Rachel Glennerster
@rglenner
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Development economist, faculty director Market Shaping Accelerator @ University of Chicago. Incoming President CGD. 🔸10% pledge. Tweets= personal views.
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I just heard my parents will be vaccinated against C-19 tomorrow. They are in their mid 80s & Mum is highly vulnerable. My reaction? I cried. All these months of worry, their isolation from friends and family. The slight lift of the burden made me realise its true weight. 1/2
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I just finished preparing my undergraduate lecture on the economics of women's empowerment and it reminded me just how radical economics is.
Thread 1/n
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An honour to be appointed as the first Chief Economist of the new
#FCDO
. I'll be working with a great team to combine the very best of
@foreignoffice
and
@DFID_UK
into one of the great economic ministries of the UK and to be a force for good in the world.
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Academics who want your papers read by policy folks, please dont put papers on your website on dropbox as most govts & firms block access to dropbox as part of their security procedures.
We also cant access academic journals so we rely on your pre publication website versions.
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While at DFID I would provide new Sec of State an "Introduction to Development". By touching on evolution of diff approaches to development I sought to explain the need for diff parts of DFID & inoculate against claims of simple fixes. Thread 1/n
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I am collecting common myths about development and development economics.
What are your favorites? Please include cites of evidence refuting them. (Myths and evidence may be descriptive or causal)
Thanks and looking forward to the responses!
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I am honored and excited to be taking on the role of President of CGD! Looking forward to working with all the brilliant researchers there.
A new era for CGD! 🌍🌟
We are thrilled to announce that Dr. Rachel Glennerster
@rglenner
will be the new President of CGD!
Building on the legacies of
@nancymbirdsall
and
@MasoodCGD
, Rachel is set to propel CGD forward with her rigorous approach to development economics,
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Over 3 years ago I took 2yr leave from
@MITEcon
to join
@DFID_UK
, now
@FCDOGovUK
as Chief Economist. I'm excited to announce I'll be joining
@UChicago
this summer as faculty. This thread describes the
@FCDOGovUK
job, who should consider applying and why 1/
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I spent some time today putting together thoughts for someone interested in the evidence on how to help low income countries (LICs) grow and I thought there might be wider interest so here goes a thread.
Achieving a higher growth rate is the holy grail of econ but...1/many
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Syllabus & slides for my course on Practicalities of Running RCTs up on my RunningREs website. Based on my book with Kudzai but updated for PhDs doing RCTs for their thesis & masters students. Power, IRBs, measurement, partners etc. Use course tab
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This fall I taught a course for grad students
@UChicago
on the practicalities of running randomized evaluations, based in part on my book with Kudzai Takavarasha but with updates (eg machine learning in RCTs)
Some thoughts on what I learned.. 1/n
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Pakistan has seen a dramatic fall in income poverty (much faster than that India or Bangladesh) despite slower growth and much less progress on human capital.
#econtwitter
: what is your best read on this puzzle? All the hypotheses I have been looking at dont match the data.
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For years we dreamed and worked and its finally happening: students from 16 countries are coming to
@MITEcon
for a masters in data and development! Radically open: no GRE or university requirements. Just take online courses and prove what you learned. Thanks to
@Hewlett_Found
Lovemore Mawere completed the
#MicroMasters
in 2018 and is now part of the first incoming class of
@MITEcon
master's students! He shares his journey from Zimbabwe ➡️ MIT in a guest post on our blog:
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How to prove you are really smart in seminar: think of a way to improve the paper that builds on rather than undermines whats already there.
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Here is the balanced response to last year's ignorant economics bashing from
@guardian
from
@orazio_at
@orianabandiera
@ImranRasul3
and many others. The critique applies as much to this article as to last years, suggesting an unfortunately ability to listen and engage.
Every year, like clockwork, the Guardian publishes one of these op-eds bashing economics.
So far, none of them have been good.
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Its been 1yr since I joined
@DFID_UK
. Its been fascinating, inspiring and fun! I've visited our Kenya, Somalia, Mozambique, Sierra Leone, India, DC, and Jordan offices and learned a lot.
Several lessons stand out: on influence, scale, complexity & use of evidence. Thread.
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How is it that with both the basic theory of economics and body of impressive empirical studies in economic pointing to the benefits of empowerment that ppl still think of our discipline as about finance and making money? 5/5
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This is so wonderful. Parties across Kenya to celebrate the Nobel prize in economics. There is an amazing sense, across a whole interconnected community of hundreds of people and many organisations, that this is "their" nobel. And rightly so. So many contributed.
