The @aefpweb.bsky.social EdDev (Scholars of Education in Developing Countries) resumes its work-in-progress seminar series this fall. Meetings are the 2nd Friday of each month, 11a-12p ET. Register your interest in presenting: forms.gle/8ag4Bm8QjkudPBaj6 Plz reskeet! #econsky #edusky

AEFP EdDev Community Group Presentation Sign-ups Fall 2026-2027

This is the sign-up for presenting work-in-progress at the AEFP EdDev Community Group for the Fall semester of the 2026-2027 academic year. We meet at 11am ET for an hour every second Friday of the mo...

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Frustrated with Overleaf and searches for help with LaTeX are giving me content I'm not looking for...

Publishing null results *is* hard. Thrilled to finally see this paper with @danielnposner.bsky.social and @dougparkerson.bsky.social investigating the impact of bottom-up accountability on healthcare outcomes in print in the JOP. Thread 👇 doi.org/10.1086/736577

Dec 9–10: IPA's Niall Keleher (nkeleher.com) joins @cgdev.org & The Agency Fund Working Group in London to set standards for evaluating AI tools in low- and middle-income countries + share IPA’s work building ethical, scalable data systems. IPA's Research & Data Science Hub: data.poverty-action.org

AI is reshaping how dev't data is collected & used. At the World Bank’s “Better Data for Better Jobs and Lives” conf. (Dec 8–9), IPA’s Steven Glazerman & Dr. Nouréini Sayouti will highlight how rigorous methods and responsible innovation can improve data for better decisions. More: bit.ly/4rseyta

Your regular reminder that AI continues to routinely produce incorrect word salad. Sometimes having an "assistant" like this can be exhausting.

Outstanding funding opportunity for U.S. based/focused nonprofits that are smallish (<$10m revenue) to advance AI education and innovation. h/t @alexnawar.bsky.social openai.com/index/people...

A People-First AI Fund: $50M to support nonprofits

Applications are now open for OpenAI’s People-First AI Fund, a $50M initiative supporting U.S. nonprofits advancing education, community innovation, and economic opportunity. Apply by October 8, 2025,...

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Nice @markusgold.bsky.social and Juan Manuel Menendez post about how far empirical economics still needs to go in studying sub-Saharan Africa www.cgdev.org/blog/researc... Motivating for @poverty-action.bsky.social's initiative promoting LMIC research collabs poverty-action.org/research-col...

Really useful resource for RAs and others interested in doing field work in international settings, or any rigorous empirical work in social sciences @poverty-action.bsky.social just launched the IPA Knowledge Hub data.poverty-action.org

How can survey researchers and survey methodologists step in to shore up faith in official statistics? Unclear, but this blog by @jedkolko.bsky.social brings useful commentary about private sector's role in public data www.piie.com/blogs/realti...

The private sector can’t replace official statistics—but could be a great partner

After President Donald Trump fired Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner Erika McEntarfer, claiming that jobs data were “faked” and “rigged,” an urgent question arose: Could private sector data fill...

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Anybody else out there in an NGO spending thousands of dollars to prove to funders and auditors that you’re not wasting hundreds of dollars?

10 Things to Know About Adaptive Experimental Design buff.ly/Klwp446 #EGAPMethodsGuide

Yesterday, June 2, was an interesting day at work. I was reporting a story about how the Education Department hadn't delivered a report to Congress on the Condition of Education, despite the June 1 deadline mandated by law. 🧵 (1/9)

Is anyone on #EconTwitter or another social science aware of any evaluations of Promise Pay (in its use as a utility debt relief app--I know there can be other uses)? I'd appreciate any leads. Thanks!

Academics: how many hours would you set aside for prepping a class you've taught before in different forms, but not this particular audience and format, and level of background? Assume 32 hours of instructional time (lecture and prof-led discussion).

Our community must take this issue very seriously! ideally, we'd post these publicly: raw_no_pii.csv cleaning.R clean.rds analysis.R but destroy or archive privately: raw.csv remove_pii.R (was glad to see in this thread political science apparently does better than other fields but still)

Institute for Replication@i4replication.bsky.social · last yr.

