blog post for the World Bank by David McKenzie
This blog post has been assigned as required reading for the CDE spring elective, Program Evaluation. It discusses several papers that use inventive methods to measure phenomena like illegal immigration, support for the Taliban, and prevalence of corruption.
Citation:
McKenzie, David. 2013. "Three New Papers on Measuring Stuff that is Difficult to Measure." World Bank Blogs. Published July 08, 2013. https://blogs.worldbank.org/impactevaluations/three-new-papers-measuring-stuff-difficult-measure