Two highlights from this evening’s Nobel celebration in Kenya: 1. Seeing all these happy faces from
@poverty_action
@EvidenceAction
@PrecisionAgDev
@BusaraCenter
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Fascinating. Many men in Saudi Arabia support women working but think other men dont. When they learn the true beliefs of others they change behavior.
HT
@seema_econ
@_alice_evans
Happy to share my new paper [with Leo Bursztyn &
@GlobalSociology
] on social norms regarding female employment in Saudi Arabia. We document widespread misperceptions of norms; correcting them matters for behavior.
NBER:
Ungated:
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Just imagine the negative impact of air pollution on learning for children in Delhi or Islamabad this result implies. Levels of air pollution are much much higher there than anywhere in teh US.
Putting air filters in classrooms increased test scores by 0.20 standard deviations. That's a huge effect.
(via
@MargRev
)
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When I tweeted about my many research trips to
#SierraLeone
over last 15 years I was challenged to explain why it was good for a UK citizen to study poverty in a poor African country. Would I encourage developing country scholars to study US/UK?
This qu deserves a thread (1/n)
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Melissa's meticulous, creative, causally identified work on conflict is an inspiration. A key takeaway is from Mexico to Vietnam, the beware the unintended consequences of actions. Thread...
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I don't normally tweet about clothes but yesterday I wore a dress given to my family by one of my heroes, Ida Merriam, to the Stockholm palace banquet. Ida played a key role in the development of social security and ran its research & stats dept from 1947.
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10 years after
@WorldBank
supported
#SierraLeone
govt aid program gave grants to communities to help them recover from civil war, these communities are still better off (than control communities using RCT). Its a pretty stunning result IMHO. They had more public goods. 1/n
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Everything grad students are asking for here is standard in the non academic places I have worked. Less an issue with economics than econ academia which turns Profs into gods. Anonymous 360 feedback is not rocket science. IMF was an exception, bullying was rampant there.
A message from Econ grad students: "We shouldn’t have to rely on whisper networks to protect us from abuse and inappropriate behavior. And we don’t have the power to discipline our supervisors, or even our peers. You do. Please, listen to us."
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The bookcase behind my parents on our daily Jitsi call has a very special story. My Dad built it using the skills learned at his secondary modern school where 80% of UK 11yr olds were sent to learn trade skills because they could not handle academics. He became a Professor 1/n
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Thank you a million times to all who worked so hard over many months to make this possible. The scientists, volunteers for vaccine trials, those working on purchasing, logistics & planning. I've glimpsed a part of that round the clock effort so we can breath easier. Thank U. 2/2
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So what do we learn from this history of dev? Avoid silver bullet thinking. Improving lives is the goal. K & L, human capital & policies are all important. We should work on what we can practically fix b/c evid shows gains can be achieved even under bad policies & conditions END
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Concept of diminishing marginal utility (of income, leisure etc) means its *efficient* to focus attention and resources on those who have less money or power or opportunity because any gains for them will have larger impact on utility. 3/n
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Worth taking a moment to recognize the partners (often men) whose willingness to move and adapt to their partner's career needs have helped make this a reality. I know ppl will say women do that all the time, and they do, but its still worth celebrating.
Some progress. (Clockwise)
1. IMF managing director
2. World Bank CEO
3. World Bank chief economist
4. IMF chief economist
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We knew school closures from Covid-19 would lead to learning loss. Now we are getting the data. This large study from
@Pratham_India
in rural Karnataka is devastating: children able to do simple subtraction fell from 24% to 16%. More data here .
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How can a simple silicone bracelet raise measles vaccine rates 14ppt? By leveraging parents' desire to signal they are good parents.
Practical innovation & great test of signaling theory.
Congrats
@AnneKaring
on a great JMP!
Funded by
@The_IGC
&
@DFID_UK
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Seeing lots of people dunking on the idea of AI driven qual interviews. I think its important to distinguish different objectives of qual interviews. For me, & the many many economists who do them, we do them to listen, learn, and explore hypotheses. This paper has diff obj 1/n
1/ Qualitative interviews offer unparalleled richness but are rarely used in economics. Let's change that! New WP with
@Ingar30
uses an AI-driven approach to conducting q qualitative interviews, making them scalable, cheap, and ripe for both qualitative and quantitative analysis!
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Just read Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo's new book: "Good Economics for Hard Times."
While they seek "better answers to our biggest problems": climate change, AI etc I was struck by their humility. They dont claim there are simple big solutions but I still come away hopeful.
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I'd like to explain something before next spelling/typo fuss.
Some ppls brains are wired differently. We can read a word 1mill times, write it 100k times and not be able to spell it.
