Heath Henderson

I’d suggest taking a closer look at the study — the causal inference is questionable at best. Also, it’s far from clear that the effect is caused by cash rather than the conditions attached to the cash.

Learning the Right Lessons From the Denver Basic Income Project "At the ten-month follow-up, there were no statistically significant differences between the three groups in their housing status."

UPDATE: “The disconnect between the reporting on the study and its actual findings is problematic and adds significant confusion to the current debate between Mayor Mike Johnston and some Denver City Council members about whether to continue funding.”
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Many of my students don’t understand how computer files/folders work. I’m not sure if it’s a cause or a consequence, but they tend to use Google Sheets as a way to avoid all that.

Intra-household Behavioral Responses to Cash Transfer Programs. Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design Considering two-parent households with children, this study investigates the behavioral responses of men and women to a cash transfer program in Urugu…

I’ve always thought this one was interesting: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

On the properties of the two main types of global poverty lines Global poverty lines belong to two main types that differ on how the poverty line’s nominal monetary amount is adjusted to prevailing prices and prefe…

Very cool paper ... it's especially great to see development folks interested in something other than endlessly estimating causal effects.

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Poverty mapping in the age of machine learning Recent years have witnessed considerable methodological advances in poverty mapping, much of which has focused on the application of modern machine-le…

If you work on poverty and development, check out our new paper on the accuracy of poverty maps produced with machine learning and remote-sensing data:

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I moved to sumo because of back problems. It’s easier on the back but hard on the hips. I ended up quitting sumo too b/c of the hip pain.