🆕 Where to find development economics resources I've updated my list of all the various sources of newsletters, articles, podcasts & videos relevant to development economics that I've come across in my three years at @voxdev.bsky.social: voxdev.org/topic/where-...

This week's links include some positive developments in development, how to negotiate your econ job, why an SEZ was not very successful, econ meets other disciplines, and more... blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...

A new GLO Discussion Paper shows that online tutoring during wartime improves student learning outcomes, reduced stress, and is highly cost-effective. It is possible to develop human capital amid conflict. #GLabor www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10...

New by Ila Fazzio, Rukmini Banerji, @alexeble.bsky.social, and others, edited by Nishith Prakash: Support To Rural India’s Public Education System (STRIPES2) and impact on numeracy and literacy scores: A cluster randomized trial in rural villages of Madhya Pradesh, India doi.org/10.1371/jour...

Many interventions “work” in small trials but fail at scale Also, EdTech often promises much, but delivers little In a new paper (bit.ly/3JKLgVn) @karthik-econ.bsky.social & I show how personalized adaptive learning (PAL) software can sharply improve learning outcomes at scale🧵1/16

4 findings from our experimenting with policymakers paper, finally published in World Development last month (a mere 3.5 years after the CGD working paper version) ...

Conference Announcement: 16th International Workshop on Applied Economics of Education (IWAEE - www.iwaee.org) will be held on the 15th and 16th of June, 2026. More information, including call for papers, to follow

as editor, I'm actually signing the petition myself :) == Adopt Registered Reports at Psychological Methods - Sign the Petition! chng.it/wszLWM4KPX == e.g., look forward to exploring options for preregistration for the journal @apajournals.bsky.social @akmontoya.bsky.social

What great news that @iza.org is moving to @liser.lu! The world's top network of labor economists emerged from tumult with a new and wonderful home. A visionary choice by both institutions, with large ripple effects for economists worldwide. Thank you @iza.org and @liser.lu

How to get honest answers to sensitive survey questions? Our WP introduces the ballot-bag, a new method that is both precise and unbiased, improving on existing approaches such as list experiments. Joint work with Bruno Crépon and Ahmed Elsayed. #econsky www.iza.org/publications...

Thanks for the great response so far! The @aefpweb.bsky.social EdDev group still has an open presentation slot for Sept. 12, 11am eastern! Contact me if you're interested. #edusky #econsky

Much better data viz here than for our similar analysis of school books from 3 countries! journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

🆕 The challenges of improving parenting practices at scale Today on VoxDev, Irma Arteaga (University of Missouri), Andreas de Barros (UC Irvine) & Alejandro J. Ganimian (NYU) present evidence from an automated phone call programme in India: voxdev.org/topic/educat...

I love that so much attention is going to making sure children master literacy & numeracy in the early grades! But we can't forget the kids who need later remediation. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdf/10.1... This study substantively boosts literacy & numeracy among secondary school students.

Society of Labor Economists (SoLE) Annual Conference will be May 1-2, 2026 in Denver, Colorado. Submission portal is now open! Deadline for submissions is October 31--don't forget to submit! It will be a great conference! (organized by me and @jrothst.bsky.social) mailchi.mp/sole-jole/so...

Exciting NBER study (and NYT coverage) finding that $1,000 unconditional cash transfers in Kenya reduced under-5 deaths by 45%. GiveWell already took this evidence into account in their positive update on GiveDirectly last fall (doesn't make a huge quantitative difference).

Oxford University CSAE Conference 2026: Economic Development in Africa Deadline: September 14 Call for papers: www.csae.ox.ac.uk/sitefiles/cs...

School feeding program in Rwanda yields 11x return on investment academic.oup.com/jae/article-...

TIL "Originally considered by Allied scientists in World War II, [multi-armed bandits] proved so intractable that (...) the problem was proposed to be dropped over Germany so that German scientists could also waste their time on it." doi.org/10.1111/j.25... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-a...

Hey #econSky I've written a short blog post on some hidden advantages I see in Pre-Analysis Plans for team work, whether you do experimental research or not. Check it out here: adegendre.github.io/posts/2025-0...

Our special issue seeks to foster novel theoretical and empirical papers that treat scaling as an object of study in its own right—exploring its methodological foundations, economic incentives, institutional challenges, and pathways to impact. Please spread the word! ideas.repec.org/p/feb/artefa...

The World Bank – KDI School 6th Development Impact Conference Deadline: August 29 www.worldbank.org/en/events/20...

