- On Let’s Talk Development, Ugo Gentilini summarizes 12 recent papers on cash transfers and social protection.
- Aidnography on the “development blogging crisis” (h/t Duncan Green) (and also has a review of 2017) – it is true that we haven’t seen a lot of new development blogging emerge, but they also miss the “not quite a blog” fantastic launch of VoxDev, which has been a welcome new way for academics to summarize some of their research.
- Speaking of VoxDev, they have a nice piece this week by Faber and Gaubert on their work on how tourism boosts development in Mexico, including having positive spillovers on manufacturing.
- Duncan Green offers his general thoughts on whenever he is asked about “development strategy” “Can you point to successful examples of what you are proposing? Conversely, if your suggested has never worked, anywhere, maybe you should think about why that is!”
- On twitter, Seth Gershenson offers a nice set of helpful user-written Stata commands
- What 15 seconds can tell you about a classroom – Daphna Berman on the Stallings method of repeated quick snapshot observations of what takes place in a classroom.
- Moneyish on how exposing female econ undergrads to role models (drawn from alumna) led to more women taking further economics classes “Lutz and Thompson, instructed to discuss their career paths in an engaging way, gave 15-minute talks to four randomly selected Principles of Economics classes at SMU. Exposure to the role models made it 12% more likely that a female student would pursue an intermediate economics class the next year, and 7.8% more likely she would “express the intention to major in economics.”
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