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Andrew Zeitlin @andrewzeitlin.io · 03/06/2026

especially when the honest disclosure is confessing to making up functions it couldn't find and creating misleading git histories...

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Andrew Zeitlin @andrewzeitlin.io · 21/05/2026

Congrats on the move, Michael!

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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

And the link to the job details and application is here: www.jobinrwanda.com/job/senior-r... Feel free to reach out with any questions!

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STARS Scale-up Advisor | Job in Rwanda

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

More details about the ongoing partnership to learn about and deploy teacher contracts at scale are here: gui2de.georgetown.edu/our-work/edu...

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Supporting Teacher Achievement in Rwandan Schools (STARS) - Georgetown University Initiative on Innovation, Development and Evaluation

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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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Andrew Zeitlin @andrewzeitlin.io · 29/03/2025

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.

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Andrew Zeitlin @andrewzeitlin.io · 29/03/2025

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}

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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 · 19/11/2024

Thanks Aaron. This is a really useful public service.

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Andrew Zeitlin @andrewzeitlin.io · 19/11/2024

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

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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 · 12/11/2024

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

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

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

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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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Andrew Zeitlin @andrewzeitlin.io · 25/10/2024

🙋 Hi Josh, would love to be added!

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Andrew Zeitlin @andrewzeitlin.io · 20/11/2023

So sorry — hope you recover soon.

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Andrew Zeitlin @andrewzeitlin.io · 28/10/2023

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....

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Andrew Zeitlin @andrewzeitlin.io · 08/10/2023

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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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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