Forthcoming in the AER: "Apart but Connected: Online Tutoring, Cognitive Outcomes, and Soft Skills" by Michela Carlana and Eliana la Ferrara. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Helping parents with low literacy levels to understand how they can support their children's learning increased learning and reduced dropout. drive.google.com/file/d/1aRqI... Mahounan Yedomiffi (sites.google.com/view/mahouna...) with evidence from Benin

Econ instructors: considering running an RCT but unsure where to start? My new working paper (w/ @lizschroeder.bsky.social) can guide you. We walk you through all the steps to run an RCT: design, setup, implementation & analysis, w/ many examples along the way. 1/2 papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

New publication! #econtwitter #econsky tl;dr light-touch teacher training and community-led reading camps did NOT increase early-grade literacy in Mozambique. Joint with @NKarachiwalla @cherreralmanza Lauchande + Chimbutane

I wrote this post about the short-term impacts of this intervention, which were being hyped at the time, in 2022. Sadly, the same pattern repeats itself over and over again... blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...

I've been working on a new tool, Refine, to make scholars more productive. If you're interested in being among the very first to try the beta, please read on. Refine leverages the best current AI models to draw your attention to potential errors and clarity issues in research paper drafts. 1/

"Education can account for about 45% of global economic growth and 60% of pretax income growth among the world’s poorest 20% from 1980 to 2019." academic.oup.com/qje/advance-...

New paper out in @science.org! “Brain drain” or “brain gain”? Effects of high-skilled international emigration on origin countries doi.org/10.1126/scie...

🚨 New NBER working paper: "The Impact of Unconditional Cash Transfers on Parenting and Children" This paper estimates the effects of receiving a $1,000/month guaranteed income for 3 years, compared to a control group receiving $50/month, on children and parents in the US. 1/

Very pleased that our local projections dif-in-dif paper is now out in the Journal of Applied Econometrics. Joint with @dgirardi.bsky.social, Jorda, and Taylor. It's a tool that we think many applied economists will find useful (indeed many already have). 🧵

Since you folks seem to like lengthy threads, let's look at visualizing distributions. I'll visualize one data set 16 ways and give some other examples of each chart type. #dataViz

Want more power for CATE in your A/B test? Imagine that you're running a randomized controlled trial (RCT/AB test) and, subsequently, you want to use the data from this experiment for personalized decision-making. 1/ 👇🏼 #CausalSky #StatSky

🚨Excited to announce a free mini-course on Modern Difference-in-Differences Designs, taught by @borusyak.bsky.social , hosted by ITAM & LACEA's Impact Evaluation Network! 🚨 🗓️ Sept 26–27, 2025 📍 ITAM's Santa Teresa campus, CDMX Details 👇 #EconTwitter

I got an exciting box in the mail today! Looks like The Effect: Second Edition is live! I've updated the website as well, so you can check out the changes and the new Partial Identification chapter (+ a new mini-chapter on finding material in the book) at theeffectbook.net

Forthcoming in JOLE: "Lifetime Consequences of Lost Instructional Time in the Classroom: Evidence from Shortened School Years" by Kamila Cygan-Rehm www.journals.uchicag... #EconSky

@joshua-goodman.com re: "Kumon in"

🎉 CEGA is excited to introduce @andydebarros.bsky.social, our newest faculty affiliate! Read what Andreas is looking forward to as he joins CEGA’s network of researchers.

Just accepted in the #EconomicsOfEducationReview, "The effect of compulsory education on non-cognitive skills: Evidence from low- and middle-income countries" by @antoniaentorf.bsky.social & Thomas Dohmen 1/N #EconSky

With @mollyow.bsky.social, we wrote up an email exchange about testing for causal effect heterogeneity with the grf package. In short, a recommended approach had v. bad properties (wild over-rejection of true nulls of homogeneity) but Molly had a fix. alexandercoppock.com/testing_with...

A huge thanks to this group of super smart people in Rabat. Such a joy to be working with you all @j-pal.bsky.social!

Tufts University is thrilled to host the North East Development Consortium (NEUDC) Conference on November 8-9, 2025! 📝 Call for Papers: Submissions start June 16, and end August 17. Submit your papers here: editorialexpress.com/cgi-bin/conf... More details to come! #NEUDC #NEUDC2025

How many econ papers are computationally reproducible? 📈 The Social Science Reproduction Platform (SSRP) crowd-sources reproductions - and the team is ready to share results. New NBER working paper by Brodeur et al. shares findings from the first 487 SSRP reproductions: www.nber.org/papers/w33753

Our @cgdev.org paper on @vvob.bsky.social school leader training in Rwanda 📚🇷🇼 is now out in the Journal of Development Economics, with Simeon Lauterbach, Jocelyn Kirezi, Aimable Nsabimana, & Jef Peeraer www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Authors, editors, reviewers, and other potential users should use CONSORT 2025 when writing and evaluating manuscripts of randomized trials to ensure that trial reports are clear and transparent. Learn more in this Special Communication. https://ja.ma/3TlnKQe

We have a job opening at Lund University for an assistant professor in economics of education (tenure-track). Applications are open until 11 August 2025. Please reach out if you have questions! lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

Now up: the 9th in my annual series of efforts to put together data on development journals: rankings, number of papers submitted (over 12,000 last year across 12 journals), number published (937), acceptance rates, time to review, open access stats, and more... blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...