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SUMMARY:What Can Linked Administrative Data Sets Teach Us About Eviction And Poverty In America?
DESCRIPTION:About the Lecture\nThe report leading to the creation of the SSRC in 1923 outlined several major challenges for social science: data collection\, interpretation\, measurement\, and causality. This lecture will explore the extent to which newly available administrative datasets — linked together to create what is sometimes referred to as “big data” — can help address these challenges and contribute to our understanding of the causes and consequences of eviction and poverty in the United States. The lecture will draw heavily on a study of eviction in Chicago and New York\, which is joint work with Robert Collinson\, John Eric Humphries\, Nick Mader\, Davin Reed and Daniel Tannenbaum. \n\nEvent Recording\n \nAbout Winnie van Dijk\nWinnie van Dijk is an assistant professor in the Department of Economics at Yale. Her research is motivated by a desire to understand how economic policy can alleviate poverty and increase economic opportunity for low-income households. Professor Van Dijk’s work combines frontier econometric methods with the collection and curation of new data sets — including court filings\, information collected by public agencies\, surveys\, and credit reports — to generate empirical evidence that can inform policy design and evaluation. Professor Van Dijk is a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research\, and she is affiliated with Opportunity Insights\, the University of Chicago Inclusive Economy Lab\, the Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities\, and CAGE. She graduated from the University of Chicago with a PhD in economics\, and subsequently she was a Saieh Family Research Fellow at the Becker Friedman Institute and an assistant professor in the Department of Economics at Harvard. Before Chicago\, she studied at the London School of Economics and at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam.
URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/what-can-linked-administrative-data-sets-teach-us-about-eviction-and-poverty-in-america/
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SUMMARY:Building an Evidence Base for Climate Interventions in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
DESCRIPTION:About the Lecture\nMitigating greenhouse gas emissions and facilitating adaptation to climate change requires effective public investments\, yet many policies and programs lack crucial evidence of their effectiveness. In low and middle income countries\, the cost of putting resources toward ineffective policies is particularly high. This talk discusses two recent randomized controlled trials aimed at filling the evidence gap. The first tests novel approaches to reduce agricultural emissions in India. The second improves smallholder farmers’ resilience to climate shocks in Niger. Findings highlight the need for piloting before scaling up policy — in both projects\, cost effectiveness was improved through innovative policy design. \n\nEvent Recording\n \nAbout Kelsey Jack\nKelsey Jack is an Associate Professor at the Bren School and in the Department of Economics at UC Santa Barbara. Her research is at the intersection of environmental and development economics\, with a focus on how individuals\, households\, and communities affect and are affected by their natural environment. Much of her research uses field experiments to test theory and new policy innovations. She has done research in numerous countries in Africa\, Asia and Latin America. Kelsey co-chairs the Environment and Energy sector at J-PAL and is an associate editor at the American Economic Review and Econometrica. Prior to joining UCSB\, Professor Jack was on the faculty at Tufts University and was a post doc at MIT. She has a bachelors degree from Princeton University and a PhD from Harvard University. Before graduate school\, she spent two years in Lao PDR working for IUCN.
URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/building-an-evidence-base-for-climate-interventions-in-low-and-middle-income-countries-centennial-lecture-series/
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