Can Cash Transfers Save Lives? Evidence from a Large-Scale Experiment in Kenya www.nber.org/papers/w34152

"Unconditional cash transfers (accounting for spillovers) lead to 48% fewer infant deaths before age one and 45% fewer child deaths before age five...concentrated among poorer households."

That, or something similar, under a formal NDA, is what I do several times a year.

Can we tell from the data when and how treatment effects generalize across different individuals and contexts? Exciting new working paper, joint with Emily Breza and Arun G. Chandrasekhar that studies generalizability for applications to external validity, effect heterogeneity and model discovery

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I am looking for an experienced research manager to join me at Oxford, starting as early as 1 March.

Help set up a new research group for macro-experimental development. A highly impactful role for both research and policy!

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Here are the first five sets of slides:

01 Introduction: psantanna.com/DiD/01_Intro...

02 Classical 2x2 setup: psantanna.com/DiD/02_two_b...

03 Clustering issues: psantanna.com/DiD/03_Clust...

04 Functional form: psantanna.com/DiD/04_Funct...

05 Covariates: psantanna.com/DiD/05_Covar...

📣 Our paper "How to improve education outcomes most efficiently" was recently published in the Journal of Development Economics! Co-authored w/ @daveevansphd.bsky.social Filmer Glennerster Sabarwal Rogers. Rewarding to see this work inform research & policy
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