- Over at VoxDev, Jack & Jayachandran show how prizes can help to improve water conservation in Zambia, despite free-riding dynamics within households.
- Also at VoxDev, Clement Imbert on how NREGA changed rural and urban wages and reduced rural to urban migration in India
- With all the evidence on what microcredit doesn't do, Dave Evans summarizes new work from Burke, Bergquist, and Miguel on how microcredit to farmers at harvest time in Kenya can yield high profits. When many farmers receive the loans, the profits fall but benefits to non-borowers rise as the price fluctuations in the market are reduced.
- In Economics Letters, Fiona Burlig outlines three scenarios in which pre-analysis plans can be used with observational data: cases in which researchers collect their own data; prospective research studying future events or designed around future releases of public data; and research using restricted-access data
- On twitter, Stefano DellaVigna provides an update on his JEL piece with David Card on publication in top journals: submissions keep increasing fast, number of articles published has been flat in last five years, at around 300/year in top-5 journals, so acceptance rates have continued to drop:
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