Michael Cooke

@hlanthorn @notanastronomer @PeterEvans_Guv I've not found an ROI per se, but this is the most relevant paper to the 'return' side of the calculation that I've come across: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34411516/

@notanastronomer @PeterEvans_Guv @databrewer ?

question sparked by @PeterEvans_Guv: has anyone done an ROI calculation on distance vision correction in terms of road traffic accidents/deaths avoided?

@Missmallyk Get yourself to Tomoca coffee and your coffee-loving friends will love you forever

@namitamita 5th basis point?

what base is “both our names are on the lease”

@verynetwork please can you dm about an enquiry please

@OwenOzier @DaveEvansPhD not US-specific (or even a specific paper), but you might want to check out homelessnessimpact.org/evidence-and-g…

What are the best papers you know of about homelessness in the US, #econtwitter ?

Previous studies show that giving large cash transfers to people in poverty can help them boost their income & quality of life. Earlier this year we partnered w/@GiveDirectly to evaluate the impact of their cash transfer program in Uganda’s Kiryandongo refugee settlement🧵⬇️(1/4)

@namitamita always be optimizing

bros next me at the coffee shop are ranking their favorite seltzers and discovering they have different carbonation level preferences. dudes rock.

@CupcakeAnalyst @EllieMRoberts I'm fine with these ones excelcharts.com/creative-pie-c…

@EllieMRoberts Not a pie chart. Never a pie chart, or @databrewer will hunt me down 🙈

Excited to release TODAY the full endline report of our RCT (+qual) with @GiveDirectly on cash transfers to refugees. ~19 months post-transfer, recipient households had ⬆️consumption and ⬆️ assets, driven by ⬆️ business formation and ⬆️ remittances. w/ @hlanthorn, @lukusem, +

@themayadecline @GiveDirectly @mkayemba08 Heartache is the fiat currency of the research / operations interface -- I was there for it then, I'm here for it now💚

@caitlin_tulloch good work. think of it as an experimental test of redundency.

@kateorkin @UniofOxford @Oxford_CSAE So delighted for you Kate - well done! And thank you for sharing that thread.

Very happy to be made associate professor @UniofOxford! Entirely due to a brilliant lab of bouncy, clever youngsters #mbrg @Oxford_CSAE; wonderful co-authors; optimistic, patient mentors; & ~35,000 South Africans, Kenyans and Ethiopians who took time to tell us about their lives

Today on World Refugee Day we're releasing results of a study 3 years in the works, testing the impact of cash transfers to refugees during COVID. And in a first for me, we made a fancy video summarizing the results. Check it out! youtube.com/watch?v=rXKMgk… @GiveDirectly @IDinsight

@toddles23 Does this mean what I think it means @toddles23?

I now understand why people used to announce engagements in newspapers

Breaking down the walls of charity and reimagining philanthropy through a reparatory lens. My new book⁩ ‘Giving Back: How to Do Good, Better’. A guide to radical giving so we can stop the cycles of harm. Coming 25th August ⁦@dialoguebooks⁩.

@susannahhares @LeeDonaghy @Samfr Given your all time fave, I'd suggest Borgen (which is on Netflix)

@LeeDonaghy I think my all time favourite is the West Wing. More recently I’ve enjoyed the Americans and Inventing Anna. @Samfr suggested I might not want anything too taxing post surgery.

Any TV or film recs for a long hospital stay?

@carolinefiennes .@TesseAkpeki did a great session on charity governance at our first Clore retreat

Who is good at advising UK charities about governance? Thanks. #charity

@DanStein_econ @GiveDirectly @IDinsight I'm so glad this day has finally arrived :)

After two years of zooming, it's great to get back to actually seeing our projects and participants! Here's a photo from endline data collection of our RCT with @GiveDirectly in Kiryandongo, Uganda. @IDinsight

2027 is a talent development programme that aims to shift the power in grant-making by diversifying the profession, and bringing frontline experience and insight into the funding world. For further info 👇🏾

@dogwinters Super-fancy coffee

Finished a draft and I'm not drinking. How am I supposed to celebrate, hmm?