💸How Cost-Effective Is Global Health Aid? 📣Please check out our new paper! Center for Global Development Brian Webster Dr. Karen Grépin et al cgdev.org/blog/how-cost-… cgdev.org/publication/co…

Lessons in Inequality: Gender Bias in Indian Textbooks and its Link to Societal Attitudes Towards Women thewire.in/education/less…

"22 years from NBER paper to Presidential campaign is a great accomplishment" marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolu…

Slim odds apparently on either of my sons becoming economists some day (probably still slightly better odds than either making it as a professional footballer) crookedtimber.org/2024/09/01/aca…

Many of us can save a child’s life, if we rely on the best data. I think this is one of the most important facts about our world, and the topic of my new Our World in Data article: ourworldindata.org/many-us-can-sa…

Striking cross-country correlation between learning achievement & the share of children having to learn in a second language norrag.org/learning-pover…

Brown was mocked for his post-neoclassical endogenous growth theory, but at least he had a theory. Does Reeves, or is growth just going to be a christmas tree for everyone to hang their baubles on?

Well this is annoying

I hope Simon Shercliff UK in Iran 🇬🇧🇮🇷 Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office are also sharing pro-LGBT+ messages

Love this paper - 61% of health aid project descriptions mention at least one of the list of highly cost-effective interventions. Is that glass half-full or half-empty?

The big challenge I think for pro-immigration advocates (of which I am one) is housing & infrastructure rather than integration. We can & should build a lot more than we do, but the NIMBY anti-building constituency is strong.

The world is not “going to shit.” We live in the best time in human history by most measures.

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There was a huge reduction in deaths from South African's alcohol sales ban. I wouldn't support a ban but there's a very clear case here for higher taxes (and plausibly for more regulation by the UK gov of foreign lobbying & advertising by UK-based firms?)

How is Macklemore showing more leadership on Sudan than the British government?

#शिक्षकदिवस भारत में स्कूली पाठ्य पुस्तकों में व्याप्त लैंगिक पूर्वाग्रह का विश्लेषण- ली क्रॉफर्ड Lee Crawfurd, थियोडोर मिशेल Theo Mitchell, राधिका नागेश Radhika Nagesh, क्रिस्टेल सेंटिस-मिलर, रोरी टॉड Rory Todd (Center for Global Development ) पूरा आलेख यहाँ पढ़ें : ideasforindia.in/topics/social-…

Great to see swift action on House of Lords reform Nick Thomas-Symonds. Hope there will also be swift action on the manifesto commitment to lower the voting age to 16

5.5 million people worldwide die prematurely from cardiovascular disease related to lead exposure every year blogs.worldbank.org/en/voices/part…

Our partner, Lead Exposure Elimination Project, uses a straightforward, affordable playbook to save lives and get lead out of consumer goods and USAID is helping them scale it ⬇️

In 2015, it was estimated that if Wandsworth Prison was sold off for development, it would create space for almost 1,000 homes worth a combined £386m. Why do we dedicate valuable land in the capital to dilapidated Victorian prisons?