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This paper is laying the foundation for I believe will lead to profound changes in education financing in 10 years time—ultimately helping to prioritize limited education resources to where they can do the most good.
below https://twitter.com/angrist_noam/status/1319248311145082880
below https://twitter.com/angrist_noam/status/1319248311145082880
1st: Education operates in a world of extremely constrained resources. Aid for education is a fraction of aid for health; no large intl donors like in health
This leaves poor countries left further behind. It makes prioritizing limited $ even *more* important
This leaves poor countries left further behind. It makes prioritizing limited $ even *more* important
The paper reviews 150 interventions to understand which programs do the most good per dollar. It's possible thanks to previous work building LAYS--the "exchange rate" to translate ed outcomes across different countries. https://twitter.com/rglenner/status/1319323689054330880
What's remarkable about the results of this paper is how large some of these differences are. Structured pedagogy (Tusome) did MUCH more good per dollar than buying inputs (uniforms). It can be hard to see just how big these differences are!
To put it another way: you'd need $100 of buying inputs (uniforms) to get the same learning outcomes as just $1 of structured pedagogy (Tusome) or $0.10 to tracking students (like @TaRL_Africa) in Kenya
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Differences in cost/eff are so large, that even reasonable differences in costs, effectiveness, or methodology means that some interventions just plainly do *MUCH more* good for each pound, peso or penny.
This goes well beyond just supporting "what works".
There are HUGE benefits to doing less of what we know has low cost-effectiveness & doing more of what we know has GREAT cost-effectiveness—even if we're slightly uncertain about precise cost/eff depending on context
There are HUGE benefits to doing less of what we know has low cost-effectiveness & doing more of what we know has GREAT cost-effectiveness—even if we're slightly uncertain about precise cost/eff depending on context
To do this well, we need a whole infrastructure working toward this common goal of prioritizing limited resources to where they can do the most good.
Education is about where health was 20 years ago. The development of DALYs (similar to LAYS) unleashed a wave of work that has translated into countries being able to spend their limited health budgets more effectively.
LAYS is going to help us better understand where the burden of learning deficits are greatest and how they change over time.
In health, there's @IHME_UW's Global Burden of Disease estimates published annually.
In health, there's @IHME_UW's Global Burden of Disease estimates published annually.
It's also going to help us target limited educational $ to where it can do the most good
In health, there's a whole set of priority-setting institutions, like UK's NICE, @idsihealth @decide_health @HTAiOrg, etc helping countries spend limited health resources more effectively
In health, there's a whole set of priority-setting institutions, like UK's NICE, @idsihealth @decide_health @HTAiOrg, etc helping countries spend limited health resources more effectively
Like in health, these estimates from the global evidence base can be a *starting* point (not an endpoint!
) for decisionmakers to be making trade-offs based on locally relevant data & evidence. https://twitter.com/MichaelEddy/status/1172234324776632320
) for decisionmakers to be making trade-offs based on locally relevant data & evidence. https://twitter.com/MichaelEddy/status/1172234324776632320
Supporting countries to produce contextual, locally-relevant decisions based on cost/effectiveness is going to be *fundamental* to translating a great paper into real improvements in children's lives.
There's lots of orgs working in similar spaces--Who will take the lead?
There's lots of orgs working in similar spaces--Who will take the lead?
I'm so thrilled to see what more great work comes out of the education field in the next 5-10 years!!!
