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My sentiments at the end of another fiscal year.

Collapse of vultures in India, triggered by the expiry of a patent on a painkiller —increased human mortality by over 4% because of a large negative shock to sanitation. We quantify damages at $69.4 billion per year. shorturl.at/g32Ff Anant Sudarshan Eyal Frank

Across disciplines, economists, sociologists and political scientists are the least outspoken on climate action in their tweets. STEM subjects are the most; with Mathematicians leading the charge.

Amplifying research from low-and middle-income countries. Only around 50% of academic papers focus on low- and middle-income countries. But these countries have over 80% of the global population. World Bank research is changing this. blogs.worldbank.org/en/opendata/gl… via World Bank

Fascinating survey experiment on how voters perceive Kamala Harris In the exp. after her nomination, headlines emphasizing Harris’s race or gender had no impact on public attitudes. In the exp. after Harris's inauguration, headlines cuing her gender/race boosted support.

Really chuffed to get a shoutout from the great Jessica Leight. The author of my fav twitter threads.

Very excited about the upcoming launch of World Bank's global report on Education and Climate Change!! Please join us for the launch event on Sept 4th

📢 Happening tomorrow! One of our greatest tools in the fight against climate change is underutilized & under threat. What is it? Education. Join us as we discuss how to harness education for climate action & adapt schools for climate change. Sign up: wrld.bg/xQzE50Tb7b0

Its out!! Our new work on: How education propels climate change How climate change is impacting education with novel data, analysis, and evidence shorturl.at/nM4Wz

Education is a powerful but UNDER-USED instrument for climate action. New WB report: rb.gy/rx8pmi. Education reshapes behaviors, develops skills, & spurs innovation—everything we need to combat the greatest crisis facing humanity Great work by my colleagues Shwetlena Sabarwal

Excited about this session!

Delighted to see our paper featured at Ideas for India!! How to help adolescents seek mental health support in the face of stigma? Featuring an RCT in Nepal with Lindsey Lacey Nishith Prakash sahil Deepak Saraswat & Nirajana Mishra, Nikhilesh Prakash, Diane Quinn

Can online teacher training make a difference? Can financial incentives make a difference to its effectiveness? My new paper with Pierre de Galbert Carla Z Glave Barrantes 🍉 Kumar Biswas & T.M. Asaduzzaman shows that it can work, especially in combo with incentives. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Can AI be a personal tutor – not just for the rich but for the poor who do not have access to quality instruction? Can it help bring learning and skills to at-risk students in fragile and conflict settings? The answer is Yes! Mark DeSimone Maria Rebeca Barron shorturl.at/JR48s

The World Bank is the largest external financier of education in the developing world. And I am proud to be contributing to this work!!

Excellent thread by Dan Goldhaber on the latest results on US student performance from NEAP. The COVID learning losses continue to reverberate. More improvement is needed to get to pre-COVID levels.

Lower-performing 4th & 8th graders posted the worst reading scores in over 30 years. In 8th grade math, the gap between the highest- and lowest-performing students was the widest in the test’s history. Results from NEAP 2024 nagb.gov/news-and-event…

So excited to see our work on a tailored talk therapy for at-risk Nepali youth VoxDev The demand for mental health support was high - 89% of offered students attended. Younger students had higher take up. We saw positive impacts on adolescents’ mental health.

World Bank supported Africa Centers of Excellence have brought skilling and R&D opportunities to millions. "A few years ago, the idea of having a gynecologist 700 kilometers from Dakar, equipped to perform endoscopies, seemed unthinkable" worldbank.org/en/news/immers…