Showing posts with label development. Show all posts
Showing posts with label development. Show all posts
Wednesday, June 18, 2025

Roland Fryer on the Economics of Slavery (in the WSJ)

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  The Economics of Slavery Probing the incentives and institutions that kept slavery alive can help us value what freedom means ,  by Roland...
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...