Guest post by Jeff Mosenkis of Innovations for Poverty Action. The NYTimes’ Nick Kristof writes about the new and very real findings in Science about
A special treat for my sky-is-falling-from-corruption nemeses. An excerpt from an ODI briefing paper on risks involved in using cash in humanitarian emergencies: The largest
I’m ready for a change of scenery, so I plan to spend several weeks in Colombia this summer looking for new research ideas and opportunities.
A new series, to remind us that the developed world is not as distant from the rest as we’d like to think. From yesterday’s New York
The mission is “Evidence for Stability and Development” and I will be the new academic lead. In the coming decades, most of the poor will
Everyone thought the Perry preschool program was a loss, until they saw the long run data on the children as adults. Now one of the other
Wednesday Martin treks into darkest Manhattan, the Upper East Side, to dwell amongst the Glam SAHM tribe (for glamorous stay-at-home-moms). Sex segregation, I was told,
Guest post by Jeff Mosenkis of Innovations for Poverty Action. A new IPA/J-PAL six-country randomized controlled trial looking at the ultra-poor (people living on less
Unreal interview with Seymour Hersh Jason Furman on the evidence for social safety welfare programs in the US Machine learning methods for estimating heterogeneous causal effects
Agriculture has always been the greatest destroyer of nature, stripping and despoiling it, and reducing acreage left. Then, in about 1940, acreage and yield decoupled
Shamus Khan, a sociologist colleague here at Columbia, returned to his elite secondary school as a teacher cum ethnographer. I have finally gotten around to
You have probably not heard of this show. An Australian comedy about sad things, including mental illness. It stars an aimless, kind of sad, bitterly
This is guest post by Jeff Mosenkis of Innovations for Poverty Action. The New York Times Dealbook has a review of the new book, Misbehaving,
My Baltimore friends who had seen the show also believed, given the police violence in their town, that The Wire‘s view of Baltimore’s finest was
Michael Clemens is kicking ass and taking names over at Vice. His best guess is population would rise 10% and this would have more benefits
Guest post by Jeff Mosenkis of Innovations for Poverty Action. On Nepal earthquake relief (disclaimer: we don’t do any work in Nepal, and haven’t vetted
Using Times New Roman on your resume is like wearing sweatpants to a job interview? Confessions of a secret aid worker: how you lose your
I really liked GiveWell’s post, where they summed up their general advice. In brief: Money is usually not the limiting factor at the moment, though
Ian Johnson in the NYRB, reflecting on his days on the WSJ desk: One of the most vexing questions for a writer on China is
Via a news release to my inbox (well… also told to me over dinner last night by my IRC-employed spouse): The International Rescue Committee (IRC),
Casting stereotypes aside, here is Orioles COO John Angelos, son of owner Peter Angelos (from a series of tweets, no less): Brett, speaking only for
