- On the Voices blog, Arianna Legovini discusses DIME’s program of work on edutainment, and why information interventions that “lacked inspiring narratives, and were communicated through outdated and uninteresting outlets such as billboards and leaflets” may need to get replaced by working with professional storytellers. [edit: they seem to be changing the link for this, here is an alternative link]
- On VoxDev, Morgan Hardy discusses some of her new work with Gisella Kagy on how female-owned garment firms in Ghana are demand-constrained.
- On the Econ that matters blog, Nouhoum Traore and Jeremy Foltz look at the impact of high temperatures on firms in Cote d’Ivoire, finding years in which there are more days above 27C are correlated with lower firm revenues and profits, and more firm exit.
- Jason Kerwin on how to convert powerpoint slides to Beamer
- In nature news, Galiani, Gertler,and Romero discuss replication efforts in economics – including incentive effects (35 journal editors said they would, in principle, publish a replication that overturned a published result, only 9 would consider one that confirmed such a result); issues with the 3ie replication project; how sociology and psychology journals fall behind; and their attempts to replicate economics papers from the data provided “We were able to produce final tables and figures from estimation data in only 37% of the studies analysed. And in only 14% of 203 studies could we do the same starting from the raw data”.
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