Lee Crawfurd
Advisor /// Fellow /// PhD candidate /// Previously
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Introducing the Girl’s Education Policy Index
Center For Global Development 92d 1 tweets
In this blog we preview a new measure of country effort to improve girl’s education—The Girl’s Education Policy Index.
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Lee Crawfurd Which countries have the best policies for girl's education? Comments welcomed on a new (draft) Index by and me 92d
The Impact of a National Early Childhood Development Program on Future Schooling Attainment: Evidence from Integrated Child Development Services in India | Economic Development and Cultural Change: Vol 69, No 1
Journals.uchicago.edu 93d 1 tweets
Lee Crawfurd Slightly under-whelming education impacts of the major national ECD programme in India (>1 million centres): 0.1 – 0.3 more grades of schooling (though lots of other positive evidence on nutrition) 93d
A Footballer’s Masterclass in Policy Influence
Center For Global Development 96d 3 tweets
Manchester United footballer Marcus Rashford’s campaign to get the UK government to feed disadvantaged children during the school holidays is a masterclass in campaigning: a single, achievable policy issue, phenomenal use of his platform, backed...
Just give poor people money - The Boston Globe
BostonGlobe.com 101d 16 tweets
The Nobel-winning World Food Program is one of many agencies increasingly handing out cash rather than goods. Yet the international aid system still isn’t fully deploying this simple, powerful idea.
Focus: on school closures due to Covid • Parent Ping
Parent Ping - Parent Ping 98d 1 tweets
Parents were massively relieved when the kids went back to school after the summer. Home-schooling had presented significant challenges, not least the difficulty of trying to earn an income alongside teaching children at home. Back in September,...
Lee Crawfurd Some interesting UK data here 98d
COVID-19 in Pakistan: A Phone Survey to Assess Education, Economic, and Health-Related Outcomes
Center For Global Development 103d 1 tweets
Using a phone survey of 1,211 households in Pakistan, we examine the effects of COVID-19 on three key domains: education, economic, and health-related.
Three Lessons from a New Phone Survey in Pakistan
Center For Global Development 103d 2 tweets
After six months of school closures, Pakistan began reopening its schools in a phased manner on September 15. Schools had been shut since March 13, 2020 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. To understand the impacts, CGD partnered with TCF in...
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Lee Crawfurd apparently lots of places, Germany, Australia... 104d
Rwanda approves cannabis farming for export
Nation 104d 1 tweets
The government's decision could be controversial, considering its tough stance on narcotics.
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Nyamekye Asare and Maudo Jallow on Interactions between Race and Economic Issues
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Wiktoria Tafesse on the health Impact of COVID-19 and Race
Lee Crawfurd Coming up from Seminars with & 110d
Public Economics | Economic Research Southern Africa
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Lee Crawfurd Nice to see someone using the HSNP study in a paper - cash transfers help protect against weather shocks by 110d
Why are North and South India so different on gender?
Alice Evans 113d 11 tweets
Everyone knows that Southern and Northern India are very different in culture, language, and socio-economic development. But the most dramatic regional disparity may be in gender relations. Southern and North-eastern women are more likely to survive...
Revisiting the contribution of schools to cognitive gaps: Evidence from Peru
Wiley Online Library 114d 1 tweets
Previous studies have found that differences in school characteristics can explain a significant share of the difference in cognitive skill between advantaged and disadvantaged children. These estima...
Lee Crawfurd The paper is open-access , as is the data. More articles forthcoming in the special issue, including Castro on school effects in Peru 114d
Can Female Doctors Cure the Gender STEMM Gap? Evidence from Exogenously-Assigned General Practitioners
MIT Press Journals 117d 1 tweets
Can Female Doctors Cure the Gender STEMM Gap? Evidence from Exogenously-Assigned General Practitioners
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Lee Crawfurd Girls who have a female GP are more likely to choose science in school & university 117d
Labor market concerns and support for immigration
Sciencedirect.com 117d 1 tweets
Do labor market concerns affect support for immigration? Using a large, representative sample of the US population, we first elicit beliefs about the …
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Lee Crawfurd Telling Americans about research on labour market effects increases support for immigration 117d
Tesco commits to 300% sales increase in meat alternatives
Tesco PLC 120d 1 tweets
Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: ADE Seminar Series: Lee Crawfurd - Contracting Out Schools at Scale: Evidence from Pakistan. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
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The Applied Development Economics Seminar Series meets weekly via Zoom on Tuesdays, at 4 00 pm - 5 00 pm PKT (11 00 am - 12 00 pm GMT) -- exceptions will be announced ahead of time. Seminars consist of a 45 minute research paper presentation...
“Doubt is Their Product”: The Difference Between Research and Academic Lobbying - Pro Market
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Tommaso Valletti, the former Chief Competition Economist of the European Commission, reflects on the intersection of academic economics and policymaking and offers advice to young scholars. Author’s note: The other day, while having coffee on a...
Long-run Returns to Impact Investing in Emerging Markets and Developing Economies
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Lee Crawfurd Huh, equity investments outperformed the S&P 500 by 15 percent. Do they take retail investment? 121d