Raising kids & bread & grant money. Cleaning data & diapers & fish. EA (bed nets, not light cone). Social scientist. typos. twitter.com/ryancbriggs
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This was a fun paper. We analyze results from a global survey of development studies (DS) profs and find that the income group of their country doesn't explain much about their views on DS. Instead, their discipline is huge.
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You’ve got to be clafoutis maxxing
@prachisrivas.bsky.social you would love the number of people wearing Habs jerseys at this Toronto Blue Jays game
It has to accommodate people that are new to R and lack much background in statistics, while also absorbing people who are much more technical (this is hard). The goal is to make students into very adept consumers of RCT evidence more than evidence producers.
I should probably add attrition and handling it to week 8? Maybe week 9 is too thin? I dunno. this is all just what I jotted down in a quick brainstorm
I'll be teaching a grad methods class focused on experiments in the fall for a development studies dept. I'm looking for published development RCTs. Ideally they would have:
1. replication packages in R, or
2. fairly simple code I could rewrite in R.
Anyone have recommendations?
In the Fall I'll be teaching a new MA-level methods course entitled "Applied Statistical Evaluation of Development Projects". It will be 12 weeks, in R, and aimed around RCT evaluations. This is a draft outline. What am I missing? What seems redundant?
An interesting EA forum post that is an anonymized slack chat about GiveWell and EA-style CE analysis: "across EA cost-effectiveness analyses, much more typically goes toward estimating the effect than estimating the costs." forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/ru3wyS...
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In a new @eadi.bsky.social reflection paper, @ryancbriggs.net & @andypsumner.bsky.social, @kings-sga.bsky.social explore what drives deep disagreements in development studies—and point to the “disciplinary baggage” of PhD training.
Read more: buff.ly/ASH1bL9
