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Andy de Barros
@andydebarros.bsky.social
https://de-barros.com/ program evaluation, education policy, development economics
September 18, 2025 at 3:05 PM
New by Ila Fazzio, Rukmini Banerji, @alexeble.bsky.social, and others, edited by Nishith Prakash:

Support To Rural India’s Public Education System (STRIPES2) and impact on numeracy and literacy scores: A cluster randomized trial in rural villages of Madhya Pradesh, India

doi.org/10.1371/jour...
September 17, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Oxford University
CSAE Conference 2026: Economic Development in Africa

Deadline: September 14

Call for papers:
www.csae.ox.ac.uk/sitefiles/cs...
August 17, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Ah, now I understand why:

jhr.uwpress.org/content/earl...
August 14, 2025 at 12:53 PM
TIL "Originally considered by Allied scientists in World War II, [multi-armed bandits] proved so intractable that (...) the problem was proposed to be dropped over Germany so that German scientists could also waste their time on it."

doi.org/10.1111/j.25...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-a...
August 10, 2025 at 1:55 PM
The World Bank – KDI School
6th Development Impact Conference

Deadline: August 29

www.worldbank.org/en/events/20...
August 6, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Also, I was encouraged by all the coverage of @evavivalt.bsky.social et al's papers:
July 29, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Can you say more? I only know Greg's email footer has had a link to the paper in bold font and caps (since Jan). Paper here: osf.io/preprints/ps...
July 29, 2025 at 1:12 AM
A huge thanks to this group of super smart people in Rabat. Such a joy to be working with you all @j-pal.bsky.social!
June 24, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Roses are red, OLS is BLUE, I'll run regressions anytime with you.
February 14, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Looking forward to this tomorrow (Thursday)! www.idee-education.fr/servicesrech...
April 24, 2024 at 11:25 AM
Another super nice paper that found a great home:

academic.oup.com/ej/advance-a...
March 14, 2024 at 1:49 PM
Nice to see this out in print:

academic.oup.com/ej/advance-a...

Even nicer to have all the data and code publically available!

zenodo.org/records/1049...

Thank you, @profalucas.bsky.social, Annie, Jessica, and everyone who worked on the TCAI team
February 28, 2024 at 6:04 PM