David Evans
@daveevansphd.bsky.social
Economist at the Center for Global Development. Formerly: Inter-American Development Bank, World Bank, RAND Corporation, & my local movie theater. I mostly share about international development research plus books and movies. Views mine, not my employer's.
With The Running Man movie coming out, I recommend the low-budget, indie take with a related premise I saw the other night: Self Reliance. www.imdb.com/title/tt2608... Great fun, great cast: Jake Johnson, Andy Samberg, Anna Kendrick, Natalie Morales...
November 11, 2025 at 3:50 AM
With The Running Man movie coming out, I recommend the low-budget, indie take with a related premise I saw the other night: Self Reliance. www.imdb.com/title/tt2608... Great fun, great cast: Jake Johnson, Andy Samberg, Anna Kendrick, Natalie Morales...
Corrected proofs submitted!
(The up-to-date working paper version is available now www.cgdev.org/publication/...)
(The up-to-date working paper version is available now www.cgdev.org/publication/...)
November 10, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Corrected proofs submitted!
(The up-to-date working paper version is available now www.cgdev.org/publication/...)
(The up-to-date working paper version is available now www.cgdev.org/publication/...)
What drove poverty changes in Latin America & the Caribbean over the last decade?
documents1.worldbank.org/curated/en/0...
Employment and earnings growth: 37 percent
Public transfers: 23 percent
(Data from 13 countries)
documents1.worldbank.org/curated/en/0...
Employment and earnings growth: 37 percent
Public transfers: 23 percent
(Data from 13 countries)
November 10, 2025 at 11:23 AM
What drove poverty changes in Latin America & the Caribbean over the last decade?
documents1.worldbank.org/curated/en/0...
Employment and earnings growth: 37 percent
Public transfers: 23 percent
(Data from 13 countries)
documents1.worldbank.org/curated/en/0...
Employment and earnings growth: 37 percent
Public transfers: 23 percent
(Data from 13 countries)
Getting implementation right: 12 experiments to refine tutoring at scale www.wwhge.org/wp-content/u... Evidence from Botswana by @noamangrist.bsky.social, Cullen, & Magat
November 6, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Getting implementation right: 12 experiments to refine tutoring at scale www.wwhge.org/wp-content/u... Evidence from Botswana by @noamangrist.bsky.social, Cullen, & Magat
To put that in the context of some other professional development studies in low- and middle-income country environments, check out our review. academic.oup.com/wbro/article...
November 6, 2025 at 12:21 PM
To put that in the context of some other professional development studies in low- and middle-income country environments, check out our review. academic.oup.com/wbro/article...
"The intervention raised the pass rate in the national exam that determines progression from elementary to secondary school from 51% to 75%." drive.google.com/file/d/1aclW... Big substantive and persistent effects from a teacher professional development intervention in Uganda.
November 6, 2025 at 12:21 PM
"The intervention raised the pass rate in the national exam that determines progression from elementary to secondary school from 51% to 75%." drive.google.com/file/d/1aclW... Big substantive and persistent effects from a teacher professional development intervention in Uganda.
I love the captcha that Letterboxd gives before you post a review of Bugonia.
November 1, 2025 at 1:58 PM
I love the captcha that Letterboxd gives before you post a review of Bugonia.
This collection of studies on inequality in Latin American and the Caribbean, now in a special issue of Oxford Open Economics, is excellent!
lacir.lse.ac.uk/en-gb/the-vo...
lacir.lse.ac.uk/en-gb/the-vo...
October 31, 2025 at 12:13 PM
This collection of studies on inequality in Latin American and the Caribbean, now in a special issue of Oxford Open Economics, is excellent!
lacir.lse.ac.uk/en-gb/the-vo...
lacir.lse.ac.uk/en-gb/the-vo...
Deployment of health workers, rather than shortages, may be among the principal challenges. academic.oup.com/heapol/artic...
October 29, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Deployment of health workers, rather than shortages, may be among the principal challenges. academic.oup.com/heapol/artic...
Finding E: The non-poor are five times more likely to be in formal employment than the extreme poor and twice as likely as the moderate poor.
October 28, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Finding E: The non-poor are five times more likely to be in formal employment than the extreme poor and twice as likely as the moderate poor.
Finding D: The poor are much less likely to have a computer but not much less likely to have a mobile phone. (This has implications for how you deliver information!)
October 28, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Finding D: The poor are much less likely to have a computer but not much less likely to have a mobile phone. (This has implications for how you deliver information!)
Finding C: Poverty has dropped by roughly half since 2003, with almost all of that improvement in the first ten years.
October 28, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Finding C: Poverty has dropped by roughly half since 2003, with almost all of that improvement in the first ten years.
Finding B: On average, 88 percent of households in extreme poverty were also chronically poor.
October 28, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Finding B: On average, 88 percent of households in extreme poverty were also chronically poor.
Finding A: Afro-descendants, Indigenous people, and children are all between 11 and 15 percentage points more likely to be poor than the overall population.
October 28, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Finding A: Afro-descendants, Indigenous people, and children are all between 11 and 15 percentage points more likely to be poor than the overall population.
"Ten Findings about Poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean" www.cgdev.org/publication/... Forthcoming in *Economía* and now available as a @cgdev.org working paper, by Chang, @Caro_Curasuui, and me.
