This🧵is about a tricky problem in education . The problem: despite growing global wealth and technological progress, there are extremely poor parts of the world where most children grow up illiterate and innumerate. We have two new papers showing that this can be changed. 1/n

I'm hiring a research manager to run fieldwork for follow-up studies in Guinea Bissau and The Gambia . Info on original studies here: . Job advert attached; email CV and cover letter to eble@tc.columbia.edu and if@effint.org, hiring asap!. cc: @econ_ra

RT @toddpugatch: The @aefpweb EdDev (Scholars of Education in Developing Countries) Community Group fall season kicks off this Friday Sept….

RT @asim_minahil: 📣 The #EdDev community group.@aefpweb 2024-25 Updates!. @toddpugatch and I are excited to co-chair this year!. We will me….

RT @Prof_Nishith_P: Alex Eble is speaking at @GAP_NU_ next week. Anyone interested can register and attend online! @alexeble @JPAL_SA @econ….

I've got two more codes for the other place. DM me!.

RT @salonigupta435: Ecstatic to see my job market paper on the development impact blog. I study how we can teach innovation in schools http….

RT @mikekofoed: Take a look at the great job market candidates from @EPSAatTC. Got to work with some of these great PhD students during my….

Also, if you made to the second tweet -- I have four invite codes for the other, blue-er place up for grabs. DM me!.

Breaking my silence here to tell you to check out the amazing econ job market candidates from @TeachersCollege @EPSAatTC here: I'm the placement director/DGS and happy to field all/any inquiries. They are objectively great!!!.

RT @leecrawfurd: From a recent interview:. Ashenfelter: "how do you feel about the way you historically were treated in the profession as a….

RT @riacton: JOB ALERT! 🚨 My dept. is hiring an AP in public, enviro, and/or IO. Miami is an awesome place to work. True research/teaching….

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I’m going to start being over there more than over here. Same handle. Same content. See you there!

+ @dafmurillo @tushardonnay @Seunghunlee0918 anyone else there and still #here that I missed while thumbing this in on my phone (this bird place is not doing really great these days - way harder to find people than before!).

Great start to the semester with the @Columbia_CDEP group! @EricVerhoogen @myklebest @fabalbav @parijatlal @saritaoreq @palaashbhargava and many others no longer on #here . (Many of us are also “over there!” 😉)

RT @aadukia: Thanks, @TamaraGilkes @TheEconomist for this coverage of our work (with @alexeble @emileigharrison @TeodoraSzasz @MiiELab)!.

RT @slungaardmumma: Excited to see this policy brief with @SDOInstitute go live! .I use voting records for children and their mothers to ex….

RT @iza_bonn: New AI tools convert images to data; applied to a century of influential children’s books, they reveal enduring inequality in….

RT @JohnHolbein1: #RDDers check it out: "Donut RDDs". I've long been (quietly) skeptical of donut RDDs. This paper does little to assuage t….