Claire Cullen
ccullen.bsky.social
Claire Cullen
@ccullen.bsky.social
Head of Research and Innovation @youthimpactorg.bsky.social. Ex. @oxfordcsae.bsky.social, @blavatnikschool.bsky.social, World Bank & DFAT 🇦🇺. Evidence & Impact.

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Tutoring school children is effective, but hard to scale. Researchers @noamangrist.bsky.social, @ccullen.bsky.social, & @janicalapati.bsky.social used a novel A/B testing approach to enhance cost-effectiveness and scalability of a program in Botswana. 🔗 Read the new paper: https://bit.ly/3WYniJn
Cheaper (and more effective) by the dozen: Evidence from 12 randomised A/B tests optimising tutoring for scale - What Works Hub for Global Education
This paper presents iterative randomised A/B tests of a mobile phone numeracy tutoring programme to optimise efficiency and scalability.
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October 31, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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I'd love to help make BlueSky one of the places where young scholars introduce themselves and their work to the world.

If you're a PhD student whose work at least partially focuses on economics of education or education policy, reply to this thread and I'll highlight your work.
October 30, 2025 at 1:23 PM
🚨So happy this is out in the world!
Our paper on 12 A/B tests finds that quick, iterative experimentation produced large cost-effectiveness gains in an education program.
Encouraging evidence for faster, rigorous learning in the social sector.
‪@noamangrist.bsky.social's summary🧵👇
October 21, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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🆕 New working paper out now!

Cheaper (and more effective) by the dozen: Evidence from 12 randomised A/B tests optimising tutoring for scale, by @noamangrist.bsky.social, @ccullen.bsky.social & @janicalapati.bsky.social. @youthimpactorg.bsky.social

📍 Read more: www.wwhge.org/resources/ch...
Cheaper (and more effective) by the dozen: Evidence from 12 randomised A/B tests optimising tutoring for scale - What Works Hub for Global Education
This paper presents iterative randomised A/B tests of a mobile phone numeracy tutoring programme to optimise efficiency and scalability.
www.wwhge.org
October 20, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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🚨 We are hiring! ‼️‼️

tenured track assistant or associate prof in economics at university of Melbourne @unimelb.bsky.social

welcome applications from all fields (but especially from econometrics)

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October 16, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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Wanted to do an #econtwitter #econsky 🧵about some of the amazing gender-related work (note - not exhaustive!) presented this week at CSAE - was not there, but had a fascinating time browsing the program. (Link below)
March 26, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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📣 Join our team in South Africa as a Research Manager! Support cutting-edge research on a set of scaling evidence-based programs in collaboration w/ the Department of Basic Education @youthimpactorg.bsky.social @j-pal.bsky.social Lego Zenex + more
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Research Manager | Youth Impact
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February 24, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Grateful for @kbeegle.bsky.social 's thoughtful deep dive on our new paper & a related study—we find that a couples training program in Rwanda, meant to reduce IPV, unexpectedly increased it, raising important questions on backlash & spillovers.
Paper 🔗: openknowledge.worldbank.org/entities/pub...
February 7, 2025 at 8:50 PM
💡We’re hiring a Data Scientist! Youth Impact is expanding our team to build program & data systems for scale—starting with an exciting Government of Karnataka partnership to scale evidence-based education programs. 🚀
youth-impact.org/join-our-tea...
February 6, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Thrilled the @unjournal.bsky.social reviewed our paper- a fantastic initiative to make rigorous research more impactful and transparent!
December 2, 2024 at 8:04 PM
🚨 Our new working paper is out👇 We explore male backlash against female empowerment and how policies can help mitigate it. Grateful to collaborate with @sarthakjoshi.bsky.social (who's on the job market!), Joe Vecci, and Julia Talbot-Jones. 🔗 docs.iza.org/dp17450.pdf
November 29, 2024 at 7:54 PM