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Excited to present our A/B testing work at the What Works Hub for Global Education conference this week! Sharing insights from 10 rapid A/B tests on scaling and cost-effectiveness-boosting strategies in Ed. Youth Impact Noam Angrist Janica Magat

📣 Today is the big day. Join us for one of the world's biggest education gatherings. 250+ leading researchers, donors, policymakers, & practitioners at the What Works Hub for Global Education Annual Conference (What Works Hub for Global Education)! ➡️Agenda: wwhge.org/get-involved/o… ➡️ Tune in:

Amazing, exemplary program of A/B testing by Youth Impact - led to doubling the impact of a remote TaRL program with 18% cost reduction. Presentation by Claire Cullen Paper here - bit.ly/47OCIEP #WWHGlobalEd24

Honoured to share our Youth Impact A/B testing work at the What Works Hub for Global Education conference!🚀Grateful for rich discussions on scaling, tackling the learning crisis, & evidence-based policy with inspiring movers & shakers. Excited for the future of rapid experimentation in ed!📚🔄

~70% of households don't receive govt ed policies in practice in sub-Saharan Africa. 👇 new podcast w/ VoxDev Tim Phillips Talk Normal on our Nature Human Behaviour paper nature.com/articles/s4156… voxdev.org/topic/educatio… Stefan Dercon What Works Hub for Global Education Blavatnik School of Government CSAE FCDO Research, Science and Technology

I look forward to presenting at the Economics of Violence Against Women Workshop organized by Sonia Bhalotra at University of Warwick next week! Fantastic speakers and exciting research on all aspects of violence against women. #EconTwitter

OpenPhil is launching a new program on economic growth in LMICs. We’re looking to hire someone experienced to lead that program - application deadline is 24 Nov (and we're very open to referrals/recs!) Key info: openphilanthropy.org/research/launc… A 🧵about our journey to get here:

Apply for the Master of Public Policy (MPP) Blavatnik School of Government (1 year graduate degree). Scholarships available for future leaders, policy makers, & public servants who are committed to Africa's development. ⏰Apply by 09 January 2025 ℹ️ Find out more: bsg.ox.ac.uk/study/mpp

📣A/B testing, common in tech, has massive potential to maximize impact in the social sector. Check out our new Insight Note What Works Hub for Global Education Youth Impact: ➡️"A/B testing in education: rapid experimentation to optimise programme cost-effectiveness" wwhge.org/resources/a-b-…

Need something to distract yourself today? Check out my mega 🧵 about all the gender papers at #NEUDC2024 (some I managed to see presented + some not - but I looked at them all!)

💡Our friends at Youth Impact have produced an excellent guide to using A/B testing for social sector impact! In the last few decades, growing use of RCTs has helped steer investment towards interventions with the greatest social return. But while RCTs establish broad

We are growing, we are hiring - 6 new positions in development economics One Ass. Professor Three Post-Docs One Pre-doc One Research Manager csae.ox.ac.uk/vacancies

Open Philanthropy is hiring for a Program Officer to lead new program on economic growth in LMICs Deadline is now 1 Dec - keen to get range of applicants with experience working on growth. Can be based anywhere - details below! JD: bit.ly/lmicgrowth

🚨 Our new working paper is out👇 We explore male backlash to female empowerment and how policies can help mitigate it. Proud to collaborate with sarthak joshi (who's on the job market!), Joe Vecci and Julia Talbot-Jones

I'm on the #EconJobMarket! Millions of women dropped out of the labor force in rural India starting in the mid-2000s. Why? My #JMP shows that gendered commuting frictions + urban-biased growth is an important part of the answer. 🔗warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/econom… #EconTwitter 🧵👇 1/6

Join us on the last AEA day: Sunday, Jan 5 1-3 PM "Education Technology and Inequality: Randomized Trials of Tech to Enable Children's Learning across 10 Countries" w/ Susanna Loeb Aker Tahir Andrabi Glewwe ASSA Meeting #ASSA2025

A treat to be in Manila and meet Undersecretary of the DepEd Ronald Mendoza. Inspiring plans to leverage evidence to improve learning for all. We've been grateful to collaborate with DepEd & Innovations for Poverty Action for the past 5 years to scale evidence-based interventions & continue

Thank you VoxDev for featuring our The Economic Journal article on temperature, sleep and decision making!

📣 Calling all Data Scientists! Youth Impact is hiring a data scientist to build out program & data systems for scale. An exciting partnership made possible by The Agency Fund OpenAI . Will start with an exciting scale-up w/ Government of Karnataka youth-impact.org/join-our-team/…