Grading Bill and Melinda Gates’ annual letter
It’s my second year, so this makes it a tradition. I take the conceit of grading it like one of my development class exams. But this year I do it in the Washington Post’s Monkey Cage blog. The letter...
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IPA’s weekly links
Guest post by Jeff Mosenkis at Innovations for Poverty Action. As we expect never to hear from Chris again, here are IPA’s weekly links: With the US, Japan, and North Korea appearing to be the only...
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The World Bank has a conflict problem
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 with a focus on fighting polio. But after the Salk vaccine was licensed...
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Guest post by Jeff Mosenkis of Innovations for Poverty Action. Have a research idea on financial services for the poor? IPA (with a grant from the Gates Foundation) is looking to fund new research...
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Guest post by Jeff Mosenkis of Innovations for Poverty Action. Remember David Evans, the guy nominated for a best writing on the internet award for his research summaries? He’s back from the NUEDC...
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Guest post by Jeff Mosenkis of Innovations for Poverty Action. We’re hitting the links a bit early this week for Thanksgiving. Canada has a unique system that allows groups of private citizens to...
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Following psychology’s current “repligate” and econ’s Worm Wars, I wrote a guide to how to read “debunking” news stories (including the Wu-Tang Clan rule). You can almost hear the disappointment in...
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Guest post by Jeff Mosenkis of Innovations for Poverty Action. Evans, Goldstein, Jakiela, O’Sullivan, Montalvão, & Ozier, once again do a great job boiling down 120+ papers from Oxford’s Center for...
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Guest post by Jeff Mosenkis of Innovations for Poverty Action. Dean Karlan with Abhijit Banerjee. Photo definitely not courtesy of Yale or MIT. There’s been some controversy about Chinese-funded aid...
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Guest post by Jeff Mosenkis of Innovations for Poverty Action. Thomas Schelling, the Nobel laureate known for his work applying game theory to strategy died this week. Obituary in the New York Times....
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Guest post by Jeff Mosenkis of Innovations for Poverty Action. How Finland’s universal basic income test got scaled back because of politics (via Alexander Berger). A review of Yuen Yuen Ang’s How...
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The only thing anti-poverty programs are missing is the long arm of the law?
In a minute I’m going to get to a great new book on U.S. poverty and policing. But first I have to digress. You’ll see where I am going in a minute. Overly paternalistic poverty programs give me a...
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Guest post by Jeff Mosenkis of Innovations for Poverty Action. Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer started an initiative to make government data from all levels very easy to access. So if you’re in the middle of...
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Guest post by Jeff Mosenkis of Innovations for Poverty Action. Chris Blattman & Stefan Dercon have an op-ed in the New York Times, reporting on their study with IPA and the Ethiopian Development...
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Guest post by Jeff Mosenkis of Innovations for Poverty Action. Madina Nalwanga as chess champion Phiona Mutesi in the film Queen of Katwe. Photo: Edward Echwalu/Disney Recognizing that an increasing...
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Guest post by Jeff Mosenkis of Innovations for Poverty Action. First a word from my sponsor – IPA’s kind enough to let me use some time writing these links up almost every week for the last 2.5 years,...
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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, ostensibly about regressions, but to me resonated...
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(Didn’t think I’d get a chance to use this again) Guest post by Jeff Mosenkis of Innovations for Poverty Action Congratulations to Emi Nakamura, winner of the Clark medal. Noah Smith explains her work...
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Guest post by Jeff Mosenkis of Innovations for Poverty Action First some good news – congratulations to development economist and dewormer Ted Miguel, social psychologist of diversity and justice...
View ArticleThe most important economic event of the past century
We estimate the impact of the Green Revolution in the developing world by exploiting exogenous heterogeneity in the timing and extent of the benefits derived from high-yielding crop varieties (HYVs)....
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