Gelman, a Columbia statistician and political scientist, voices his discomfort with the behavioralist research and policy attitudes of recent years: I see a common thread
Guest post by Jeff Mosenkis of Innovations for Poverty Action A wonderful back and forth between David Evans and DFID Deputy Chief Economist Nick Lea,
Guest post by Jeff Mosenkis of Innovations for Poverty Action. Detecting soldiers registering as new voters in Cambodia from the gender distribution. Take a few
Guest post by Jeff Mosenkis of Innovations for Poverty Action. Pardon our remodeling! Chris is migrating his site to new servers, our apologies for any
Guest post by Jeff Mosenkis of Innovations for Poverty Action. Happy 100th links everybody. Thanks for the wonderful feedback and to Chris for loaning
Guest post by Jeff Mosenkis of Innovations for Poverty Action. “Surfing helps reduce extreme rural poverty, by encouraging people to nearby towns. When a wave is
Guest post by Jeff Mosenkis of Innovations for Poverty Action. A very interesting job for someone with experience: IPA’s looking to hire an experienced project
Rather, my message is that this noisy, N = 41, between-person study never had a chance. The researchers presumably thought they were doing solid science,
I give up. A few days ago I posted about the psychology replication study that didn’t replicate. Apparently the replication of the replication is quite
Isn’t it ironic? A recent article by the Open Science Collaboration (a group of 270 coauthors) gained considerable academic and public attention due to its sensational
On the sister blog I report on a new paper, “Don’t Get Duped: Fraud through Duplication in Public Opinion Surveys,” by Noble Kuriakose, a researcher
Guest post by Jeff Mosenkis of Innovations for Poverty Action. The Great IPA Travel Podcast Playlist is out – we’ve got lots of links to
Guest post by Jeff Mosenkis of Innovations for Poverty Action. It’s remarkably hard to solve the puzzle of why small and medium enterprises in the
“more than one-third of couples who married in the United States from 2005 to 2012 met online.” I tricked Kate Cronin-Furman into writing this: “Is
In response to the Montana experiment controversy, last week I asked, why wouldn’t it be okay for researchers to mess with elections? I’ve had a
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
Plagiarism, Arizona State style The latest round in the roots of long run development, institutions versus human capital Does female empowerment promote economic development? I’m
Here is Ray Fisman commenting on the plea for more academics to be have a voice in the real world: One thing that’s been a
Your propeller-head stats paper of the day: The statistical and econometrics literature on causality is more focused on “effects of causes” than on “causes of
Africa’s least touristed countries Does coffee kill? My colleague Andy Gelman exposes all/ruins our fun Podcast of author Nina Munk on her book about Jeff
