- Arkansas personal and economic freedom. (The interesting question is: why?).
- Pics from Turkey.
- Small donations to support higher education for Haitian students.
- Ghost cities in China.
- The incredible things migrants are willing to do for a better life. Spanish. English.
- Who are the new economic optimists?
- Car crashes should be a global health priority. HT @m_clem.
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Jun 16, 2013
Links (06/16/2013)
Dec 6, 2012
Oct 22, 2012
Links
Tom Murphy writes a deep reflection on how humanitarian organizations communicate and the need to do it better (he writes on a recent video recorded in Haiti, which has very little context of the socio-economic condition of the speaker). Here.
The difference in performance in math between boys and girls tend to increase with age in middle and low income countries. Girls lag behind, and they are more likely to state that they dislike math. Here.
David Warsh writes a deep, entertaining, and detailed essay on this year Nobel Laureates in economics. He pays more attention to Lloyd Shapley. Here. HT: Tim Harford.
A NYT article on the recent shooting in Guatemala, and the excessive militarization in the country. Militarization is a consequence of the war on drugs, a vicious cycle that does not solve the fundamental problem. For me militarization and the war on drugs bring memories of the past. Here.
On average, people who are "popular" in school tend to have higher wages later in life (10% higher after 40 years). Here.
Oct 15, 2012
Links
A new book on political change by my colleague Wayne Leighton (with Ed Lopez). An interview with Wayne is here.
(Trans)national identity at the Mexico–Guatemala border, or simply: arbitrage.
My case study (with Luis Alfaro) on religion and economic development in a Guatemala town in Research in Economic Anthropology [now published]. A draft is here.
Jul 5, 2012
Links
The half full and half empty views of village savings groups.
Was European Colonialism good for development? There is some evidence for that . . . but some critics as well.
Social entrepreneur of the day: Transforming a local plant into cash and oil in Haiti.
Was European Colonialism good for development? There is some evidence for that . . . but some critics as well.
Social entrepreneur of the day: Transforming a local plant into cash and oil in Haiti.
May 15, 2012
Links
Coffee Happiness.
No babies? And in the US?
More inequality, more crime?
An interview with Carlos Fuentes in the Paris Review.
African music.
The Spanish Hangover.
No babies? And in the US?
More inequality, more crime?
An interview with Carlos Fuentes in the Paris Review.
African music.
The Spanish Hangover.
May 14, 2012
Links
A promising model for school governance: Parent-Teacher Associations (PTA) in a new paper by Duflo, Dupas, and Kremer (March 2012).
Communty-Based Micro Insurance. Intriguing.
Communty-Based Micro Insurance. Intriguing.
May 11, 2012
Titles, sentences, and the talk of the town
Titles:
9 Things I Learned From Woody Allen. HT: @ishKrishna.
Sentences:
One of Buteau’s suggestions for bolstering reconstruction efforts is to have Haitian firms and local organizations play a more prominent role—less than one percent of contracts awarded by USAID in fiscal years 2010 and 2011 went to Haitian firms. HT: @MargRev, and Marc Bellemare.
In the end, both camps should show greater humility: macro-development practitioners about what they already know, and micro-development practitioners about what they can learn.
The talk of the town:
However, when we correct for a mathematical error and use more recent comparison data, we find that under-5 mortality has fallen at just 5.9% per year at MVP sites, which is slower than the 6.4% average annual decline in under-5 child mortality in the MVP countries nationwide.
May 10, 2012
May 9, 2012
May 7, 2012
May 5, 2012
Links
The Bettor's Oath.
Economic tribalism.
Living Economics.
Does Access to Secondary Education Affect Primary Schooling? Evidence from India.
The Effect of Early Entrepreneurship Education: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment.
Happiness and health: two paradoxes. Published here.
". . . ethnic and religious cleavages are especially important in predicting local-level violence."HT: Chris Blattman.
Economic tribalism.
Living Economics.
Does Access to Secondary Education Affect Primary Schooling? Evidence from India.
The Effect of Early Entrepreneurship Education: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment.
Happiness and health: two paradoxes. Published here.
May 4, 2012
Links
True Lessons of the Recession.
"If Walmart were a country, it would be China’s sixth-largest export market."
| Africa’s Child Health Miracle. Resurrecting Economic History. |
Apr 27, 2012
Links
Amy Finkelstein wins the John Bates Clark award. Marginal Revolution.
The Decline in Manufacturing in the United States. Becker.
Remembering Milton Friedman. Greg Mankiw.
Globalization. Rodrik.
Apr 24, 2012
Links
| Are Stocks Really Less Volatile in the Long Run? A review of a new book on Haiti. How creativity connects with immorality? Tyler Cowen asks for suggestions of readings on education in developing economies. One the the under-researched areas is financial literacy. Another one is higher education. |
Apr 20, 2012
Apr 18, 2012
Apr 15, 2012
Links
Mexican gangs are "price setters" instead of "price takers." "Mexico is the world's second biggest producer of marijuana (the U.S. is No. 1)." HT: Cris Lingle.
Kenan Malik: "The Haitian Revolution, more than any other, expressed the new relationship between morality and politics. It was, like the French Revolution, defined and driven by a moral claim – the idea of a common humanity and the insistence that the ‘Rights of Man’ applied to all." Source.
Elisabeth Rosenthal: "In a quarter-century, at the rate Nigeria is growing, 300 million people — a population about as big as that of the present-day United States — will live in a country the size of Arizona and New Mexico."
Hot to blog? HT: @TimHartford.
Apr 11, 2012
Apr 10, 2012
Links
An evaluation of the laptop programme by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) found that the children receiving the computers did not show any improvement in maths or reading. From The Economist. Via @m_clem.
52 reasons why you shouldn’t date an aid worker. Via @brettkeller.
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