World Bank Blogs

You’re probably doing it right: Experimental design with heterogeneous treatment effects Experimental design with heteroskedasticity (w/ Florence Kondylis)

Design sandbox: Power calculations and optimal design for cost effectiveness (Part 2: The case of nonlinearities) Power calculations for nonlinearities (w/ Florence Kondylis)

Design sandbox: Power calculations and optimal design for cost effectiveness (Part 1: The case of cash benchmarking) Power calculations for benchmarking (w/ Florence Kondylis)

What have we learned about cash transfers? (w/ Berk Özler and Patrick Premand)

We got bunching, now what? Economics of bunching (w/ Pierre Bachas and Florence Kondylis) (2020 Apr)

Ready, Set, Bunch! Econometrics of bunching (w/ Pierre Bachas and Florence Kondylis) (2020 Apr)

Increasing tax revenue in developing countries (w/ Pierre Bachas and Florence Kondylis) (2020 Apr)

When your difference-in-differences has too many differences Controls in DID (w/ Florence Kondylis) (2020 Oct)

In Search of Lost First Bests Risk in smallholder agriculture (w/ Florence Kondylis) (2020 Jul)

Difference-in-differences in practice: The case of mobile phones and farmers’ productivity Best practices for DID robustness (w/ Florence Kondylis) (2020 Jun)

Econometrics Sandbox: Randomization Inference for Event Study Designs Exploring identification in event studies, (dashboard) (w/ Florence Kondylis) (2020 Apr)

Macroeconomics during the great lockdown: a discussion of recent coronavirus research Macroeconomics during COVID-19 (w/ Roberto N. Fattal Jaef and Florence Kondylis) (2020 Apr)

Gotcha!? Tips and tricks for the economics seminar Common empirical economics concerns and solutions (w/ Florence Kondylis) (2020 Mar)

Sampled social networks and household surveys Methods for mismeasured social networks (w/ Florence Kondylis) (2020 Feb)

Back-of-the-envelope power calcs Power calculations in a pinch (w/ Florence Kondylis) (2020 Jan)

28% Women’s labor force participation gaps in South Asia (w/ Florence Kondylis) (2020 Jan)

Econometrics Sandbox: Attrition strikes back! Exploring selection bias in experiments, (dashboard) (w/ Florence Kondylis) (2019 Nov)

Econometrics Sandbox: Event Study Designs & Co. Exploring endogeneity bias in event studies, (dashboard) (w/ Florence Kondylis) (2019 Oct)

Can PES pay off for the poor? (or, Does food [security] grow on trees?) Payments for ecosystem services and food security (w/ Serge Adjognon and Florence Kondylis) (2019 Jul)

External Validity Musings Extrapolating (w/ Florence Kondylis) (2019 Jun)

Randomly Drawn Equators? Randomization inference and spatially correlated errors (w/ Florence Kondylis) (2019 May)

Spatial Jumps Spatial regression discontinuity (w/ Florence Kondylis) (2019 Mar)