This was a week of nerdily viral statistics posts on my blog. A few days ago I talked about the knee-jerk clustering of standard errors
Guest Post by Jeff Mosenkis of Innovations for Poverty Action. FiveThirtyEight has the story about the accumulation of evidence that microloans aren’t effective poverty solutions. Rupert
Tyler Cowen notes that roughly 42% of all the guns in the world are owned by Americans. And America accounts for about 42% of global
Brendan Nyhan has an idea: on how to improve the review process where causal inference is involved: Why not try to shift the focus of
Carrie Fisher is kind of amazing.
Since yesterday’s pointy-headed statistics post proved unexpectedly viral, I assume you want more econometric rants. So here’s something that has been bothering me all week.
If you were following the “does unemployment and exclusion drive Belgian extremists” debate, see the updates at the end of last week’s post Justice Stevens
This is two months old, but grows more and more appropriate every day. On the subject of Trump, I thought this speech to the Republican
I joke with my graduate students they need to get as many technical skills as possible as PhD students because the moment they graduate it’s
From his book, Art of the Deal. After he lost the election to Ronald Reagan, Carter came to see me in my office. He told
Mr. Zuckerberg didn’t create these tax laws and cannot be criticized for minimizing his tax bills. If he had created a foundation, he would have
Via one of the best blogs on the Internet. Also great, Adele covering her own song with classroom instruments:
1.4 Million: Americans who died in all Wars fought since 1776. 1.4 Million: Americans who died via household Guns since 1968 — Neil deGrasse Tyson
Guest post by Jeff Mosenkis of Innovations for Poverty Action. The American Enterprise Institute and Brookings Institution got liberal and conservative researchers together to come
Political science PhDs are starting to hear about job opportunities right now. Economists will in a few months. Here is my 2014 post on negotiating
Yes and no, says Philip Verwimp, a Belgian economist who studies violence. The graph above plots non-European-born employment levels in Europe against estimated ISIS recruitment.
It’s MA and PhD application time. (Indeed, I think the early bird, Berkeley, wants PhD applications by tomorrow.) Here’s my 2013 post on what you
Cash transfer programs do not make people work less, a new paper by Banerjee, Hanna, Kreindler and Olken The Edward Snowden documentary, Citizenfour, is online
Philip Giraldi reflects on a “countering violent extremism” conference in Washington: One thing that was largely missing from the discussion was a sense of history,
Guest post by Jeff Mosenkis of Innovations for Poverty Action. We’re hitting the links a bit early this week for Thanksgiving. Canada has a unique
Guest post by Jeff Mosenkis of Innovations for Poverty Action. The Great IPA Travel Podcast Playlist is out – we’ve got lots of links to
