- The next step in transparency/replication?The New Yorker on how researchers in the sciences are using videos to document each step of the process to make it easier to replicate precisely – and on how there is even a journal of visualized experiments (h/t @betsylevyp)
- How should we pay public servants? Sheheryar Banuri and Phil Keefer on the IGC blog report on an experiment in Indonesia – they suggest paying for ability rather than performance when it is costly to monitor performance.
- A primer on minimum wages in Africa from Vox EU – basically many low-income countries have really high minimum wages given their average wage levels, but this doesn’t matter too much because compliance with the law is so low – in Tanzania 80% of workers earn below the minimum wage!
- Understanding the new global poverty numbers
- From the Stata blog, doing Monte Carlo simulations in Stata
- Chris Blattman links to several studies on pirates
- An ambitious social network experiment underway in Honduras
- Is lab space/RA space of increasing importance for economic research? The Harvard Crimson on the challenges facing Harvard’s Economics department
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