Andrew Zeitlin

This is the stuff of authoritarian regimes. There isn't even the pretense that this is anything but persecution, unbound by law.

A few points with regard to Secretary Rubio's testimony about US foreign assistance on the Hill the last couple of days... a thread.

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Today on VoxDev, Raphael Calel (Georgetown University), Jonathan Colmer (University of Virginia), Antoine Dechezleprêtre (OECD) & Matthieu Glachant (Mines Paris) outline research on India: voxdev.org/topic/energy...

Craig McIntosh @gpsucsd.bsky.social and I wrote about a conversation that was ongoing about efficiency at USAID -- and what it might mean for US bilateral aid going forward:

Alternatively if you're building up a figure incrementally, it might be best to do within the tikz figures, at the level of individual elements. The `visible on` property of \draw, \node, \fill, etc., can control what overlays these elements appear on. I've had some luck with that.

If you want to replace these figures, I imagine you could wrap your \input{} statements in \only or \onslide commands, as in

\only<1>{inputs/axes.tex}
\only<2>{inputs/MC.tex}

BREAKING: Supreme Court DENIES President Trump‘s emergency bid to cancel nearly $2 billion in USAID spending. The vote is 5-4.

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The Demographic and Heath Survey program received their USAID termination email last night

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I don’t have a definitive source on this yet but it looks like NSF review panels have been canceled.

Sixty-some years ago, Eisenhower transformed higher education because he viewed a science education gap as the single greatest threat to national security.

This is absolutely an act of sabotage.

TARL?

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Thanks Aaron. This is a really useful public service.

There’s a feed! bsky.app/profile/did:...

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thanks - a really helpful list. Taking (self)nominations?

-> Short-run findings from our parallel benchmarking experiment in job training here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jd...

The small study in Rwanda that could change the way the US does foreign aid A nutrition program went head to head with cash.

-> Popular summary of this work here: www.vox.com/world/2018/9...

(bringing this across from the other site)

Thrilled to see Craig's and my original cash benchmarking experiment featured in the EJ this month (doi.org/10.1093/ej/u...).

🙋 Hi Josh, would love to be added!

So sorry — hope you recover soon.

Thanks. We show distortion of learning metrics when these become reputationally important, so a bit different as you say. The paper that comes to my mind on distortion of enrollment under capitation payments is Amanda Glassman and Justin Sandefur’s 2015 one: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

And our colleagues in econ are hiring too. Position for folks in development/health/education/crime/etc who work on topics intersecting race, gender, inequality, and social justice: econjobmarket.org/positions/9858

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