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Todd Pugatch @toddpugatch.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

The @aefpweb.bsky.social EdDev (Scholars of Education in Developing Countries) resumes its work-in-progress seminar series this fall. Meetings are the 2nd Friday of each month, 11a-12p ET. Register your interest in presenting: forms.gle/8ag4Bm8QjkudPBaj6 Plz reskeet! #econsky #edusky

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AEFP EdDev Community Group Presentation Sign-ups Fall 2026-2027

This is the sign-up for presenting work-in-progress at the AEFP EdDev Community Group for the Fall semester of the 2026-2027 academic year. We meet at 11am ET for an hour every second Friday of the mo...

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Steven Glazerman @eduglaze.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Frustrated with Overleaf and searches for help with LaTeX are giving me content I'm not looking for...

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Pia Raffler @piaraffler.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Publishing null results *is* hard. Thrilled to finally see this paper with @danielnposner.bsky.social and @dougparkerson.bsky.social investigating the impact of bottom-up accountability on healthcare outcomes in print in the JOP. Thread 👇 doi.org/10.1086/736577

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Innovations for Poverty Action @poverty-action.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Dec 9–10: IPA's Niall Keleher (nkeleher.com) joins @cgdev.org & The Agency Fund Working Group in London to set standards for evaluating AI tools in low- and middle-income countries + share IPA’s work building ethical, scalable data systems. IPA's Research & Data Science Hub: data.poverty-action.org

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Innovations for Poverty Action @poverty-action.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

AI is reshaping how dev't data is collected & used. At the World Bank’s “Better Data for Better Jobs and Lives” conf. (Dec 8–9), IPA’s Steven Glazerman & Dr. Nouréini Sayouti will highlight how rigorous methods and responsible innovation can improve data for better decisions. More: bit.ly/4rseyta

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Steven Glazerman @eduglaze.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Your regular reminder that AI continues to routinely produce incorrect word salad. Sometimes having an "assistant" like this can be exhausting.

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Steven Glazerman @eduglaze.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Nice @markusgold.bsky.social and Juan Manuel Menendez post about how far empirical economics still needs to go in studying sub-Saharan Africa www.cgdev.org/blog/researc... Motivating for @poverty-action.bsky.social's initiative promoting LMIC research collabs poverty-action.org/research-col...

Table shows that most authors of papers on sub-Saharan Africa in top economics journals are at American institutions, followed by the UK, Canada, and European countries. 5.2 percent are authored by researchers in African institutions.

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Steven Glazerman @eduglaze.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Really useful resource for RAs and others interested in doing field work in international settings, or any rigorous empirical work in social sciences @poverty-action.bsky.social just launched the IPA Knowledge Hub data.poverty-action.org

Screenshot from the IPA Knowledge Hub home page. Headers are "Research Design", "Research Ethics", "Data Quality", "Data Collection", "Data Cleaning", and "Software Guides"

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Steven Glazerman @eduglaze.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Anybody else out there in an NGO spending thousands of dollars to prove to funders and auditors that you’re not wasting hundreds of dollars?

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Jill Barshay @jillbarshay.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Yesterday, June 2, was an interesting day at work. I was reporting a story about how the Education Department hadn't delivered a report to Congress on the Condition of Education, despite the June 1 deadline mandated by law. 🧵 (1/9)

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Will Wheeler @willwheels1.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Is anyone on #EconTwitter or another social science aware of any evaluations of Promise Pay (in its use as a utility debt relief app--I know there can be other uses)? I'd appreciate any leads. Thanks!

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Steven Glazerman @eduglaze.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Academics: how many hours would you set aside for prepping a class you've taught before in different forms, but not this particular audience and format, and level of background? Assume 32 hours of instructional time (lecture and prof-led discussion).

