The promise of blogging also has its perils
I arrived back to the US and opened my inbox to a surprising number of sympathy emails/tweets over my upbraiding at Freakonomics. Many thanks to
I arrived back to the US and opened my inbox to a surprising number of sympathy emails/tweets over my upbraiding at Freakonomics. Many thanks to
1. GiveWell loves failure (in a good way) 2. A visualization of crime in Mexico 3. Martin Ravallion asks whether today’s development workers have the right
1. The most popular infographics 2. Gelman does a brilliant take-down of “the worst graph of the year” 3. A pointed analogy for rape 4.
This more or less captures my suspicions about half the papers I read these days: From a sensible rant against the practice. I think the
Some of you enjoyed Mike McGovern’s ethnography of development economists. For those that did, see Andy Gelman’s comment on the statistical argument under Mike’s claims here.
Andy Gelman’s coverage of a recent economics article has led to a rowdy set of comments about co-authorship norms in economics and political science. From
1. Excellent interview with Andrew Gelman 2. Other thoughts on the Scott book (see last post) from Henry Farrell and the Understanding Society blog 3.
1. Would Gandhi get donor funding? 2. Empire Strikes Bank inducted into Library of Congress 3. Andy Gelman on what’s wrong with the scientific method
Andy Gelman responds to yesterday’s matching rant: I see what Chris is getting at–matching, like regression, won’t help for the variables you’re not controlling for–but
Doing (applied) mathematical research is a little bit like walking through the woods: sometimes I get stuck and have to work around an obstacle, and
Andy Gelman points us to statistical love poems for Valentine’s Day. A sample: You are perfect; I’d make no substitutions You remind me of my
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
Not many top-ranked scholars of international relations are going into government, and even fewer return to contribute to academic theory. The 2008 Teaching, Research and
The US government has a Guide to Blogging, including such gems as “Include serial commas for reading ease” and, “Read your link aloud—is it easy
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
A couple weeks back I blogged Bill Easterly’s critique of military intervention in poor nations. As usual I think Bill is brilliant, but in this
Last week’s request for the inside scoop on Walmart yielded a great many excellent comments and articles. Today, I am alerted to this incredible visualization
Blogger Daniel Drezner has an article in Newsweek on how authoritarian leaders have innovated to keep themselves in power. From Andrew Gelman, of the excellent
There’s an unually (and terrifically) high number of research papers on development and politics being released from the NBER this week. Naritomi, Soares and Assunção