- Graeme Blair has a 5-page overview on Survey methods for Sensitive topics in the Comparative Newsletter – particularly of interest to me were references to several studies that discuss how to improve power, because the power of many of these approaches is often pretty low (I discuss three of these methods in a previous post).
- Are you thinking of p-values all wrong?
- Andrew Gelman on the role of blogs in post-publication discussion of a paper – referring to the Case and Deaton work and the discomfort those authors expressed with the role of blogs in checking the robustness of their findings
- A new working paper by Addison and Steward looks at the correlation of nightlights with various economic variables in levels and changes and claims that for measuring growth the estimates are “with respect to most of these socioeconomic variables are low, unstable over time, and generate little explanatory power”. A post on Let’s Talk Development offers a more optimistic view.
- The New Zealand Herald! covers Heather Sarsons’ work on how women in economics suffer from co-authorship but men don’t
- A geo-spatial data repository for agricultural economists
- Job opportunity: DIME is looking for a field coordinator for a Forestry IE in Argentina (terms of reference here). Deadline for applying is November 30th, and fluency in written and spoken English and Spanish is required.
- Reminder Monday (November 23) is the deadline for submissions for our blog your job market paper series.
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