Janica Magat-Larsen

🚨 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!

Crying that he’s beside Manu and TD! 💕

🚀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. 😭😭😭

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

“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...

Impact Data and Evidence Aggregation Library (IDEAL) IDEAL helps standardize and improve comparability of the main results produced by randomized evaluations.

📊 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

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...

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

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.

🥳Thrilled to be featured in the Asian Development Bank's publication on Building Resilience in Education Systems for our work in the Philippines.
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Read the full paper here (Chapter 9):
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