iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Jason Kerwin @jkerwin.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

How do kids actually learn to read? We tackle this question in a new paper that studies a program that tripled (!!) reading gains in Ghanaian 1st-grade classrooms. Its impacts match a model of cumulative reading ability, which we will assess with future waves of data.

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Innovations for Poverty Action @poverty-action.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Can teachers reliably assess their own students? New research across 40 schools finds that teachers’ reading assessments closely matched those of independent assessors.

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Jason Kerwin @jkerwin.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Development Impact is featuring my fantastic coauthor Monica Lambon-Quayefio! Amazing to see all the cool stuff she is working on.

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David McKenzie @dmckenzie.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

In today's blog, 6 questions with Monica Lambon-Quayefio: her pathway from growing up in rural northern Ghana to becoming a development economist, how she formed networks as an African academic, how she goes about teaching development in Ghana, & her research blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...

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Eva Vivalt @evavivalt.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Check it out and get your free report here: earlyreview.ai Looking for more beta testers and collabs - get in touch if you have a special use case. 8/8

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Verification for pre-analysis plans and registered reports

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Jason Kerwin @jkerwin.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

In an A/B test we found that training principals to coach teachers in their schools improved teaching quality by 24 percent! These results are still tentative—but good enough for our implementing partner to keep running this intervention.

Graph of treatment effects (text on graph shows the numbers)

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Matt Darling @besttrousers.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Let's say I want to make a ranked list of "Illiad" heroes. If I use the recorded 1 vs. 1 duels and the Chess ELO rating system, I get this result. Is there an alternative method that accounts for the data being censored (ie, in most duels the loser no longer appears in the data).

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Erik Andersen @eander462.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

It has my new(ish) blog. All that's up right now is this post about Linux I wrote in my masters program, but more to come soon! erik-t-andersen.com/blog/blog

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Blog – Erik Andersen

PhD Student, University of Washington

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