Arijit Nandi and colleagues evaluate maternal health services utilization, stillbirth, and neonatal and infant survival following implementation of the Maternal Health Voucher Scheme in Bangladesh. doi.org/10.1371/journa… Arijit Nandi Sam Harper #maternalhealth #childhealth

Fixed-Dose Combination (Polypill) for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention: A Meta-Analysis - ScienceDirect sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

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Okay, editors, I know it's bad out there, but what's up with the aggressive emails requesting reviews of manuscripts that one has *previously declined* to review in addition to providing alternative reviewers?

Dear Ville de Montréal please investigate and report back 👇

Quality of code in biostatistics is poor. ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…. Key points: ~1/3rd papers with complex stats didn't use statistical code, 0 of 16 sets of code scored even "moderate" on 3 basic criteria for good coding practice.

With PhD applications due soon, thousands of young people are currently beginning their statements of purpose with the same cliché story, or the same anodyne statement Stop right now! Here are 10 thoughts for doing this right. Helps you, and helps admissions committees.👇

Interesting new paper in JAMA Psychiatry linking abortion restrictions to suicide rates (using TRAP data Sam Harper and I compiled a while ago). I'm quoted in the NBC article below (reporters: not my forte). The paper is worth a look. nbcnews.com/health/health-… via @nbcnews

Are you (or do you know) a master's or PhD-level student interested in assisted reproduction and/or policy evaluation? I'm hiring! Great opportunity to get some experience with survey design/analysis and admin data. Feel free to message me for info (and pls pass it along!).

NEW PAPER Title says it all: there is no such thing as a validated prediction model doi.org/10.1186/s12916…

Hiring again mcgill McGill School of Population and Global Health Epid! Assistant Prof with research on behavioral, environmental (esp systemic racism), and/or interventions to improve the health of geographically diverse Black populations. Details: bit.ly/3F0nNuc BlackEpiMatters SER

Happy to see this balanced and nuanced review by J-PAL of RCT evidence on how providing childcare affects women's economic empowerment. Appreciate that they reached out to Arijit Nandi and our team to accurately summarize our research. povertyactionlab.org/policy-insight…

1/ What do we know about how childcare impacts women’s economic empowerment? We reviewed findings from 9 evaluations across 8 countries & found that access to childcare ⬆️ women’s employment—but only where there were no extra barriers, like strict norms. j-p.al/vl3

In addition to the depressing discrepancy between declared (8%) vs. actual (2%) sharing of data, the sharing of code was even more rare. "... the prevalence of declared and actual code sharing between 2016 and 2021 were estimated to be 0.3% and 0.1%" We can do better!

The Data Colada team has been sued by Francesca Gino for exposing the fraudulent data underlying four of her papers (she claims defamation). The legal defense could get expensive. Please join us in providing financial support for their defense. gofundme.com/f/uhbka-suppor…

Support Data Colada's Legal Defense gofund.me/32526e6b