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Heath Henderson
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Author, Poor Relief: Why Giving People Money Is Not the Answer to Global Poverty | Founder, JustGive Participatory Philanthropy | Associate Professor of Economics, Drake University
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UPDATE: “The disconnect between the reporting on the study and its actual findings is problematic and adds significant confusion to the current debate between Mayor Mike Johnston and some Denver City Council members about whether to continue funding.”
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Learning the Right Lessons From the Denver Basic Income Project
"At the ten-month follow-up, there were no statistically significant differences between the three groups in their housing status."
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November 26, 2024 at 1:19 PM
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Very cool paper ... it's especially great to see development folks interested in something other than endlessly estimating causal effects.

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On the properties of the two main types of global poverty lines
Global poverty lines belong to two main types that differ on how the poverty line’s nominal monetary amount is adjusted to prevailing prices and prefe…
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November 20, 2024 at 3:57 PM
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If you work on poverty and development, check out our new paper on the accuracy of poverty maps produced with machine learning and remote-sensing data:

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Poverty mapping in the age of machine learning
Recent years have witnessed considerable methodological advances in poverty mapping, much of which has focused on the application of modern machine-le…
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September 29, 2024 at 2:18 AM