Alexis Le Nestour
@alenestour.bsky.social
Researcher in education at Unicef Innocenti. Development economist.
Marseille, France.
Marseille, France.
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❓Why do the Nordics & Dutch speak English so much better than the Germans, Italians & French?
➡️ New Working Paper:
Out-of-School Learning: Subtitling vs. Dubbing and the Acquisition of Foreign-Language Skills
w/ F. Baumeister & E. Hanushek
www.nber.org/papers/w33984
A 🧵 1/12
➡️ New Working Paper:
Out-of-School Learning: Subtitling vs. Dubbing and the Acquisition of Foreign-Language Skills
w/ F. Baumeister & E. Hanushek
www.nber.org/papers/w33984
A 🧵 1/12
July 7, 2025 at 6:33 AM
❓Why do the Nordics & Dutch speak English so much better than the Germans, Italians & French?
➡️ New Working Paper:
Out-of-School Learning: Subtitling vs. Dubbing and the Acquisition of Foreign-Language Skills
w/ F. Baumeister & E. Hanushek
www.nber.org/papers/w33984
A 🧵 1/12
➡️ New Working Paper:
Out-of-School Learning: Subtitling vs. Dubbing and the Acquisition of Foreign-Language Skills
w/ F. Baumeister & E. Hanushek
www.nber.org/papers/w33984
A 🧵 1/12
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New blog: @rglenner.bsky.social & I suggest 4 criteria for donors choosing between multilateral education funds (eg GPE/ECW/IDA/IFFED/UNICEF/UNESCO)
1. Cost-effective interventions
2. Foundational literacy & numeracy
3. Poor countries
4. Financial & policy leverage
www.cgdev.org/blog/four-cr...
1. Cost-effective interventions
2. Foundational literacy & numeracy
3. Poor countries
4. Financial & policy leverage
www.cgdev.org/blog/four-cr...
May 30, 2025 at 3:13 PM
New blog: @rglenner.bsky.social & I suggest 4 criteria for donors choosing between multilateral education funds (eg GPE/ECW/IDA/IFFED/UNICEF/UNESCO)
1. Cost-effective interventions
2. Foundational literacy & numeracy
3. Poor countries
4. Financial & policy leverage
www.cgdev.org/blog/four-cr...
1. Cost-effective interventions
2. Foundational literacy & numeracy
3. Poor countries
4. Financial & policy leverage
www.cgdev.org/blog/four-cr...
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I’m happy to share our latest Data Must Speak report for #BurkinaFaso.
We collaborated with the Ministry of #Education to analyze their admin education data and model the factors influencing school performance.
Main results in a 🧵
@unicefinnocenti.bsky.social
www.unicef.org/innocenti/re...
We collaborated with the Ministry of #Education to analyze their admin education data and model the factors influencing school performance.
Main results in a 🧵
@unicefinnocenti.bsky.social
www.unicef.org/innocenti/re...
Data Must Speak: Burkina Faso
Positive deviance reports and project briefs
www.unicef.org
March 14, 2025 at 5:48 PM
I’m happy to share our latest Data Must Speak report for #BurkinaFaso.
We collaborated with the Ministry of #Education to analyze their admin education data and model the factors influencing school performance.
Main results in a 🧵
@unicefinnocenti.bsky.social
www.unicef.org/innocenti/re...
We collaborated with the Ministry of #Education to analyze their admin education data and model the factors influencing school performance.
Main results in a 🧵
@unicefinnocenti.bsky.social
www.unicef.org/innocenti/re...
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A 10 μg/m3 increase in daily PM2.5 air pollution causes a 5.7 percent increase in full-day student absences, a 13.1 percent increase in teacher absences, and a 28 percent increase in behavior referrals, from Sarah Chung, Claudia Persico, and Jing Liu https://www.nber.org/papers/w33549
March 14, 2025 at 1:00 PM
A 10 μg/m3 increase in daily PM2.5 air pollution causes a 5.7 percent increase in full-day student absences, a 13.1 percent increase in teacher absences, and a 28 percent increase in behavior referrals, from Sarah Chung, Claudia Persico, and Jing Liu https://www.nber.org/papers/w33549
"We might see a fall in ODA, by 2027, of at least 25% relative to 2023 levels. And that’s very much a best-case scenario." ☹️
devpolicy.org/burden-shedd...
devpolicy.org/burden-shedd...
March 14, 2025 at 5:58 PM
"We might see a fall in ODA, by 2027, of at least 25% relative to 2023 levels. And that’s very much a best-case scenario." ☹️
devpolicy.org/burden-shedd...
devpolicy.org/burden-shedd...
I’m happy to share our latest Data Must Speak report for #BurkinaFaso.
