David Evans
Development economist tweeting about education, health, social protection, impact evaluation, & literature (especially African literature).
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What We Learn about Girls’ Education from Interventions that Do Not Focus on Girls
Center For Global Development 5d 2 tweets
Previous efforts to synthesize evidence on how to improve educational outcomes for girls have tended to focus on interventions that are principally targeted to girls, such as girls’ latrines or girls’ scholarships. But if general, non-targeted...
David Evans "What We Learn about Girls’ Education from Interventions that Do Not Focus on Girls" is now available as a working paper! by & me 5d
A Word, Please: Solving the case of the missing apostrophe
Daily Pilot 6d 1 tweets
Somewhere out there, in the teachers' lounge at a teachers college, people are chatting and laughing and sipping coffee — blissfully unaware that they're living exhibits in the Weird Punctuation Hall of Fame.
David Evans An ongoing controversy... 6d
Pre-results Review at the Journal of Development Economics: Lessons learned so far
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A description of lessons from the JDE's first year of pre-results review
Submission Guidelines – North East Universities Development Consortium Conference 2019
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David Evans TODAY is the deadline for the North East Universities Development Consortium (#NEUDC2019) Conference for 2019. Don't miss it! "We welcome all papers that investigate topics in economic development." 11d
Read African Writers: Beneath the Lion’s Gaze, by Maaza Mengiste
David Evans' personal blog 17d 1 tweets
Ethiopian-born writer Maaza Mengiste fled her country as a young girl around a period called the Ethiopian Red Terror, when between tens and hundreds of thousands of Ethiopians were killed by a com…
David Evans In her first novel, *Beneath the Lion's Gaze*, Ethiopian-born writer Maaza Mengiste uses one family to show the horror of the first years of Ethiopia's communist military government (during the 1970s). A brutal, valuable read. #ReadAfricanWriters book 27 17d
Attracting the Right Teachers in Rwanda and Four Other New Findings in Global Education
Center For Global Development 21d 3 tweets
Paying teachers for performance may have very different effects on the effort that current teachers put in and on the kinds of people that choose to become teachers. In a novel experiment by Leaver and others in Rwanda, advertisements in some...
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David Evans Attracting the Right Teachers in Rwanda and Four Other New Findings in Global Education This week's global education roundup features work by & many others 21d
Impact of the West African Ebola Epidemic on Agricultural Production and Rural Welfare : Evidence from Liberia (English) | The World Bank
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Impact of the West African Ebola Epidemic on Agricultural Production and Rural Welfare : Evidence from Liberia (English)
David Evans What was the agricultural legacy of the 2014-2015 Ebola epidemic in Liberia? ↑ "disruption of group labor mobilization for planting and harvest" ↓ rice area planted ↓ rice yields ↓ household welfare 21d
The Impact of Mobile Money on Poor Rural Households : Experimental Evidence from Uganda (English) | The World Bank
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The Impact of Mobile Money on Poor Rural Households : Experimental Evidence from Uganda (English)
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David Evans How did the rollout of mobile money affect poor households in rural Uganda? ↓ cost of remittances ↑ non-farm self-employment ↓ households with very low food security 0 effect on savings, agricultural outcomes, or poverty 21d
Preschool Availability and Female Labor Force Participation : Evidence from Indonesia (English) | The World Bank
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Preschool Availability and Female Labor Force Participation : Evidence from Indonesia (English)
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David Evans "An additional public preschool per 1,000 children increases the work participation of mothers of preschool age eligible children by 11-16 percent" in Indonesia. New study by et al. 21d
The Nollywood Nudge : An Entertaining Approach to Saving (English) | The World Bank
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The Nollywood Nudge : An Entertaining Approach to Saving (English)
David Evans Watching a Nollywood movie about sisters in business -- one makes sound financial choices & succeeds; the other falls into a debt trap -- leads viewers to open a savings account (if one is offered at the viewing). But no impacts linger four months later. 21d
Read African Writers: Nocturnes, by Léopold Sédar Senghor (translated by Clive Wake and John O. Reed)
David Evans' personal blog 22d 1 tweets
Léopold Sédar Senghor was the first president of a post-colonial, independent Senegal, from 1960 until 1980. But long before he was president, Senghor was an intellectual and a poet. After the firs…
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David Evans Before he was president of Senegal, Léopold Sédar Senghor was a poet. In *Nocturnes*, published a year into his presidency, he writes "primarily for my own people" but invokes themes & moods that transcend Senegal's borders. #ReadAfricanWriters book 26 22d
Liquidity Affects Job Choice: Evidence from Teach for America *
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Abstract. Can access to a few hundred dollars of liquidity affect the career choice of a recent college graduate? In a three-year field experiment with Teach F
#NoCualquiera Elige Educar
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El mundo es otro. Avanza y cambia rápidamente. ¿Quién puede entenderlo? No cualquiera. No cualquiera se adapta, avanza y evoluciona. Mucho menos si se trata ...
