- One of the best descriptions of what the productivity term A is in the production function – Growth Economics illustrates through Universal Studios’ Harry Potter attraction.
- At the CGD blog – impact of the GAVI vaccine initiative on vaccination rates in poor countries – using a country GNI per capita threshold for eligibility.
- With the World Cup Cricket starting this weekend, here is a summary of a forthcoming AER article on how batsman bat more conservatively as they get close to a half-century and century, to the detriment of their team (h/t Marginal Revolution).
- A must read short guide to refereeing: “Referees often feel obliged to provide reports with very extensive lists of complaints because they believe that the editor will view them as incompetent or lazy if they are not able to generate such lists. This is a problem of culture as well as signal‐jamming. One purpose of this document is to help change that culture by making clear that what editors expect of referees is primarily an assessment of the publishability of a paper, rather than provision of a long list of demands even for excellent papers.”
- Job opening: field coordinator for a water and sanitation impact evaluation in the Philippines.
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