- The platinum development intervention: Lant Pritchett on how the gold standard ultra-poor poverty programs don’t stack up very well against migration.
- Cash effects after 40 years: The long-term impacts of cash transfers in the U.S. – Wonkblog covers a new working paper (and job market paper from a Stanford student David Price) on the income maintenance experiments that took place four decades ago – they find those who received the assistance retired earlier, as a result making less money over their careers – while there appears to be no long-term impacts on children (for what they can measure using admin data).
- Excellent piece by Jesse Singal in NY Magazine’s Science of Us on the tone one should use for scientific criticism – great discussion about two models of science – the negotiate until we find a compromise mode, and the engine-on-fire mode, where it doesn’t matter how impolitely someone tells you this, you still have to deal with your car being on fire (h/t Marginal Revolution)
- Howard White at the Campbell Collaboration on how controlled is your control? – or does your intervention work because the standard treatment is poorly implemented and underfunded?
- Following up on replication: Do, Levchenko and Ma offer a response to Hsiang and Sekar’s critique of Do et al’s original robustness discussion of Hsiang and Sekar’s work on elephant ivory.
- Dave Evans on the Education for Global Development blog summarizes his forthcoming WBRO paper on what works to improve student learning? And on the IPA blog, Matthew Jukes discusses how they used text messages to support teachers in Kenya, with this reducing student dropout and improving reading.
- From PhD Comics, reviewing papers using Facebook Emoticons
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