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How to measure impact, and why we may have all been doing it wrong (with Michael Plant)

Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg

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The Cost Effectiveness of Cash Transfers in Low-Income Countries

For each intervention we looked at about 40 studies from low-income country context and for the cash transfers we did a systematic search so we're pretty confident that this like exhausted the literature. We looked at lump sum cash transfers as well as monthly stream cash transfers and then for psychotherapy we did something a bit similar. The specialists were about 15 percent more effective than the non-specialists but they are the differences and huge. It seems like the most promising version of the intervention is going to be a lay health workers and in groups and that's going to be the most kind of cost-effective version if we're thinking about having the impact.

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