Weekly links July 12: heat makes it hard to repay, measure everything and take more risk?, and more… DAVID MCKENZIE JULY 12, 2024 This page in: English

https://blogs.worldbank.org/en/impactevaluations/weekly-links-july-12--heat-makes-it-hard-to-repay--measure-every Scott Cunningham discusses how detailed qualitative and contextual work can be used to understand the assignment mechanism and justify difference-in-differences assumptions “choosing comparison groups in DiD requires a deep understanding of the treatment assignment mechanism, which often involves qualitative methods and not just data-driven approaches to matching on pre-trends” – something I emphasize in this post