I meant to write this a week ago, but I’m preparing two new classes, meaning I’m reading in a frenzy and making up the rest,
A fantastic This American Life podcast on propaganda “Your Farts Can Prevent Cancer And Are Good For People Around You” Jerry Seinfeld interviews President Obama.
Under Romanian law, prisoners can shave 30 days off their jail terms for every book of scientific value that they have published …While in prison
The latest from the brilliant SMBC strip: Hat tip to @RemKau.
Guest post by Jeff Mosenkis of Innovations for Poverty Action. If you saw the new Star Wars movie, the character Nien Nunb is speaking the Kenyan
With the AEA meetings coming up next week, my old post on the art of being a discussant Larry Summers on what Bernie Sanders gets
At a ceremony honoring Carole King, who wrote the 1967 classic. Aretha is now 73. Long live the Queen. Source. See if you can guess
Guest post by Jeff Mosenkis of Innovations for Poverty Action. In a new (holiday release?) edition of WormWars (PDF), Miguel, Kremer, and Hicks address some of
A Swahili cover of Adele’s hello There is a new version of my paper on reducing crime and violence with cognitove behavior therapy Don’t expect
While we are on the subject of gift exchange, There’s still time for one-day delivery! All of the following are unsolicited, unprompted, unpaid product endorsements—10
Tim Harford burnishes his crotchety economics credentials with a terrific article, “In praise of Scrooge”. His point: many presents are not well chosen. And givers,
My wife Jeannie runs the research department at the International Rescue Committee, a large, conflict-focused humanitarian organization. In the tradition of advertising job openings on
In 2013 Facebook used the same amount of electricity as Burkina Faso Martin Ravallion has a new Economics of Poverty textbook coming out soon, and
From WashPo. Worth watching just for Dan Drezner quoting a certain senator, starting at 1:07.
Many transparency advocates call for pre-registration of planned research online… but there are some instances in which we can already examine the difference between an
Guest post by Jeff Mosenkis of Innovations for Poverty Action. Planet Money has a good episode analyzing an ISIS municipal budget, some interesting tidbits –
Steve Radelet has a new book, The Great Surge, about why so many countries have risen out of poverty in the past half century. There
Hat tip. I cannot quite tell the source.
Aid advocates should be careful what they wish for. If you advocate for an input target like 0.7%, you don’t have have a leg to
Last week I posted my worries about the direction of social science experiments, how raising the quality bar was going to drop the quantity of
The best and the worst of America in one sentence: “Pro-gun demonstrators staging a mock mass shooting near the University of Texas at Austin on