We did not want to start the week like this, but here we are. Yet again our chair’s inbox is filled with messages from replicators who have opened “replication” folders only to find names, Social Insurance Numbers, mental-health diagnoses and incomes of study participants. 🧵

Exclusive: National Science Foundation staff were told today that the agency’s 37 divisions—across all eight directorates—are being abolished and the number of programs within those divisions will be drastically reduced.

Exclusive: NSF faces radical shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions

Changes seen as a response to presidential directives on what research to fund

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@stuartbuck.bsky.social regularly puts out very thoughtful level-headed pieces on substack about science and social impact. This is just one of his gems. goodscience.substack.com/p/ngos-arent...

NGOs Aren't the Enemy

One oddity about the recent political environment is the flaming hostility to so-called NGOs, or non-governmental organizations.

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That sinking feeling when you're trying to access a really useful online repository of measurement tools and... it doesn't load. Then you remember it was USAID-funded. www.youthpower.org/resources/me...

Hey, some good news, ERIC lives!

Null findings are so important! ..as long as the study is well design, meaning interesting counterfactual, not a straw man. Through null finding studies we can learn tons about prevailing practice if we're as careful measuring control group experiences as treatment experiences w/interventions.

Oliver Hanney@olihanney.bsky.social · last yr.

Important null results in development economics Despite the bias against publishing null results, they are important for policy, helping to kill bad ideas. I've highlighted some key examples we have featured on @voxdev.bsky.social: voxdev.org/topic/import...

Congrats to the authors on this long-term followup of a famous trial that has influenced thinking on ed-tech for a while.

VoxDev@voxdev.bsky.social · last yr.

🆕 One Laptop per Child: Lessons from a long-term follow up Today on VoxDev, Santiago Cueto (GRADE), Diether Beuermann (IDB), Julian Cristia (IDB), Ofer Malamud (Northwestern University) & Francisco Pardo (University of Texas at Austin) outline research on Peru: voxdev.org/topic/educat...

New working paper: Could AI leapfrog the web? Only 37% of sub-Saharan Africans use the internet. Cost is the #1 constraint. In a study with 469 teachers in Sierra Leone, we find AI works better than the web--and is 87% cheaper. arxiv.org/abs/2502.12397 Let's dive in... 🧵(1/X)

Here is my best guidance for action, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. I first published these lessons more than eight years ago, in late 2016. They open the twenty chapters of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century." snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...

Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow

Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing

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In a time when many folks are looking for work, this is a great opportunity for an experienced HR professional to step into a critical senior role in an internal NGO with a diverse set of partners and donors. Please share with your networks! www.linkedin.com/feed/update/... #jobopportunity #globalHR

#jobopportunity #globalhr #internationaldevelopment #nonprofitjobs | Innovations for Poverty Action

📢Exciting Opportunity: Senior Director, Global Human Resources at Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA)! IPA is seeking an experienced HR leader to oversee…

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How is everyone doing with the end of Skype? Do people even use it still? We're moving everything to Teams (were going to do that anyway), but I was wondering what happens to all those contacts and conversations. Not that important, really just feeling nostalgic already.

📢 IPA is at #CIES2025 in Chicago! We’re diving into education, tech, and scaling impact across 7 panels this week. Who’s around today? 👋 Let’s connect and talk evidence, education, and impact. Full schedule 👉 bit.ly/IPACIES25 #GlobalDev #Education

Question re:changes in the funding landscape... When a research funder says they do not pay indirect costs or they limit indirects to 10%, how do you all recover the costs of your projects? Or do you take a loss? Or do you bypass organizational controls? Seriously, how do you do it?

Dean Karlan's job at USAID was LITERALLY to improve the efficiency of its programs. DOGE is clearly not actually after cutting fraud and waste. And its actions will clearly make the US weaker while also making the world a worse place. www.npr.org/sections/goa...

Why Dean Karlan, chief economist of USAID, resigned on Tuesday

He was hired in 2022 so the aid agency could get 'more bang for our buck' with its projects. He tried to reach out to help in the rebuilding of the agency. On Tuesday he tendered his resignation.

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Has anyone bothered to download content from the USAID DEC (Development Exchange Clearinghouse)? Obvsly it's gone.