We have typos in our tweets
We are not stupid.
We are not lazy.
Never OK to laugh at spelling.
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In ruins of war, donors rush in with aid. With standard infrastructure destroyed, they often give money direct to communities through CDD. Does it make lives better in the long run? Our evidence suggests it does--real econ differences 11 years on from RCT. Now in
@EJ_RES
1/n
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20 years ago I worked on a novel idea to incentivise the development and rapid distribution of new vaccines which became the pneumococcus Advanced Market Committment backed by UK, Italy and others. Today the UK and
@gavi
are again working together this time on C-19 vaccine.
Our
#UKaid
commitment to the new
@gavi
#coronavirus
fund will help improve global access to a vaccine.
To tackle this disease, we must work together to protect people all over the 🌍
#vaccineswork
#GVS2020
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There is not a single day when my attempt to work outside is not ruined by a leaf blower, lawn mower, or construction. Sunday 7am-9am is only safe time. I live in a community of immaculate gardens but never see anyone outside. We're outside constantly & dont need perfection.
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Climate change will hurt the poorest hardest because the poor live in hotter places & have fewer resources to protect themselves.
@DFID_UK
is therefore increasing its climate investments--both mitigation & adaptation. But what are the most effective ways to do that? Thread (1/n)
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Where are all the women in econ? Some are @ JPAL where women are:
> 50% senior execs
=45% board
=50% directors
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Thank you
@HarvardGWE
for the expanded
@Wikipedia
profile!
I learned something new about myself: I'm in top 10% of women economists by publication rankings. Not bad for someone who started publishing in my late 30s, having previously been a policy econ.
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Objective is maximizing utility, not income, or education or anything others want you to want. Imp therefore that everyone has the opportunity, information, and capabilities to pursue what they think is important. Ie, economics and empowerment closely aligned. 2/n
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Its frustrating when universities reach out to me to recommend top African candidates for grad school but when I recommend brilliant young African scholars & policy makers, they accept them with no funding.
If you want dynamic African voices in your program u need to fund them!
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Wonderful thread from
@jhaushofer
celebrating the increadible people who made economic RCTs nobel material, like Carol Nekesa who was central to RCTs in Kenya. The reaction of everyone today has demonstrated how much this is a community who support and learn from each other.
My favorite thing today is a WhatsApp group of 55 Kenyans-and-hangers-on who are celebrating the Nobel Prize for Abhijit, Esther, and Michael. It was created by Carol Nekesa, who has been a central figure in making randomized experiments happen in Kenya.
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Thinking today of the pioneering NGOs who were willing to partner with researchers in the early days of economics RCTs. Chip Bury at ICS Africa, Rukmini Banerji and Madhav Chavan
@Pratham_India
and Neelima Khetan
@sevamandir
Neelima talks
@JPAL
at10
BREAKING NEWS:
The 2019 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel has been awarded to Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer “for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty.”
#NobelPrize
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Burning coal is terrible for the climate but its also terrible for health, including infant mortality. Persuading LMICs to give up coal for the good of a distant objective of reducing climate change is hard. Instead explain it saves lives now. Important paper from Nanna Fukushima
Nanna Fukushima
JMP: "The UK Clean Air Act, Black Smoke, and Infant Mortality"
Website:
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Michael is handing over a chlorine dispenser from
@EvidenceAction
to
#nobel
museum to illustrate how behaviour econ insights have led to new innovations. The dispenser is salient, next to water source, convincing, free, and helps for habits.
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My successor as Chief Economist
@FCDOGovUK
has been announced and I could not be more thrilled.
@adnanqk
has deep experience both as a civil servant and as a innovative researcher. He brings these two worlds together in a way few can. 1/2
A huge congratulations to our Academic Director, Professor
@adnanqk
who has been appointed as Chief Economist at
@FCDOGovUK
from January 2022.
You’ll be missed by all of us at
@LSEPublicPolicy
and
@LSEnews
!
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Wow!
Our just launched guide to measuring women and girl's empowerment has been downloaded over 3,000 times already.
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Just submitted a review for a journal. Resisted the impulse to suggest to the editor they ask themselves "if this study was about the US would you accept it?" with the implicit answer yes they would. Probably would just annoy them. But do wish more editors asked themselves this.
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Talked today about how economic analysis contributed to the successful UK vaccine strategy. The simple calculation showing accelerating widespread vaccination by as little as a month would save the world $500bn was probably the most impactful analysis I have ever shared.
Thank you so much
@nadhimzahawi
@ATabarrok
@rglenner
and Stephen for addressing this important conference today!
