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Khoa @khoavuumn.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

I originally thought this was about econometrics.

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David Evans @daveevansphd.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

A remedial education program in India worked well when teachers were given strict implementation guidelines. It worked just as well when teachers had discretion to adapt. www.nber.org/papers/w33242 by Beg, @annefitz13.bsky.social, @jkerwin.bsky.social, @profalucas.bsky.social, & @kwrahman.com

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Adrienne Lucas @profalucas.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

New @nberpubs.bsky.social working paper: "When Given Discretion Teachers Did Not Shirk: Evidence from Remedial Education in Secondary Schools" with #SabrinBeg @annefitz13.bsky.social @jkerwin.bsky.social @kwrahman.com Title summarizes it. We elaborate in the paper: www.nber.org/papers/w33242

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When Given Discretion Teachers Did Not Shirk: Evidence from Remedial Education in Secondary Schools

Sabrin A. Beg, Anne E. Fitzpatrick, Jason T. Kerwin, Adrienne Lucas & Khandker Wahedur Rahman

Working Paper 33242
DOI 10.3386/w33242
Issue Date December 2024

Public-sector organizations face a tradeoff: allowing workers discretion at the point of service to adapt to local needs, versus rigid harmonization to ensure uniform service delivery. We examine this tradeoff in the context of secondary schools in Odisha, India, where the centrally set curriculum is nearly 4 grades above the learning levels of the mean student. We conduct a randomized intervention that assigned schools to either a rigid or a flexible version of a remedial learning intervention that displaced the curriculum. We compare learning outcomes and teaching quality to the status quo. Both interventions increased learning by 0.11SD, about 60 percent of a year of learning, with gains throughout the learning distribution. We find no crowd-out of grade-level mastery, and no change in the likelihood of earning passing Board Marks one year later. Discretion did not lower the quality of implementation or induce shirking. Allowing teachers flexibility to adjust classroom content to student needs was beneficial and had limited downsides.

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Tatyana Deryugina @tderyugina.bsky.social · 16/07/2024

A few weeks ago, I spoke on a panel about publishing at the CSWEP’s CeMENT workshop. I wanted to briefly share some of that advice here.

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Khandker Wahedur Rahman [Wahed] @kwrahman.com · 06/04/2024

🚨 New Publication 🚨 Happy to announce that @jeffbloem.bsky.social and my paper, “What I say depends on how you ask: Experimental evidence of the effect of framing on the measurement of attitudes” is published in Economics Letters. Does framing matter when measuring attitudes? Yes. 🧵 (1/14)

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Khandker Wahedur Rahman [Wahed] @kwrahman.com · 25/03/2024

Farhan is a dear junior from my school and college (i.e., high school). Farhan is battling vicious stage 4 stomach cancer (adenocarcinoma) and requires financial support for treatment. Kindly requesting to donate whatever you can afford 🙏 gofund.me/fdb346db

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Khandker Wahedur Rahman [Wahed] @kwrahman.com · 01/11/2023

🚨🚨This is now available online. 👇👇 #EconSky 📉📈 authors.elsevier.com/c/1hy1X15DRG...

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John Mullahy @johnmullahy.bsky.social · 24/10/2023

Hawthorne effects www.thefarside.com/2023/10/24/3

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Vitor Possebom @vitorpossebom.bsky.social · 24/10/2023

Econometric Thread (#EconSky): Today, I will briefly discuss a few recent papers expanding the synthetic control method (SCM). I will talk about three WPss: Abadie + L'Hour (2019), Grossi, Lattarulo, Mariani, Mattei + Oner (2020); Cao + Dowd (2019) and Cattaneo, Feng, Palomba +Titiunik (2023).

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Jason Rasgon @vectorgen.bsky.social · 01/08/2023

I guess I should re-post from the Bird Site "The Rules For Academic Success here": I always get asked for advice about starting/surviving the tenure track. Here are the rules I've found useful. Thought I'd put it out there for the masses... This list gets longer all the time

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Khandker Wahedur Rahman [Wahed] @kwrahman.com · 20/10/2023

Just a general rule of life that I keep reminding myself 👇👇👇

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David Evans @daveevansphd.bsky.social · 12/10/2023

Here are 25+ journals where economists publish review papers. bit.ly/3QfaE6m

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David Evans @daveevansphd.bsky.social · 12/10/2023

Here are 50+ journals where economists publish short papers. bit.ly/36qNVfn The list includes examples and my experience with each journal.

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Jason Kerwin @jkerwin.bsky.social · 03/10/2023

Make your axis labels horizontal so people can read them. There’s no excuse anymore, it’s 2023.

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Jason Kerwin @jkerwin.bsky.social · 26/09/2023

I want to shout out my amazing coauthor @DivyaPandey_UMN —keep an eye out for her when she goes on the job market next year. divyapandey.me (14/N)

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Jason Kerwin @jkerwin.bsky.social · 26/09/2023

Think about the chance that you will die within the next decade. Got a probability in mind? Okay—how *sure* are you about it? In a new paper, we show that people express this kind of “ambiguity” or “imprecision”, and that it matters if we want to change their minds. A 🧵 👇 (1/N) #econsky 📈📉

Navigating Ambiguity: Imprecise Probabilities and the Updating of Disease Risk Beliefs

Jason T. Kerwin and Divya Pandey

September 26, 2023

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Probabilistic risk beliefs are key drivers of economic and health decisions, but people are not always certain about their beliefs. We study these "imprecise probabilities", also known as ambiguous beliefs. We show that imprecision is measurable separately from the levels of risk beliefs. People with higher levels of imprecision update their beliefs more in response to a randomized information treatment, and new information also causes changes in imprecision levels. We show that we can map our data onto both a standard Bayesian model and a version that is designed to handle imprecise probabilities; these models can match some features of our data but not all of them. Imprecise probabilities have important implications for our understanding of decisionmaking and for the design of programs intended to change people's minds.

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Khandker Wahedur Rahman [Wahed] @kwrahman.com · 23/09/2023

🚨🚨Happy to announce that our (Sabrin Beg and Mahnaz Islam) paper on providing farmers recommendation on fertilizer usage and their behavior got accepted at the Journal of Development Economics. 🥳🥳🥳 Right now I am just too excited. We will share a thread later. #EconSky

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