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Steven Glazerman

@eduglaze.bsky.social
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Chief Research/Methods Officer at Innovations for Poverty Action, Washington, DC Applied (policy) research: development econ, econ of education/labor, RCT design, survey methods, measurement Dabble in psychometrics, Bayesian inference, machine learning.

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Steven Glazerman @eduglaze.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Don’t love that wording. Students are fragile. Just fight fire with fire. Set an ai bot to respond politelyto these.
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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 · 01/07/2026
Congrats! Was it editors gatekeeping against null results?
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Steven Glazerman @eduglaze.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
The NOTUS "deep dive" didn't provide any quantitative analysis.
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Steven Glazerman @eduglaze.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Is there any data suggesting reasons for the mayoral outcome, other than speculation? Local races often don't get polled much or accurately. Maybe precinct data?
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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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Steven Glazerman @eduglaze.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Championship trophies are meant to be damaged from players drinking out of them or tossed by drunken athletes from one boat to another.
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Steven Glazerman @eduglaze.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
This is really a shining example of why null results (from well-designed studies) must be published and celebrated.
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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 · 18/09/2025
😢 when you look in the mirror and you see your own image reflected back in an NBER paper
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Steven Glazerman @eduglaze.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Outstanding funding opportunity for U.S. based/focused nonprofits that are smallish (<$10m revenue) to advance AI education and innovation. h/t @alexnawar.bsky.social openai.com/index/people...
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A People-First AI Fund: $50M to support nonprofits
Applications are now open for OpenAI’s People-First AI Fund, a $50M initiative supporting U.S. nonprofits advancing education, community innovation, and economic opportunity. Apply by October 8, 2025,...
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Steven Glazerman @eduglaze.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Hmm. I don't think even the strongest advocates for RCTs think they are the only option.
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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 · 21/08/2025
Would be an honor to be on this list!
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Steven Glazerman @eduglaze.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
How-to guides on topics like randomization data.poverty-action.org/research-des... Statistical power data.poverty-action.org/research-des... Version control with Github: data.poverty-action.org/software/git... Coding environments. Are you Quarto-curious? data.poverty-action.org/software/qua...
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GitHub – Research and Data Science Hub
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Steven Glazerman @eduglaze.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
One page gets you set up with software tools, like virtual environments for Python and R. data.poverty-action.org/software/gui...
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Virtual Environments – Research and Data Science Hub
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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 · 19/08/2025
How can survey researchers and survey methodologists step in to shore up faith in official statistics? Unclear, but this blog by @jedkolko.bsky.social brings useful commentary about private sector's role in public data www.piie.com/blogs/realti...
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The private sector can’t replace official statistics—but could be a great partner
After President Donald Trump fired Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner Erika McEntarfer, claiming that jobs data were “faked” and “rigged,” an urgent question arose: Could private sector data fill...
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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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Evidence in Governance and Politics (EGAP) @egap.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
10 Things to Know About Adaptive Experimental Design buff.ly/Klwp446 #EGAPMethodsGuide
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10 Things to Know About Adaptive Experimental Design – EGAP
Author: Donald Green
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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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Steven Glazerman @eduglaze.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
This is odd because the same bill has marriage penalty provisions like the Child Tax Credit that deny credits if one of the parents does not have a SSN. If you have a child with a partner on a visa (legal), the bill provides disincentive to marry.
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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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Steven Glazerman @eduglaze.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Should there be a neutral response option or do you mean to force polarity?
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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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Steven Glazerman @eduglaze.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Talking about dolls deflects from real people who have to forgo real things like insulin or food.
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Steven Glazerman @eduglaze.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Pitching austerity as a promise for a better future would be more convincing from someone who made sacrifices themself
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Steven Glazerman @eduglaze.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Aggregation bias? Household measures averaged to country level and then compared seems fishy.
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Steven Glazerman @eduglaze.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
despite the all caps this is the correct take. The refs just wanted to go home. The NBA has turned into MMA.
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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 · 18/04/2025
Is your causal question “what is the impact of an intervention on people who will never get or want the intervention?”
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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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Steven Glazerman @eduglaze.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
And if you are a District resident with no senators or voting reps?
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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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