I’ve just finished a new paper with a clunky title (the kind that economics referees hopefully love), Credit Constraints, Occupational Choice, and the Process of
Ought we to help hungry households with cash or with food? Evidence on consumption and nutrition from a randomized control trial in Mexico: households do
Photoessay: Polar bears living in an abandoned weather station in Kolyuchin (Russia) One reason Russia is strategically powerful is because much of Europe abandoned nuclear
Guest post by Jeff Mosenkis of Innovations for Poverty Action. A quick note, my posting frequency has slowed down in 2021, thanks for sticking
Guest post by Jeff Mosenkis of Innovations for Poverty Action Professor Lisa Cook explains that black and white inventors put in equivalent numbers of patent
Guest post by Jeff Mosenkis of Innovations for Poverty Action. It’s a little tricky to write links when it feels like things are changing hourly.
What we can learn about private philanthropy from the Ottoman Empire
The sad phasing out of a landmark support program for economists
How to apply behavioral insights, and one thing machine learning cant’ do.
It’s been a big week for cash findings (but other stuff happened too)
Guest post by Jeff Mosenkis of Innovations for Poverty Action. First, congratulations to some fantastic economists: Amy Finkelstein on her election to the National Academy
Guest post by Jeff Mosenkis of Innovations for Poverty Action. Cash transfers have been all the rage but now that longer-term data is coming in, Berk
Guest post by Jeff Mosenkis of Innovations for Poverty Action. I wasn’t going to even address the SNAP/Box of canned foods proposal in the news,
Guest post by Jeff Mosenkis of Innovations for Poverty Action. Jobs: NPR’s Planet Money is looking for someone who knows about econ to do shorter
Guest post by Jeff Mosenkis of Innovations for Poverty Action. ICYMI, there’s a famine affecting 20 million people across a number of countries. From the
New York Times published an article last week, titled “The Future of Not Working.” In it, Annie Lowrie discusses the universal basic income experiments in
When I arrived at Harris earlier this year, my eyes popped out a little when I found out this program existed: a Master’s degree that
