@alexeble

Associate Professor of Economics and Education @Columbia @TeachersCollege. Development economist, enthusiast.

 New York, NY
alexeble.com
Joined July 2007
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This🧵is about a tricky problem in education The problem: despite growing global wealth and technological progress, there are extremely poor parts of the world where most children grow up illiterate and innumerate We have two new papers showing that this can be changed 1/n
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📢 Call for submissions: Columbia Gender in the Global Economy Conference! For economists in any subfield working on the role of gender in the economy. 📍 Columbia University, NYC 🗓️ Oct 30, 2026 ⏰ Deadline: July 15, 2026 Assistant profs & postdocs especially encouraged 👇
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I'm hiring a research manager to run fieldwork for follow-up studies in Guinea Bissau and The Gambia Info on original studies here: xitter.cf/alexeble/status/141278… Job advert attached; email CV and cover letter to [email protected] and [email protected], hiring asap! cc: @econ_ra
Alex Eble@alexeble7 Jul 2021
This🧵is about a tricky problem in education The problem: despite growing global wealth and technological progress, there are extremely poor parts of the world where most children grow up illiterate and innumerate We have two new papers showing that this can be changed 1/n
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The @aefpweb EdDev (Scholars of Education in Developing Countries) Community Group fall season kicks off this Friday Sept 13 at 11am ET! Join us to hear Serena Canaan & Josep Nadal-Fernandez present work in progress. All are welcome! Contact me for Zoom link.
AEFP@aefpweb8 Sep 2024
Reminder that the EdDev Community Group Monthly Meeting will happen on Friday 9/13 at 11 AM ET! Serena Canaan & Josep Nadal-Fernandez will present work in progress. Sign up to the community group via the AEFP website if you're not yet a member
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📣 The #EdDev community group @aefpweb 2024-25 Updates! @toddpugatch and I are excited to co-chair this year! We will meet online on the second Friday of every month at 11am ET. Two presenters will share their work-in-progress followed by quick reflections from two volunteers.
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Alex Eble is speaking at @GAP_NU_ next week. Anyone interested can register and attend online! @alexeble @JPAL_SA @econ_ra_india @WBG_Education
Global Action for Policy (GAP) Initiative@GAP_NU_26 Mar 2024
🎓 Join us for the final GAP Seminar of Spring 2024 at Northeastern University! 🌐 Don't miss out on an enlightening session with @Alexeble, as he presents "When Your Bootstraps Are Not Enough: How Demand and Supply Interact to Generate Learning in Settings of Extreme Poverty".
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I've got two more codes for the other place. DM me!
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Ecstatic to see my job market paper on the development impact blog. I study how we can teach innovation in schools blogs.worldbank.org/impactev… via @worldbank

Innovation on the rise, math scores take a dive: Unraveling the potential and perils of teaching...

Unraveling the potential and perils of teaching innovation

blogs.worldbank.org
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Take a look at the great job market candidates from @EPSAatTC. Got to work with some of these great PhD students during my sabbatical year at Columbia. So excited to see where they land!!
Alex Eble@alexeble22 Nov 2023
Breaking my silence here to tell you to check out the amazing econ job market candidates from @TeachersCollege @EPSAatTC here: tc.columbia.edu/education-po… I'm the placement director/DGS and happy to field all/any inquiries. They are objectively great!!!

Job Market Candidates | Economics and Education | Education Policy & Social Analysis | Teachers...

Teachers College, Columbia University, is the first and largest graduate school of education in the United States, and also perennially ranked among the nation's best.

tc.columbia.edu
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Breaking my silence here to tell you to check out the amazing econ job market candidates from @TeachersCollege @EPSAatTC here: tc.columbia.edu/education-po… I'm the placement director/DGS and happy to field all/any inquiries. They are objectively great!!!

Job Market Candidates | Economics and Education | Education Policy & Social Analysis | Teachers...

Teachers College, Columbia University, is the first and largest graduate school of education in the United States, and also perennially ranked among the nation's best.

tc.columbia.edu
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Also, if you made to the second tweet -- I have four invite codes for the other, blue-er place up for grabs. DM me!
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From a recent interview: Ashenfelter: "how do you feel about the way you historically were treated in the profession as a woman?" Goldin: "I spent six years at Princeton, and not once in the six years that I spent at Princeton was I asked to give a seminar"
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Alex Eble retweeted
Riley Acton@riacton28 Sep 2023
JOB ALERT! 🚨 My dept. is hiring an AP in public, enviro, and/or IO. Miami is an awesome place to work. True research/teaching/life balance. Great colleagues & students. Affordable COL in either a charming college town or nearby Cincy. Apply & share! aeaweb.org/joe/listing.php?J…
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Anybody need codes?
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I’m going to start being over there more than over here. Same handle. Same content. See you there!
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Great start to the semester with the @Columbia_CDEP group! @EricVerhoogen @myklebest @fabalbav @parijatlal @saritaoreq @palaashbhargava and many others no longer on #here (Many of us are also “over there!” 😉)
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+ @dafmurillo @tushardonnay @Seunghunlee0918 anyone else there and still #here that I missed while thumbing this in on my phone (this bird place is not doing really great these days - way harder to find people than before!)
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Thanks, @TamaraGilkes @TheEconomist for this coverage of our work (with @alexeble @emileigharrison @TeodoraSzasz @MiiELab)!
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Excited to see this policy brief with @SDOInstitute go live! I use voting records for children and their mothers to explore intergenerational links in voting behavior. (1/2) oconnorinstitute.org/researc…

Civic Education Research | Sandra Day O'Connor Institute

Through our original research we endeavor to add to the store of facts related to civil discourse, civic engagement, and civics education.

oconnorinstitute.org
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Alex Eble retweeted
IZA@iza_bonn12 Sep 2023
New AI tools convert images to data; applied to a century of influential children’s books, they reveal enduring inequality in representation of skin colors, race, gender, and age; from @aadukia @alexeble @emileigharrison @UChicago_RCC and @TeodoraSzasz newsroom.iza.org/en/archive/…
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