invertir en lectura y matemáticas en los primeros años genera retornos enormes. En Indonesia, los niños que dominan estas habilidades tempranas ganan al menos un 4 % más de adultos. En Pakistán, una mejora de 0,1–0,15 DE elevó los salarios con un retorno anual del 20 %. Las bases

EXCLUSIVE: An increase in toxic lead pollution from a chipboard factory near Stirling has led to public health concerns

See my substack for more on the background to this:

@clara_jace @iealondon I made a similar argument here:

@clara_jace @iealondon

"Giving children their due political representation by letting their parents vote for them is the most promising and sustainable route to closing the fertility gap." @clara_jace for @iealondon

Textbooks can shape children's worldviews. Using computational methods, @aadukia & @emileigharrison find that while Texas and California public school texts are similar, religious versions depict fewer women, lighter skin, and more faith content. Read → https://t.co/l2UO1HpXMU

When we step back, malaria steps forward. The UK’s £850m pledge to the @GlobalFund is vital—but represents a 15% cut from our previous £1bn, the lowest UK pledge since 2010. #ZeroMalaria #StopAtNothing #MalariaEconomy

I wonder if the United States can learn anything from the last time a major industrialized country decided to isolate itself from the rest of the world? Almost a decade after the Brexit vote, GDP in the UK is 6-8% lower relative to peer countries. (More: https://t.co/zHGpWi5l7r)

The latter is a trend reversal: there was a lot of commentary in the 2010s about how the majority of the global poor now lived in middle-income countries. Share of global poverty in MICs: 5.5% in 1990 75.9% in 2007 56% in 2023

https://t.co/66cXSgRRu3

Delighted that the JRCT is taking this next step in reckoning seriously with their historical legacy

Being just eligible to start school early (& thus likely to have more years of schooling than similar peers) increases turnout & independent affiliation. This is ~contra the causal "education polarization" story, but cutoffs most strongly relate to HS graduation, not college

Breaking my social media hiatus to share some new work. Please see my fabulous co-author @ShuaiChenEcon's full thread below, but a few of my thoughts. First, I've spent lots of time focused on costs of gender-based violence. I'm now keen to think of how to help survivors. [1/5]

The returns to schooling are higher now than they have ever been - at least according to causal estimates Our (w/ Psacharopoulos) new working paper in Annenberg Institute's (Brown University) EdWorking Paper series: https://t.co/UQWBMaQBRT

This is quite interesting, as I just presented work showing (with a lot of careful prompt work!) that GPT5 did much better than humans on a challenging data labelling task. (was pre-registered)

Flu (and/or COVID) vaccines reduce *HEART FAILURE* (consider this your regular reminder to get yours) https://t.co/Ih8liEwrui

The EU banned toxic lead chromate pigments in 2019—but loopholes mean European exports (at least 242 tons) still put children worldwide at risk. @RoryTodd12 & @leecrawfurd call for full export ban, a meaningful win for global health at no cost to the EU: https://t.co/JvQN2cD1S0

Tim Leunig is prolific in his policy proposals but this is the one that has most stuck in my head - governments should mandate that social media video feeds play the news. 1 min of news for every 1 hour of watching. https://t.co/VoiAqTRzmw

Brexit has reduced UK GDP by 6 to 8%