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Danila Serra @danilaserra-eco.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

📣If you are hiring in applied micro (crime, education, gender), you should look at Kennedy Johnston’s very important and novel JMP and research agenda. 📣 I’m lucky to be her advisor. People hiring this year: Feel free to email me.

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David Evans @daveevansphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

He was (unsurprisingly) excellent.

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David Evans @daveevansphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Creating a place where all your papers (or whatever) are in one place is very useful. I often go to author websites to find links to working paper or open-access versions of published, subscription-only papers that I may not have access to (very common).

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David Evans @daveevansphd.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Sharnic Djaker of the What Works Hub for Global Education on monitoring the quantity versus the quality of implementation. The program www.wwhge.org/events/2026-... The video www.youtube.com/watch?v=Smta...

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 09/09/2026

Not to brag, but our product has been foldable since 1828.

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David Evans @daveevansphd.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Hey, that's not the originalist Nobel Prize for literature! :)

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David Evans @daveevansphd.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Can anyone point me to recent studies or to scholars working on home-based child care in low- or middle-income countries? Self-promotion welcome! I know much of the work on center-based childcare, but less on home-based care.

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David Evans @daveevansphd.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I'm not invested in the economics Nobel, but I'm also not convinced it's any more or less worthy than any other Nobel.

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David Evans @daveevansphd.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I agree, and I also laugh at the "The economics Nobel isn't real" argument, as if Alfred Nobel was the ultimate global arbiter of what is worth rewarding. It's not like the other Nobels were chosen by some global committee. It's just stuff this one guy thought was high impact.

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David Evans @daveevansphd.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

"The US administration’s policies over the last year should serve as a cautionary tale. The major lesson—which has been painfully absorbed by scores of countries over centuries of commerce—is that diversification of markets and products is key" www.cgdev.org/publication/...

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Tariff Whiplash in Africa: What Happened and What’s to Come

Under this administration, reciprocity is a bedrock principle of trade policy, making a simple extension of AGOA highly unlikely. In addition, USTR is exercising alternative tariff authorities to thei...

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David Evans @daveevansphd.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

This weekend I got to 200 movies watched for the year. Here are my top ones so far. letterboxd.com/daveevans/di... What are yours?

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David Evans @daveevansphd.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Education for girls is good for girls and for a lot of other things. How strong is the evidence across the claims? www.cgdev.org/publication/... @shelbycarvalho.bsky.social @cgdev.org

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David Evans @daveevansphd.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Four facts about monopsony power in Latin America and the Caribbean / Cuatro hechos sobre el poder de monopsonio en América Latina y el Caribe publications.iadb.org/en/making-la...

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David Evans @daveevansphd.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Today I heard Professor David Card speak about obstacles he's observed to incorporating evidence into policy. events.iadb.org/calendar/eve... I think #2 is very important when we (economists) talk about high rates of return.

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David Evans @daveevansphd.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I followed the process of this report's production from its early stages and am very excited that it's out! The report publications.iadb.org/en/making-la... The launch this Monday (August 3) events.iadb.org/calendar/eve...

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David Evans @daveevansphd.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

New paper submitted!* #GetYourManuscriptOut * Okay, sent to editor with a query about an exception on word count. But I'm counting it!

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Johnny Rose: Still Waiting For Good News

ALT: Johnny Rose: Still Waiting For Good News

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David Evans @daveevansphd.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

No. I'm asking what it means in terms of a real skill that a child has learned (and pointing to our paper which shows how inconsistent that translation is).

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Charles Kenny @charlesjkenny.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

A quick note on the impact of the Trump administration ending Temporary Protective Status for 350,000 immigrants from Haiti today.

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David Evans @daveevansphd.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Wait, how many standard deviations in learning outcomes does your program deliver? and what does that mean? www.cgdev.org/blog/standar...

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David Evans @daveevansphd.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

I get asked to prove I'm not a robot SO much these days, and I often think of this short film. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VrL...

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“I’m Not a Robot” (2025 Academy Award Winner) | The New Yorker Screening Room

YouTube video by The New Yorker

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David Evans @daveevansphd.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

"Child poverty affects millions—recent estimates suggest more than 400 million children live in families earning less than $3 per day, and the number of children in poverty doubles if one considers other deprivations beyond income."

