- Rachel Glennerster discusses thorny issues that arise in the ethics of doing research (whether a randomized experiment or not) in developing countries, summarizing some issues in a new chapter she has on this issue.
- In what should journals do? Rick Wilson summarizes and discusses proposals put forward by Green, Humphreys and Smith on how to make research publications more credible, including 14 proposed innovations to the publishing process. Written from a political science perspective, but the proposals could apply equally to economics.
- Advice for Academics (a lot of which also applies to World Bank researchers): Chris Blattman on advice for new assistant professors; on Duck of Minerva, an academic woman’s rant of the week on self-promotion; and Jesse Shapiro on how to give an applied micro talk.
- Michael Greenstone on the use of quasi-experiments in environmental economics.
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