Janica Magat-Larsen
@janicalapati.bsky.social
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Research Specialist at Youth Impact. Texas A&M PhD. Manila girl in Sweden.
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Johanna Rickne
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🚨 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.🧵
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Ahhh Pop, Manu, and TD! My heart!
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Youth Impact
6 months ago
🚀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
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Woohoo! A/B testing to continuously optimize program impact and cost effectiveness for the win! 🎉 Learn more:
www.youth-impact.org/a-b-testing
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Youth Impact
8 months ago
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
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HRW reports over 12000 Filipinos were killed over the course of Duterte’s “war” on drugs.
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Youth Impact
8 months ago
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
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When even your mental health app is snarky. 😭😭😭
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J-PAL
8 months ago
“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...
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Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo: Foreign aid can be effective without the US
In the wake of USAID cuts, wealthy nations and individuals must take the reins
https://www.ft.com/content/43e93557-c069-448a-814e-f4cb6d932831
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Center for Effective Global Action
8 months ago
📊 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
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Impact Data and Evidence Aggregation Library (IDEAL)
IDEAL helps standardize and improve comparability of the main results produced by randomized evaluations.
https://buff.ly/szDMowc
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J-PAL
8 months ago
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...
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Reflecting on the end of USAID
Over the past two decades, J-PAL and members of our research network worked closely with USAID on many projects to design, pilot, and evaluate innovative solutions; scale up those found to be effectiv...
https://www.povertyactionlab.org/blog/2-28-25/reflecting-end-usaid
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The world is crazy, have a semla.
#semladagen
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Youth Impact
8 months ago
🥳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...
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Building Resilience in Education Systems
Disasters, pandemics, and conflicts have disrupted education for millions of students in Asia and the Pacific, with long-term consequences for their futures.
https://www.adb.org/publications/building-resilience-in-education-systems
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