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Garance Genicot @ggenicot.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

We’re pleased to announce the annual summer ThReD Conference, co-organized by GSEM and the Geneva Graduate Institute, will be held in Geneva on May 28–29, 2026! Call for Papers now open — submissions due Jan 25, 2026 (midnight EST). thred.devecon.org/conferences/...

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The JHR @j-humanresources.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Cash grants beat job training? A 3.5 year study in Rwanda by Craig McIntosh & @andrewzeitlin.io found both helped youth start businesses, but COVID wiped out half the gains. Neither escaped poverty. Liquidity matters – but so do bigger structural barriers. doi.org/10.3368/jhr....

Skills and Liquidity Barriers to Youth Employment: Medium-term Evidence from a Cash Benchmarking Experiment in Rwanda
Craig McIntosh and Andrew Zeitlin
We present results of an experiment benchmarking a workforce training program against cash transfers for underemployed young adults in Rwanda. 3.5 years after treatment, the training program enhances productive time use and asset investment, while the cash transfers drive productive assets, livestock values, savings, and subjective well-being. Both interventions have powerful effects on entrepreneurship. But while labor, sales, and profits all go up, the implied wage rate in these businesses is low. Our results suggest that credit is a major barrier to self-employment, but deeper reforms may be required to enable entrepreneurship to provide a transformative pathway out of poverty.

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Andrew Zeitlin @andrewzeitlin.io · 14/08/2025

🚨 COOL JOB!!! 🚨 In Rwanda, @poverty-action.bsky.social and gui2de are hiring a Scale-Up Advisor to work within the MINEDUC to scale up a revised teacher performance pay contract ("imihigo"). We're looking for an excellent manager to help lead this initiative to take evidence into policy at scale.

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Filipe Campante @filipecampante.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

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

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Charles Kenny @charlesjkenny.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

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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VoxDev @voxdev.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

🆕 Do carbon offsets work? Evidence from the world’s largest offset programme 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...

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Do carbon offsets work? Evidence from the world’s largest offset programme

Carbon offset programmes allow polluters to pay others to reduce emissions on their behalf. In theory, this can achieve the same emissions reductions at a lower cost, but only if the payment actually ...

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Andrew Zeitlin @andrewzeitlin.io · 10/04/2025

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:

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Steven Mazie @stevenmazie.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

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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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 27/01/2025

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.

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Andrew Zeitlin @andrewzeitlin.io · 13/11/2024

#econsky with recent growth on this platform it seems like a good time to re-up that we're hiring at Georgetown's McCourt School, in _quantiative social science_ (including econ, polisci, computer science, etc) Come join our growing school in a beautiful new building! apply.interfolio.com/156634

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Andrew Zeitlin @andrewzeitlin.io · 07/11/2024

(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...).

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Johannes Haushofer @johanneshaushofer.com · 07/10/2023

2. We need $6M in donations to support our growth & expansion. Please share this as widely as possible, and consider contributing yourself! Donate: malengo.org/donate Questions? johannes.haushofer@malengo.org Full report: malengo.org/malengo-upda... Thank you friends!!

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Johannes Haushofer @johanneshaushofer.com · 07/10/2023

We started @malengo.org in 2021 to support Ugandan students on their journey to a Bachelor's degree in Germany. We admitted 10 students in 2021; 30 in 2022; and 120 in 2023. Our next goal: FOUR HUNDRED! We urgently need both investors and donors — please read and spread widely! 1/n

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Andrew Zeitlin @andrewzeitlin.io · 07/10/2023

#EconSky We're hiring! The McCourt School @ Georgetown is hiring at the junior level in *computational social science* (open to a range of disciplines, including econ, polisci, public policy, sociology, stats, etc). Early deadline, October 15. Ad: apply.interfolio.com/132215 Please share widely!

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