David Evans

Economist at @CGDev. Formerly @the_IDB, @WorldBank, @RANDCorporation, and an usher at my neighborhood movie theater. My views, not my employer's.

[David Evans @DaveEvansPhD]

A Book Review of the “Handbook on Child Poverty and Inequality” https://t.co/B79Olk8Lsg Now out in the journal Population and Development Review

[David Evans @DaveEvansPhD]

Paper submitted! #getyourmanuscriptout #evenifeveryoneelsemightbesubmittingaislopwhoknows #LearnSomethingShareSomething

[David Evans @DaveEvansPhD]

Sharnic Djaker of the What Works Hub for Global Education on monitoring the quantity versus the quality of implementation.

The program https://t.co/RVwYsROplj

The video https://t.co/yOr9IXWDTY

[Matthew A. Kraft @MatthewAKraft]

I’m starting a new substack.

My focus will be, as always, on K12 education, but I'll also explore how the education system interacts with our economic system and our earth system.

Please help me spread the word. It will always be free.

https://t.co/YWmPvFHGbG

[Noam Angrist @angrist_noam]

✨ Our research agenda on implementation science is now published in @ScienceMagazine! This is the next frontier to ensure "what works" actually works at scale when delivered by govts and is implemented with high fidelity @WWHGlobalEd @BlavatnikSchool https://t.co/nriE18UeLH

[Octavio Medina @octavio_medina]

I take no pleasure in reporting this

[David Evans @DaveEvansPhD]

@AlonMuhame Hopefully in the next month or so, we'll have a review out that summarizes everything we do know.

[David Evans @DaveEvansPhD]

@AlonMuhame I don't know so much about the online or parental stuff. My focus has more been on interventions and on violence that are physically at school.

Very important, though!

[David Evans @DaveEvansPhD]

@akib_kn Thank you!

[David Evans @DaveEvansPhD]

Can anyone point me to recent studies or to scholars working on home-based child care in low- or middle-income countries? Self-promotion welcome!

I know much of the work on center-based childcare, but less on home-based care.

[David Evans @DaveEvansPhD]

@nomadj1s @instrumenthull I read it the same way as you do, although the phrasing is a bit unfortunately unclear.

[David Evans @DaveEvansPhD]

The last time I reread The Little Prince, a couple of years ago, I realized I identified more with The Businessman than anyone else, and I was very sad.

[Ryan Briggs @ryancbriggs]

you think that's bad? I think like an economist

[David Evans @DaveEvansPhD]

@akib_kn More when people provide childcare in a home (e.g., take in a few neighbor kids).

[David Evans @DaveEvansPhD]

@ughhnsh @wburnett Sounds cool, but FWIW, different Dave Evans! :)

[David Evans @DaveEvansPhD]

@BFEditing I have sometimes combined. As in this one https://t.co/vDZHmqRxQ9 (where it's called a Conclusion, w no Discussion) and this one https://t.co/G3YfwP34XX (where it's called a Discussion, w no Conclusion).

(Whether we did a good job, I'll leave to you to judge.)

[C. Kirabo Jackson @KiraboJackson]

I revisit both with cleaner timing, newer data— https://t.co/O7xBbPbDcv I use international test scores measured in 1999–2000 and then look at GDP-per-capita growth from 2001–2024. It covers 48 countries, with no overlap between the testing years and the growth years.

[Jess Hoel @Jess_Hoel]

Recommendations! 2 weeks ago I crashed my bike, sprained my wrist, and got bad road rash on my hands. Typing has been difficult, which sucks as a professor prepping for a new semester.

Lucky for me, my friend @emily_beam recently wrote a post about talk-to-text AI assistants!

[David Evans @DaveEvansPhD]

"The US administration’s policies over the last year should serve as a cautionary tale. The major lesson—which has been painfully absorbed by scores of countries over centuries of commerce—is that diversification of markets and products is key"

https://t.co/a5a6ufK8hU

[David Evans @DaveEvansPhD]

@lm_guirola @JohnHolbein1 On the people-specific ones, I just worry that if we do these for only a subset of people, then the not-purely-rational social media spaces may foster a lot of assumptions and unkindness that don't advance our knowledge about the world while also causing pain...

[David Evans @DaveEvansPhD]

@lm_guirola @JohnHolbein1 I see some value in both!