Guest post by Jeff Mosenkis of Innovations for Poverty Action. A new report from Amnesty International documents mass torture and hangings in Syria’s Saydnaya prison.
A robotic Strunk and White! The app is available here.
Guest post by Jeff Mosenkis of Innovations for Poverty Action. Video screenshot, actual video below EconTalk had George Borjas, who’s known for being a contrarian
I am starting a new project in Medellin where we are collecting systematic data on the hundreds of street gangs in the city. I will write
Beginning this spring, I’ll be teaching this new course to Harris Master’s students. The syllabus is just a draft, and so comments are welcome.* Here
Guest post by Jeff Mosenkis of Innovations for Poverty Action. Stanford’s Robb Willer’s TEDx talk on how to have better political conversations. Nice news from
Rigorous evaluation has changed the way we think about extreme poverty and how it can be ended. We have yet to see the same concerted
Guest post by Jeff Mosenkis of Innovations for Poverty Action. How Finland’s universal basic income test got scaled back because of politics (via Alexander Berger). A
Guest post by Jeff Mosenkis of Innovations for Poverty Action. As described in a long piece from New York Magazine, millions of people have been
Blog reader Brian Holtemeyer wrote to me with this question: My wife and I want to donate some money to a social cause. She wants
Guest post by Jeff Mosenkis of Innovations for Poverty Action. Last weekend I had an op-ed with Annie Duflo about 2016, citing Max Roser’s observations that for
A friend asked me this question and I decided to turn my long email into a blog post, to somehow justify the ridiculous amount of
A whopping 40% of Uganda’s government budget comes from foreign aid. This is a regime that is getting more and more autocratic, going the way of
The title of the UK Daily Mail article is “Just when you thought it couldn’t get any worse… YOUR cash is doled out in envelopes
Guest post by Jeff Mosenkis of Innovations for Poverty Action. Chris Blattman is on the EconTalk podcast talking about his work with Stefan Dercon on sweatshops in
Guest post by Jeff Mosenkis of Innovations for Poverty Action. There are too many twists and turns to quote in the amazing story behind the
When I arrived at Harris earlier this year, my eyes popped out a little when I found out this program existed: a Master’s degree that
Guest post by Jeff Mosenkis of Innovations for Poverty Action. Thomas Schelling, the Nobel laureate known for his work applying game theory to strategy died this week.
We estimate that access to the Kenyan mobile money system M-PESA increased per capita consumption levels and lifted 194,000 households, or 2% of Kenyan
Guest post by Jeff Mosenkis of Innovations for Poverty Action. Chris Arnade is is a physics Ph.D. turned Wall Street trader, turned sociologist, documenting the
I’m hiring a Research Associate (RA) for 1–2 years. Apply here. This is usually a recent master’s or undergraduate student with strong quantitative skills who
