Guest post by Jeff Mosenkis of Innovations for Poverty Action. Chris Arnade is is a physics Ph.D. turned Wall Street trader, turned sociologist, documenting the
Guest post by Jeff Mosenkis of Innovations for Poverty Action. That aspiring sitcom about the high-pressure Nigerian immigrant family is impressively close to its kickstarter goal.
Guest post by Jeff Mosenkis of Innovations for Poverty Action. Somehow yesterday turned into Guaranteed Basic Income Day. In the morning, Freakonomics released a podcast
Guest post by Jeff Mosenkis of Innovations for Poverty Action. If your work involves transcribing audio or video, Trint looks interesting. It extracts the text and
Heather Royer, an economist at the University of California, Santa Barbara, thinks she has hit on a way. In partnership with a Fortune 500 company,
Guest Post by Jeff Mosenkis of Innovations for Poverty Action. FiveThirtyEight has the story about the accumulation of evidence that microloans aren’t effective poverty solutions. Rupert
Guest post by Jeff Mosenkis of Innovations for Poverty Action. Indiana University and The Salvation Army’s collaborative “Human Needs Index” If somehow you haven’t heard,
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,
Guest post by Jeff Mosenkis of Innovations for Poverty Action. Worm Wars update: Michael Clemens and Justin Sandefur have the best explainer so far. Esther Duflo
Practitioners and academics have learned so much, and yet the governments, publics, and agencies fail to change. Or so my despondent self sometimes feels. Then
That’s not exactly what Michael Barnett and Peter Walker say in the latest Foreign Affairs, but it is a reasonable or at least tempting extrapolation.
The videos are up from last week’s Annual Bank Conference on Africa (ABCA) on violence and fragility. Among them are Ted Miguel on climate change
The World Bank is facing what I think of as a March of Dimes moment. The well-known March of Dimes charity was founded in 1938
I’m giving some talks next week on some new, not released papers: Monday Jan 26, 1230-2pm “More sweatshops for Africa? A randomized trial of industrial
Every year about this time, I escape from either work or family obligations to thank everyone for reading, and of course navel gaze a little, reporting back
This Christmas, do not forget the forgotten: when no exam is imminent the family death rate per 100 students (FDR) is low and is not
Army can’t track spending on $4.3b system to track spending What every US senator was doing 30 years ago An argument for cash transfers in
One of my favorite economists, Nancy Qian, reviews the literature on foreign aid. This is probably one of the better and more serious reviews out
If you run a survey of drug use, prostitution, domestic violence, rioting, or crime, who would believe this self-reported data? No one. If you work
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 has been located by… Courtney Love 8 interesting maps of the world GiveDirectly responds to the Mulago criticism of cash transfers
