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Jack Coleman

Guest post by Jeff Mosenkis of Innovations for Poverty Action.

Jack Coleman

Above: Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia Chair Jack Coleman

  • Yale economists Dean Karlan and Chris Udry are on the new episode of NPR’s Planet Money, “The Risk Farmers,” talking about the contest between them to figure out why farmers in sub-Saharan Africa don’t invest more into their fields. (Sadly the short version on Morning Edition doesn’t include the super dramatic farmer radio drama).
  • The remarkable life of Jack Coleman, labor economist at MIT and Carnegie Mellon, and later president of Haverford, who would take secret sabbaticals to work in blue collar jobs. He’s probably the only person who had to disappear from a sanitation worker job to chair Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia meetings.
  • This American Life’s follow-up show on life in Greek refugee camps is also nice, highlighting people getting on with their lives despite living in limbo.
  • Italy’s “Fertility Day” campaign to combat dwindling population by shaming women into having babies seems to have backfired.
  • Slides from Stata’s conference in July are up, with lots of how-tos to geek out on (h/t Julia Brown).
  • Want more links? David McKenzie’s got some great ones this week on the Development Impact Blog.

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  1. Just wanted to say how much I enjoy these posts. Always informative. Thanks for giving voice to them.