An amazing graphic from Bloomberg: Hat tip @petercoy
Evidence from Ethiopia, Tanzania, and Zambia: We gave US$1,000 cash prizes to winners of a business plan competition in Africa. The competition, entitled ‘Aspire’, was
The government has been trying to fight the country’s funereal stripper scourge for some time now. In 2006, the state-run broadcaster China Central Television’s leading
Guest post by Jeff Mosenkis at Innovations for Poverty Action A sanitation RCT done with our folks in Bangladesh and published in Science found a
As I boarded a flight last night, I tweeted that airline boarding is the new caste system. It could be worse. Suresh Naidu pointed me
There’s this idea that Toronto is becoming a post-racial city, a multicultural utopia where the colour of your skin has no bearing on your prospects.
Guest post by Jeff Mosenkis at Innovations for Poverty Action In our first recursive link, Chris writes about new results from his work with our team in
Harvard scholar Christopher Jencks reviews an edited volume, Legacies of the War on Poverty, where some of the best economists weigh in on what worked
A shameless repost from The Monkey Cage. Photo from Glenna Gordon. In too many countries, poor and unemployed young men are recruited into riots, election thuggery
A send up from the New Yorker Indeed, sitting has been called the new smoking. The only difference is that smoking looks cool and is a
I was skeptical when I heard Tyler Cowen would interview Jeff Sachs. I’ve read a lot of Jeff’s work and figured I couldn’t learn much
Evidence from text analysis of 886 letters of recommendation on behalf of 235 male and 42 female applicants for either a chemistry or biochemistry faculty position
Eli Berman and Aila Matanock have an excellent new review of insurgency counterinsurgency research: Research on insurgency has been invigorated this past decade by better
A friend points me to a new Apple video game, Dictator: You are the young dictator of a fledgling democratic republic. Anyone would dream of
Researchers at the University of Colorado at Boulder and California State University at Northridge in May reviewed a decade of empirical evidence about cops and
Dani Rodrik is interviewed: Suppose you’re in a setting where the rule of law and contract enforcement are really weak. And you realize that they
Guest post by Jeff Mosenkis at Innovations for Poverty Action. Electronic cash payments directly to recipient accounts are thought to help reduce opportunities for corruption.
Why are Indian children so short? Village temples cause democracy in rural China? Why basic income guarantees are better than workfare programs Those of you
The World Bank is facing what I think of as a March of Dimes moment. The well-known March of Dimes charity was founded in 1938
I just listened to David Skarbek‘s amazing EconTalk podcast, where he talks about his new book on the economics of prisons. I liked it so
The Teach Better podcast, from my friend Doug McKee. The Teach Better Podcast is a series of conversations with faculty (for now just at Yale) who
