- Marc Bellemare on the subject of my dissertation work – using repeated cross-sections
- From Next Billion, a summary of research showing how saving leads people to generate more income by working harder
- In the Guardian, how the World Bank is nudging health and hygiene in several projects…and the defense against whether this distracts from more structural issues “Why not make all programmes as effective as possible, even if it doesn’t turn a very poor country into a Scandinavian country overnight”
- Also from the Guardian, 10 sources of data for international development research
- randtreat – a new Stata command to do random assignment that can deal with uneven numbers of observations (more details here) – this builds on an old blog post I did on the issue, and great to see some of these practical issues getting made easier for everyone.
- synth_runner – the IDB’s Development that Works blog has a post about a new Stata command to help automate use of the synthetic control method.
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