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Weekly links May 9: Big data, microcredit and female empowerment, puzzling PPP, and more…

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The latest Journal of Economic Perspectives has a symposium on Big Data.
On the CGD blog, Matt Collins argues why RCTs in development should not be double-blind.

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Weekly Links May 2: Mobile phones, working with messy data, funding, working with children, and more…

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Using mobile phones for data collection efforts – some lessons from doing this in Uganda – from the World Bank’s EduTech blog.

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Blog links April 25: cash transfers, why high vs middle vs low income makes no sense, list randomization, and more…

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Andrew Gelman hosts a discussion on list randomization experiments to elicit sensitive information
In Foreign Affairs Chris Blattman and Paul Niehaus discuss cash transfers.

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Blog links April 18: lots of advice, ethics, quasi-experiments on the environment, and more…

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Rachel Glennerster discusses thorny issues that arise in the ethics of doing research (whether a randomized experiment or not) in developing countries, summarizing some issues in a new chapter she has on this issue.

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Blog links April 11: measuring personality, revising GDP, behavioral econ, and more…

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On the 3ie blog Howard White discusses a 1985 WHO paper about doing impact evaluations on water and sanitation projects – and notes a lot of similarities with problems noted in IE design then and ones that continue to be prevalent today.

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Blog links April 4: when not to measure impact, the impact of girls playing sport, bogus complaints, and more…

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Blog links March 28: How to do process tracing, innovation spillovers, work for Berk, and more…

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Weekly links March 21: the gender productivity gap in African agriculture, how to do matching in practice, and more…

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Weekly links March 14: using evidence for policy, acting now vs analyzing, IEs for gender equity, and more…

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Impact evaluation: a woman’s best friend? Marcelo Guigale and Markus discuss in the Huffington Post how impact evaluations can help progress towards gender equity, summarizing a variety of different studies on what works and what doesn’t to help women.

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Weekly links March 7: many labs, conditional probabilities, online courses, and more…

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On the CGD blog, Jessica Goldberg corrects the weird NYT post by Casey Mulligan critiquing experiments
Free online course on using randomized experiments to evaluate social programs to be offered by J-PAL: this is a 4 week course starting April 1^st.

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