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22 January 2020

CGD Blogging 2019

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Here's a roundup of the 9 blogs I wrote or co-wrote for CGD last year. August  Who Smokes in Developing Countries? Implications...
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11 July 2019

Rwanda Could Thrive Faster by Putting (Even) More Women in Charge

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Rwanda has the largest share of female parliamentarians of any country in the world. But things in Rwanda seldom sit still, and it is time...
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21 May 2019

Cassette tapes "cause" conflict

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Nathan Nunn and Nancy Qian published a very worrying paper in 2014 showing that US food aid causes conflict in recipient countries. Their r...
07 May 2019

The Global Education Architecture is Broken

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So says Nicholas Burnett in a (sadly, gated) essay for the International Journal of Educational Development . Nicholas has some authority o...
17 April 2019

Coaching is better than training, but there is still a questionmark on scalability

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"So should governments switch to frequent coaching sessions? Possibly, but the next step should first be to try this type of interven...
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12 March 2019

"Maybe one of the most cost-effective interventions ever studied"

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In this month's TES column (I'm calling it a column, it sounds better than a blog), I call parent-teacher meetings in Bangladesh ...
11 March 2019

The Latest Economics Research on Global Education

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Last week I was at the Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness (SREE) conference. Alex Eble made a big and apparently successfu...
18 February 2019

Is testing good for education?

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This post was first published on the Centre for Education Economics website.   I blogged recently about a new RISE working paper by Ann...
06 February 2019

CfEE Blogging: Giving students information on future wages improves school outcomes

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As of this January and following last year's Annual Research Digest from the Centre for Education Economics, I'll be co-editing t...
16 January 2019

PubhD Kigali

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For any readers in (or visiting) Kigali (presumably a niche audience), I've started a monthly research talk event, using the PubhD form...

Does temporary migration from rich to poor countries cause commitment to development?

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Nevermind that none of the journals I've sent it to so far are interested, my new working paper got picked up by Marginal Revolution  t...
15 January 2019

Testing, testing: the 123's of testing

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Here's my summary of the new Annika Bergbauer, Eric Hanushek, and Ludger Woessmann working paper for CFEE. "teachers tend to opp...
27 September 2018

The best thing about cash benchmarking is it highlights just how small most aid is

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The best take on the new cash benchmarking study from Rwanda was this one by Michael Kevane : "the main takeaway is that neither in...
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Don't Buy Local

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This summer I finally got around to doing my first Park Run, joining the now millions of people around the world who turn up on Saturday mo...