Amina Mendez Acosta
@AcostaAminaM
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Researcher and policy analyst for education and health @cgdev. Formerly ASKI Philippines and @georgetown alum. Bread baker. Views my own. 🇵🇭🇨🇦
Washington, DC/Toronto, Canada
Joined August 2019
Looking forward to @DrNathanNunn and Daniel Trefler speak at @UAlberta this September!.
🚨We are thrilled to announce that the University of Alberta will host the 9th InsTED Workshop on September 20-21, 2025!. With keynote addresses Nathan Nunn (UBC) and Dan Trefler (U of Toronto) #InsTED2025 #EconTwitter. Submission deadline: May 1st.Info:
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Highlights 4/4.💡Urban schools lose teachers to opportunities outside of teaching, while rural schools lose teachers to urban schools. 💡Teachers in conflict-affected areas are more likely to leave the profession.
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Highlights 2/4.💡Early-career teachers, female teachers, and those with tertiary education are more likely to leave the profession. 💡School principals and teachers in urban areas are retained longer than those in rural or remote schools.
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A paper using administrative data from Burkina Faso to track which teachers leave and why by @biniegu and me is out!.Full paper:
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RT @CGDev: School meal programs are expanding globally, but what's the impact? 🍽️. Reviewing 15 years of evidence, @AcostaAminaM and @binie….
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As school meal programmes continue to expand globally, so too is the body of evidence from impact evaluations. Given the multiplicity of objectives and the diversity of contexts in which school meals...
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RT @Kevin_Watkins_: A brilliant overview of evidence on school feeding @CGDev @JustinSandefur. Please retweet/use as widely. one request: c….
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As school meal programmes continue to expand globally, so too is the body of evidence from impact evaluations. Given the multiplicity of objectives and the diversity of contexts in which school meals...
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RT @DaveEvansPhD: What if you could improve education just by providing information on the returns to education? Here's what @AcostaAminaM….
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By David Evans and Amina Mendez Acosta How much is an education worth? In addition to an enormous scholarly literature reporting income returns to education, many websites seek to provide simple...
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RT @JustinSandefur: ICYMI: 🚨@CGDev is hiring🚨. Senior fellows / fellows. Could be the biggest hiring round in my many years here, as @rglen….
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RT @leecrawfurd: New meta-analysis by @DaveEvansPhD @AcostaAminaM on probably the most cost-effective intervention in global education. S….
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RT @CGDev: What’s causing #teachers to #quit? 🏫. @biniegu & @AcostaAminaM examine what drives teachers to leave their jobs in low-income an….
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Without a teacher at the front of the classroom, no learning can take place. But all over the world, teachers are leaving the profession in droves. There are a variety of reasons for this—from low...
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RT @CGDev: Across the globe, #teachers are leaving the profession in droves. Why? 🏫. In a NEW @CGDev working paper, @biniegu and @AcostaAmi….
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Without a teacher at the front of the classroom, no learning can take place. But all over the world, teachers are leaving the profession in droves. There are a variety of reasons for this—from low...
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RT @JaimeSaavedra22: A systematic review of 71 studies of center-based childcare interventions find that at current levels of quality most….
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RT @DaveEvansPhD: "The Impacts of Childcare Interventions on Children’s Outcomes in Low- & Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review" (b….
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RT @UptonOrwell: Do you or your students ever need to make bar graphs in @Stata ?. I just published a "Pt.2" of my guides on advanced bar g….
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RT @CGDev: In a new analysis reviewing the effect of center-based childcare interventions, @DaveEvansPhD, @PJakiela, and @AcostaAminaM find….
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Center-based childcare programs are expanding rapidly in low- and middle-income countries. While the impacts of these programs on women’s labor market outcomes are consistently positive, what are the...
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RT @leecrawfurd: The US government is investing billions in avoiding lead (pb) poisoning, whilst the British government is investing approx….
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Exposure to lead is likely harming our health and our economy. In this blog, Lee Crawfurd makes the case for greater screening, tracking and awareness to address the 'silent epidemic'.
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RT @Oxford_CSAE: 🏆💻TOP 5 VIEWED ARTICLES online in the #JournalofAfricanEconomies in 2023. @OUPEconomics. No. 1⃣ is 'Education in Africa: W….
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RT @ile_din: Globally, 50% students aged 13–15 (~150 million!) report experiencing peer-to-peer violence in and around school. How can we r….
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