- The impact of paying people direct into bank accounts instead of via cash – VoxEU on a new RCT in India.
- From Poverty to Power has an interesting piece on what bits of advice do developing country policymakers actually listen to?
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I may have linked to this before, but the perennial question of what you should do about standard errors when you are working with the whole population came up a couple of times in conversations I had this week. So:
- Cyrus Samii on a paper by Abadie, Athey, Imbens, and Wooldridge on how to causal inference on population data
- Andrew Gelman on how to interpret standard errors from a regression fit to the whole population
- Commitment contracts coupled with incentives have strong impacts on getting people to quit smoking
- Students watch out! – new lab experiment evidence suggests that punishing students for poor performance can be more effective for learning than rewarding them for doing well
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