We’re pleased to announce the annual summer ThReD Conference, co-organized by GSEM and the Geneva Graduate Institute, will be held in Geneva on May 28–29, 2026!
Call for Papers now open — submissions due Jan 25, 2026 (midnight EST). thred.devecon.org/conferences/...
Skills and Liquidity Barriers to Youth Employment: Medium-term Evidence from a Cash Benchmarking Experiment in Rwanda Craig McIntosh and Andrew Zeitlin We present results of an experiment benchmarking a workforce training program against cash transfers for underemployed young adults in Rwanda. 3.5 years after treatment, the training program enhances productive time use and asset investment, while the cash transfers drive productive assets, livestock values, savings, and subjective well-being. Both interventions have powerful effects on entrepreneurship. But while labor, sales, and profits all go up, the implied wage rate in these businesses is low. Our results suggest that credit is a major barrier to self-employment, but deeper reforms may be required to enable entrepreneurship to provide a transformative pathway out of poverty.
Cash grants beat job training? A 3.5 year study in Rwanda by Craig McIntosh & @andrewzeitlin.io found both helped youth start businesses, but COVID wiped out half the gains. Neither escaped poverty. Liquidity matters – but so do bigger structural barriers.
doi.org/10.3368/jhr....
And the link to the job details and application is here: www.jobinrwanda.com/job/senior-r...
Feel free to reach out with any questions!
More details about the ongoing partnership to learn about and deploy teacher contracts at scale are here: gui2de.georgetown.edu/our-work/edu...
This work builds on our prior randomized, controlled trial (Leaver, @owenozier.bsky.social , Serneels, and Zeitlin, AER 2021 www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...) and multiple rounds of A/B testing in government systems.
🚨 COOL JOB!!! 🚨
In Rwanda, @poverty-action.bsky.social and gui2de are hiring a Scale-Up Advisor to work within the MINEDUC to scale up a revised teacher performance pay contract ("imihigo"). We're looking for an excellent manager to help lead this initiative to take evidence into policy at scale.
This is the stuff of authoritarian regimes. There isn't even the pretense that this is anything but persecution, unbound by law.
A few points with regard to Secretary Rubio's testimony about US foreign assistance on the Hill the last couple of days... a thread.
🆕 Do carbon offsets work? Evidence from the world’s largest offset programme
Today on VoxDev, Raphael Calel (Georgetown University), Jonathan Colmer (University of Virginia), Antoine Dechezleprêtre (OECD) & Matthieu Glachant (Mines Paris) outline research on India: voxdev.org/topic/energy...
Craig McIntosh @gpsucsd.bsky.social and I wrote about a conversation that was ongoing about efficiency at USAID -- and what it might mean for US bilateral aid going forward:
Alternatively if you're building up a figure incrementally, it might be best to do within the tikz figures, at the level of individual elements. The `visible on` property of \draw, \node, \fill, etc., can control what overlays these elements appear on. I've had some luck with that.
If you want to replace these figures, I imagine you could wrap your \input{} statements in \only or \onslide commands, as in
\only<1>{inputs/axes.tex}
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BREAKING: Supreme Court DENIES President Trump‘s emergency bid to cancel nearly $2 billion in USAID spending. The vote is 5-4.
xkcd.com/927
The Demographic and Heath Survey program received their USAID termination email last night
www.linkedin.com/posts/caren-...
I don’t have a definitive source on this yet but it looks like NSF review panels have been canceled.
Sixty-some years ago, Eisenhower transformed higher education because he viewed a science education gap as the single greatest threat to national security.
This is absolutely an act of sabotage.
TARL?
cc #econ_ra
Cc #econ_ra
Thanks Aaron. This is a really useful public service.
There’s a feed! bsky.app/profile/did:...
#econsky with recent growth on this platform it seems like a good time to re-up that we're hiring at Georgetown's McCourt School, in _quantiative social science_ (including econ, polisci, computer science, etc)
Come join our growing school in a beautiful new building!
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thanks - a really helpful list. Taking (self)nominations?
-> Short-run findings from our parallel benchmarking experiment in job training here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jd...
(bringing this across from the other site)
Thrilled to see Craig's and my original cash benchmarking experiment featured in the EJ this month (doi.org/10.1093/ej/u...).
🙋 Hi Josh, would love to be added!
So sorry — hope you recover soon.
Thanks. We show distortion of learning metrics when these become reputationally important, so a bit different as you say. The paper that comes to my mind on distortion of enrollment under capitation payments is Amanda Glassman and Justin Sandefur’s 2015 one: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
