I meant to blog about many of these individually, but after two months it has not happened, so here is a list of impressions. Not
Yes, it’s a real paper. Hat tip to @LisaKramer. The introduction concludes: Freeman and Huang (2014) document the tendency of academics to coauthor with others
The Metropolitan Museum in New York has an incredible Kongo exhibit. One caveat to this review: I saw it at a blurry trot, trying to
Something comes over most people when they start writing. They write in a different language than they’d use if they were talking to a friend.
I hear this question a lot. Lisa Barrow and Ofer Malamud have a new article in the Annual Review of Economics. Worth reading, but here
The Awl asks, and Sam Anderson of the NYT Magazine channels a young Blattman: Oh man, I suspect you’re going to be hearing this answer
As the price of prison phone calls sometimes hits $14 per minute, the FCC has now capped rates at 11¢ per minute Google Books won
Guest post by Jeff Mosenkis of Innovations for Poverty Action. University students are protesting against raised fees in South Africa, and elections in Tanzania look close. Keep up
Beautifully done: BBC footage of the Queen’s birthday, but with sneering BBC commentary about Kim Jong Il’s birthday dubbed over it. The lovely irony. Hat
What police data are online, rejected vanity license plates, and other random datasets from the Data is Plural newsletter of unusual datasets online Everything I
Jacobia Dahm, a photographer, recently traveled with refugees as they made their way form the Middle East through Europe. You can see her amazing photos
Guest post by Jeff Mosenkis of Innovations for Poverty Action. Indiana University and The Salvation Army’s collaborative “Human Needs Index” If somehow you haven’t heard,
As usual, comic artist Asher Sarlin best explains the persistence of this blog: And every year I look more and more like the guy on
We develop a simple algorithm for detecting exam cheating between students who copy off one another’s exam. When this algorithm is applied to exams in
[In 2010, the Census Bureau reported that] 819,105 Americans claimed at least one Cherokee ancestor… The Cherokees resisted state and federal efforts to remove them
Tim Ogden interviewed Angus Deaton for his forthcoming book, Experimental Conversations, and has published the full text online. Tim Taylor on the Nobel: Every year
…we propose that donor governments create a fund devoted exclusively to supporting cash transfer programs. The fund would accept competitive applications from organizations—both private and
In a stroke of luck, Ved had been searching Google Domains, Google’s website-buying service, when he noticed that Google.com was available for purchase on September
I was a master’s student at Harvard, more interested in economic history than anything else, when my econometrics professor, Rob Jensen, hired me to spend
That quote is from psychologist Richard Nisbett, on the tragedy of not enough experimental studies of social programs like Head Start. (Hat tip to Paul
Guest post by Jeff Mosenkis of Innovations for Poverty Action. NPR had a nice profile of an evaluation of whether teaching girls in Zambia Harvard
