Colin Aitken
@colinaitken13.bsky.social
Postdoc @ Development Innovation Lab, University of Chicago. Interested in econometrics, education, global health, and innovation.
Reposts are mostly bookmarks for now.
Reposts are mostly bookmarks for now.
Most of the lives PEPFAR saved, like most HIV patients in Africa, were likely women and children.
The long answer on what exactly we learned and how we learned it can be found here:
pepfarreport.org
The long answer on what exactly we learned and how we learned it can be found here:
pepfarreport.org
PEPFAR Report
The State Department, which administers PEPFAR, says the program has saved 25 million lives. We are an independent team of journalists, academics, and technologists who decided to investigate whether ...
pepfarreport.org
February 11, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Most of the lives PEPFAR saved, like most HIV patients in Africa, were likely women and children.
The long answer on what exactly we learned and how we learned it can be found here:
pepfarreport.org
The long answer on what exactly we learned and how we learned it can be found here:
pepfarreport.org
For context: 7.5 million is roughly the population of Arizona. 30 million is roughly the population of Texas. These are *enormous* numbers of people who are alive who otherwise wouldn't be.
February 11, 2025 at 11:00 PM
For context: 7.5 million is roughly the population of Arizona. 30 million is roughly the population of Texas. These are *enormous* numbers of people who are alive who otherwise wouldn't be.
It did so extremely cost-effectively: costing between $1,500 and $10,000 per life saved. (That's about three *thousand* times cheaper than the price the US government is willing to pay to save American lives.)
February 11, 2025 at 11:00 PM
It did so extremely cost-effectively: costing between $1,500 and $10,000 per life saved. (That's about three *thousand* times cheaper than the price the US government is willing to pay to save American lives.)
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Here are some I have used from econ for teaching purposes aside from LaLonde: Fraker and Maynard (1987, JHR); Heckman and Smith (1999, JEP); Cook et al. (2008, JPAM). In other fields: Heineken and Shadish (1996, Psych Methods); Glazerman et al. (2003, Annals); Shadish et al. (2008, JASA).
December 10, 2024 at 1:16 AM
Here are some I have used from econ for teaching purposes aside from LaLonde: Fraker and Maynard (1987, JHR); Heckman and Smith (1999, JEP); Cook et al. (2008, JPAM). In other fields: Heineken and Shadish (1996, Psych Methods); Glazerman et al. (2003, Annals); Shadish et al. (2008, JASA).
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Here’s a nice one:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Also, this person has cataloged a bunch of them:
gwern.net/correlation
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Also, this person has cataloged a bunch of them:
gwern.net/correlation
LURKING INFERENTIAL MONSTERS? QUANTIFYING SELECTION BIAS IN EVALUATIONS OF SCHOOL PROGRAMS
This study examines whether unobserved factors substantially bias education evaluations that rely on the Conditional Independence Assumption. We add 14 new within-study comparisons to the literature,...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
December 10, 2024 at 1:36 AM
Here’s a nice one:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Also, this person has cataloged a bunch of them:
gwern.net/correlation
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Also, this person has cataloged a bunch of them:
gwern.net/correlation
Reposted by Colin Aitken
Because I've seen the law of iterated expectations, Jensen's inequality, and the central limit theorem mentioned in the past few days, I'll migrate one of my early Twitter posts about the tools necessary to master econometrics -- which includes each of those. Here it is.
December 5, 2024 at 12:07 AM
Because I've seen the law of iterated expectations, Jensen's inequality, and the central limit theorem mentioned in the past few days, I'll migrate one of my early Twitter posts about the tools necessary to master econometrics -- which includes each of those. Here it is.