My practical tips for designing, implementing, and analyzing powerful experiments. In today's blog I summarize a new paper I've written for a special issue on power calculations. A key message is that it does not make sense to talk of “the” power of an experiment. blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...

Since you folks seem to like lengthy threads, let's look at visualizing distributions. I'll visualize one data set 16 ways and give some other examples of each chart type. #dataViz

📚📊 NEW @cgdev.org RESEARCH: Children who master basic reading and math in primary school earn significantly more as adults. Evidence that foundational literacy and numeracy skills have real economic returns throughout life.

🚀 #Stata #ridgeline ( #joyplot) is now bumped to v1.9 with new features:

👍 Sorting on marked peaks is now allowed.
👍 Peaks can now be labeled and fully customized.

Test it out! More info here:
github.com/asjadnaqvi/s...

Up soon on #SSC!

Last week Professor Stefan Dercon visited the IDB and talked about how to give economic policy advice that is actually useful to policymakers and beneficial to their constituents. It often isn't the "first-best" advice!

You can read the open-access paper here academic.oup.com/jae/article/...

I had a great time presenting our research on *between*-school heterog. in foundational learning in LMICs (& its policy implications for thoughtful curr. design) at AEDC by @ADBInstitute this weekend in 🇰🇷. Great conference! If you haven't read the paper, please check it out ⤵️!

How can policymakers set national or regional curricula, especially for foundational literacy and numeracy (FLN) in LMICs, when learning outcomes vary significantly between schools? Savannah Tierney and I have a new working paper exploring this question. edworkingpapers.com/ai24-927