First pass at a website that keeps track of the data availability status of various published papers: paulgp.com/replication-... Very much in Alpha mode, so data will be updated soon.

New paper: Morocco's Pioneer Middle Schools—a government-led whole-school reform—improved socioemotional skills, tripled year-on-year learning, reduced dropout ~1/3. "Beyond Basics" w/ Campos Quintero, El Amrani Mida, Glewwe, Kumar, and Lépine de-barros.com/publication/... @cega-uc.bsky.social

New research alert! Here’s the big idea: Will giving students the tools to master foundational math and reading skills serve as a building block for broader learning? @andydebarros.bsky.social & Theresa Lubozha set out to answer this by examining Zambia’s national “Catch Up” program.

New paper on skill formation, with evidence from Zambia's foundational skills program (Teaching at the Right Level / Catch Up) Targeting Foundational Skills at Scale: Skill Specificity and Transfer w/ T. Lubozha Preprint & brief de-barros.com/publication/... Also @cesifo.org @cega-uc.bsky.social

Happy to share: “Economic Empowerment and Mental Health: Evidence from India” (with Sulagna Mookerjee) is accepted at Economic Development and Cultural Change :) Full Paper: www.ajinkyakeskar.com/files/MHDraf...

I've built a new tool! You can upload your pre-analysis plan or registered report, pre-submission to a registry or journal, and it will screen it for completeness, clarity, and consistency. 1/ 🧵

Why do educational intervention impacts fade? Isn't catch-up a good thing? Are sleeper effects real? Does fadeout mean failure? @drewhalbailey.bsky.social, Tyler Watts, and I address these questions & more in an EdNext piece & 4 new working papers! www.educationnext.org/why-do-most-...

I have a new paper. We look at ~all stats articles in political science post-2010 & show that 94% have abstracts that claim to reject a null. Only 2% present only null results. This is hard to explain unless the research process has a filter that only lets rejections through.

You're right, one does not necessarily imply the other; was running out of characters. Here'a link to my JMP, which I framed as being about school choice and sorting, but is also about tracking (across schools). We don't have a WP for the classroom tracking yet. Link to my JMP (accepted at ReStat):

Updating my slides on why asking "Does EdTech work?" is useless www.economist.com/leaders/2017... www.economist.com/united-state... For far more helpful takes: www.brookings.edu/articles/rea... voxdev.org/voxdevlit/ed...

All #econjobmarket tips in one place: https://statatexblog.com/useful-links/#from-graduate-to-post-graduate-the-econ-job-market

The Weiss Fund has a great new initiative for development economists on the PhD job market to support those taking up research positions in LMICs, offering supplementary income + research funds. Please share!

New publication in The Economic Journal “Qualitative Analysis With Large-N: A New Method with An Application to Aspirations in Bangladesh.”https://academic.oup.com/ej/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/ej/ueag005/8417166?redirectedFrom=fulltext Also available here vijayendrarao.org/wp-content/u...

Computer-assisted learning in the real world: How Khan Academy influences student math learning doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

Brand-new findings w/ a large team show that multicomponent intervention targeting widespread violence in schools in Zambia does ⬆️ student discussions about violence in schools, but does not shift violence itself ideas.repec.org/p/wb...

Human capital is central to growth, and the elimination of poverty. Discussing obstacles to human capital accumulation and evidence on policies that can promote it, from Philippe Aghion, Ingvild Almås, and Costas Meghir www.nber.org/papers/w34602

I often hear about how tough it is for kids to learn to read in a language they don't understand. True! Also tough for kids to learn to read from a teacher who doesn't speak the language they're supposed to be teaching in. wiki.santafe.edu/images/e/ec/...

Lasting change requires more than cash—interventions adding information meetings and home visits produce real, sustained gains for mothers and children, from Richard Akresh, Damien de Walque, Harounan Kazianga, and Abigail Stocker www.nber.org/papers/w34578

Evaluating a soft-skills course implemented in Ugandan and Kenyan primary schools that replaced academic review time with lessons on goal-setting and related skills as students prepared for primary school-leaving exams, from Dam, Gray-Lobe, Kremer, de Laat, and Morsink www.nber.org/papers/w34562

Woah. Argentina's 1990s preschool expansion program appears to have been a smashing success. The program increased high school completion by a whole 11.9 percentage points. The authors estimate that for every $1 spent, the preschool expansion generated about $11 in benefits.

My friend Xu has a WP out! He and prof Zhengwei use CEPS data to show private tutoring exacerbates inequality via the "rat race": intense competition degrades class atmosphere and demotivates non-tutored peers, causing them to give up Link here papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Pre-school in Africa works. "on average, these programmes are successful in improving children's cognitive outcomes by 0.10 standard deviations (p-value < 0.01) [and] children's socioemotional development by 0.09 standard deviations (p-value < 0.01)." academic.oup.com/jae/advance-...

