#NEUDC2023 session Early Childhood Education examined design and behavioral responses by schools, interventions for teacher effort, and promoting parent-child reading as methods to improve outcomes, chaired by Michela Carlana. 🖇️Read the papers: bit.ly/3StyX26

Honored to receive the Weiss NEUDC Distinguished Paper award for my JMP at #NEUDC2023 Harvard CID Harvard Kennedy School! Was also a great opportunity to meet and hear about the work of the 4 other amazing awardees (Mattia Fracchia, Miguel Ortiz, Trinh Pham, Duncan Webb)

We're going to miss David Evans at Center for Global Development more than I can say. And, given how much his many fans love his research round-ups, we couldn't think of a more fitting send off than this final Round-up, the Dave Evans edition 100+ blog posts. 500k views. cgdev.org/blog/top-hits-…

How can sharing stigmatized mental health information be more effective? Today's blog post by Emma Smith shows (with 2 RCTs!) that, in the context of refugees, providing a "social cover" works & that community can help making targeting more effective blogs.worldbank.org/impactevaluati…

Here's my regular reminder that @AnnaPopovas & I studied cash transfers in many countries, & people don't use the money for alcohol/tobacco. journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.108… Banerjee & others studied a bunch of cash programs & found they don't discourage work. economics.mit.edu/sites/default/…

Deworming improves lives across generations. Last month on VoxDev, @tedmiguel Berkeley Economics, Eric Ochieng Innovations for Poverty Action & Michael Walker Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA) outlined takeaways from data tracking children in Kenya since receiving deworming treatment ~20 years ago: voxdev.org/topic/health/d…

Fantastic mentoring program for African students interested in graduate school in social sciences! Apply now!

Many thanks to Econ That Matters for featuring my JMP blogpost! I study the demand for and potential of SMS-based business trainings for improving outcomes for micro-entrepreneurs in low income settings. Full paper on my website for those interested: ziamehmood.com

Really interesting work by Muhammad Zia Mehmood that looks at the demand for and effectiveness of SMS-based business trainings via a RCT with Kenyan micro-entrepreneurs.

Thanks VoxDev for featuring work with Adrienne Lucas and Dr Anne Fitzpatrick on the role of managers in enhancing learning in #Ghana schools

Consider applying to be a mentor - this is a fantastic program & it's a treat to work with such driven and energetic early career researchers!

My JMP blogpost just got published on the Center for Effective Global Action (Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA)) blog :medium.com/@cega_uc/short… Full paper on my website (ziamehmood.com)

Had a wonderful time presenting my research Innovations for Poverty Action Ghana today! 🙏🏻 Bonus to talk with our field managers who have been with us on our RCTs (with Adrienne Lucas and Elodie ) since 2018! 🥰 and who are helping us do new work with Stephanie Bonds 🥳

Had an amazing time at #AES2024 in Tanzania discussing research and catching up with so many friends and colleagues from around the world! Thank you Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA)!

Today's cool young researcher #EconTwitter is Maria Dieci Emory Public Health who works on topics related to child development, family planning + malaria in LMICs mariadieci.com

An IPA Ghana study with Ministry of Education Ghana UNICEF & researchers Elodie Dr Anne Fitzpatrick Adrienne Lucas show that improved monitoring & support by school principals & supervisors boosted student learning level, teaching & test scores by one-third of a school year. bit.ly/ghdi1821

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 )

In Ghana, Differentiated Learning improves students’ basic English & math skills. At scale, refresher training for teachers to implement it in classrooms is needed but costly. An IPA study found that in-person training remains vital for program fidelity: bit.ly/DLrefresh