How Can Education Systems Structure Virtual Communities of Practice for Teachers Most Effectively? www.cgdev.org/publication/...

How Can Education Systems Structure Virtual Communities of Practice for Teachers Most Effectively?

Virtual communities of practice (VCoPs) can be a low-cost mode of delivering teacher continuous professional development, although there are currently no studies measuring their effectiveness in boost...

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Four facts about monopsony power in Latin America and the Caribbean / Cuatro hechos sobre el poder de monopsonio en América Latina y el Caribe publications.iadb.org/en/making-la...

Today I heard Professor David Card speak about obstacles he's observed to incorporating evidence into policy. events.iadb.org/calendar/eve... I think #2 is very important when we (economists) talk about high rates of return.

I followed the process of this report's production from its early stages and am very excited that it's out! The report publications.iadb.org/en/making-la... The launch this Monday (August 3) events.iadb.org/calendar/eve...

New paper submitted!* #GetYourManuscriptOut * Okay, sent to editor with a query about an exception on word count. But I'm counting it!

Johnny Rose: Still Waiting For Good News

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A quick note on the impact of the Trump administration ending Temporary Protective Status for 350,000 immigrants from Haiti today.

Wait, how many standard deviations in learning outcomes does your program deliver? and what does that mean? www.cgdev.org/blog/standar...

I get asked to prove I'm not a robot SO much these days, and I often think of this short film. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VrL...

“I’m Not a Robot” (2025 Academy Award Winner) | The New Yorker Screening Room

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"Child poverty affects millions—recent estimates suggest more than 400 million children live in families earning less than $3 per day, and the number of children in poverty doubles if one considers other deprivations beyond income."

David Evans@daveevansphd.bsky.social · 2mo ago

A Book Review of the “Handbook on Child Poverty and Inequality” www.cgdev.org/blog/book-re... Now out in the journal Population and Development Review

"The reason this is a very fine country is because that kind of thing can't happen"! This passage from John MacDonald's 1957 novel has not aged well... www.themarshallproject.org/records/4692...

"That is another question that will remain unanswered: I feel as though I am made of nothing else." from *I Who Have Never Known Men*, by Jacqueline Harpman, translated by Ros Schwartz lithub.com/who-have-nev...

20 years later, can we track down the people taught to read in primary school through different RCTs? We're going to try, here are the studies we're looking at, are we missing any?

Last night's commute viewing was Oriana Bandiera's talk on the case for ungendering the economy. www.youtube.com/live/6oNRYGr... (51:09) From @cgdev.org's Women in Leadership conference www.cgdev.org/blog/pipelin...

Wondering what to read this summer? Check out @CGDev's summer reading recommendations! www.cgdev.org/blog/what-we... What are you reading?

Believing that socio-emotional skills are important and believing that we know how to impart them effectively in a school system are two very different things. alejandroganimian.com/files/ganimi...

I'm excited about the new International Development Economics Association! Read @owenozier.bsky.social's introduction: www.cgdev.org/blog/introdu... Then join! idea.devecon.org

How to develop a locally appropriate intervention to reduce school-related violence www.linkedin.com/posts/david-...

Gabriela Smarrelli and I recently gave a talk on what we're learning about how to keep children safer at school (https://lnkd.in/etsZP-6w). One participant raised a valuable concern about mindless...

Gabriela Smarrelli and I recently gave a talk on what we're learning about how to keep children safer at school (https://lnkd.in/etsZP-6w). One participant raised a valuable concern about mindlessly c...

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New paper with @p_ganong & Avik Garg: From literature review to effect prediction for a new context - allowing for effect heterogeneity & publication bias. maxkasy.github.io/home/files/p...

Where should the next generation of violence on reducing violence in schools focus? www.cgdev.org/blog/school-... on the @cgdev.org blog

Everything we learnt about lead exposure at the 2026 global conference www.cgdev.org/blog/what-we...

Paper submitted last week got through to reviewers! #GetYourManuscriptOut #DontGetItBackForAWhile

Josef's Scared Reaction: It's Moving!

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I learn a lot from RCTs, and I learn a lot from other types of studies. I propose that it is disingenuous to claim you value evidence from a range of methods (i.e., the best evidence for the question) and then exclusively cite evidence from one method. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

The new Steven Spielberg film Disclosure Day has been getting mixed reviews in the places I read, and I echo some of that, but I also liked a lot of things about it & overall had a good time. letterboxd.com/daveevans/fi... Fact fact: It's the 2nd movie with Blunt=hero + Firth=villain.

A ★★★ review of Disclosure Day (2026)

I just saw a movie with Emily Blunt as the hero and Colin Firth as the villain. And no, it wasn’t Mary Poppins Returns! Here are three things I liked about Disclosure Day: 1. Early on and throughout t...

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Now out in the Journal of Development Studies! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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📚📊 NEW @cgdev.org RESEARCH: Children who master basic reading and math in primary school earn significantly more as adults. Evidence that foundational literacy and numeracy skills have real economic returns throughout life.

Today I learned I'm supposed to use an n-dash rather than a hyphen to write number ranges.

Now You Know The More You Know PSA

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Playing bingo with @dmckenzie.bsky.social's list of development journals, I'm at 9/12 (and haven't even ever submitted to the other 3). #CareerGoals

David Evans@daveevansphd.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I'm always excited when @dmckenzie.bsky.social's post on the state of development journals comes out! blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva... He includes a discussion of AI policies, submission fees, and more!

Big increases in high school graduation in Argentina from providing better information on the returns to different levels of education. papers.jcarolinalopez.com/Misperceptio... from @jcarolina_lopez

I'm always excited when @dmckenzie.bsky.social's post on the state of development journals comes out! blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva... He includes a discussion of AI policies, submission fees, and more!

I love this movie scene in which in which a mom tells her Star Wars-obsessed son that all of those stories are inspired by stories from the great Brazilian writer Machado de Assis. Untrue? Go read *The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas* anyway! Fabulous book.

I'm so glad I got to see John Carney's latest musical feature in the theater. I've loved each: Sing Street, Begin Again, Once, Flora and Son, and now Power Ballad. Consistently excellent director!