We collaborated with the Ministry of #Education to analyze their admin education data and model the factors influencing school performance.
Main results in a 🧵
@unicefinnocenti.bsky.social
www.unicef.org/innocenti/re...
We collaborated with the Ministry of #Education to analyze their admin education data and model the factors influencing school performance.
Main results in a 🧵
@unicefinnocenti.bsky.social
www.unicef.org/innocenti/re...
Data Must Speak: Burkina Faso
Positive deviance reports and project briefs
www.unicef.org
March 14, 2025 at 5:48 PM
I’m happy to share our latest Data Must Speak report for #BurkinaFaso.
We collaborated with the Ministry of #Education to analyze their admin education data and model the factors influencing school performance.
Main results in a 🧵
@unicefinnocenti.bsky.social
www.unicef.org/innocenti/re...
We collaborated with the Ministry of #Education to analyze their admin education data and model the factors influencing school performance.
Main results in a 🧵
@unicefinnocenti.bsky.social
www.unicef.org/innocenti/re...
If VAT is a tariff, si is sales tax....
February 14, 2025 at 12:34 PM
If VAT is a tariff, si is sales tax....
Interesting new paper on unemployment of college graduates in Burundi. Using a field experiment, Ndayikeza shows that college graduates are more likely to find a high-skill job if they have low-skill job experience. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
February 6, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Interesting new paper on unemployment of college graduates in Burundi. Using a field experiment, Ndayikeza shows that college graduates are more likely to find a high-skill job if they have low-skill job experience. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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PEPFAR is *currently providing* lifesaving HIV treatment for 20.6 million people, including 566,000 children, as of Sept. 30, 2024.
That treatment is now in serious jeopardy.
I'm sure people in the administration don't want half a million kids on their conscience.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/u...
That treatment is now in serious jeopardy.
I'm sure people in the administration don't want half a million kids on their conscience.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/u...
Trump Pauses Disbursements to Program Supplying H.I.V. Treatment Worldwide
Pepfar, which is estimated to have delivered lifesaving treatment to as many as 25 million people in 54 countries, faces a funding delay of as long as 180 days.
www.nytimes.com
January 24, 2025 at 10:57 PM
PEPFAR is *currently providing* lifesaving HIV treatment for 20.6 million people, including 566,000 children, as of Sept. 30, 2024.
That treatment is now in serious jeopardy.
I'm sure people in the administration don't want half a million kids on their conscience.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/u...
That treatment is now in serious jeopardy.
I'm sure people in the administration don't want half a million kids on their conscience.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/u...
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New @cgdev.org policy paper:
*MALARIA VACCINES* are a huge scientific breakthrough. But the world is dragging its feet on rolling them out.
We examine why, and how to go faster.
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*MALARIA VACCINES* are a huge scientific breakthrough. But the world is dragging its feet on rolling them out.
We examine why, and how to go faster.
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December 16, 2024 at 11:37 AM
New @cgdev.org policy paper:
*MALARIA VACCINES* are a huge scientific breakthrough. But the world is dragging its feet on rolling them out.
We examine why, and how to go faster.
🧵
*MALARIA VACCINES* are a huge scientific breakthrough. But the world is dragging its feet on rolling them out.
We examine why, and how to go faster.
🧵
Crazy footages of rebels liberating women and children from Assad’s worst prison.
I’m so happy for Syrian people that they’re finally free!
I’m so happy for Syrian people that they’re finally free!
Women and CHILDREN being released from Assad’s Saydnaya prison by the rebels.
ASSAD PUT CHILDREN IN THERE. #Syria
More below
ASSAD PUT CHILDREN IN THERE. #Syria
More below
December 8, 2024 at 9:52 AM
Crazy footages of rebels liberating women and children from Assad’s worst prison.
I’m so happy for Syrian people that they’re finally free!
I’m so happy for Syrian people that they’re finally free!
The fall of the Bastille, 2024.
BREAKING NEWS 😭😭😭
THE DETAINEES OF SAYDNAYA PRISON ARE FREED
THE DETAINEES OF SAYDNAYA PRISON ARE FREED
December 8, 2024 at 8:12 AM
The fall of the Bastille, 2024.
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SAYDNAYA librateddddddddd
Freedom shatters the doors of darkness.
FREE ARMY freed the detainees from Saydnaya Prison.
All my cousins were there. I can't wait to know if they are alive. Ya Allah, I don't know what to write. I can't describe my feelings.
Freedom shatters the doors of darkness.
FREE ARMY freed the detainees from Saydnaya Prison.
All my cousins were there. I can't wait to know if they are alive. Ya Allah, I don't know what to write. I can't describe my feelings.
