Steven Glazerman

Anybody else out there in an NGO spending thousands of dollars to prove to funders and auditors that you’re not wasting hundreds of dollars?

10 Things to Know About Adaptive Experimental Design buff.ly/Klwp446 #EGAPMethodsGuide

Yesterday, June 2, was an interesting day at work. I was reporting a story about how the Education Department hadn't delivered a report to Congress on the Condition of Education, despite the June 1 deadline mandated by law. 🧵 (1/9)

This is odd because the same bill has marriage penalty provisions like the Child Tax Credit that deny credits if one of the parents does not have a SSN. If you have a child with a partner on a visa (legal), the bill provides disincentive to marry.

Is anyone on #EconTwitter or another social science aware of any evaluations of Promise Pay (in its use as a utility debt relief app--I know there can be other uses)? I'd appreciate any leads. Thanks!

Academics: how many hours would you set aside for prepping a class you've taught before in different forms, but not this particular audience and format, and level of background?

Assume 32 hours of instructional time (lecture and prof-led discussion).

Should there be a neutral response option or do you mean to force polarity?

Our community must take this issue very seriously!

ideally, we'd post these publicly:
raw_no_pii.csv
cleaning.R
clean.rds
analysis.R

but destroy or archive privately:
raw.csv
remove_pii.R

(was glad to see in this thread political science apparently does better than other fields but still)

Exclusive: NSF faces radical shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions Changes seen as a response to presidential directives on what research to fund

Exclusive: National Science Foundation staff were told today that the agency’s 37 divisions—across all eight directorates—are being abolished and the number of programs within those divisions will be drastically reduced.

NGOs Aren't the Enemy One oddity about the recent political environment is the flaming hostility to so-called NGOs, or non-governmental organizations.

@stuartbuck.bsky.social regularly puts out very thoughtful level-headed pieces on substack about science and social impact. This is just one of his gems.

goodscience.substack.com/p/ngos-arent...

Stylized image of an eccentric billionaire holding a chainsaw over an outline of the U.S. Capitol. Credit: The New Yorker magazine

That sinking feeling when you're trying to access a really useful online repository of measurement tools and... it doesn't load. Then you remember it was USAID-funded.

www.youthpower.org/resources/me...

Talking about dolls deflects from real people who have to forgo real things like insulin or food.

Pitching austerity as a promise for a better future would be more convincing from someone who made sacrifices themself

Aggregation bias? Household measures averaged to country level and then compared seems fishy.

despite the all caps this is the correct take. The refs just wanted to go home. The NBA has turned into MMA.

Hey, some good news, ERIC lives!

Is your causal question “what is the impact of an intervention on people who will never get or want the intervention?”

Null findings are so important! ..as long as the study is well design, meaning interesting counterfactual, not a straw man. Through null finding studies we can learn tons about prevailing practice if we're as careful measuring control group experiences as treatment experiences w/interventions.

Congrats to the authors on this long-term followup of a famous trial that has influenced thinking on ed-tech for a while.

New working paper: Could AI leapfrog the web?

Only 37% of sub-Saharan Africans use the internet. Cost is the #1 constraint. In a study with 469 teachers in Sierra Leone, we find AI works better than the web--and is 87% cheaper.

arxiv.org/abs/2502.12397

Let's dive in... 🧵(1/X)

Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing

Here is my best guidance for action, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. I first published these lessons more than eight years ago, in late 2016. They open the twenty chapters of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century."
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...

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In a time when many folks are looking for work, this is a great opportunity for an experienced HR professional to step into a critical senior role in an internal NGO with a diverse set of partners and donors. Please share with your networks!
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#jobopportunity #globalHR

How is everyone doing with the end of Skype? Do people even use it still?

We're moving everything to Teams (were going to do that anyway), but I was wondering what happens to all those contacts and conversations. Not that important, really just feeling nostalgic already.

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Who’s around today? 👋 Let’s connect and talk evidence, education, and impact.
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Question re:changes in the funding landscape...

When a research funder says they do not pay indirect costs or they limit indirects to 10%, how do you all recover the costs of your projects? Or do you take a loss? Or do you bypass organizational controls? Seriously, how do you do it?

And if you are a District resident with no senators or voting reps?

Why Dean Karlan, chief economist of USAID, resigned on Tuesday He was hired in 2022 so the aid agency could get 'more bang for our buck' with its projects. He tried to reach out to help in the rebuilding of the agency. On Tuesday he tendered his resignation.

Dean Karlan's job at USAID was LITERALLY to improve the efficiency of its programs.

DOGE is clearly not actually after cutting fraud and waste. And its actions will clearly make the US weaker while also making the world a worse place.

www.npr.org/sections/goa...

Has anyone bothered to download content from the USAID DEC (Development Exchange Clearinghouse)? Obvsly it's gone.

IES is the best federal research program I know.

They strategically invest in the whole pipeline of research from description, to intervention design, to piloting & eval of promising designs, to scale up & eval of promising pilots, then dissemination & commercialization.