🚨 REPLICATION REPORT UPDATE: One year ago, a tweet by John Holbein alerted me, @ollefolke.bsky.social, and @jopieboy.bsky.social to a paper with a shocking result about Sweden’s law criminalizing the purchase of sex.🧵

Ahhh Pop, Manu, and TD! My heart!

🚀Ready to launch your social venture? 💡D-Prize is offering $20K to entrepreneurs launching new organizations that will run proven initiatives including all three of Youth Impact's programs. 🔗Apply by 8 June: www.d-prize.org #apply #getfunded #dprize

Woohoo! A/B testing to continuously optimize program impact and cost effectiveness for the win! 🎉 Learn more: www.youth-impact.org/a-b-testing

Education Compass: The state of student learning in Botswana We recently conducted our annual survey on the state of student learning in Botswana. We assessed nearly 2000 Standard 4 students across 60 schools and interviewed their caregivers. (Thread) #EducationinBotswana #EducationCompass

HRW reports over 12000 Filipinos were killed over the course of Duterte’s “war” on drugs.

9 out of 10 students in Standard 4 are below the expected grade level in maths. Get the facts about the state of student learning in Botswana in our 2025 Education Compass report here: www.youth-impact.org/education-co... #EducationinBotswana #YouthImpactResearch #EducationCompas

When even your mental health app is snarky. 😭😭😭

“The world must now affirm that human lives matter, no matter where they are.” In a new op-ed, Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo call for governments, multilaterals, and philanthropists to double down on investing in evidence-backed programs that improve people’s lives. www.ft.com/content/43e9...

📊 How can we make impact evaluation findings more comparable + actionable? 🔍Click here to learn more about IDEAL, an open-access platform by CEGA, the WorldBank + other global partners to address this question: buff.ly/szDMowc #polisky #econsky

Over the past 20 years, J-PAL & members of our research network have worked with USAID to design, pilot, evaluate, & scale programs that maximize the impact of development. Iqbal Dhaliwal shares what we've learned & how those lessons shaped policy decisions. www.povertyactionlab.org/blog/2-28-25...

The world is crazy, have a semla. #semladagen

🥳Thrilled to be featured in the Asian Development Bank's publication on Building Resilience in Education Systems for our work in the Philippines. @mandabeat.bsky.social @poverty-action.bsky.social Read the full paper here (Chapter 9): www.adb.org/publications...