This week's links include AEA keynote talks by Susan Athey and Pol Antras, a review of how psychotherapy helps development outcomes, how to think about climate change and firms, the Stata vs R usage in replication packages, and more.
Happy new year! I crossed midnight and rang in 2024 being forced to watch The Holiday (my one line review: Cameron Diaz cannot convincingly play a human being, and poor Kate Winslet) and reading Paul Auster’s new book, Baumgartner when the film became too much to watch (one line review: Paul Auster is great at writing people missing people, but not so good at them actually liking and connecting with each other).
The combination of a rammed Oxford Tube, a new, gigantic (but extremely fast), work laptop and person sitting next to me scrolling through their Insta stories with the volume up is guaranteed to result in typos and a generally bleak outlook on life, but on the plus side it’s just one more week of this routine before you’re back to your usually sunny, surrounded-by-my-books in my office links.
The number of experimental units n is often limited due to budget constraints, to capacity constraints of the implementing organization, or naturally limited by the number of villages eligible for a program or number of people or firms that apply. Here are some of my main thoughts/tips on approaches to try in order to improve statistical power.
This week's links include 3 new JEP papers of interest, our search for a Stata Bayesian expert, what happens when chat-GPT comes to the office, and more.