Important new paper examining the appropriateness and limitations of using RCTs in education.

By Sam Sims @jakeanders Matthew Inglis, Hugues Lortie-Forgues, Ben Styles and Ben Weidmann

#DevEcon #Education #Economics #Policy #Research @economics

https://econpapers.repec.org/paper/uclcepeow/23-07.htm

EconPapers: Experimental education research: rethinking why, how and when to use random assignment

By Sam Sims, Jake Anders, Matthew Inglis, Hugues Lortie-Forgues, Ben Styles and Ben Weidmann; Abstract: Over the last twenty years, education researchers have increasingly conducted randomised experiments with the goal of

Are there any established hashtags for development #economics or economics of #education?

I'd like to start #DevEcon and #EdEcon but not sure if there would be any takers.

#EconTwitter @paulgp

Global High-Resolution Estimates of the United Nations Human Development Index

#NewPaper by Sherman et al.—> https://www.nber.org/papers/w31044
#DevEcon

Global High-Resolution Estimates of the United Nations Human Development Index Using Satellite Imagery and Machine-learning

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Five key findings from the 2022 UN Population Prospects

Explore the key highlights from the UN’s latest release of its world population estimates.

Our World in Data

Development Data Lab

Incredible open data resource for development economists, by @samasher & @paulnovosad & team —> https://www.devdatalab.org #DevEcon #development #economics #econtwitter

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From @vis_taraz
"How does #ClimateChange affect #education outcomes in the long-run? Co-author Maggie Liu will present "Climate Change and Intensification Effects: Evidence from Human Capital in India" (with Yogita Shamdasani) in an #AERE session at #ASSA2023
We find that higher temperatures reduce educational attainments in India; these effects are intensified over longer time periods; effects are concentrated in rural areas & are more pronounced for females"
#MastIndia
#DevEcon #EnvironEcon
Happy new year and hi to the Mastodon peeps!
I see #introductions are a thing, so here I go 🤓:
I'm Maja, an #econ postdoc working on #GlobalHealth at the Brigham & Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School.
Just got back from my email hiatus over the holidays. Now that I'm mostly off twitter, I'm trying to my way around here. Interested in: #AccessToCare #HIV #LMIC #NCDs #Aging #DevEcon #development #Gender #Equity #ResearchEthics #ImpactEval. Excel trashing also welcome.
@marcgoldwein I found some by checking out hashtags and groups. (You can also follow both of those, too.)
#economics
#AgEcon
#DevEcon
#economy
#economist
#Mosstodon
#biodiversity
Just a few that I'm using.
My final #DevEcon blog links of this year is a bumper crop. Includes funding calls, agricultural technology adoption in Africa, causal impacts of electrification, using adaptive experiments, critiquing meta-analysis, and much more... https://blogs.worldbank.org/impactevaluations/weekly-links-december-16-stagnant-agricultural-technology-progress-africa-stories
Weekly links December 16: Stagnant agricultural technology progress in Africa, stories behind the data, causal impacts of electrification, and so much more…

Lots of links to see you through the holidays

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The penultimate one of our #DevEcon #econjobmarket posts has Curtis Morrill using event studies to measure the impact of the staggered introduction of local elections in Indonesia https://blogs.worldbank.org/impactevaluations/does-democratization-produce-responsive-leaders-evidence-staggered-democratic
Does Democratization Produce Responsive Leaders? Evidence from Staggered Democratic Appointments in Indonesia. Guest Post by Curtis Morrill

Democratization Night Lights Indonesia

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