hat tip to @dandrezner Some depressing commentary
The events: Three political scientists sent out official-looking election mailers to 100,000 Montana voters The mailer described the ideological standing of technically non-partisan candidates for the
Factory girls, by Leslie Chang. A WSJ journalist writes about factory girls she met in China. It is not what you might expect. This is
A common sensical but useful new paper by Nagler and Naude, on how many if not most African households make their money. Descriptive analysis is
Julian Assange tells a fascinating tale about Schmidt and Google in Newsweek: Schmidt’s emergence as Google’s “foreign minister”—making pomp and ceremony state visits across geopolitical fault lines—had
The GiveWell people describe their ongoing investigation and the challenges: One fundamental issue is that we know too little about the relationship between “how much money is
A Chrome extension that shows beautiful Google Earth pics in new tabs Star-Spangled Banner played by gun sounds. (I wonder if this will be on
A simulation of births and deaths in the world in real time Quartz covers our statistical prediction of violence in Liberia paper Lant Pritchett reacts
Number 7! Once again, the main this blog sticks around for me: (P.S. I’ve long lost the source of this cartoon. If someone knows, please comment
It’s not a *huge* stretch. This paper studies the introduction of electronic voting technology in Brazilian elections. Estimates exploiting a regression discontinuity design indicate that
The [Granity Mountain Records Vault] now holds parish records and old English manuscripts dating from the 1500s, including records from London, when civil registration began
“I’m still writing to you, maybe because I want you to give me a little hope. You can lie, if you feel like. Please, Etgar,
Consensus forecasts for the global economy over the medium and long term predict the world’s economic gravity will substantially shift towards Asia and especially towards
“They’re like, ‘Sir, there’s something in your bag.’ I said, ‘Yes, I think it’s this box.’ They said, ‘What’s in the box?’ I said, ‘a
Coffitivity “recreates the ambient sounds of a cafe to boost your creativity and help you work better.” What the location of your capital city has
A scene from his new film, which judging by this video looks good, but judging by the cover and description does not. Via OpenCulture
I would have said the folks on Avenue D, mainly because, over five years in Stuy Town, they complained a lot. I would be wrong. Source.
Ray Fisman gets credit for the title, Jonas Hjort gets credit for his paper on how ethnic divisions on productivity: In team production at a plant in