The EdDev Community Group will meet tomorrow at 11 AM ET. Alejandro Ganimian will present work in progress. Join the EdDev Community Group today aefpweb.org/communit...

Cool new @cesifo.org paper, documenting "teaching to the top": www.ifo.de/en/cesifo/pu...

Forthcoming in AEJ: Applied Economics: "From Access to Achievement: The Primary School-Age Impacts of an At-Scale Preschool Construction Program in Highly Deprived Communities" by Bassi, Besbas, Dinarte-Diaz, Ravindran, and Reynoso. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Today's cool young researcher #econtwitter #econsky is @palaashbhargava postdoc @UChicago who works on topics related to development, labor + social networks

New guidance on EdTech in developing countries, by @singhabhi.bsky.social , @lnavarrosola.bsky.social , and Philip Oreopoulos This looks good! voxdev.org/voxdevlit/ed...

I have a new VoxDev Lit launching this week on education technology👇 This area has lots of froth, but also some very promising evidence on tech use (on teaching, assessments, information) across K-12. Pulling this together was fun (with Phil Oreopoulos and @lnavarrosola.bsky.social ).

Exciting news on @malengo.org, the NGO that helps East African students move to Europe for education: Our research team has given us a glimpse of their early findings! Here is the full writeup, joint with @richardnerland.bsky.social: forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/CpZYHk... Thread follows!

The World Bank plans to “operationally align” its research arm. But the changes could undermine its ability to deliver rigorous, independent analysis free from client or internal pressure. More from @charlesjkenny.bsky.social and @eeshani.bsky.social ⬇️ https://go.cgdev.org/43vNSgK

Can Tutoring—and Technology—Finally Solve Bloom’s Two Sigma Problem? www.gettingsmart.com/2025/11/25/c...

🚀 I’m excited to share that I’m on the #EconSky job market this year! In my #EconJMP, I study how teachers in Finnish upper secondary schools impact students’ socio-emotional skills – and the labor market returns of these effects! (🧵, 1/N)

The EdDev Community Group will meet tomorrow at 11 AM ET. Vatsal Khandelwal & Nneka Esther Osadolor will present work in progress. Join the EdDev Community Group today aefpweb.org/communit...

PacDev 2026 will take place on March 14---submit your paper now! Deadline: Dec 14 #pacdev2026 #econsky cega.submittable.com/submit/34150...

👋 I'm Danielle, and I'm on the #econjobmarket this year! Let's start with a student describing her segregated school: "The school felt temporary. Built like a warehouse with aluminum siding . . . I had a slipshod education" The twist? The student is white, and her school is private. A JMP 🧵 -->

Grading difference affect gender gap in STEM? - Need to dig into this but need to understand why there would be gender differences in "preference" for grades #linkoftheday public.econ.duke.edu/~psarcidi/aa...

This week I read the forthcoming paper in AEJ: EP by Bowden, Rodriguez, Weingarten studying how a more lenient grading policy affected student behavior and outcomes As the table shows - pre: min effort for D -> 69 points - post: min effort for D -> 60 points #econsky 1/N

I think this is kind of neat and I don't think anyone else has noticed it (I've looked and I can't find anyone who has) osf.io/preprints/so... Maybe I should back off "justification" language, but it's at least a remarkable coincidence. I still think someone else *must* have noticed it...

This paper is adapted from our more traditional research paper: academic.oup.com/wbro/article....

Recently accepted by #QJE, “Digital Distractions with Peer Influence: The Impact of Mobile App Usage on Academic and Labor Market Outcomes,” by Barwick, Chen, Fu, and Li: doi.org/10.1093/qje/...

👀 this new meta-analysis on edutainment by @bardiarahmani.bsky.social, Montano, @dylanwgroves.bsky.social, and Green doi.org/10.1017/bpp.... 377 ests in 77 exps: edutainment moves attitudes, norms, beliefs 📊 Effects persist ⏳ Many reasonable theories about effect heterogeneity are not supported 😇

Confusing title. I really expected a paper on Indian parenting...

In Pakistan, providing a technological tool to teachers but framing its use as optional delivered bigger impacts than either an analog tool or a mandatory tool. tahir-andrabi.sites.pomona.edu/wp-content/u...

Exciting news. We are hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Public Policy. Focus areas: environmental policy, international development, or poverty. Link: unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307... Submission Deadline: November 3, 2025. Don’t hesitate to reach out with any questions.

Early Childhood Education is central to India’s NEP and global edu goals. Our(@petterberg.bsky.social @singhabhi.bsky.social) new paper at EJ (@resmedia.bsky.social ky.social, bit.ly/4gOtoVV), shows private ECE outperform public options, explaining 60% of the SES gap. In primary, NO private premium.

🆕 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...