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Imagine I wrote a blog post...
reviewing an private draft paper that only I saw...
& made claims about the size of some important treatment effects in Dev. Economics.
You'd call BS, right? Right...
So, @GiveWell , what on earth are you guys doing?https://www.givewell.org/international/technical/programs/cash-transfers/spillovers#top …
The blog post excluded any other study from its review than those evaluating a GiveDirectly CT, called the private study the "best study" (sorry Drs. @jhaushofer , @AndrewZeitlin and co-PIs), and then essentially declared spillovers in CTs not an issue...
What was the hurry? What couldn't wait until the paper is public or better peer-reviewed?
Whatever it is, I hope that it is worth the hit in credibility @GiveWell will take...
Excluded perfectly good (and all public/well-published work) evidence from other CT studies, including by @seema_econ , myself, and @eeshani_kandpal). Doesn't matter if they would change your conclusions or not. Do it well and thoroughly or not at all: not this half-baked crap.
Also, are you guys saying that if the spillovers are on anything other than consumption, they are unimportant?
Never mind if other papers showed increased in stunting or decreased psychological wellbeing among spillover groups within villages: irrelevant for the task at hand, whatever that task is...
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