- A new NBER working paper by Finan, Olken and Pande reviews field experiments that look at the personnel economics of the state – prepared for an upcoming Handbook of Field Experiments – an overview of experiments on how to select civil servants, teachers and health workers, how to pay them, and how to monitor them.
- Cyrus Samii on reasons to do experiments that have little to do with statistics
- From NPR’s Goats and Soda: Do these jeans make me look unethical? Most consumers don’t want to know if child labor was used in making their jeans, and denigrate those who do
- The People, Spaces, and Deliberation blog has a series of posts on doing research in fragile states
- From the CSAE blog, using a list experiment to measure attitudes towards FGM.
- Call for papers: Barcelona GSE summer workshops in economics
- Funding: 3ie has a call out for proposals for impact evaluations in environment, governance, infrastructure, and public finance (due Jan 18).
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