Showing posts with label development. Show all posts
Showing posts with label development. Show all posts
Saturday, September 30, 2023

Dean Karlan interview about USAID, by Dylan Matthews at Vox

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  Evidence! (versus bureaucracy...). Dean Karlan is the man in the middle. The US hired a leading economist to fix how it allocates foreign...
Sunday, June 25, 2023

Michael Kremer NPR, talking about Busia, Kenya and randomized control trials

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  You can read the transcript as well as listen to the show at the link: How randomized trials and the town of Busia, Kenya changed economic...
Monday, August 15, 2022

U. Chicago celebrates Michael Kremer

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  Theory in practice--Nobel laureate Michael Kremer is building up development economics at UChicago .  By Lucas McGranahan, The University ...
Thursday, May 5, 2022

The Development Innovation Lab at the University of Chicago, Led by Michael Kremer

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 Here's the announcement from Chicago: The Development Innovation Lab Launches at the University of Chicago, Led by Nobel Laureate Micha...
Tuesday, March 1, 2022

Targeting High Ability Entrepreneurs Using Community Information: Mechanism Design in the Field By Reshmaan Hussam, Natalia Rigol, and Benjamin N. Roth

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 Mechanisms designed to elicit truthful reporting in the laboratory sometimes are cumbersome to administer and difficult to explain.  Here&#...
Sunday, July 18, 2021

Experiments touching on market design in the July AER

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 The July AER has a number of experiments that speak to market design:  Online, How to Avoid Black Markets for Appointments with Online Book...
Tuesday, December 3, 2019

Seema Jayachandran on the Banerjee, Duflo, Kremer Nobel, in the NYT

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The Economic View column of the NY Times, by someone who knows the subject, and the subjects very well: When a Disappointment Helped Lead...
Monday, October 29, 2018

Market design and development economics at Harvard

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There's a two day conference at Harvard, called Development Economics and Market Design   Organizers: Scott Kominers, Natalia Rigol,...
Saturday, February 24, 2018

Debt traps and money lending

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Credit for poor borrowers is a subject of importance in both the developing and developed world. Here's a new paper... Debt Traps? M...
Friday, July 22, 2016

Bride Price and Female Education by Ashraf, Bau, Nunn and Voena

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A new NBER working paper suggests that the institution of bride price, often regarded as a repugnant transaction, may provide incentives to...
Saturday, September 19, 2015

Economists' declaration on universal health coverage

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Larry Summers has organized a widely signed open letter supporting universal health coverage as a sensible global development goal. Here...