That’s the question Jennifer Lentfer asked on the Oxfam blog following my post and paper last week on the amazing impacts of cash transfers in Uganda.
My post last week on giving cash to the poor got far more traction and publicity than I imagined. For those interested in some of the
More reasons to be less cynical about cash transfers to the poor Poor women with children in Ecuador were selected at random for a cash
Blog reader Brian Holtemeyer wrote to me with this question: My wife and I want to donate some money to a social cause. She wants
In the last few months, I sat on a blue chip panel debating how to make the humanitarian system work better. The report is out,
In light of the current crisis, a journalist reached out for general advice for people who want to make a difference, whether it’s with refugees
A big week for cash studies, and a great resource for learning or teaching economics
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. A few years ago, Liberia, whose educational system has been troubled to say the least,
Why the U.S. is about to make a big mistake on poverty, and randomista fashionistas.
The sad phasing out of a landmark support program for economists
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. Snot corn! That’s crop scientist Sarah Taber’s nickname for the variety of maize native Mexicans
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. Preregistration stops medications from working Tyler Cowen interviewed Chris Blattman and in typical Cowen
