In this Center for Global Development blog we lay our our rationale & approach to answer the question: Will Raising Test Scores in Developing Countries Produce More Health, Wealth, & Happiness Later in Life Eager for feedback/ideas/to be told we're crazy to even try With Jack Rossiter & Justin Sandefur

New data highlights that exams may not be well suited to monitor students' performance. 👨‍💻 We need to prioritize supporting countries to conduct high-quality public exams; write Jack Rossiter + Maimouna Konate 📝: cgdev.org/blog/silence-e…

With an updated, open-access, database now covering primary, lower- and upper-secondary public exams in Africa and South Asia: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…

NEW Center for Global Development report finds that lead poisoning could account for over 20% of the learning gap between children in rich and developing countries. ☣️📚 Explore the research to learn how investing in lead reduction can promote better education outcomes:cgdev.org/blog/can-lead-…

With the recent attention on lead poisoning and its effects on heart disease, aggressive behavior, cognition, and learning (see new CGD research on latter - cgdev.org/blog/can-lead-…), you might be wondering why exposure remains so high in many countries. An introduction: (1/16)

Let’s not forget poverty when we talk about learning poverty. In this Project Syndicate piece, Center for Global Development colleague Biniam Bedasso and I discuss the consequences of drawing artificial barriers between children’s education & their wellbeing #feedallthekids #andkeepthemsafe project-syndicate.org/commentary/sch…

How to build partnerships with African research organisations: Reflections from 4-years of practice by Rita Perakis cgdev.org/blog/future-re…

Our brilliant colleague Rita Perakis is leaving Center for Global Development this week. In her final blog she offers reflections and insights from her four years of building and leading research partnerships with southern research institutions. It's well worth a read cgdev.org/blog/future-re…

“Lead poisoning constitutes a global health crisis that has been 'extraordinarily neglected' by donors and political leaders” Great piece by Jesse Copelyn on the Center for Global Development Lead Working Group final statement theguardian.com/global-develop…

Reminder: join us Monday 9:30am ET for the big reveal Have billions in US aid moved the needle on reading scores? Was it a waste to evaluate the 'same' program model over and over again?

This paper offers a powerful new narrative about globalisation & global poverty since 1980 Bottom line: sure economic openness & trade integration played an important role; but without massive public invt in education, global poverty would never has been reduced nearly as much

Ethiopia’s secondary school leaving exam system has been exposed to have collapsed. Did the political economy of unbridled university expansion play any part in this? Jack Rossiter and I try to take a closer look at that questions in this blog. cgdev.org/blog/pork-barr…

CGD is looking for a new president. Here’s why (I think) you should be applying, which I hope reflects the kind of people (I think) we want. Note CGD doesn’t have institutional positions (see below) –so maybe other people here see/want something different :-).

🚨New Blog: Do the new causal studies on lead & learning line-up with our macro burden estimates based on the older observational literature? Pretty much! cgdev.org/blog/new-data-…

Feeding school kids has always been more about fairness and nation building than raising test scores. My new blog reviewing key moments and milestones in the history of school meals over the past century, marking this year’s international school meals day.cgdev.org/blog/how-schoo…

My first blog with Inter-American Development Bank!

I'm hiring a research manager to run fieldwork for follow-up studies in Guinea Bissau and The Gambia Info on original studies here: x.com/alexeble/statu… Job advert attached; email CV and cover letter to [email protected] and [email protected], hiring asap! cc: Econ RA Listings

Ras Desta wearing the medal stolen by #Fascist #Italia|n soldiers. STOP the #Swiss Auction tomorrow. Embassy of Switzerland in Ethiopia Swiss MFA SwitzerlandUN UN Ethiopia African Union African Union Mission to the UN UNESCO to AU,UNECA,Ethiopia Rita Bissoonauth Tsegab Kebebew @mfaethiopia Cultural Restitution Open Restitution Africa International Council of Museums (ICOM)

Each dot represents 10 people whose lives depend on US foreign aid for HIV prevention & treatment. Without it, 1.6m people could die per year. Charles Kenny & I were pleased to work with Nicholas Kristof and the NYT data viz team to show the stakes of what’s happening at USAID.