Sometimes when I’m stuck, I’ll open an English textbook, and do the homework. There are a lot of college writing textbooks that will include essays
A new paper from Pogorelova and Mocan: We exploit information on compulsory schooling reforms in 11 European countries, implemented in the 1960s and 70s, to identify
What exactly is dry cleaning? (I actually did not know) xkcd on the IPhone predictive keypad The greatest books of all time, as voted by
1/3 of Americans think the government spends more on foreign aid than Social Security or interest on debt A very good article on the Ebola crisis
I’d like to imagine that the guy who first proposed the idea of a white crayon was laughed out the room. (Now I am going
If you have not heard it already, one thing you will hear a lot more of in the next decade is not that Africa needs
After years of working on program evaluation and related things, it is with great joy that I toss causation out the window and learn to
Fine, cash transfers work okay in Kenyan villages, but should the world use them in wars and refugee crises? Apparently yes. In the first scientifically rigorous
Frontiers in Neuroscience for Young Minds is a scientific journal that includes young people (from 8 to 15) in the review of articles. This has
A new paper from Paul Novosad and Eric Werker: We examine, over a 60 year period, the nationalities of the most senior positions in the
At the end of August, the prime minister of Lesotho fled to neighboring South Africa, saying he had been overthrown by the military. He subsequently
A new paper from Wydick, Katz and Janet (link now fixed): We carry out a cluster randomized trial among 979 households in rural El Salvador
For a Sierra Leonean spin on the ice bucket challenge: the bucket shower challenge What’s the effect of manufacturing growth on Bangladeshi women? Emily Oster on
Dear Sir or Madam, But Most Likely Sir: I am writing to apply for your advertised position in Social Innovation. As a Comparative Literature Ph.D,
A Dutch woman faked a five week trip to Southeast Asia through facebook to make a philosophical point. She posted pictures of herself sitting next
Yelp now has court permission to change reviews for money A must read for anyone using regression discontinuity in their research “Teaching economics as if
It’s easy to despair at the patronage, vote-buying, and authoritarian turn being taken in so many new democracies. Surely democracy was different in the West? I give you
No. Public opinion polls consistently show that a growing majority of Americans support same-sex marriage. Critics, however, raise the possibility that these polls are plagued
It delights me that there are people like this in the world Eminem sets world record for words in a single song Neil Patrick Harris’ autobiography
