🆕Empowering teachers to drive educational change in Brazil
Today on VoxDev, @piza_caio, Astrid Zwager, @RuzzanteMatteo@NUEconomics, @rafaelsdantas & @loureiroandre @wb_research outline their research from an experimental programme in Brazil:
https://t.co/tMEqc9oX22
New paper out at @JPubEcon with @AMuiswinkel@RuzzanteMatteo@rafaelsdantas & @loureiroandre! The paper discusses the results of an RCT that assessed the impacts of an education program in RN, Brazil. Check it out https://t.co/7Stgce5XRU! The first 50 downloads are free!
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Quinta-feira [02/12 as 16h] receberemos @piza_caio (DIME-@WorldBank)
"Supporting Teacher Autonomy to Improve Education Outcomes"
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@KiraboJackson https://t.co/TaeQa5DG2l uses equally weighted average of z-scores and this is the motivation given in the Web Appendix (https://t.co/jJVdR4Fn34):
@franxstrax US's ExxonMobil (though it has postponed its final investment decision indefinitely https://t.co/wiQUm2kZ9W) and ENI with a floating/offshore LNG platform, which is supposed to start production next year (https://t.co/yE97YLUjhb)
Does information break the political resource curse? Experimental evidence from Mozambique. Research by @ARMANDalex#Alexander Coutts @pedrocvicente and @IVilelaines published in the American Economic Review @AEAjournals@Novafrica
Check out @camilagalindop JMP 👇
She develops a method to estimate treatment effects when agents can choose between multiple (unordered) alternatives, using multiple instrumental variables that can affect the same margins of choice
& applies this to study childcare choice in 🇨🇴
Applications open for the @novafrica Job Market Podcast!
If you are a PhD student in the economics job market this year working on development economics in Africa, let us know if you want to participate: https://t.co/4o24txoEck
Applications from African candidates are encouraged.
Nice looking new paper by @SAdjognonPhD and others just out in @AJAE_AAEA on achieving two policy objectives with one intervention. Conditional transfers used to reduce food insecurity while promoting reforestation in Burkina Faso.
https://t.co/gUFwMt5q5D