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NCSU (ARE, Global WaSH, CEnREP), JPAL. Work-related private account. All opinions my own. https://go.ncsu.edu/rpguiter Buy the sky and sell the sky Personal account at @raymondguiteras.bsky.social
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Pre-order now! My former CEA colleague @mikegeruso.bsky.social and his UT Austin coauthor Dean Spears has a new book on what the world would be like with declining population. One of the most nuanced, thoughtful books you will find on the economic, social, and environmental consequences of people.

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Measles vaccines save millions of lives each year

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Papers by Prof. Jay Bhattacharya that would be impossible under Director Jay Bhattacharya, a partial list:

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This, especially #2, is what we did in our recent JDE paper and the referees (and editor) were fine with it.

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In the most recent issue of @restatjournal.bsky.social (direct.mit.edu/rest/article...), we (Kaspar Wuthrich and @karthik-econ.bsky.social) provide guidance on how to analyze and design experiments with factorial designs (or cross-cuts). A 🧵 below:

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How does access to sewers increase urban density? A cross-country study finds that providing sewer access to an additional 1% of households in a census tract increase population density in a tract by around 6%. Read the full article to learn more:

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Cheese-rolling LEGEND and NCSU alumna 🐺 www.wral.com/news/local/a...

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Three things made the US a rich and powerful nation: the rule of law, its science & innovation system, and openness to foreign talent. Remarkable how Trump has taken a sledgehammer to all three. No enemy of this country could do more.

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Medium size dudes who need to slim down *and* buff out a bit and sometimes wear glasses, sometimes contacts, and sometimes squint down to 20:30 for trans rights!

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An utter disgrace to the profession. Jay, you've written some good papers but right now you're a clown.

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Can better information improve delivery of public benefits? A new @nber.org evaluation by J-PAL affiliates Rohini Pande & Yusuf Neggers & coauthors shows that equipping bureaucrats with timely data can lead to faster, more efficient welfare delivery. 📄 buff.ly/aJuicmp

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We have a new version of our paper on supply-side constraints for technology diffusion - here, improved cooking stoves - in Senegal. The take-away message is that doing business for peri-urban vendors in rural areas is expensive, and reaching villages remains challenging. osf.io/preprints/os...

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Six questions with Kelsey Jack: we discuss how to get utilities to share their administrative data with you, whether work on climate economics focuses too much on the individual, the laugh test with your results, and more... blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...

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Maybe journals should have a policy that data from anonymous sources will be verified by the journal before publication. The editor could contact the firm, to verify that it exists and that the study was conducted as stated. @aeadata.bsky.social is this feasible or am I missing something?

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New piece: goodscience.substack.com/p/the-resear...

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(#metascience) A good article by @stuartbuck.bsky.social on the Fluoride and IQ meta-analysis: goodscience.substack.com/p/the-resear.... Summarizes some of the points in our forensic review of it (see the forensic review as a pre-print here: osf.io/preprints/os...). Very nice excerpt below:

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UGA conference breakfast = A+. #FlyingBiscuit

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Mismeasured weather & satellite data: Patrick Behrer summarizes new work on the performance of 9 of the most commonly used earth observation datasets. "Depending on which you use, the estimated impact of weather on agricultural outcomes varies, sometimes wildly" blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...

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