@stephbonds

Economist @RANDCorporation & Professor @RANDschooledu. Previously @CGDev & PhD @berkeleyecon. Research on education and health in low-income settings.

 Los Angeles, CA
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Joined July 2013
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Amazing week in Ghana presenting at the Ministry of Education’s National Education Week (w/@kanandubal) on the importance of in-person refresher trainings for the implementation of Differentiated Learning - joint work with @ProfALucas, @AnneFitz13, @sabrinbeg, & @poverty_action!
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In Ghana, Differentiated Learning improves students’ basic English & math skills. At scale, refresher training for teachers to implement it in classrooms is needed but costly. An IPA study found that in-person training remains vital for program fidelity: bit.ly/DLrefresh
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Food > money? Most Ghanaian parents prefer school meals to the equivalent sum in cash. Fear of food price inflation appears to be a factor.
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Differentiated learning holds so much promise for improving learning around the world. See link below for research on this method (me, with @ProfALucas @sabrinbeg and follow up work with @stephbonds )
Innovations for Poverty Action
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Check out our dedicated Differentiated Learning webpage for all of our research on Differentiated Learning in Ghana: bit.ly/ipadlgh @sabrinbeg @duflo_annie @AnneFitz13 #JessicaKiesel @ProfALucas

Differentiated Learning | IPA

BackgroundAlthough primary school enrollment rates have increased across sub-Saharan Africa, millions of students have fallen behind in learning, struggling to keep up as teachers progress to more...

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An IPA Ghana study with @moeghofficial @UNICEF & researchers @sabrinbeg @AnneFitz13 @ProfALucas show that improved monitoring & support by school principals & supervisors boosted student learning level, teaching & test scores by one-third of a school year. bit.ly/ghdi1821
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Jessica Leight@leightjessica15 Jul 2024
Today's cool young researcher #EconTwitter is @MariaDieci @EmoryRollins who works on topics related to child development, family planning + malaria in LMICs mariadieci.com/
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Had an amazing time at #AES2024 in Tanzania discussing research and catching up with so many friends and colleagues from around the world! Thank you @CEGA_UC!
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Had a wonderful time presenting my research @poverty_action Ghana today! 🙏🏻 Bonus to talk with our field managers who have been with us on our RCTs (with @ProfALucas and @sabrinbeg ) since 2018! 🥰 and who are helping us do new work with @stephbonds 🥳
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My JMP blogpost just got published on the Center for Effective Global Action (@CEGA_UC) blog :medium.com/@cega_uc/short-me… Full paper on my website (ziamehmood.com)

Short Messages Fall Short for Micro-Entrepreneurs: Experimental Evidence from Kenya

Muhammad Zia Mehmood studies how business trainings provided over text messages can impact outcomes for micro-entrepreneurs in Kenya.

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Maria Dieci@MariaDieci12 Mar 2024
Consider applying to be a mentor - this is a fantastic program & it's a treat to work with such driven and energetic early career researchers!
Graduate Applications International Network (GAIN)@GAIN_Network_11 Mar 2024
Registrations to become a GAIN mentor are now open! GAIN mentors are assigned to help guide a mentee one-on-one through the entire graduate application cycle in economics or related fields. ➡️ Register here: bit.ly/GAINMentors 🗓️ Deadline: April 21st Please share widely!
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Really interesting work by @mzmehmood that looks at the demand for and effectiveness of SMS-based business trainings via a RCT with Kenyan micro-entrepreneurs.
Muhammad Zia Mehmood@mzmehmood8 Feb 2024
Many thanks to @econthatmatters for featuring my JMP blogpost! I study the demand for and potential of SMS-based business trainings for improving outcomes for micro-entrepreneurs in low income settings. Full paper on my website for those interested: ziamehmood.com/

Muhammad Zia Mehmood

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Many thanks to @econthatmatters for featuring my JMP blogpost! I study the demand for and potential of SMS-based business trainings for improving outcomes for micro-entrepreneurs in low income settings. Full paper on my website for those interested: ziamehmood.com/

Muhammad Zia Mehmood

ziamehmood.com
Econ That Matters@econthatmatters8 Feb 2024
Do SMS-based trainings improve outcomes for micro-entrepreneurs? Find out by reading our latest post by @mzmehmood! econthatmatters.com/2024/02/…

Short Messages Fall Short for Micro-Entrepreneurs: Experimental Evidence from Kenya

