Papers today from the NBER/BREAD conference on development economics:
- The green revolution lies through meteorology? Indian farmers underinvest because rainfall forecasts are poor
- How poverty affects cognitive function (now ungated)
- Private school vouchers in India improve student performance at lower cost
- But do parents even care student performance?
Interesting in many respects, including how every paper is essentially a study of market imperfections.
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If you’re unable to access the poverty and cognitive function paper, the NYT has a decent summary of it:
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/09/25/escaping-the-cycle-of-scarcity/