· Julian Reif has updated his wyoung Stata command to allow for multiple treatments, and so now this command covers all the key issues that I had outlined in my earlier blog post comparing multiple hypothesis testing commands. I’ve now updated the blog post to reflect this.
· On the World Bank’s Data Blog, Erwin Knippenberg and Moritz Meyer summarize ongoing work using call detail record (CDR) data to track internal mobility in the Gambia at a weekly level during different stages of the Covid-19 lockdown and Ramadan. Also on the Data Blog, Legovini et al. on their program of work to improve road safety data in Nairobi (with lots of cool maps).
· The IDInsight blog discusses lessons from trying to survey women by phone in rural India: asking a few questions to the male household head first before asking to speak to a women made it more likely they would pass the phone over than asking to speak to the woman straight away; female surveyors were more likely to be able to complete surveys with women than male surveyors.
· Oxford’s Mind and Behavior group has a set of “Methods matter” notes covering topics like how to measure risk attitudes, time preferences, and income expectations.
· On the Stata blog, part 5 of using python in Stata illustrates how to do three-dimensional surface plots of marginal predictions.
· Datacolada has an interesting post on “fast” and “slow” p-hacking, and how much we expect it to change p-values. The claim is that observational data is more likely to be subject to “slow” p-hacking, where researchers make a series of choices over observations to trim, transformations, controls to include, etc. that slowly change a p-value, so that if it gets under 0.05, it will just get under this; whereas (and this is the unsupported part) experiments may be subject to “fast” p-hacking, where the p-value changes dramatically with choices (e.g. by deciding on which outcomes to look at, or looking at subgroups, or bigger changes – so that if the p-value gets under 0.05, it need not be clumped at 0.049).
· Finally, for your weekend fun, the IgNobel prizes were awarded yesterday. As always, some superb entries. The economics prize goes to work showing a surprising “effect” of income inequality.
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