- Andrew Gelman hosts a discussion on list randomization experiments to elicit sensitive information
- In Foreign Affairs Chris Blattman and Paul Niehaus discuss cash transfers.
- On the CGD blog – Charles Kenny on how income categories for countries make no sense: including a discussion of why it is not surprising that few middle income countries have become high income – because the range of middle income is so wide.
- What happens after the impact evaluation? Discussion and a short video of the Cambodia school scholarship program where impact evaluation helped decide on scaling up the program to 56,000 students.
- A new blog on behavioral economics applied to health from the Berkeley BERI center.
- From the Givewell blog – the impact of life-saving interventions on fertility – new summary of work by David Roodman
- The Economist on why cost-benefit analysis is so hard (to do well).
- Does sperm quality decrease with age/do older men have a higher likelihood of having kids with autism? Emily Oster does a nice job walking through the statistical evidence and methods on 538.
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