- Freakonomics podcast transcript covering Chris Blattman’s work on giving grants and cognitive behavioral therapy to men in Liberia, as well as related work in the US and UK
- On the CGD blog, the political paradox of cash transfers
- From VoxEU – the benefits of forced experimentation – the London tube strike caused many commuters to experiment with new routes, with some finding better routes they stuck with when the strike ended.
- A new NBER working paper on how to construct nationally representative firm level data using the ORBIS database
- Michael Clemens in the Huffington Post on the South Pacific Secret to Breaking the Poverty Cycle
- Give Directly blogs about why they time the transfer timing they way they do, and why it is different in Uganda to Kenya – it seems logistics is the number one factor, followed by client demand, with “impact” not discussed here.
- And finally, courtesy of PhD comics, a guide to how many references to include:
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