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Rare opportunity to be in at the start: job opening to be founding Executive Director of the new Development Innovations Lab at the University of Chicago being established by Prof Kremer.
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We risk a massive loss of human capital as a result of C-19 with schools shut and children falling behind. But money is tight. What are the most effective and cost-effective ways to improve education? We compare impacts across studies using a new metric--LAYS. 1/n
🚨 New paper 🚨 in
@WorldBank
WP series: "How to Improve Education Outcomes Most Efficiently? A Comparison 150 interventions using the New Learning-Adjusted Years of Schooling Metric" w/ co-authors
@DaveEvansPhD
@deon_filmer
@rglenner
Rogers
@shwetlena
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To make the most impact I try to follow a simple formula to help with prioritizing my effort:
magnitude of the problem * tractability (ie chance we can change it) * my comparative advantage.
My knowledge is relevant to where I am likely to have impact, my nationality isnt.
(end)
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Developing countries face extremely difficult but critically important choices about how best to respond to COVID-19 in a way that is adapted to their environment. These decisions are made harder by lack of good data. Proud that
@DFID_UK
is helping fill the data gap. Thread (1/8)
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The evidence on what works in education is growing. Now we need to put it into practice.
Today
@DFID_UK
&
@WorldBank
will convene an expert panel to share expertise, analyse evidence and pool advice to help improve global education policies & deliver better results.
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Some reflections on inaugural Women in Empirical Micro Conference:
1. I normally go to dev econ conferences but I loved hearing about new topics from pay to throw (trash) in Italy to 100 yrs of black/white wealth gap in US
2. There is fantastic cohort of junior women BUT 1/n
The inaugural Women in Empirical Microeconomics Conference is a wrap, after two days of amazing presentations and discussions!
@WiEMecon
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Oh come on
@nytimes
this is outrageous! So many people are working their hearts out to combat disinformation and hesitancy of vaccines and you pick this photo and combine it with overtones of Chinese authoritarianism. Just stop.
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As someone who promoted using RCTs where appropriate, this is ridiculous.
Yes, we need to be careful about distinguishing cause and correlation but RCTs are not the only way to test causation.
BTW gave me flashback to undergrad philosophy essay where I was grilled on using cause.
Wow: this comment from fresh page proofs.
Guess all of us researching causal inference in observational data need to find new jobs?
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Economics has also shown its inefficient to focus opportunity only on a few given the distribution of good ideas goes across all in society. 4/n
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If interest I can update my runningres website with the full powerpoints (without the questions answered because I peppered lectures with questions to keep people awake). NB, I do a version of this course as part of MIT edex micromasters in data, econ & development 11/end
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So excited to announce scholarships for students from sub-Saharan Africa to gain
@MITEcon
masters in Data Econ & DevPolicy. Thx to
@Hewlett_Found
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At the end of July I said farewell to my wonderful colleagues at
@FCDOGovUK
. I have been taking a desperately needed break but now deep into preparing classes for my new role at
@UChicago
and am hoping to crowd source some good ideas from
#EconTwitter
. 1/3
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@dynarski
I finished my PhD (which I did part time and while working) at 37. Working outside academia teaches skills that complemented those from a PhD. If you have only been in education and academics it's worth learning from those who have invested in other skills.
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Tip to junior researchers. If you are submitting an abstract of an Instrumental Variables paper to a conference, please tell me something about your IV. Unfortunately I cant take its quality as given.
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I agree that political economy and the willingness of elites to allow reform is important for growth (who could disagree), but I find it less useful to compare political economy as a driver of growth to aid as the media loves to do. Thread 1/n
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At a very dark time when the world seems to be tearing itself apart, some very welcome good news.
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Now we have the means to save millions of children's lives with a malaria vaccine we should be rolling it out at record speed. Delay is death.
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Each week my team selects and summarizes some of the best research on the economic impact of C-19 in LICs and MICs. The highlights from this week include the recovery in trade, new data from South Africa, profitability and taxes of firms in 10 LICs/MICs and more
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Taught my first class at UoC today and despite the time (8am on a Monday morning) turnout and engagement were great! Its so good to have the campus buzzing with students again and everyone enjoying the fall sunshine.
#UChicagoFirstDayofClass
The first day of Autumn Quarter is a glorious one. Welcome back, students!
#UChicagoFirstDayofClass
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Talking later this week in my class about how to make sure research influence policy including the thorny issue of taking results from one setting to another. Still think my keynote at
@Oxford_CSAE
was one of my best talks. Glad its available on yourtube.
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This is a pretty amazing line up of top economists working on development, who happen to be women.