I'll give away five of the findings below.
I'll give away five of the findings below.
October 28, 2025 at 6:33 PM
"Ten Findings about Poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean" www.cgdev.org/publication/... Forthcoming in *Economía* and now available as a @cgdev.org working paper, by Chang, @Caro_Curasuui, and me.
I'll give away five of the findings below.
I'll give away five of the findings below.
Nuance to the benefits of teacher coaching: particularly good for novice teachers (unsurprisingly) and for students who are girls academic.oup.com/wber/article...
October 28, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Nuance to the benefits of teacher coaching: particularly good for novice teachers (unsurprisingly) and for students who are girls academic.oup.com/wber/article...
How much of the gap between household incomes and the poverty line do cash transfers close? On average across 17 Latin American and Caribbean countries, just one third. publications.iadb.org/en/cash-tran...
October 27, 2025 at 4:22 PM
How much of the gap between household incomes and the poverty line do cash transfers close? On average across 17 Latin American and Caribbean countries, just one third. publications.iadb.org/en/cash-tran...
Today I jogged a few miles, which marks day #2,000 of running at least one mile every single day.
To celebrate the personal landmark, I wrote about my experience. sites.google.com/site/davidke...
To celebrate the personal landmark, I wrote about my experience. sites.google.com/site/davidke...
October 26, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Today I jogged a few miles, which marks day #2,000 of running at least one mile every single day.
To celebrate the personal landmark, I wrote about my experience. sites.google.com/site/davidke...
To celebrate the personal landmark, I wrote about my experience. sites.google.com/site/davidke...
Not every horror movie with a solid premise sticks the landing. But Sleep had a satisfyingly bonkers third act and ending. www.rottentomatoes.com/m/sleep_2023
October 25, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Not every horror movie with a solid premise sticks the landing. But Sleep had a satisfyingly bonkers third act and ending. www.rottentomatoes.com/m/sleep_2023
As the world seeks to integrate AI into teacher professional development, let's not forget lessons from previous ed-tech experiments. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Teachers used the tablets (for virtual coaching) less and less over time.
by @jacobuscilliers.bsky.social et al
by @jacobuscilliers.bsky.social et al
October 24, 2025 at 12:28 AM
As the world seeks to integrate AI into teacher professional development, let's not forget lessons from previous ed-tech experiments. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Teachers used the tablets (for virtual coaching) less and less over time.
by @jacobuscilliers.bsky.social et al
by @jacobuscilliers.bsky.social et al
Thank you! It looks like they are by invitation only. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...
October 23, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Thank you! It looks like they are by invitation only. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...
An economist reached out and asked where they might publish a review they'd written.
Here's my (certainly incomplete) list of 30+ journals where economists publish reviews. bit.ly/3QfaE6m
(Additions welcome with a specific review example!)
Here's my (certainly incomplete) list of 30+ journals where economists publish reviews. bit.ly/3QfaE6m
(Additions welcome with a specific review example!)
October 23, 2025 at 7:50 PM
An economist reached out and asked where they might publish a review they'd written.
Here's my (certainly incomplete) list of 30+ journals where economists publish reviews. bit.ly/3QfaE6m
(Additions welcome with a specific review example!)
Here's my (certainly incomplete) list of 30+ journals where economists publish reviews. bit.ly/3QfaE6m
(Additions welcome with a specific review example!)
"How to avoid past edtech pitfalls as we begin using AI to scale impact in education" www.brookings.edu/articles/how... by Olsen & Curtiss Wyss @brookings.edu
October 23, 2025 at 7:13 PM
"How to avoid past edtech pitfalls as we begin using AI to scale impact in education" www.brookings.edu/articles/how... by Olsen & Curtiss Wyss @brookings.edu
"Between 2000 and 2023, the number of low-income countries worldwide ... declined from 63 to 26." But current growth rates suggest "as few as three additional graduations by 2035 & three more in the 15 years 2035 to 2050." www.cgdev.org/publication/... @charlesjkenny.bsky.social's call to action!
October 22, 2025 at 3:00 PM
"Between 2000 and 2023, the number of low-income countries worldwide ... declined from 63 to 26." But current growth rates suggest "as few as three additional graduations by 2035 & three more in the 15 years 2035 to 2050." www.cgdev.org/publication/... @charlesjkenny.bsky.social's call to action!
It takes big changes in teacher practice to result in modest gains in student learning.
With teacher coaching studies, the size of the impact on teacher practice was 2.5 times the impact on student learning.
www.educationnext.org/taking-teach... by @matthewakraft.com & Blazar
With teacher coaching studies, the size of the impact on teacher practice was 2.5 times the impact on student learning.
www.educationnext.org/taking-teach... by @matthewakraft.com & Blazar
October 22, 2025 at 12:11 AM
It takes big changes in teacher practice to result in modest gains in student learning.
With teacher coaching studies, the size of the impact on teacher practice was 2.5 times the impact on student learning.
www.educationnext.org/taking-teach... by @matthewakraft.com & Blazar
With teacher coaching studies, the size of the impact on teacher practice was 2.5 times the impact on student learning.
www.educationnext.org/taking-teach... by @matthewakraft.com & Blazar