🚨 REPLICATION REPORT UPDATE: One year ago, a tweet by John Holbein alerted me, @ollefolke.bsky.social, and @jopieboy.bsky.social to a paper with a shocking result about Sweden’s law criminalizing the purchase of sex.🧵
Janica Magat-Larsen
@janicalapati.bsky.social
Research Specialist at Youth Impact. Texas A&M PhD. Manila girl in Sweden.
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Woohoo! A/B testing to continuously optimize program impact and cost effectiveness for the win! 🎉 Learn more: www.youth-impact.org/a-b-testing
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Youth Impact@youthimpactorg.bsky.social · last yr.The #CIES2025 has kicked off with a bang 💪 ! Our team has been busy participating in panel sessions and leading a workshop on A/B testing. 📌 Don’t miss out on our upcoming sessions—check out the full list of activities here: www.youth-impact.org/single-post/...
Education Compass: The state of student learning in Botswana We recently conducted our annual survey on the state of student learning in Botswana. We assessed nearly 2000 Standard 4 students across 60 schools and interviewed their caregivers. (Thread) #EducationinBotswana #EducationCompass
HRW reports over 12000 Filipinos were killed over the course of Duterte’s “war” on drugs.
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Since taking office on June 30, 2016, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has carried out a “war on drugs” that has led to the deaths of over 12,000 Filipinos to date, mostly urban poor. At least 2,5...
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Carlos Conde@carlosconde.bsky.social · last yr.Less than 12 hours after he was arrested in Manila, Duterte is reportedly now on a jet en route to The Hague to face the ICC. -- Why the I.C.C. Arrested Duterte Despite Questions Over Jurisdiction - The New York Times www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/w...
9 out of 10 students in Standard 4 are below the expected grade level in maths. Get the facts about the state of student learning in Botswana in our 2025 Education Compass report here: www.youth-impact.org/education-co... #EducationinBotswana #YouthImpactResearch #EducationCompas
“The world must now affirm that human lives matter, no matter where they are.” In a new op-ed, Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo call for governments, multilaterals, and philanthropists to double down on investing in evidence-backed programs that improve people’s lives. www.ft.com/content/43e9...
Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo: Foreign aid can be effective without the US
In the wake of USAID cuts, wealthy nations and individuals must take the reins
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📊 How can we make impact evaluation findings more comparable + actionable? 🔍Click here to learn more about IDEAL, an open-access platform by CEGA, the WorldBank + other global partners to address this question: buff.ly/szDMowc #polisky #econsky
Impact Data and Evidence Aggregation Library (IDEAL)
IDEAL helps standardize and improve comparability of the main results produced by randomized evaluations.
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Over the past 20 years, J-PAL & members of our research network have worked with USAID to design, pilot, evaluate, & scale programs that maximize the impact of development. Iqbal Dhaliwal shares what we've learned & how those lessons shaped policy decisions. www.povertyactionlab.org/blog/2-28-25...
Reflecting on the end of USAID
Over the past two decades, J-PAL and members of our research network worked closely with USAID on many projects to design, pilot, and evaluate innovative solutions; scale up those found to be effectiv...
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🥳Thrilled to be featured in the Asian Development Bank's publication on Building Resilience in Education Systems for our work in the Philippines. @mandabeat.bsky.social @poverty-action.bsky.social Read the full paper here (Chapter 9): www.adb.org/publications...
Building Resilience in Education Systems
Disasters, pandemics, and conflicts have disrupted education for millions of students in Asia and the Pacific, with long-term consequences for their futures.
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