We’re pleased to announce the annual summer ThReD Conference, co-organized by GSEM and the Geneva Graduate Institute, will be held in Geneva on May 28–29, 2026! Call for Papers now open — submissions due Jan 25, 2026 (midnight EST). thred.devecon.org/conferences/...

Cash grants beat job training? A 3.5 year study in Rwanda by Craig McIntosh & @andrewzeitlin.io found both helped youth start businesses, but COVID wiped out half the gains. Neither escaped poverty. Liquidity matters – but so do bigger structural barriers. doi.org/10.3368/jhr....

🚨 COOL JOB!!! 🚨 In Rwanda, @poverty-action.bsky.social and gui2de are hiring a Scale-Up Advisor to work within the MINEDUC to scale up a revised teacher performance pay contract ("imihigo"). We're looking for an excellent manager to help lead this initiative to take evidence into policy at scale.

This is the stuff of authoritarian regimes. There isn't even the pretense that this is anything but persecution, unbound by law.

A few points with regard to Secretary Rubio's testimony about US foreign assistance on the Hill the last couple of days... a thread.

🆕 Do carbon offsets work? Evidence from the world’s largest offset programme Today on VoxDev, Raphael Calel (Georgetown University), Jonathan Colmer (University of Virginia), Antoine Dechezleprêtre (OECD) & Matthieu Glachant (Mines Paris) outline research on India: voxdev.org/topic/energy...

Craig McIntosh @gpsucsd.bsky.social and I wrote about a conversation that was ongoing about efficiency at USAID -- and what it might mean for US bilateral aid going forward:

BREAKING: Supreme Court DENIES President Trump‘s emergency bid to cancel nearly $2 billion in USAID spending. The vote is 5-4.

The Demographic and Heath Survey program received their USAID termination email last night www.linkedin.com/posts/caren-...

I don’t have a definitive source on this yet but it looks like NSF review panels have been canceled. Sixty-some years ago, Eisenhower transformed higher education because he viewed a science education gap as the single greatest threat to national security. This is absolutely an act of sabotage.

cc #econ_ra

Cc #econ_ra

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(bringing this across from the other site) Thrilled to see Craig's and my original cash benchmarking experiment featured in the EJ this month (doi.org/10.1093/ej/u...).

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