Weekly links December 18: code cleaning, Angus on aid, how to spend for the holidays, and more…
Weekly links December 18: code cleaning, Angus on aid, how to spend for the holidays, and more… · Oxford’s Coders’ Corner has advice on Stata data cleaning routines for string variables – just the thing for when you receive data with entries like “BURKINA FASO” “Burkina Faso” “BURKINA/FASO” and “ Burkina Faso “ all as responses. · Rationally speaking (that’s the name of the podcast) interview in which Angus Deaton uses Borat to argue to Julia Galef that “giving aid to other countries from outside is almost always a mistak...
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