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Alex Coppock @aecoppock.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Our community must take this issue very seriously! ideally, we'd post these publicly: raw_no_pii.csv cleaning.R clean.rds analysis.R but destroy or archive privately: raw.csv remove_pii.R (was glad to see in this thread political science apparently does better than other fields but still)

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Science Magazine @science.org · 09/05/2025

Exclusive: National Science Foundation staff were told today that the agency’s 37 divisions—across all eight directorates—are being abolished and the number of programs within those divisions will be drastically reduced.

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Exclusive: NSF faces radical shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions

Changes seen as a response to presidential directives on what research to fund

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Steven Glazerman @eduglaze.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

@stuartbuck.bsky.social regularly puts out very thoughtful level-headed pieces on substack about science and social impact. This is just one of his gems. goodscience.substack.com/p/ngos-arent...

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NGOs Aren't the Enemy

One oddity about the recent political environment is the flaming hostility to so-called NGOs, or non-governmental organizations.

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Steven Glazerman @eduglaze.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

That sinking feeling when you're trying to access a really useful online repository of measurement tools and... it doesn't load. Then you remember it was USAID-funded. www.youthpower.org/resources/me...

Stylized image of an eccentric billionaire holding a chainsaw over an outline of the U.S. Capitol. Credit: The New Yorker magazine

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Dan Goldhaber @cedr.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Hey, some good news, ERIC lives!

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Steven Glazerman @eduglaze.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Null findings are so important! ..as long as the study is well design, meaning interesting counterfactual, not a straw man. Through null finding studies we can learn tons about prevailing practice if we're as careful measuring control group experiences as treatment experiences w/interventions.

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Steven Glazerman @eduglaze.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Congrats to the authors on this long-term followup of a famous trial that has influenced thinking on ed-tech for a while.

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Dan Björkegren @dbjork.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

New working paper: Could AI leapfrog the web? Only 37% of sub-Saharan Africans use the internet. Cost is the #1 constraint. In a study with 469 teachers in Sierra Leone, we find AI works better than the web--and is 87% cheaper. arxiv.org/abs/2502.12397 Let's dive in... 🧵(1/X)

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Here is my best guidance for action, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. I first published these lessons more than eight years ago, in late 2016. They open the twenty chapters of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century." snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...

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Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow

Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing

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Steven Glazerman @eduglaze.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

In a time when many folks are looking for work, this is a great opportunity for an experienced HR professional to step into a critical senior role in an internal NGO with a diverse set of partners and donors. Please share with your networks! www.linkedin.com/feed/update/... #jobopportunity #globalHR

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#jobopportunity #globalhr #internationaldevelopment #nonprofitjobs | Innovations for Poverty Action

📢Exciting Opportunity: Senior Director, Global Human Resources at Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA)! IPA is seeking an experienced HR leader to oversee…

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Steven Glazerman @eduglaze.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

How is everyone doing with the end of Skype? Do people even use it still? We're moving everything to Teams (were going to do that anyway), but I was wondering what happens to all those contacts and conversations. Not that important, really just feeling nostalgic already.

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Innovations for Poverty Action @poverty-action.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

📢 IPA is at #CIES2025 in Chicago! We’re diving into education, tech, and scaling impact across 7 panels this week. Who’s around today? 👋 Let’s connect and talk evidence, education, and impact. Full schedule 👉 bit.ly/IPACIES25 #GlobalDev #Education

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Steven Glazerman @eduglaze.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Question re:changes in the funding landscape... When a research funder says they do not pay indirect costs or they limit indirects to 10%, how do you all recover the costs of your projects? Or do you take a loss? Or do you bypass organizational controls? Seriously, how do you do it?

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Tatyana Deryugina @tderyugina.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Dean Karlan's job at USAID was LITERALLY to improve the efficiency of its programs. DOGE is clearly not actually after cutting fraud and waste. And its actions will clearly make the US weaker while also making the world a worse place. www.npr.org/sections/goa...

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Why Dean Karlan, chief economist of USAID, resigned on Tuesday

He was hired in 2022 so the aid agency could get 'more bang for our buck' with its projects. He tried to reach out to help in the rebuilding of the agency. On Tuesday he tendered his resignation.

