At the Social Science Statistics blog, Richard Nielsen posts a response (link) to the Chris Blattman’s recent post (link) on problems with the way people interpret what matching does: Continue reading “More on matching and identification”
Here are slides from a talk I gave last week as part of a series hosted by the Applied Statistics Center at Columbia: PDF
The talk was intended for grad students working on dissertation research plans. The focus was on strategies for collecting data to analyze the effects of micro-level development policies. I tried to make a few points Continue reading “Tips on observational study research design”