Conversation with Dr. Berk Özler of The World Bank about spillover effects of GiveDirectly's cash transfer program

[Nicole Zok]

https://files.givewell.org/files/conversations/Berk_Ozler_12-20-18_(public).pdf

GiveWell spoke with Dr. Özler about the spillover effects of GiveDirectly's cash transfer program and more broadly about approaches to conducting meta-analyses. For additional context, Dr. Özler responded to GiveWell's original post on spillovers (https://www.givewell.org/international/technical/programs/cash-transfers/spillovers/November-2018-version) with a series of tweets (https://twitter.com/BerkOzler12/status/1068996086470197248), to which GiveWell responded with this blog post (https://blog.givewell.org/2018/12/06/response-to-concerns-about-givewells-spillovers-analysis/). In these notes, we summarize the additional steps that GiveWell could take to understand the spillover effects of GiveDirectly's program based on suggestions made by Dr. Özler. (However, these notes represent GiveWell's understanding of Dr. Özler's suggestions and are not a direct transcript; any errors or inconsistencies are GiveWell's.)

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Nicole Zok

Research Analyst

www.GiveWell.org