Blogs
Prof. Godlonton recommends: Pan-African Scientific Research Council Newsletter
Pan-African Scientific Research Council Newsletter Sign up form The Pan-African Scientific Research Council Newsletter which gets released monthly and sent over email to those signed up contains a lot of great resources for those interested in development economics. Here is a sample of a few resources mentioned in its July issue: Conference organized by the…
Read MoreProf. Bakija recommends two resources: Goats and Soda and Rough Translation
Interested in how the developing world is doing? Here are two very good resources from the National Public Radio (NPR) covering various current developments in the developing world. Goats and Soda.
Read MoreThe value of social distancing in the developed v. developing world (blog post on VoxEU)
This blog post by Mushfiq Mobarak and Zachary Barnett-Howell provides a succinct explanation of why “lockdown” has different costs and benefits in somewhere like the US versus somewhere like central Africa.
Read MoreProf’s Pick: Remittances and what their decline means for development (recommended by Prof. Caprio)
With economic decline looming and borders tightening in the developed world, remittances are going down the tubes. Michael Clemens of the Center for Global Development explores what this means for development.
Read MoreProf. Shore-Sheppard recommends this blog post on “What Are We Estimating When We Estimate Difference-in-Differences?”
Professor Shore-Sheppard recommends this World Bank blog post from Pam Jakiela, an incoming member of the Williams faculty, that discusses the finer details of just what “differences in differences” means. If you’re missing your 502/503 lectures, or just want a refresher of your econometric methods, this post provides a great description.
Read MoreBlog: Open Letter to G20 Countries
This blog post on VoxEU is an open letter from late March to the leaders of the G20 countries, asking for greater involvement on helping the developing world handle the covid-19 crisis.
Read MoreCourse Text (Blog): Three New Papers on Measuring Stuff that is Difficult to Measure
This blog post has been assigned as required reading for the CDE spring elective, Program Evaluation
Read MoreProf. Caprio recommends: “Prudential Regulation Can Help in Tackling Climate Change”
This blog post from the Council on Economic Policies discusses the shortfalls in the current regulatory framework for dealing with climate change, and how regulation can be a tool in helping deal with it.
Read MoreBlog: “The Nobel Prize in Economic Science Goes to Banerjee, Duflo, and Kremer”
Shortly after the announcement of the 2019 Nobel Prizewinners, Alex Tabarrok took to his blog to present a list of his favorite findings and methods by the winners, Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, and Michael Kremer.
Read MoreBlog: “Kremer’s O-ring theory of economic development”
Economist Jason Collins provides a short analysis of Michael Kremer’s 1993 paper on the “O-ring theory of development,” a suggestion for why development might break down when just one component fails.
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