- An anthropology argument for cash transfers: the devpolicy blog discusses James Ferguson’s Give a Man a Fish
- Tim Harford on how overtime people’s understanding of what classic psychology experiments on social pressure say has drifted from the reality of what they actually say
- The Economist’s Free Exchange blog covers the Becoming a Man study and subsequent follow-up which shows the value of teaching at risk teens to slow down their thinking
- Austin Frakt offers a summary of what we know about incomplete study reporting and publication bias from the medical literature.
- Dan Stein on when theory of insurance doesn’t fit with reality aka the continuing search for ways to get farmers to want rainfall insurance
- Discussion of the pros and cons of using twitter to discuss new research, and a kickstarter for an interesting new platform to allow you to interact directly with the text
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