Dear Committee Members, by Julie Schumacher. A story told entirely through letters of recommendation, each written by a cynical, funny, arrogant, self-destructive English professor. As
Guest post by Jeff Mosenkis of Innovations for Poverty Action. Great links from David McKenzie on the Development Impact blog this week, including a guide to
That title from Justin Wolfers’s article in the The New York Times: The central problem is that employment policies that are gender-neutral on paper may
Guest post by Jeff Mosenkis of Innovations for Poverty Action. Alicia Munnell, a Harvard-trained economist who studies retirement policy, worked for the Federal Reserve Bank
Finally someone besides Todd Moss has combined social science with pulpy beach-reading thrillers. Suresh Naidu turned me onto P.W. Singer and August Cole’s Ghost Fleet
I have been Twitter, Facebook, and Reddit free for a week now. I’m mainly happy with the decision, at least so far. I stare at
Following my post on misleading methodological wars in political science this morning, I saw for the first time David McKenzie’s blog post on whether randomized
From the position of a political scientist, I commonly hear say, historians or anthropologists summarize what they understand political scientists to believe. Having done a
Guest Post by Jeff Mosenkis of Innovations for Poverty Action. A new working paper suggests the infamous Tuskegee syphilis experiments on African-American men may
More than 1,300 people have died trying to cross the Mediterranean in boats from North Africa in the last few weeks alone. Most of the
International trade of ivory was banned in 1989, with global elephant poaching data collected by field researchers since 2003. A one-time legal sale of ivory
Within a few days of me getting tenure, Tyler Cowen coincidentally posted this new paper from Brogaard, Engelberg and van Wesep: Using a sample of
Guest post by Jeff Mosenkis of Innovations for Poverty Action. Economist Deirdre McCloskey (formerly Donald), has an essay in the WSJ about transitioning publicly to
For the last few years I’ve been running a study of industrial jobs, and the long run impacts on worker health and wealth. Starting this
Evidence Apple is evil JPAL’s new Handbook of Field Experiments online The number of papers by these two Duke scholars flagged by Retraction Watch is
Short answer: For any given water molecule, the odds are basically negligible. But the odds that you’ve drank at least one water molecule twice are
This question is all over my Facebook and Twitter feeds. Strangely, despite the calculating economists and political scientists that fill my feeds, I have not
My new favorite site is Autoslash. I made a rental car reservation in Florida at Christmas and Thanksgiving, to visit family. Hertz gave me a
In the past decade, nearly 20 studies have found a strong, persistent pattern in surveys and behavioral experiments from over 40 countries: individual exposure to
…Xi is different from Mao in important ways. He has more accurate information than Mao did, thanks to extensive, organized, and professional systems of intelligence
Guest post by Jeff Mosenkis of Innovations for Poverty Action. That aspiring sitcom about the high-pressure Nigerian immigrant family is impressively close to its kickstarter goal.
