Materials regarding RCTs and SWB

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Materials regarding RCTs and SWB

MorHanany

1 min readJan 22, 2021

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Happier Lives Institute has the sequence "Measuring Happiness", and conducted a meta-analysis on SWB outcomes of cash transfers.

About how to run an RCT, I searched at J-PAL (which are amazing) and found this list of resources on RCTs execution (which looks amazing and that probably contains what you want).

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