- Videolink of this week’s discussion with Ezra Klein of Vox on how to popularize research: including why do we want to popularize research was important – and the difference between just trying to get lots of eyeballs vs getting it to the right readers
- A feature story on Berk’s policy talk on shall we just give them cash?
- See the author’s comments on my post from Monday this week on exporting through eBay – confidentiality agreements prevent the release of many basic statistics from the experiment.
- New NBER working paper by Ho and Rosen provides a guide to and examples of how partial identification models have been used in applied research, going through some key examples from the IO and labor literatures.
- Washington Post summary of the recent Nature paper by Ted Miguel and co-authors on the impact of climate change on growth and economic productivity (presented by Ted recently at the Bank)
- It is 25 years since Paul Romer’s seminal paper on endogenous growth. At the growth economics blog Chad Jones has a guest post summarizing the key insights, while Paul Romer has a series of posts looking back at how he got the idea, the role of cities and technology in spreading ideas and several more.
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