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David Evans @daveevansphd.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

"The reason this is a very fine country is because that kind of thing can't happen"! This passage from John MacDonald's 1957 novel has not aged well... www.themarshallproject.org/records/4692...

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David Evans @daveevansphd.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

"That is another question that will remain unanswered: I feel as though I am made of nothing else." from *I Who Have Never Known Men*, by Jacqueline Harpman, translated by Ros Schwartz lithub.com/who-have-nev...

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Lee Crawfurd @leecrawfurd.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

20 years later, can we track down the people taught to read in primary school through different RCTs? We're going to try, here are the studies we're looking at, are we missing any?

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David Evans @daveevansphd.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Last night's commute viewing was Oriana Bandiera's talk on the case for ungendering the economy. www.youtube.com/live/6oNRYGr... (51:09) From @cgdev.org's Women in Leadership conference www.cgdev.org/blog/pipelin...

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David Evans @daveevansphd.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Wondering what to read this summer? Check out @CGDev's summer reading recommendations! www.cgdev.org/blog/what-we... What are you reading?

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David Evans @daveevansphd.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Believing that socio-emotional skills are important and believing that we know how to impart them effectively in a school system are two very different things. alejandroganimian.com/files/ganimi...

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David Evans @daveevansphd.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

I'm excited about the new International Development Economics Association! Read @owenozier.bsky.social's introduction: www.cgdev.org/blog/introdu... Then join! idea.devecon.org

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Maximilian Kasy @maxkasy.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

New paper with @p_ganong & Avik Garg: From literature review to effect prediction for a new context - allowing for effect heterogeneity & publication bias. maxkasy.github.io/home/files/p...

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David Evans @daveevansphd.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Where should the next generation of violence on reducing violence in schools focus? www.cgdev.org/blog/school-... on the @cgdev.org blog

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David Evans @daveevansphd.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

And I didn't get the gold standard double entendre in the moment but now that I do, it's very nice.

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Lee Crawfurd @leecrawfurd.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Everything we learnt about lead exposure at the 2026 global conference www.cgdev.org/blog/what-we...

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David Evans @daveevansphd.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

There are questions I've thought about where we have, for example, one RCT and five quasi-experimental studies that I find credible. I'm perfectly happy with putting more weight on the RCT. But if I ignore the other studies completely, then I feel like I'm leaving a lot of knowledge on the table.

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David Evans @daveevansphd.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

I just believe in drawing on a wide range of evidence, including a wide range of credible causal evidence. In my own synthesis work I try to do that. And I value other synthesis work that does that.

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David Evans @daveevansphd.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

I don't disagree that they're the gold standard for causal inference! I've made that argument in pitches to policymakers and funders many times.

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David Evans @daveevansphd.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Don't get me wrong. I've done lots of RCTs, hopefully will do many more. No hater here.

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David Evans @daveevansphd.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

But if you the question is "what do we know about X?" and then one says "I'm only going to draw on RCTs and I'm going to draw conclusions about what we know about X" then I think it implicitly implies that other evidence doesn't merit consideration. Maybe I'm being too harsh!

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David Evans @daveevansphd.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

I don't think the authors are intentionally claiming that RCTs are the only valid info.

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David Evans @daveevansphd.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Wait, so you've seen a review on a topic (e.g., what do we know about effective agricultural extension) that only uses studies with RDs? or IVs? (Not denying, just isn't familiar to me.) I think I've almost exclusively seen single-method reviews focus on "what we learn from RCTs on X".

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David Evans @daveevansphd.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

I learn a lot from RCTs, and I learn a lot from other types of studies. I propose that it is disingenuous to claim you value evidence from a range of methods (i.e., the best evidence for the question) and then exclusively cite evidence from one method. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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David Evans @daveevansphd.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

The new Steven Spielberg film Disclosure Day has been getting mixed reviews in the places I read, and I echo some of that, but I also liked a lot of things about it & overall had a good time. letterboxd.com/daveevans/fi... Fact fact: It's the 2nd movie with Blunt=hero + Firth=villain.

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A ★★★ review of Disclosure Day (2026)

I just saw a movie with Emily Blunt as the hero and Colin Firth as the villain. And no, it wasn’t Mary Poppins Returns! Here are three things I liked about Disclosure Day: 1. Early on and throughout t...

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Lee Crawfurd @leecrawfurd.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Now out in the Journal of Development Studies! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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