WATCH ONLINE
@DinaPomeranz
, Assistant Professor, University of Zurich (
@econ_uzh
) during her
@Worldbank
#declectures
talk on Raising Money for the State: Challenges of
#Taxation
in Developing Countries 7/16, 12:30PM ET:
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Lessons from one year
@DFID_UK
(now in blog form).
Thoughts on:
the importance of scale
combining global evidence with local knowledge
great>>good
the incentives that drive complexity
judging success on a portfolio basis and accepting some failures
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Looks fascinating. New China Econ Lab to facilitate high quality research into Chinese econ by supporting research & building research capacity in China. Big econ stars involved including Nancy Qian, Shang-jin Wei, my coauthor Xiao Yu Wang, & more. 1/2
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Why dont we get vaccines for diseases of poor countries, why are we so bad at pandemic preparedness, and how can we promote more innovation for climate change?
New
@80000Hours
podcast on our work
@UChi_MSA
promote innovation that solves worlds problems.
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In March we forecast indirect impacts of C-19 on developing countries through 3 channels:
1. global economic (eg commodity prices, capital flows);
2. containment's impact on livelihoods;
3. other secondary impacts (eg school closures).
What does the data say now? Thread.
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Moved beyond words to see this book in print. We will continue to learn from Tony's insights on poverty for many many years to come. Thank you to everyone who worked to complete this book after Tony's tragic death.
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Important & encouraging thread. Some suggestive indicators that vaccination in Israel is leading to herd effects (ie those not vaccinated benefit). Also explains herd effects will make it *look* like in "real life" vaccine is less effective than in trial as control group benefits
Israel's reproduction number appears to have declined rather sharply in recent days, with around 25% of the country vaccinated, and some additional percentage having at least partial immunity via prior infection.
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Its out
@JPolEcon
Bidwell, Casey & Glennerster on the impact of debates on politician behavior! Thanks to
@SFCG_
,
@poverty_action
but mainly the politicians and parties of
#SierraLeone
who embraced new ways of reaching voters. Early ungated v here 1/5
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Was going through my old passports and found I had visited Sierra Leone every year since 2005 (civil war ended in 04).
Hard to convey the magic that keeps pulling me back but friendships have been key.
Also, knowing your context leads to better research.
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If you want data and evidence driven policy, you have to start by collecting data and building evidence.
#UKAid
has invested in the global public good of generating high quality evidence on how to make the world a better place. Making
#FCDO
a force for good.
Just found this phenomenal set of research commissioned by
@FCDOResearch
(formerly DFID).
Looking forward to the UK continuing to be a leader in producing cutting-edge, action-oriented research to improve the lives of the poor & most marginalized.
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Abhijit, Esther & Michael have said this Nobel is for all those who built the RCT movement. One if those was
@CarolNekesa5
who started working on RCTs in Kenya in 1996. She helped build the research infrastructure behind countless RCTs and now runs her own data firm.
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This story about how errors get repeated and become conventional wisdom which becomes so ingrained evidence is ignored is pretty devastating stuff. All disciplines have this problem. We need to do better, our lives depend upon it.
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Anyone who has worked on education reform in developing countries knows the politics are key. Here
@CGDev
discussing politics of education reform and why we managed to get big increases in access but slower improvement in quality with Sam Hickey & Naomi Hossain.
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Well designed pay for performance teacher contract in Rwanda led to higher test scores mainly through increased teacher effort. Clare Leaver
@UniofOxford
gives great paper
@DFID_UK
which distinguishes recruitment, motivation & effort impact of P4P. My 3min interview below.
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The wonders of
#edtech
mean wherever I go I meet students who have taken my
@MITxonedX
course on
#RCTs
. Democratizing education and creating global learning communities.
One of my proudest achievements.
Rachel Glennerster
@rglenner
, Chief Economist of
@DFID_UK
, opened today’s session at 3ie’s Evidence Week Conference. Honoured to meet her!
#3ieLEW2018
@3ieNews
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This is why it is so important for reviews of the literature to go beyond counting the number of studies with significant vs insignificant results for a given type of intervention.
Good impact evaluations are hard to do, we need to extract as much learning as we can from them.
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Not only is
@seema_econ
producing some of the best research on gender, she is also an expert at explaining research clearly.
Great piece by Prof. Seema Jayachandran (
@seema_econ
) on the
#economicsurvey18
analysis of the 21 million “unwanted girls.” The focus on sex ratio of last child instead of sex ratio per se was inspired by her terrific research.
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What is the best rigorous analysis of what is effective in combatting misinformation? A lot of related studies on when information changes actions and when it doesnt but are there studies that explicitly and rigorously evaluate approaches to combatting misinformation?
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