- In VoxEU, Chris Woodruff and I summarize our new work showing that business practices matter for even very small firms in developing countries
- In VoxEU, the lifecycle of economic articles by field: “Median papers reach their peak between around three and five years after their publication. Ten years after being published, the median paper for every field of research receives negligible levels of citations per year…applied and applied theory papers are the clear winners – during their first years of life following publication, they receive higher numbers of citations than the papers in the other categories …, they reach a higher peak (more than twice as high as the peak for theoretical papers), and that peak level seems to last longer.”
- Jason Kerwin on practical equipoise in randomized experiments…an argument for doing experiments where the science is in, but policymakers still haven’t been convinced.
- The Science of Us covers the work by Bilal Siddiqi and co-authors on the White Man effect in experimentally measuring how the presence of a white foreigner affects behavior in dictator games in Sierra Leone.
- Chris Blattman covers my Nigeria business plan competition under the heading “is this the most effective development program in history?”
- Devex profile of the emerging field of Development Engineering, as taught at Berkeley.
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