Storytime! Here is how and why I switched from working on cash transfers to working on international migration. If you're still looking to donate this year, it's also a pitch! Donation link at https://t.co/wPIRehU0oo. US donations are tax-free. 1/n

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Here is the full writeup: https://t.co/onwOkKRV1U Many thanks to the research team: @TomanBarsbai, @MarcelloPerezAl, @demirelmerve, Philipp Moskopp, and @MattSutter_MPI; to the @malengo team; and to our many friends and supporters!

You can help us finish the RCT by donating or investing! For smaller donations: https://t.co/Zg4r69ujgn For "philanthropic investing" through https://t.co/c7Qrj1Gtv6: https://t.co/kQhasv1GWk For larger donations & investments, contact me! johannes.haushofer@malengo.org

With our new figures, we get 28x cash in the base scenario. Because our students enter into Income Share Agreements (ISAs), in which successful graduates "pay it forward" to the next generation, the impact is in potentially unbounded. An optimistic scenario yields 3,732x cash.

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Based on these numbers, we have updated our impact model. We depart from GiveWell's 2024 assessment, in which Malengo is about 2.5x more cost-effective than cash transfers.

Amongst the ~250 students in Germany, all but 2 are still in the program and making progress. They are somewhat slower than expected (anticipated graduation timeline 5–6 years), grades are average (2.7, where 1=best, 5=worst), and 93% want to remain in Germany after graduation.

Subjective well-being (e.g. happiness, depression) also increases, by 0.36 standard deviations (SD). (By comparison, cash transfers give about 0.1 SD.) The parents back home are doing better too (0.25 SD), and siblings and friends are no worse off.

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Students were surveyed after about one year in Germany, so they are still in school. Because they have part-time jobs, their incomes have already increased by $843 relative to the comparison group. This figure is adjusted for purchasing power & doesn't include Malengo's stipends.

Our flagship program supports Ugandan students in a Bachelors degree in Germany. The program has a built-in randomized controlled trial (RCT) by conducting a lottery amongst qualified applicants. The full sample will contain around 850; these early results are for the first 240.

Exciting news on @malengo, the NGO that helps East African students move to Europe for education: Our research team has given us a glimpse of their early findings! Here is the full writeup, joint with @richardnerland: https://t.co/onwOkKRV1U Thread follows!

It's my dear sister Lisa's ( https://t.co/Ri7kHbqikE) birthday on Wednesday, and she is raising money for the folks in Italy who helped us rescue a very cute puppy recently! More here: https://t.co/Y85C26j840

Introducing the world to our amazing Malengo students, vol. 2: Please meet Violet Nampala from Uganda, who is studying Energy Systems Engineering at Deggendorf Institute of Technology, Germany! https://t.co/n36xBPhvpU

The Shapiro Foundation's new investment in Malengo is a great milestone for us! Here are some more details: https://t.co/VhH3Y0oHM4

One of the great joys of working on @malengo is interacting with our amazing students. Here is a conversation I had with Hillary Turinawe, who is studying Medicine in Bonn, Germany.

Great news on @malengo: With a new large investment from https://t.co/dgwVwBiaRX, we'll be able to bring several hundred vocational training and university students from Kenya, Uganda, and Rwanda to Europe over the coming years! More here: https://t.co/VhH3Y0oHM4

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Great new blog post by @notanastronomer about @malengo's Uganda–Germany university program!

The World Bank released new data, and the extreme poverty estimate increased by 125 million. My colleagues Joe Hasell, Bertha Rohenkohl, & Pablo Arriagada investigated why this happened. I very much recommend it if you are interested in global poverty: https://t.co/R3xHz51PrP

Investing in providing people with clean water is incredibly cost effective.

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We just opened another round of applications for Malengo's Uganda–Germany university program! Please share widely. (Note the early deadline, Aug 16!)