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Evaluation Summary and Metrics: “The Comparative Impact of Cash Transfers and a Psychotherapy Program on Psychological and Economic Well-being”

Evaluation Summary and Metrics: “The Comparative Impact of Cash Transfers and a Psychotherapy Program on Psychological and Economic Well-being”

Published onApr 17, 2023
Evaluation Summary and Metrics: “The Comparative Impact of Cash Transfers and a Psychotherapy Program on Psychological and Economic Well-being”
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Preamble

Paper: The Comparative Impact of Cash Transfers and a Psychotherapy Program on Psychological and Economic Well-being (2020).

Authors: Johannes Haushofer, Robert Mudida and Jeremy P. Shapiro.

Originally published as NBER Working Paper 28106.

We organized two evaluations of this paper

1. Hannah Metzler

2. Anonymous

To read these evaluations, please click the links above (or at the bottom).


Evaluators were asked to follow the general guidelines available here. For this paper, we did not give specific suggestions on ‘which aspects to evaluate’.

Metrics

Ratings

Eval. 1: Metzler

Eval. 2

Rating category

Rating (0-100)

Confidence

(0-5)

Rating (0-100)

90% CI (0-100)

Comments (Eval. 2)

Overall assessment

90

3

75

(65, 85)

Advancing knowledge and practice

90

2

70

(60, 90)

It provides useful evidence on the (in)effectiveness of CBT for general populations and was well-designed to investigate other important questions.

Methods: Justification, reasonableness, validity, robustness

90

3

90

(85, 95)

A well-executed RCT with effort to avoid bias.

Logic & communication

80

4

75

(70, 90)

Generally good, some claims could be better supported.

Open, collaborative, replicable

70

5

50

(40, 80)

Data and code aren’t available but I think this is standard for unpublished papers so I downweight this category. There’s some small discrepancies between the numbers reported in section III.B and the actual numbers in Table 1. Pre-analysis plan is available.

Engaging with real-world, impact quantification; practice, realism, and relevance

100

5

75

(60, 90)

There is cost-effectiveness analysis and good nontechnical communication.

Relevance to global priorities

100

5

90

(80, 100)

Predictions

Evaluator 1: Metzler

Evaluator 2

Prediction metric

Rating (0-5)

Confidence (0-5)

Comments

Rating (0-5)

90% CI

What ‘quality journal’ do you expect this work will be published in?

Note: 0= lowest/none, 5= highest/best

4

3

“Not very familiar with economic journals and their standards, how strong[ly] they weight novelty”

3

(2, 4)

On a ‘scale of journals’, what ‘quality of journal’ should this be published in?

Note: 0= lowest/none, 5= highest/best

5

5

4

(3, 4)

Data presentation of metrics

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