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Weekly links December 9: A buyers guide to machine learning, M-Pesa and poverty, spurious correlations, and more…

David McKenzie

December 09, 2016

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Solving social problems with machine learning – Kleinberg, Ludwig and Mullainathan in the Harvard Business Review
From VoxEU, the disappointing impact of employment subsidies in Spain (including discussion of using RD when firms sort around the threshold)
Vox covers a new paper in Science on the impact of M-Pesa on poverty in Kenya
The Book of Spurious Correlations
JPAL/MIT Masters in data, economics, and development policy
David Roodman at Givewell delves into depth at assessing the case for deworming

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David McKenzie

Lead Economist, Development Research Group, World Bank

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