Full house for the third #SPANDE workshop start!! Thanks @mariahdb.bsky.social and Jorge Garcia Hombrados for organising and @fundacionareces.bsky.social for supporting!! See program below 👇🏾

Since childhood, I always loved the thrill of starting a new notebook 🤓

Today especially excited to start this new one featuring Ghanaian writers that we designed to thank the 2,400 kids participating in our @erc.europa.eu LEAD study! cordis.europa.eu/project/id/1...
@poverty-action.bsky.social

What happens when countries do NOT invest in #EarlyChildhood 🐣?

New paper modeling COSTS OF INACTION:
-NOT preventing #malnutrition in countries with high stunting costs 2.8% GDP
-NOT running universal #pre-school across Sub-Saharan Africa costs 1.6%GDP

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Apply to this year’s #SPANDE #development economics workshop by June 15! Great, fun and supportive community - this year we are partnering with @fundacionareces.bsky.social which is kindly hosting us in Madrid!! #econsky

Looking forward to tomorrow’s panel with @leecrawfurd.bsky.social on the role of #EdTech in supporting child learning during crises (including funding cuts!).

Thanks #EdTechHub for inviting - here’s registration link: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Hot off the press!! 🎉

A new method to include both productivity and equity gains from programs that affect multiple outcomes (eg poverty, skills, etc). Given this multiplicity, it is hard to evaluate the overall welfare effects from such programs (1)

www.sciencedirect.com/science/auth...

Come work with me, @wolfssharon.bsky.social @nsuntheimer.bsky.social & an interdisciplinary team in Barcelona, Ghana, & the US!
Looking for a #postdoc @ubeconomics.bsky.social for our @ercresearch.bsky.social project on how investments in the early and the adolescent years support children