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Might as well share this again asteriskmag.com/issues/10/can-…
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This is embarrassing. And fixable.
But I still hear and receive a lot of negative feedback from senior folks who just don't seem to see a need for change. Until we do, we own this collectively as a discipline.
John B. Holbein@JohnHolbein1
Virtually no criminology articles have open data/materials. Criminology: what are you doing?
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Heather Scoffield@hscoffield
New from me: I’ve been appointed to lead the Canadian Tax Observatory, dedicated to rigorous research, collaboration and public education on tax policy -- with an eye to furthering economic growth and combatting inequality. Here’s more: #what-s-new" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">canadiantaxobservatory.ca/#what-s-new
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Impressive program. FOMO
Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF)@GLEIF
How can open, verifiable data power the public good? On Oct 14–15, GLEIF India’s Vikas Panwar joins @CDPG_IISc’s Symposium on Data for Public Good in Bengaluru, speaking on data spaces, digital product passports, & governing verifiable ecosystems. #LEI More info 👇
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The explicit use of foreign aid in pursuit of geopolitical goals won’t necessarily be a bad thing. It’s what has been happening anyway, and bringing it above board would cure elites in low-income of their inexplicable naïveté and acceptance of aid dependency as a matter of course
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[Fab piece] "Evidence neither makes nor implements policy. Cross-pressured people do. It follows that over-indexing on the hunt for what to do at the expense of learning how to solve problems is a losing game" africanistperspective.com/p/the-geopolit…
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We've updated a paper on the 3-year, $1000/month U.S. guaranteed income study.
New results, in 3 figures: 🧵
1) Subjective well-being significantly improved in the treatment group in year 1, but there were no sig differences between the treatment & control group after that. 1/
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Re-listening to @deankarlan’s interview on @statecraft and it’s (still) depressing. After reading his book I was super excited to hear about his appointment but it seems clear that he didn’t have a real mandate.
statecraft.pub/p/how-to-fix-f…
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Canadian Federal Government has released draft legislation for previously announced enhanced reporting by non-profits that are not charities from the 2024 Fall Economic Statement canadiancharitylaw.ca/blog/federal-g…
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Loving the nuanced UBI discussion happening on the Twitterverse right now. 😍
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It's a bit painful for me to share this, but I respect @KelseyTuoc (and @evavivalt) a lot, and I think they're basically right: the most rigorous recent studies on basic income and cash transfers (in rich countries) have yielded pretty disappointing results.
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Recently, a few GiveWell colleagues and I got to shadow the surveyors who go around checking whether people actually use malaria nets from recent campaigns
Some notes on net use, barriers, and how surveyors cover so many households in one day 🧵
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Chilling (podcast)
eveningnews24.co.uk/news/25316750.…
pca.st/episode/d0c886…
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🚨 New NBER working paper: "The Impact of Unconditional Cash Transfers on Parenting and Children"
This paper estimates the effects of receiving a $1,000/month guaranteed income for 3 years, compared to a control group receiving $50/month, on children and parents in the US. 1/
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