mark-p-walsh.bsky.social
@mark-p-walsh.bsky.social
Senior Research Associate at GiveWell; Econ PhD from Stanford
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Can providing free education to one generation benefit future ones as well?

From Esther Duflo (MIT), Pascaline Dupas (@princetonecon.bsky.social), Elizabeth Spelke (Harvard) & Mark Walsh (GiveWell):

youtu.be/Ta7vQqkkNxw
December 9, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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Point-of-care diagnosis of TB in 1 hour without need for sputum for $3 that can be performed anywhere (such a test does not exist); work supported by NIH
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
April 11, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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An introduction to laboratory experiments, with views on g-hacking, pilots, and the econometrics of design, as well as some advanced tools for experimenters, from Muriel Niederle https://www.nber.org/papers/w33630
April 6, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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🆕 Subsidising secondary education has huge benefits

Today on VoxDev, Esther Duflo (MIT), Pascaline Dupas (Princeton University), Michael Kremer (University of Chicago), Elizabeth Spelke (Harvard University) & Mark Walsh (GiveWell) outline their research on Ghana: voxdev.org/topic/educat...
Subsidising secondary education has huge benefits, for this generation and the next
As countries in Sub-Saharan Africa debate the costs and benefits of subsidising secondary education, a 15-year RCT in Ghana finds large multi-generation impacts.
voxdev.org
February 17, 2025 at 9:13 AM