The latest JEP has symposia on entrepreneurship, classic ideas in development economics, and academic production Predicting World Bank project outcomes Interview with a favorite author of
In order to help bring attention to the need for scholarship and fresh ideas in this area, and to encourage broad participation, the Global Development Network (GDN) in
We evaluate policies to increase prosocial behavior using a field experiment with 1,500 referees at the Journal of Public Economics. We randomly assign referees to four
The blog will be off for the majority of August. I will probably still tweet a little, since I’m browsing what’s out there for pleasure
We’ll be in Catalonia for the next three weeks, mostly in a small village just west of Figueres, and a little in Barcelona. Recommendations for food or
Be a research advisor for education at International Rescue Committee* Foreign policy wonks: Are you a zen master? Security at ComicCon The psychological effects of
Courtesy of Kate at Wronging Rights, here is Wednesday’s UN Human Rights Council vote on investigating Israel for war crimes in Gaza: And here is the vote
Some fascinating facts from a new paper by Elo, Frankenberg, Gansey, and Thomas: The number of migrants to the U.S. from Africa has exploded in recent years, and for the
Am at the NBER development summer institute. Some interesting papers: Providing farmers with rainfall insurance makes them take more risks, and do better, but there’s
In spite of me. I’ve been interviewed on one of my favorite podcasts, EconTalk: Chris Blattman of Columbia University talks to EconTalk host Russ Roberts
Inglorious fruits and vegetables, otherwise known as ugly fruits. Here is a good article from the NY Times in May.
The Confederados were individuals from the U.S. Confederate states who left the American South and resettled in São Paulo, Brazil, immediately after the Civil War.
(Links fixed) I always believed that a handful of Californian counties produce nearly all our fruits and nuts, but I didn’t know it was real fruits
From the Editors of Science: ….unfortunately, there have been far too many cases where the quantitative analysis of those numbers has been flawed, causing doubt
Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson discuss the work of Jim Scott in a (so far) three-part series: here, here and here. This reminds me of
Voting for Autocracy: Hegemonic Party Survival and Its Demise in Mexico, by Beatriz Magaloni. An enlightening book. In brief: how countries with elections but de facto
There’s a clever Twitter tool, FollowerWonk, that among other things gives you word clouds of the people that follow you (using their bios) and location.
“The difference between successful people and very successful people is that very successful people say no to almost everything.” That is Warren Buffett, quoted in
The jury trial is a critical point where the state and its citizens come together to define the limits of acceptable behavior. Here we present
From the Washington Post, governments may fall: Elections are scheduled for later this year, and President Dilma Rousseff, while still ahead in the polls, may
Or, more accurately, titles and abstracts I liked. Islands of high productivity in Africa’s manufacturing sector Why don’t remittances affect growth? Culture, politics, and development How
