📣 Our paper is now out in Nature Human Behaviour! (@NatureHumBehav) ➡️ "Experimental evidence on learning using low-tech when school is out"
RCT evidence on distance education during covid-19 w/ implications for education systems far beyond
👉 nature.com/articles/s4156…
🧵thread ➡️ 1.4 billion children were pushed out of school during covid-19
➡️ School disruption happens in many other settings, such as weather shocks, natural disasters, the summer slide etc.
➡️ A key policy & research Q is how to mitigate learning loss when school is out / disrupted.

📣Excited to share our paper is now *published* in @Nature "Measuring human capital using global learning data" w/ Djankov @PennyG_Yale @hpatrinos

nature.com/articles/s4158…

We present learning data in 164 countries from 2000-2017 + explore key Qs in the human capital literature👇 The Harmonized Learning Outcomes (HLO) data is a public good, publicly available, and will be regularly updated on the @WorldBank data catalog:
datacatalog.worldbank.org/dataset/harmon…

📣Public good alert: *new paper* now published w/ co-authors in @NatureHumBehav: "A global panel database of pandemic policies (Oxford COVID-19 Government Response Tracker)."

➡️ Daily data on 180+ countries + subnational jurisdictions in 19 policy areas.
nature.com/articles/s4156… This data has already been cited in over academic 1,000 studies and counting, used by @FinancialTimes @TheEconomist @OurWorldInData @MaxCRoser and more, enabling governments to track real-time policy responses. It's publicly available and updated regularly! Keep using it 🙌