- Matias Cattaneo and co-authors have a draft manuscript on “a practical guide to regression discontinuity designs: volume II”. This includes discussion of a lot of practical issues that can arise, such as dealing with discrete values of the running variable, multiple running variables, and geographic RDs. Stata and R code are provided throughout.
- Great Planet Money podcast on the Poop Cartel – work Molly Lipscomb and co-authors are doing to lower prices for emptying toilets in Senegal.
- A paper on how to improve reproducible workflow – provides an overview of different tools for different statistical software packages, as well as advice on taskflow management, naming conventions, etc.
- J-PAL guide on measuring female empowerment
- Reviewing a paper that you have already reviewed before? This tweet by Tatyana Deryugina offers a good suggestion of using a pdf comparison tool (she suggests draftable) to compare pdfs to see what has changed
- A large-scale RCT of pre-K in Tennessee found not only fade-out, but negative impacts by third grade. Straight Talk on evidence summarizes, and has a discussion from the authors of the difficulties in publishing results people don’t like.
- More on shift-share instruments – on the econ that matters blog, Paul Christian and Chris Barrett discuss how non-linear trending variables increase the risk of spurious instruments
- Call for Expressions of Interest (EOI) for research proposals on Forced Displacement and Jobs (descriptive data collection and impact evaluation). (non-Bank-staff only). To find the call, click on ‘business opportunities’, and look for Assignment Number 1258246 in the table of active EOIs, publication date 20-july)
- Call for Papers: World Bank-Bank of Italy conference on “Building human capital for 21st century jobs” to be held in Rome in November. Submissions due August 12.
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