Ben Backes
@brbackes.bsky.social
Principal Economist, American Institutes for Research (AIR) and CALDER
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I am very interested if not too late!
April 6, 2025 at 7:18 PM
I am very interested if not too late!
Reposted by Ben Backes
The thing that moves the needle is cleaning everyone's data, which leads to a narrowing in the effect distribution, even as modeling choices continue to differ. This makes sense - we don't teach or discuss standardized/best data-cleaning practices. So there's big variance in how we do it.
February 25, 2025 at 7:17 PM
The thing that moves the needle is cleaning everyone's data, which leads to a narrowing in the effect distribution, even as modeling choices continue to differ. This makes sense - we don't teach or discuss standardized/best data-cleaning practices. So there's big variance in how we do it.