One year of global education funding cuts will forgo over $100B in lifetime earnings.
Remaining assistance should prioritize foundational learning, with evidence-based solutions and partnering with national governments for inclusive growth that reduces future aid dependency.
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Measuring poverty using mobile phone data: Implications for targeting and impact evaluation
In settings where reliable data on poverty is difficult to come by, non-traditional data sources such as mobile phone metadata has the potential to fill data gaps. New research on a cash transfer prog...
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Today on VoxDev w/ Emily Aiken (@cmu.edu), Suzanne Bellue (ENSAE), Joshua Blumenstock (@berkeleyischool.bsky.social), Dean Karlan (Northwestern) & @christopher-udry.bsky.social: voxdev.org/topic/method...
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Professor of Economics, Yale University | Development Economics | Bangladesh | Y-RISE
Associate Prof. of Economics @utaustin. Director http://learningcollider.org. @NBERpubs affiliate. Co-Chair @mit @jpal edtech. Schmidt Futures Innovation Fellow. www.peter-bergman.com.
Digital data/machine learning/economics, focused on developing economies. Faculty at Columbia. dan.bjorkegren.com
Assoc Prof of Public Policy & Management, Harvard Kennedy School
Faculty Director, The People Lab
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Associate Professor of Economics at Texas A&M University. Experiments on corruption, gender, education. #firstgen
https://people.tamu.edu/~dserra/
π¨π΄πΊπΈ. Colombia/USA. Immigrant. Economics of Education. Department of Leadership, Policy and Organizations and Department of Economics (by courtesy). Vanderbilt University. he/him/his
Political Science Assistant Prof
@Harvard. PE of development, CP. Political accountability. Experiments. African politics
Professor of Economics, Haas - UC Berkeley; Patron of Moeβs
Economist at Chicago Booth. Hi!
Assistant Professor of Economics at @barnard-college.bsky.social of @columbiauniversity.bsky.social. Interested in crime & criminal justice through the prism of racial inequality.
Website: https://morganwilliamsjr.com/
Daniel Levin Professor @HarrisPolicy @UChicago & @NHHnor. Co-director @HarrisBIPLab. Applying behavioral insights to understand parental decision-making & child development.
https://harris.uchicago.edu/directory/ariel-kalil
Professor at U. Michigan. Co-Editor, Journal of Development Economics. Born and raised in Manila, Philippines. On sabbatical (2024-25) at CEMFI in Madrid.
https://deanyang-econ.github.io/deanyang
Assistant Professor in Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Political Economy, Comparative Politics, Development Economics, Economic History.
soerenhenn.com
Professor of Economics | NovaSBE
Founder and Scientific Director | NOVAFRICA @novafrica.bsky.social
International migration, economic development & policy impact evaluation
https://catiabatista.org/
Associate Research Professor, Better Government Lab, Georgetown University, Interested in the economics of health and poverty; formerly @ideas42 @Brookings and @USCPrice Schaeffer Center, alum of @HarvardChanSPH & @BU
Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Global Development
https://www.cgdev.org/expert/lee-crawfurd
Economist @Development Innovation Lab, UChicago. Opinions mine, etc.
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