David Evans No Cualquiera Elige Educar Un video inspirador sobre quién aspira a ser profesor. HT 24d
The Skills Balancing Act in Sub-Saharan Africa : Investing in Skills for Productivity, Inclusivity, and Adaptability
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David Evans How can countries navigate the balancing act of investing in a wide range of skills across many age groups? Check out this new report led by , , & me, on The Skills Balancing Act in Sub-Saharan Africa! 24d
30 New Findings in Global Education: RISE Conference 2019
Center For Global Development 28d 9 tweets
Last week, RISE held its annual conference, which economist Karthik Muralidharan has dubbed “the top conference on education in developing countries in the world.” Over the course of two days, researchers presented over 30 new findings on education...
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David Evans What's the latest in education research in low- and middle-income countries? Check out my round-up of 30+ new papers from last week's RISE conference! 28d
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David Evans Check out four new papers on teacher motivation, management, and incentives in low- and middle-income countries featuring work by & others from the conference 27d
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David Evans Check out four new papers on education technology from Chile, India, Pakistan, & Zambia featuring work by & others from the conference 26d
Read African Writers: The Old Drift, by Namwali Serpell
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The Old Drift, by Zambian-born writer Namwali Serpell, is hot right now. The New York Times calls it “a dazzling debut,” NPR talks about “exquisite acts of literary ventriloquism,…
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David Evans Four generations of characters from multiple countries all flow into Zambia in Namwali Serpell's 576-page epic *The Old Drift* calls it a "brilliant literary response to generations of bad politics" in . #ReadAfricanWriters book 25 31d
Read African Writers: The Last Will & Testament of Senhor da Silva Araújo, by Germano Almeida
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“The reading of the last will and testament of Sr. Napumoceno da Silva Araújo ate up a whole afternoon. When he reached the one-hundred-and-fiftieth page, the notary admitted he was already t…
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David Evans Germano Almeida's *The Last Will & Testament of Senhor da Silva Araújo* is a playful, meandering account of a businessman working his way out of poverty in Cape Verde. #ReadAfricanWriters book 24 for 2019 31d
Cost-Effectiveness Analysis in Development: Accounting for Local Costs and Noisy Impacts
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Effective evidence-based policy making in development requires rigorous measurement of costs as well as impacts. This paper discusses important challe…
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David Evans Cash transfers increase trust in local government w & Holtemeyer Cost-Effectiveness Analysis in Development: Accounting for Local Costs & Noisy Impacts w Or just check out the latest... 33d
World Development | ScienceDirect.com
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Read the latest articles of World Development at ScienceDirect.com, Elsevier’s leading platform of peer-reviewed scholarly literature
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David Evans Cash transfers increase trust in local government w & Holtemeyer Cost-Effectiveness Analysis in Development: Accounting for Local Costs & Noisy Impacts w Or just check out the latest... 33d
Measuring literacy outcomes for the blind and for the deaf: Nationally representative results from Kenya
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Evidence is scarce as to the literacy skills of children with special needs in low- and middle-income countries. Utilizing nationally representative d…