December 8, 2024 at 1:37 AM
SAYDNAYA librateddddddddd
Freedom shatters the doors of darkness.
FREE ARMY freed the detainees from Saydnaya Prison.
All my cousins were there. I can't wait to know if they are alive. Ya Allah, I don't know what to write. I can't describe my feelings.
Freedom shatters the doors of darkness.
FREE ARMY freed the detainees from Saydnaya Prison.
All my cousins were there. I can't wait to know if they are alive. Ya Allah, I don't know what to write. I can't describe my feelings.
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I’m not a Syrian refugee anymore. I’m Syrian. Just Syrian.
December 8, 2024 at 4:18 AM
I’m not a Syrian refugee anymore. I’m Syrian. Just Syrian.
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It’s actually happening. The Assad regime is going to fall.
December 8, 2024 at 12:10 AM
It’s actually happening. The Assad regime is going to fall.
As expected, French government has fallen. Barnier is the first PM to be voted out since 1962. Despite all his efforts to please the extreme-right, Le Pen let him down.
France still has no budget for 2025…
France still has no budget for 2025…
December 4, 2024 at 7:53 PM
As expected, French government has fallen. Barnier is the first PM to be voted out since 1962. Despite all his efforts to please the extreme-right, Le Pen let him down.
France still has no budget for 2025…
France still has no budget for 2025…
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November 29, 2024 at 12:29 AM
Notre-Dame de Paris reopens 5 years after the fire.
November 29, 2024 at 9:47 AM
Notre-Dame de Paris reopens 5 years after the fire.
Macron has supported the Chadian dictatorship for years to avoid losing this military base. France said nothing last year when Chadian security forces killed the leader of the opposition (Yaya Dillo). And now we’re kicked out anyway…
November 29, 2024 at 8:39 AM
Macron has supported the Chadian dictatorship for years to avoid losing this military base. France said nothing last year when Chadian security forces killed the leader of the opposition (Yaya Dillo). And now we’re kicked out anyway…
The algorithms of Bluesky's official feeds should be public and there should be a plain English explanation of what they do.
November 28, 2024 at 2:26 PM
The algorithms of Bluesky's official feeds should be public and there should be a plain English explanation of what they do.
Super interesting podcast by @draliceevans.bsky.social who interviews @aspaglayan.bsky.social on her last book "Raised to obey" about the mass expansion of primary education in the world. 1/7
open.spotify.com/episode/1BsZ...
open.spotify.com/episode/1BsZ...
"Raised to Obey": Agustina Paglayan
ROCKING OUR PRIORS · Episode
open.spotify.com
November 20, 2024 at 11:36 AM
Super interesting podcast by @draliceevans.bsky.social who interviews @aspaglayan.bsky.social on her last book "Raised to obey" about the mass expansion of primary education in the world. 1/7
open.spotify.com/episode/1BsZ...
open.spotify.com/episode/1BsZ...
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Does educational expansion promote social mobility? In my latest study on 40 countries, that just came out in the American Sociological Review, it looks like it does. Integrating decomposition techniques with a comparative framework, 1/n
November 19, 2024 at 10:24 AM
Does educational expansion promote social mobility? In my latest study on 40 countries, that just came out in the American Sociological Review, it looks like it does. Integrating decomposition techniques with a comparative framework, 1/n
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The gaps in college completion by race and gender in the US are extraordinarily large.
77% of Asian women between 25 and 34 have a BA. (I.e. they've not just done "some college", but completed a degree.)
Incredible figure.
www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
77% of Asian women between 25 and 34 have a BA. (I.e. they've not just done "some college", but completed a degree.)
Incredible figure.
www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
November 18, 2024 at 10:24 PM
The gaps in college completion by race and gender in the US are extraordinarily large.
77% of Asian women between 25 and 34 have a BA. (I.e. they've not just done "some college", but completed a degree.)
Incredible figure.
www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
77% of Asian women between 25 and 34 have a BA. (I.e. they've not just done "some college", but completed a degree.)
Incredible figure.
www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
Blue sky over Marseille.
November 17, 2024 at 1:57 PM
Blue sky over Marseille.
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Thrilled to (finally) share my working paper on the electoral impact of French repatriates from Algeria. The Algerian War and the repatriation of over 1 million French Algerians (pieds-noirs) remain a sensitive and essential chapter for understanding French politics. shorturl.at/hh9Ro
November 1, 2024 at 8:05 AM
Thrilled to (finally) share my working paper on the electoral impact of French repatriates from Algeria. The Algerian War and the repatriation of over 1 million French Algerians (pieds-noirs) remain a sensitive and essential chapter for understanding French politics. shorturl.at/hh9Ro