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Steven Glazerman @eduglaze.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Has anyone bothered to download content from the USAID DEC (Development Exchange Clearinghouse)? Obvsly it's gone.

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 11/02/2025

IES is the best federal research program I know. They strategically invest in the whole pipeline of research from description, to intervention design, to piloting & eval of promising designs, to scale up & eval of promising pilots, then dissemination & commercialization.

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Steven Glazerman @eduglaze.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

The Institute of Education Sciences, created by an Act of Congress in 2001 is being dismantled by DOGE. It includes the National Center for Education Statistics, which is how we track progress and funds rigorous research on education interventions' cost effectiveness. 50 states can't do that

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Hearing from a govt contractor that Dept of Education is terminating What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) contracts. WWC is a website that rigorously evaluates education policies, programs, and products to determine what's effective and not. It's an invaluable tool for school, district, state leaders

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Cleo O'Brien-Udry @cobrienudry.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Interactive map of USAID agriculture cut impacts on farms, ports across the US storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/29fc...

Screenshot of map of farms/ports impacted by USAID shutdown

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Steven Glazerman @eduglaze.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

I hope statistical agencies don't start deleting things with the word "bias"

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Justin Sandefur @justsand.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Curious how many mothers and children worldwide will die from slashing USAID programs? We'll never know, because we're gonna stop counting.

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Steven Glazerman @eduglaze.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

If I were an international aid donor I'd seize the opportunity to support dozens of shovel-ready projects that are designed, staffed, and ready to go.

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Steven Glazerman @eduglaze.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

All U.S. foreign aid is being reviewed to see if it is efficient, benefits American taxpayers, and makes America strong.

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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 06/01/2025

A diamond-mine for empirical economists sorting through the modern differences-in-differences literature Five years of teaching materials from frontier researcher @pedrosantanna.bsky.social, which he has very generously posted open-access in this #EconSky thread

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Steven Glazerman @eduglaze.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Sincere question for my academic friends. When publishing a peer reviewed paper, is it necessary to thank anonymous referees? I see this a lot. "We thank X, Y, Z, and two anonymous referees." Referees always deserve thanks. Does it accomplish anything to publicly thank people you can't name?

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Steven Glazerman @eduglaze.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

I'm reading power analyses included with RCT design documents and really dislike the approach of citing earlier studies to justify an MDE. If you're doing policy research, it's better to say why a given impact magnitude is so small as to be ignorable. E.g. use the cost effectiveness threshold.

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Steven Glazerman @eduglaze.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Interesting study on “merit” based teacher recruitment in Colombia. Raises many questions. Many answered in the paper but putting this on my list for a closer read.

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David Evans @daveevansphd.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Dean Karlan of USAID highlights when to do an impact evaluation versus when to simply monitor versus when to do A/B testing.

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Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham @paulgp.com · 07/11/2024

Ok, this needs a lot of tweaking and more work, but here's a minimal viable product for An econometrics paper (Deep Neural Networks for Estimation and Inference) 1. paulgp.github.io/2024/11/06/r... An economic theory paper (Targeting Interventions in Networks) 2. paulgp.github.io/2024/11/06/r...

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Testing out a new format: Reader's Digest of Econometrica Papers [Econometrics Paper]

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Steven Glazerman @eduglaze.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Many of us routinely register our RCTs, but what about non-experimental impact evaluations? Isn't it even *more* important to commit to an analysis plan when the results are so dependent on analytic choices? Nice presentation by @tomdee.bsky.social... #openscience

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APPAM Rossi Slides—Dee

The Case for Preregistering Quasi-experimental Program and Policy Evaluations 2024 Peter H. Rossi Lecture Thomas S. Dee https://dee.stanford.edu

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Oliver Hanney @olihanney.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

How can researchers write accessible summaries of academic papers? After editing ~350 @voxdev.bsky.social articles, I hopefully have something useful to say. Here are the key takeaways from editing first drafts of academics trying to write for policy audiences 🧵 1/10

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