Transcript Constrained Provider Choice

Discussant Slide Template
Susan Godlonton
AGRODEP AIEN III Workshop
Dakar, Senegal
4th June, 2014
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Research Question
Clearly state or restate the research question
2-3 short points about why the question being
asked is important/why we care about the
answer
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Identification Strategy
What is the identification strategy (i.e. what is
the method being used)
What assumptions are (implicitly/explicitly)
being made in this choice
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Identification Strategy
How does the author defend the assumptions
Why do or do not the assumptions make
sense?
How else could the author test the
assumptions?
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Identification Strategy
What robustness checks could the author do?
What placebo tests could the author run?
Is there an alternative, more credible
identification strategy to answer the question?
What is it?
Why is it preferable?
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If results included
Are coefficients correctly interpreted?
If not, how should they be interpreted? Why.
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