- A new database of impact evaluations conducted in South Asia
- Experimental evidence that hearing Spanish makes Republicans more anti-immigration.
- A useful blog post on how to come up with better titles for your papers.
- Results from the year-long financial diary project of 300 households in Kenya, courtesy of the Center for Financial Inclusion blog
- Ten things that can go wrong in an RCT from Howard White on the 3ie blog. Useful checklist, including “Testing things that just don’t work” and “Evaluating interventions that no one wants” – but more difficult for researchers to fund proof of concept trials sometimes to see if something works before taking it to RCT stage.
- Twelve tips for selling RCTs to reluctant policymakers, also by Howard White. I hadn’t heard this argument before: “The black box can be a blessing not a curse since RCTs cut through complexity. The causal chain of a programme can sometimes be too complex to unravel. RCTs can therefore help establish causality in the face of complexity”
- Call for Papers: The Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences (BITSS) will be holding its 3rd annual conference at UC Berkeley on December 11-12, 2014. Topics for papers include, but are not limited to: pre-registration and the use of pre-analysis plans; disclosure and transparent reporting; replicability and reproducibility; data sharing; and methods for detecting and reducing publication bias or data mining. Papers or long abstracts must be submitted by Friday, October 10th (midnight Pacific time) through CEGA’s Submission Platform.
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