All things equal, I always submit to journals that respect the author’s time by allowing them to submit the original manuscript in any format. I’m happy to follow arcane journal requirements for a revision, but policing formatting for original submissions wastes everyone’s time

Interestingly, the two organisations who’ve attacked me personally in the last few years have been @EduInt and -Bridge. This tweet by Prof Dynarski is at @dynarski.bsky.social comes to mind x.com/dynarski/statu…

How do executive function skills relate with school readiness? Do the rel'ps between EF and school readiness differ in Kenya from what we find in the US or UK? Excited... New in Developmental Science with Willoughby, Oyanga and Katherine Merseth King onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.111… @RTI_EdWork

Thanks for this blog, Prof Prachi Srivastava oxfamblogs.org/fp2p/its-compl… I still have to get my hands on the article! My latest would have been relevant to the final section of the blog sciencedirect.com/science/articl… and Donald Baum 's 2018 IJED article on regulation...

OPM finds all the key system elements are misaligned to deliver quality ECD in Liberia. #CIES2019 Alina Lipcan Oxford Policy Management

Across Sub-Saharan Africa, more than 50% of children enrolled in preschool are enrolled in private preschool. — Donald Baum of BYU at #CIES2019

How affordable are private preschools in Nairobi? For poor household, not affordable at all. —from Donald Baum’s talk at #CIES2019

Let authors submit manuscripts in any format they wish for the initial submission

An excellent, thoughtful, nuanced evidence-based piece setting out key issues for policy on private schooling by Prof Prachi Srivastava on duncangreenlse.bsky.social blog in response to The Economist oxfamblogs.org/fp2p/whats-new… oxfamblogs.org/fp2p/whats-new… (1/2)

Pleased to have new mixed-method study published in a special issue of Early Years. "Early Childhood Policies in LMICs" edited by @michellejneuman & L.Okeng'o. tandfonline.com/eprint/DS4IBAS…

Racism and Mormonism: Fighting from the Edge of the Inside. sites.google.com/view/donnybaum…

OK #EconTwitter, what are your favorite metrics/stats/data science/visualization textbooks with a female and/or URM author? I already know about (and love) the example below.

New CGD note: Is the Global Partnership for Education redundant? (Or is it a more progressive, democratic alternative to the World Bank?) cgdev.org/publication/gl… 1/

Just came across this great summary of online resources for Econ grad students (and frankly for any researcher) by my colleague Shanjun Li: li.dyson.cornell.edu/phdRes.php Covers pre-PhD, mental health, getting started w/ research, coding, writing, presenting, peer review, JM

In the wake of controversies and conversations, I synthesized some practical suggestions for better and more transparent ethics for RCTs in development social science. Short paper: cgdev.org/publication/to… Summary blog post: cgdev.org/blog/practical… [thread]

The same reason I nail down all the rugs in my home - #BigLebowski warned me. “This aggression will not stand, man!”

Great piece! Adding it to my course reading list for next week!

Great upcoming opportunity with the Global Education Monitoring Report UNESCO.

We have a new paper out at Economics of Education Review: "The Challenge of Sustaining Effective Teaching: Spillovers, Fade-out, and the Cost-effectiveness of Teacher Development Programs". Open access link: authors.elsevier.com/a/1eWr6_6CyD-j… A short summary below.