Peter Singer has a Boston Review piece telling us we should all be “effective altruists”—to make a difference by giving our time and our money,
On Friday the Wall Street Journal previewed the key bits of the annual B&MG letter on aid and development. Today the full letter came out. This
Everything you need to know in one volume, by JPAL’s Rachel Glennerster and Kudzai Takavarasha. Basically this is a how-to guide for the practitioner, or
Does NPR make you smarter? Marxism’s comeback? I’m enjoying Nina Munk’s book on Jeff Sachs Bill Easterly’s new favorite TV show NYPD is finding it
Research Books Why We Fight: The Roots of War and the Paths to Peace (2022). Viking Press. Working papers/Works in Progress Civilian alternatives to
The Economist recently published a nice graph comparing countries by placing log GDP per capita (in PPP terms) on one axis and average life satisfaction
Here is the table of contents for the JEP’s latest symposium on The Agenda for Development Economics: Understanding the Mechanisms of Economic Development — Angus
After a period of relative marginalization, development economics has now reemerged into the mainstream of most economics departments, attracting some of the brightest talents in the field.
It can be debated whether Mostly Harmless Econometrics is indeed mostly harmless That comes from Andrew Gelman’s review of Mostly Harmless Econometrics–the (comparatively) light and entertaining
Andrew Gelman reviews Mostly Harmless Econometrics on his stats blog. The book, by labor economics greats Angrist and Pischke, reads like an updated, extended version
Angus Deaton’s new paper will probably be the most influential one on randomized control trials this year. He’s been making this presentation for years, and
…we can attach monetary values to mortality to illuminate the often controversial question of how to value life in Africa. Large fractions of the respondents
I’ve just realized that Angus Deaton’s infamous Analysis of Household Surveys is free online from the World Bank. Budding development researchers: read this book. The
Marshall Jevons posts a video and podcast of a development symposium at Princeton on Improving Health in Poor Countries -What Works? The panel is moderated
In recent years, an enthusiasm for applying the same high standards of investigation to foreign development assistance that we usually reserve for medical trials has
