Podcast Episodes
Prof. 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 relationship between school-building and conflict in Indonesia (podcast)
In this episode of VoxTalks, Dominic Rohner discusses an investigation into the relationship between Indonesia’s expansion of schools in the nineties and how increased education was related to a reduction in conflict.
Read MoreEnsuring that Africa has the financial resources to handle Covid-19 (podcast)
This episode from David Dollar on Dollar and Sense, the Brookings Trade Podcast, discusses the risks and possible financial resources available to African countries to deal with the coronavirus crisis.
Read MorePodcast: “Lessons from the Ebola Crisis on dealing with Covid-19”
In this Vox Talk, Oeindrila Dube discusses an experiment she had been running in Sierra Leone for community health outreach, and how helpful those interventions were during the Ebola outbreak. From April 9, 2020.
Read MoreProf. Gibson recommends this podcast episode on teachers and big questions with Raj Chetty
As in any “Conversations with Tyler” podcast episode, this discussion between economists Raj Chetty and Tyler Cowen is wide-ranging, spanning some of Chetty’s work on early childhood development, education, okra, taxes, and more.
Read MoreProf. Gibson recommends this podcast on “Sweatshops”
In this EconTalks podcast episode, Russ Roberts discusses sweatshop labor, and how people evaluate where to work, with Chris Blattman of the University of Chicago.
Read MoreProf. Gibson Recommends: This Podcast Episode on “Chickens, Cash, and Development Economics”
In this EconTalks podcast, economist Chris Blattman discusses the trade-offs between giving people in parts of Africa cash versus chickens, and how they used randomized controlled trials to find out which was more effective for helping people.
Read MoreProf. Jacobson recommends this podcast on “Oil Markets in the Time of Covid-19”
Professor Jacobson recommends this podcast episode on Resources in which Amy Meyers Jaffe, the United States director of the program on energy security and climate change at the Council on Foreign Relations, discusses recent changes to the oil markets.
Read MorePodcast: “Cushioning the Effects of Covid-19 on the Poor”
In this VoxDev Talk, economists Rema Hanna and Ben Olken discuss what’s needed to help the poor through this crisis.
Read MoreBrookings Podcast: “Globalization, NAFTA and the Wall”
In this episode of Dollar and Sense, Brookings fellow David Dollar discusses NAFTA and globalization with Ernesto Zedillo, a former president of Mexico.
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