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@IEGPAMIRSS @MIRStudent22 Thanks for sharing! Interesting that across their meta analysis they found no substantive meaningful benefits associated with social norms interventions for prevention of alcohol misuse. Any results that are found are attributed to heterogeneity. #IEMethods

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@abigailfrings Great example of using data / measurement to impact development objectives. It is interesting that much of the sample was reached through the maternity or
the gynecology ward. These individuals might have additional incentive to uptake contraceptives. #IEMethods

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@MIRStudent22 A similar experiment was conducted in 2016 to see if the results of Bertand's study had been changed by 10 years of DEI training, affirmitive action, etc. yet the 2016 results elicited the same results, that Emily and Greg and more employable in the United States. #IEmethods

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@isild_monfret I am persuaded that the propensity score matching with people in the census data will ensure similar characteristics among the treated and control groups and make the results meaningful.

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@isild_monfret Building on this, they describe how a very specific profile of tourist participates in energy tourism. These tourists have very high levels of education for example and there may be spurious variables in the sample that make it less generalizable to the population. #iemethods

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In a soon-to-be published article (May 2020 volume), Belloni et. al. discuss the rise of high-dimensional linear models with many endogenous variables in recent literature and how to construct honest confidence intervals. #IEMethods https://t.co/jNPXHFgxqg

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This is important for studying how policies / resources can contribute to women's empowerment. See the article here: https://t.co/ej3AOZLeIr

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Kumari, et al., 2020 employs a partial least squares structural equation model to evaluate the relationship between financial literacy and women’s empowerment. They find financial literacy is a significant determinant of women economic empowerment in Sri Lanka.” #IEmethods

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@abigailfrings In the article, they address the challenges of present-bias, meaning that individuals are biased by facing immediate costs and delayed benefits. O'Donoghue and Rabin, 2001 have interesting findings on present-bias: https://t.co/MQgMbCcgDU #iemethods

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@abigailfrings @elena_fdz I agree with this critique. It is very hard to determine directionality in the institutions-growth debate. Too many variables are determined endogenously to claim causality in this study. #iemethods

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@isild_monfret Interesting study! Thanks for sharing! I wonder about recency effects as well. Respondents were asked to answer the survey right after recieving information on mental health. How might any effects diminish in a real election scenario? #IEmethods

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@isild_monfret In another, similar article, Duryea and Morrison (2004) use propensity matching to evaluate the effects of conditional transfers on school enrollment in Costa Rica. #IEmethods Can we draw concrete conclusions?https://t.co/wkhV1Pcs0K

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@isild_monfret That is a great point and something that emerges in the debate. In their 2019 work, Democracy does Cause Growth, Acemoclu et al. add country fixed-effects to account for this shortcoming in previous studies. Do we think this is sufficient? #IEMethods https://t.co/3ESLOGeP6G

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Does democracy create economic growth? Doucouliagos and Ulubasoglu contribute to this decades old debate by conducting a meta-regression analysis (MRA) with 483 regression estimates from 84 published democracy-growth studies. https://t.co/BPFGldM6o8 #IEMethods

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@isild_monfret That is a great point and something that emerges in the debate. In their 2019 work, Democracy does Cause Growth, Acemoclu et al. add country fixed-effects to account for this shortcoming in previous studies. Do we think this is sufficient? #IEMethods https://t.co/3ESLOFXef8

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Barrio (1999) studies the relationship between democracy and growth. Contemporary researchers say these results could be bias. To improve on Barrio's methods they employ difference-in-differences or panel data estimates with country fixed effects. Is there causality? #iemethods

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@xinnan0908 I also found this foundational article interesting: https://t.co/WiRk5clxca It finds that lab research provides "crucial spatial-temporal constraints guiding the formulation of more detailed machanistic explanations." #iemethods

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@xinnan0908 I appreciate that the study looks at both happiness on doing sports and sports on happiness. Doing this two-way analysis helps to isolate and identify the directionality of the causal relationship. #iemethods

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@xinnan0908 Great to capture both quantity and quality. Interesting that Guatemala had one of the lowest rate of schooling and saw a huge expanision, yet their Read@G5 was the highest and did not see any change. Could indicate a high and consistent quality across schools. #iemethods

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@xinnan0908 AMR-related deaths are much higher in sub-saharan Africa and south Asia. The article lists potential causes: less available data, less labroatory capacity, local policy decisions, differences in income, higher overall infection rates.