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Nicah Santos-Molas

@nisamo

Senior Policy Associate at J-PAL interested in education and politics. Also an aspiring chef and serial hobbyist. πŸ‡΅πŸ‡­ Opinions are my own.

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Reflecting on the end of USAID Over the past two decades, J-PAL and members of our research network worked closely with USAID on many projects to design, pilot, and evaluate innovative solutions; scale up those found to be effectiv...

Over the past 20 years, J-PAL & members of our research network have worked with USAID to design, pilot, evaluate, & scale programs that maximize the impact of development. Iqbal Dhaliwal shares what we've learned & how those lessons shaped policy decisions. www.povertyactionlab.org/blog/2-28-25...

05.03.2025 22:05 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

πŸ‘‹ Hi! J-PAL is now on Bluesky!

πŸ“Š We’re looking forward to bringing conversations on evidence-informed policy to this new space. Follow us for updates on the latest research, policy insights, and how rigorous evidence is helping shape a better world.

19.02.2025 18:19 πŸ‘ 61 πŸ” 22 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 2
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Left @dacemoglumit.bsky.social and @simonhrjohnson.bsky.social's Nobel lecture w more clarity on Qs I have as a Filipino who experiences the impacts of colonialism. Curious about their views of American imperialism and its role in mitigating/exacerbating path dependency post colonial rule.

20.02.2025 20:42 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Subsidising secondary education has huge benefits, for this generation and the next As countries in Sub-Saharan Africa debate the costs and benefits of subsidising secondary education, a 15-year RCT in Ghana finds large multi-generation impacts.

πŸ†• Subsidising secondary education has huge benefits

Today on VoxDev, Esther Duflo (MIT), Pascaline Dupas (Princeton University), Michael Kremer (University of Chicago), Elizabeth Spelke (Harvard University) & Mark Walsh (GiveWell) outline their research on Ghana: voxdev.org/topic/educat...

17.02.2025 09:13 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 3
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Not sure what "getting tested for HIV" has to do with "gender ideology" but thank you for confirming that this administration is full of idiots.

15.02.2025 22:11 πŸ‘ 320 πŸ” 55 πŸ’¬ 14 πŸ“Œ 10
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FANTASTIC

ICPSR at U Mich is coordinating the archiving of at-risk federal data (all of it?)

You can upload data you have & search for data you don’t have

www.datalumos.org/datalumos/

14.02.2025 16:52 πŸ‘ 643 πŸ” 349 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 18