Muhammad Zia Mehmood is a PhD Job Market Candidate at UC Berkeley in the Business and Public Policy group at the Haas School of Business. Click here for Muhammad’s job market paper elevator pitch. …

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Adina Rom 🟣@AdinaRom21 Jan 2024
Fantastic mentoring program for African students interested in graduate school in social sciences! Apply now!
Graduate Applications International Network (GAIN)@GAIN_Network_17 Jan 2024
Applications are open for the 2024 GAIN program! Information sharing, mentoring, and financial support for African students interested in graduate school in economics and related fields. ➡️ Apply here: gain-network.net/participant… 🗓️ Deadline: March 11th Please share widely!
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VoxDev@vox_dev28 Dec 2023
Deworming improves lives across generations. Last month on VoxDev, @tedmiguel @berkeleyecon, Eric Ochieng @poverty_action & Michael Walker @CEGA_UC outlined takeaways from data tracking children in Kenya since receiving deworming treatment ~20 years ago: voxdev.org/topic/health/dewo…
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David Evans@DaveEvansPhD7 Dec 2023
Here's my regular reminder that @AnnaPopovas & I studied cash transfers in many countries, & people don't use the money for alcohol/tobacco. journals.uchicago.edu/doi/ab… Banerjee & others studied a bunch of cash programs & found they don't discourage work. economics.mit.edu/sites/defa…

Cash Transfers and Temptation Goods | Economic Development and Cultural Change: Vol 65, No 2

AbstractCash transfers have been demonstrated to improve education and health outcomes and alleviate poverty in various contexts. However, policy makers and others often express concern that poor...

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Charles Kenny@charlesjkenny6 Dec 2023
It’s does annoy me that (approx) 43 billion studies & experiments that demonstrate giving poor people cash does not lead them to become useless wastrels but instead is spent making their lives better often via investments has had ~0 impact on global attitudes towards safety nets.
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Lelys Dinarte-Diaz@ile_din21 Nov 2023
How can sharing stigmatized mental health information be more effective? Today's blog post by @emma_c_smith2 shows (with 2 RCTs!) that, in the context of refugees, providing a "social cover" works & that community can help making targeting more effective blogs.worldbank.org/impactev…

Having a good excuse: Incentives’ visibility increases the sharing of stigmatized mental health...

Visibility increases the sharing of mental health information among refugees.

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Susannah Hares@susannahhares14 Nov 2023
We're going to miss @DaveEvansPhD at @CGDev more than I can say. And, given how much his many fans love his research round-ups, we couldn't think of a more fitting send off than this final Round-up, the Dave Evans edition 100+ blog posts. 500k views. cgdev.org/blog/top-hits-roun…

Top Hits: A Round-Up of Dave Evans’ 100+ Blogs at CGD

After four and a half years at CGD, our senior fellow Dave Evans is embarking on a new and exciting adventure a few blocks away with our friends at the Inter-American Development Bank. But we...

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David Evans@DaveEvansPhD14 Nov 2023
Today is my last day at @CGDev! It’s been an amazing 4+ years. I don’t know of a more concentrated collection of skilled, creative, passionate researchers seeking answers to policy questions big & small. Thank you to @CGDev! (More on what comes next for me in a couple days.) 🧵
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Harvard CID@HarvardCID5 Nov 2023
#NEUDC2023 session Early Childhood Education examined design and behavioral responses by schools, interventions for teacher effort, and promoting parent-child reading as methods to improve outcomes, chaired by @michelacarlana. 🖇️Read the papers: bit.ly/3StyX26
Presenters at NEUDC 2023

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Emma Smith@emma_c_smith27 Nov 2023
Honored to receive the Weiss NEUDC Distinguished Paper award for my JMP at #NEUDC2023 @HarvardCID @Kennedy_School! Was also a great opportunity to meet and hear about the work of the 4 other amazing awardees (Mattia Fracchia, Miguel Ortiz, Trinh Pham, Duncan Webb)
Harvard CID@HarvardCID6 Nov 2023
At the #NEUDC2023 Social Hour, Andrew Weiss and Kara Weiss honored Job Market Students for Research in Development Economics. Congratulations to Duncan Webb, Emma Smith, Trinh Pham, Mattia Fracchia, and Miguel Ortiz 🎉
weiss award winners at neudc 2023

ALT weiss award winners at neudc 2023

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