- At VoxEU, Martin Ravallion discusses how many of the arguments against universal basic income are really about strawmen that overstate the effectiveness of targeted transfers.
- Bruce Wydick on fake news, narrative, science and truth.
- The new issue of the Journal of Economic Perspectives has a symposium on recent ideas in econometrics, including (among others) Athey and Imbens on Causality and Policy Evaluations; Low and Meghir on Structural Models; and Mullainathan and Spiess on machine learning.
- J-PAL policy brief summarizing the evidence on the impact of charter schools from lotteries in the U.S.
- From Humanosphere – top incomes and inequality in China are massively underestimated – work by Piketty and co-authors that uses income tax data to correct for problems in capturing top incomes in household surveys.
- Thanks to everyone who sent in applications for my summer RA position. I got some great applications, and have now filled this position.
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