Evaluation Summary and Metrics: “The Comparative Impact of Cash Transfers and a Psychotherapy Program on Psychological and Economic Well-being”
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
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Evaluators were asked to follow the general guidelines available here. For this paper, we did not give specific suggestions on ‘which aspects to evaluate’.
Eval. 1: Metzler | Eval. 2 | ||||
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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collaborative, replicable | 70 | 5 | 50 | (40, 80) | Data and code aren’t available but I think this is standard for unpublished papers so I downweight this category.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) |
Evaluator 1: Metzler | Evaluator 2 | ||||
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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? | 5 | 5 | 4 | (3, 4) |