I sorta agree. I read through all of the findings this spring and came away with the milquetoast take that (1) yes the results are disappointing, but (2) they don’t actually kill any of the most popular arguments for cash transfers

Wrote about it here: jg12402863.substack.com/p/giving-peo...

And if you want **even more detail**, the current draft of my paper getting published later this fall is here:
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Here’s a blog post going into more detail about this stuff: jg12402863.substack.com/p/giving-peo...

Also, previous research suggests that the largest effects are those experienced by the children of cash recipients after they grow up. None of the recent experiments have been able to collect that data yet!

My take: We should no longer expect dramatic benefits from giving people cash. But we can expect cash to reduce the number of people living in poverty, to increase economic equality, and, probably, to make the lives of the people who receive the cash a little better.

This is an issue near and dear to my heart. I worked for a large-scale randomized controlled trial testing an unconditional cash transfer during the first year of my MPP.

Also I have a paper reviewing the recent experiments coming out in the Kansas Journal of Law & Public Policy later this fall.

Phew!

Sorry to ruin the joke by taking it seriously, but is the complaint against DiD that it just isn’t good enough at approximating exogeneity?

(Interested because I’m currently using DiD to study the effect of different legal theories adopted by different states 😅)

Exam season in law school is rough - probably the most hours of work I’ve ever done in a day.

Which seems very inefficient to me. I’ve forgotten everything except the big picture stuff, which is all I’ve needed in my internships anyway.

What sorts of other ways do you have in mind?

Ohhh I see what you mean. I’m having trouble imaging how that would work though

Proportional representation! Used by a bunch of countries

Would you be willing to share the syllabus for your Data for Lawyers class?

I’m a current JD/MPP with some data analysis background. I’d love to learn more about how I could use that background in law.

www.nber.org/system/files...

Just for families with children