message 📌 Highlights from our inaugural conference 🌍 Key media mentions, publications and events from 2024 📖 Read now: buff.ly/42uqIrv 🔔 Subscribe:

*Extremely* timely EDCC article #econtwitter #econsky about effectiveness of foreign aid in building soft power. . .for China! Completion of Chinese foreign aid projects ⬆️ support for Chinese gov in recipient countries L Wellner Axel Dreher Andreas Fuchs Austin Strange

This is heartbreaking and staggering. And such a strategic blunder. The US reputation globally will be tarred for decades and decades.