- From Vox, an argument that not showing the zero on the Y-axis can sometimes be a sensible thing to do, despite what people might complain.
- Prolific book reviewer and fellow blogger Dave Evans reviews Dani Rodrik’s new book
- Tim Harford on “The pillars of tax wisdom” and how economic thought on how to tax differs a lot from reality of what is taxed.
- Measuring poverty and wealth using phone records: In Science Joshua Blumenstock and co-authors use phone meta-data from Rwanda and compare with survey data to show how you can get poverty measures at a very localized level from anonymized phone record data.
- Call for papers: 9th international conference on migration and development, to be held in Florence in June.
- Call for papers: 6th GREThA international conference on economic development on labor, labor markets and development to be held in Bordeaux in June.
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