Based on evidence that biometric monitoring technology did not increase doctors' attendance at primary health centers, the government of Karnataka decided to end the program, saving taxpayers millions of dollars.| The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL)
Background The data team at OP Labs has been working on tracking OP distributions across governance grants, partner funding, and other sources. We aim to share grant program performance and insights on a monthly basis in #Monitoring. This doc serves to update data and case studies for monthly delegate call in May. We welcome the broader community to analyze & contribute to our open-source analytics repo. You can follow this brief guide on how to contribute here. A snapshot of program data was...| Optimism Collective
Huge shoutout to Thomas Bialek and @chuxin_h on the OP Labs data team, and @andyhall from Stanford GSB/ a16z crypto, for leading the design and analysis of Airdrop 5 summarized below! Summary We leverage the quasi-experimental design of airdrop 5 to study whether airdrop rewards increased subsequent user retention. We find that: (1) Receiving 50 OP through Airdrop 5 increased 30-day retention by 4.2 percentage points and 60-day retention by 2.8 percentage points. (2) Bonus categories that foc...| Optimism Collective
We’ve been thinking a lot about advanced metrics lately. We want to get better at measuring how specific types of interventions impact the public goods ecosystem.| docs.opensource.observer
Overview of research and experimentation at Optimism| community.optimism.io