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Mike Gechter

@MikeGechter

Assistant Professor of Economics @uawaltoncollege . @YaleRISE affiliate. Working on external validity, cities, and firms in developing countries.

 Fayetteville, AR
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Joined July 2008
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Tere I'm so proud of you, you did it! #SUGrad23
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I appreciated the chance to read these articles by @bNeethipudi, a student in my economic development source: thewire.in/education/develop… idronline.org/10-things-indi… . Making the social sector inclusive is so important
India's Development Sector Has a Diversity Problem – and Changes at TISS Will Only Make It Worse

India's Development Sector Has a Diversity Problem – and Changes at TISS Will Only Make It Worse

Most well-funded social sector organisations don't have any employees from the communities they are seeking to uplift.

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Made a last-minute donation to the Democratic party via @actblue actb.lu/p/average
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Grateful to receive imagery grant from @DigitalGlobeFDN to investigate equity and efficiency effects of land policy in dev country cities!
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Replying to @falleneconomist
.@falleneconomist interesting. I'd be surprised if the difference cited in the headline result is statistically significant, though.
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Ben Wood@bdkwood29 Apr 2016
.@MikeGechter's pointers on conducting "external" #replication research bit.ly/1rF5Kle (it's hard). @anbrowndc @3ieNews
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Don't miss tomorrow's Trade & Development workshop with @MikeGechter on social experiments bit.ly/1FxoZiS
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@MendeleySupport Thanks very much, I appreciate it.
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In targeting multiple outcomes, be explicit about importance of each in achieving your goals: Full Contact Philanthropy idealistics.org/fcp/2011/10/…
#iscon discussion on failure: trust your objective benchmarks and use them to identify projects as failures
.@david_henderson: orgs need to make realistic predictions bit.ly/mTNFI8 // eval of predictions = eval of ideas predictions came from
Very happy with BibTeX support by @mendeley_com. Nice job!
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Any time I deal w/ HMIS XML protocol it frustrates me that this obtuse, inscrutable standard is what passes for technical in the soc sector.
I thought I escaped earthquakes when I left SoCal!
.@deankarlan on #impactinvesting (bit.ly/qSl9ev): data used for "monitoring", not impact analysis (ht @DavidBlenko)
Why Social Impact Investing Is A Crock

Why Social Impact Investing Is A Crock

A new breed of do-gooders wants to apply rigorous analysis to development programs. But are they getting any useful information, or just wasting money collecting meaningless data?

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Wish all R coders releasing open source code would use Google's R Style Guide (bit.ly/i6zK56), standards = easier code to read!
blogged on Full Contact Philanthropy on The Benefits of Quantifying Uncertainty: fullcontactphilanthropy.com/…
Network Effects and Social Outcomes of the Poor – Full Contact Philanthropy fullcontactphilanthropy.com/…
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